Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-26
COLUMBIA.
Remarkable Hog story.


To the Editors of the Union and American:
COLUMBIA, Nov. "a, 1870 Yesterday
l believe was thanksgiving day, which
was almost as strictly observed here as
any other day. The only thing that re-
minded us of the fact was seeing the
number of persons preparing for hunt.
Business houses were all open and we
heard not the sound of a single church
bell. There was
ONE FRAoAs
between a boss and his clerk. Both
wanted to take hunt, and neither was
willing to remain aud attend to business,
SO they ended the matter by blows. The
clerk was dismissed. Now for
HOG STORY,
which was related me yesterday by Mr.
James S. Walker, which l give you just
as it was told to me without any coloring
whatever.
1t is rather hard tale for one to be-
lieve, but it can be proven by the sworn
testimony of the following citizens of
our county, whose veracity no one will
doubt who know them: Mr.. ]. J. T..
Thomas, Reese P. Thomas, Thomas Hill
lard, T. Jeff. Haley, Scott Stephens, and
several others.
On the goth day of last August, Mr.
| Reese P. Thomas missed one of his hogs
| from his place. On the 1st of September
he put up his hogs for the purpose of fat
| tening them. Dlligent search was made
for the missing hog again, but he was no.
| where to be found. On the 23d of No
vember, a lot of hands were picking cotton
in field, when pack of hounds scared
| up rabbit and run it into a sink-hole in
an adjoining field. Some of the hands and
| Mr.. Reese Thomas went to the sink-hole
| and there discovered the missing hog still
| alive, though barely 50. He told lot Of
| his neigbbors, who visited the spot.
| Several of them descended into the sink,
which was some ten feet deep, and run
ming back under the ground some fifty
feet. There was not particle of water
| or food in it. Now, the question is, how
did that hog subsist in that cavern fol
| over three months!
| Black Thompson says he was an edu-
Gated hog, and, having heard of the hog
law, he sought a place Of safe retreat,
from which he emerged when he heard
Jim Walker tell of the election of the
anti-hog law men. Respectfully,
| Wild JACK.
NEW GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE.
The Governor elect of Tennessee, John
C. Brown, is an ex-Rebel, and the Nash
vile Banner, fearful that the fact will
shock Northern prophecies, reminds the
people of that section that "tbe South
Carolina doctrine of notification anG
Yancey's theory of secession were nevel
engrafted in Tennessee politics, and wert
always denounced by the political party
to which Mr.. Brown belonged. Nelthel
John Quincy Adams nor Gov. Hoffman
is more thoroughly progressive liberia
and national than John c. Brown, q
TENNESSEE"
The people of Tennessee need DO
apologize for their Governor elect. Hi
is their choice, and that is enough. The
| people of Missouri have elected Brown
to be Governor of their State; VIII
should not the people of Tennessee cleo
another to be Governor of theirs A few
months ago RadicAlism did not permi
the peopletO choose whom they preferred
for their officers, and the present actioni D
Tennessee would have been taken as sui
ficient cause for subjeciiDg that State L
the penal discipline of reconstruction
But the rise of the Democracy is accom-
panied everywhere by the revival of III
, popular will, and the late Democrat
victories are making it lawful and allow
! able for the people of States to elect thos
} whom they prefer to ofice.--,St Loui
Republican, Nor. %.