Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-25

lDE ~tnOlUlOuH came uD EnllluEs
The Chester white had three distinct
curls in her tail, and had her tusks well
~sharpened, for she had been whetting
them for two hours previously on Peter
Canale's oyster shells. The wood ran
/ ger, old razor-back, waddled along from
the river bank, where she had been
nosing out garbage under skid piles, and
poking her snoot into coffee-saeks, oh
cake, salt, cottOn-seed and pork. Each
sow had a family Of ten OF eleven trail
ing after her. The long Arkansas snout
of the YagabOnd razOr-back was showed
under cOtton-bales which were quickly
overturned, under barrels of beef, under
crates of cabbage, and other miseellane-
Gus piles of property and grub as she
came on her grunting, ravenous, de-
structive way from the river toward the
center of the city. She left the river
in her stormy track, and she came
with the rapidity Of a special train.
She merely did the rough plow-
ing, her brood of d~estructives har-
rowed and leveled out things behind
her. II she stove in a barrel Of apples at
one drive of her catapultic nose she
| merely snatched a peck or two of the
fruit at q grab and went recklessly on.
| The ten or eleven lesser razor-backs
then "swooped down " on the scattered
fruit and cleared it up at once. Not
withstanding the slowing away of
twenty-five or thirty bushels of all sorts
of plumber and garbage, during the
morning, this destructive, savage, ma
tive hog still looked hungry, gaunt,
spare, Nankeeish-lank and greedy for
more. The host of little scalawags that
followed after were no better. Thus
they arrived on Union street yesterday
at an hour Of the day when the mer-
chants and their clerks appeared to
have an idle moment or two on their
hands. The Chester White, as was pre-
viOusly limited, was occupied in a sort Of
civilized, 1unkeyish way, polishing Off
Canale's oyster shells and refreshing the
internal economy of her offspring with
choice morsels of shell-fish. The Chester
White had a short fat neck, a broad jaw,
a short leg and a round fat body like
Barbour Lewis. This SOW looked COM
Portable, looked as if she had fed well
and Jared well and had a contented
mind. She gloried in the thick fumes
Of the cutters, and the rich Odors of
back alleys and cook shops, and fattened
thereon, was in truth a greasy product,
an unctiOus offspring of civilization.
She grunted in a rich tone as if the
sound came up from behind a mountain
Of fat. She was surrounded by a litter
Of little Chester Whites, all comforta-
bic, sleek, chubby things like herself.
The contrast could not be greater than
existed between this gutter-hugging
pet of progress, this champion
at agricultural shows, and the wood
ranging, st~orrn-snifiing, rakish, long
legged, catapultic-snooted hungry, lank
and Yankeeish, freeborn SOW that came
from the river. The moment they
sighted and scented each other both
proclaimed war. The prOclamations
were read out in loud and defiant
grunts. The auXiliaries of each quickly
ranged themselves in b~ellieOse groups.
The preliminaries were sholt. Both
powers drove at it and had a Saarbruck
right opposite the APPEAL Office. The
sound of the conflict reached the ears of
every clerk and merchant on the street,
and the whole world Of Union street be
came interested spectators of the scene.
1t was civilization against savage life.
The lank, lOng-legged, d~evouring SOW,
that had often uprooted oak trees and
ploughed acres Of potatoes in a day, was
putting her strength against the PAM
pered pet of civilization.
1.-The champions came up smiling"
after the fourth round, without any APP
parent damage being sustained on either
side. The fifth round, however, re-
in the first blood for razor back.
She had fastened her tusks in the fore
of the fat antagonist, and tore out
half the Chester Whites shoulder. This
was rather an unlucky stroke for razor
back. Her hackers became frantic with
Joy. The merchants were standing round
in a large circle, greenbacks in hand, |
betting. The draymen, the baTtenders, /
the negroes and the gdmiHs were wild
with delight. RazOr-back was their
porker-they would 90 their bottom cent
upon her. \ few Of the wealthy mer-
chants sympathised with the Chester
White, and offered their money on her
As a last affectionate and desperate Of
fering at the shrine Of sucking civilian
ton within the large circle made by the
interested crowds of humanity. There
another circle formed by the respec-
piggies Of the contestants. These
looked on deeply interested. The fat
offspring of the gutter-civilized hogeven
iat down to enjoy the fight as if they
confident of the result, while the
hin and Disconnected litter of the
yaunt Arkansas animal could not OBJ
.erve a decent silence, but kept nudging,
md moving, and grunting, and mixing
n among the legs of their mothers
hackers" getting sundry kicks and
in the ribs and on the snCOt for
heir pains.
This disastrous fifth round did not,
iowever, end the fight. On the con-
it appeared to only give interest
o it. The Chester White became fu-
foamed at the mouth, stood her
out like quilts on the fretful por-
upine, showed her teeth like a vicious
and rushed at the wild and savage
from the west with such mo-
lentum that the thin body of razor
ack was nearly doubled in two, and it
vas thought that three or four
lbs We're broken by the conclusion.
sazOr-back was completely turned over. (
White seized one of her legs
nd gave it a crunch. The squeal that (
ant the atmosphere will be remembered :
y the circle of hogs until they shall be {
round into sausage meat. As soon as
lzor-back got free and on her three legs, {
he ''scooted" for the river, and left the {
ED to the wallOwer in the gutter and s
he civilized polisher Of oyster shells. s
II was the most memorable battle
nat has occurred on the bluff within the
lemory Of the ancienest inhabitant. 1t
lily illustrated the superiority Of civil
ed over savage hog grit. d.,
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