National Republican., 1884-07-21
THE WILD HOG.
A Terrible Bcast That Dcvastatcs the District
Farms-Hunting Parties Organized to De.
atrov Him

A Terrible Bcast That Dcvastatcs the District
Farms-Hunting Parties Organized to De.
stroy Him.
The farmers living In the long stretch of
land between tho Badensburg road and tho
Eastern branch of the Potomac have been
troubled recently by large and, 1t is alleged,
ferocious boar, lnvades their domains and
does great damage TO their crops. Hunting
parties have hunted for him in the fastness of
the fivc.milc stretch and have been able to
within n short distance of him. THAT ere
hog" said native yesterday, "hcv done more
harm out this here way than anythink else,
an we's goin to git rid OF him shure,"
The intruder Is described by an iratc farmer
as "abOut four feet high and nigh as many
wide, and regular devil" The less excited
of the residents say, however, TINT he is about
three feet high and weighs about 200 pounds.
No one seems to know where he came from,
except that about year ago he was seen In
the mnrshy wilds near the water, iloundering
| about In the mud. The person who saw him
was boy, who rushed to, his home andtold
wonderful stories Of tho beast he had seen.
| Even yet tho residents rctnil this stOry. and
| their recital of dongs of his swinish majesty
bear n coloring akin to that of fairy tales.
1t Is related that upon one occasion he In.
vaded q farm in the stretch and began 10 de-
YOUR all of the early vegetables. The dogs ut
| tachcd TO the house, seven in number, sur
prised him at his repast, when 1t is stated he
Another story should be given In the words
of the youthful rustic who informed a re-
| porter, That once II man was swimmin In q
| pool of water. The hog he coined and seed the
man, an he seed the mans clothes laying on
the bank. That hog he eat up all Oft them
clothes, an keep that 'crs man In the water
| fur Il hole dny, he did, -.E .l.. 70
| These and other tales were related ycstdr-1
| day, and the eNcitcinbt1 unnong the fnrmcrsis
| great. Superintendent Shallcnbergcr, of the
Reform school, first noticed the boar about u
! year ago. He began TO make his appearances
| ut most unseemly hours, and more than once
| have the inmates been awakened by the hog
getting In the grounds, where he held high
| carnival The dogs of the school were, ut
terly worthless In combating with the boar, as
| he invariably put them TO rOut, and continued
| his devastating pillage of the crops. AT first
| he came very irregularly, his visits averaging
about once week, but of late he has appeared
almost every day. From his tracks II Is
thought that he covered every foot of ground
on the stretch, and In the morning could be
seen his marks In every form on the road.
| Three times within the past week has he
been seen, and on Monday the farmers and
Policeman Slack, of the county, made n thor
Ough investigation of the stretch, nut the swine
| king could not be found. lie has been seen
only once IN the dny time, and that was three
months ago. On Tuesday night the boar was
seen by two farmers who were hunting for him
and who succeeded In getting within II dozen
| yards of him. They fired at him from this dis
tancc, but the boar only looked at them in n
| surprised manner and trotted OIL The farmers
| gave chase, but the boar could not be found.
| meeting was held Friday morning and
1t was decided to exterminatc the boar within
a few days. So at midnight tonight Officer
Slack, Farmer Boyd, two men from the
reform school, and other residents will start
out armed and having hounds, and 1t is prob
| able that before another week the boar will be
no more and the stretch will relax into Its old
| time serenity.