The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-04
SIM DAVIS PIG.
The Story Of It's Adventures Failed to
Elicit Even One Drink.
From The New York sun.


| From the NeD York san.
! HAMMoNDsPoRT, Aug. PA was in
! Lumberville, down in Pennsylvania, on
Aug r." said a thirsty looking stranger.
who had the appearance Of believing every
word he said, land they were having sort
of jubilee among tn smselves there. asked
a native why everybody was feeling so
| gOod-
"'We'ye ketched Sim Davis pig ne re-
piled.
Further inquiry az to what there was
about Sim Davis pig that its capture should
cause a whole village to have a regular jol-
| LITIGATION over it ELECTED quite an interesting
little narrative. IL seems that on the
| Fourth Of July the citizens of Lumberville
| remembered the day by grand celebra-
ton. Among the devices provided to in
| crease the native love for the country and
the old flag was a CREASED pig chase, to fOs-
ter and stimulate enthusla5 n, in which
prize of 81 was offered to the person whose
agility, speed, and grip should enable
him 70 capture and hold the ject
of the chase For the purpose of the
| sport an active and wiry l0-months'- Old
shOts belonging to one Sim Davis was
chosen. The pig was Sneared from snout
| to tip of tail with grease, and when the
| time arrived for inspiring Lumberville's
| patriotic soul with the sight # the oleagin-
GUS porciue sweeping over the plain, with
| all of Lumberville'S young and vigorous
manhood in full cry, intent on capturing it
| and The contingent 81, the pig was turned
| loose and the chase began. IL did not end
until the twelfth day of this month, when l
| happened to be in at the death, 80 TO speak.
THE pig, as the sequel would seem to indi-
cate, had spirit of its own, and resented
the indignity that had been put upon him,
| aud did not sweep over the plain as it was
Erffav Id che. l.
| loud protest, had broken for a neighboring
| wheat field. he got through the fence,
and thence wide swath in the ripening
grain marked bis course through the
| field. From the field he escaped
| to the woods The rest of the dav was
spent in searching the woods for the pig
| that had SO unceremoniously turned ex
| pectant glee and gladness into dire disap-
| pointment. But he oouldn't be found. and
| az he was worth "A great deal more to his
owner than the prize which had driven him
| into exile, the rockets red glare and bombs
bursting in the air. which gave proof In the
evening that the celebration was still there,
were but slight recompense to Sim Davis
for the pigs sudden taking off
"Ihe search for the pig was resumed the
| day after the Fourth, although the prize
| had been withdrawn, and all bets declared
off, but the fugitive shote's wrongs still
ranked within him, and he laid low. The
second day after the pig had shown his
indignant heels to Lumberville patriotism,
gentle shepherd was driving a flock of
| forty sheep along road two miles from
Lumbervllle when suddenly a loud snort
| startled him, and up from a puddle
by the roadside pig jumped suddenly into
view and as suddenly rushed into piece of
woods. The snort and the sudden
appearance Of the unexpected pig
stampeded the sheep. The head one
| IN the flock turned and eaped
| over fence into a wheat field. and after
| the leader vaulted the other tnirty-uine as a
| matter of course. Away went the fright
ened flock across the field, tramping into
the earth the golden grain ready for the
| reaper, and leaving the field an almost bar
rem waste. Then the scampering sheep
leaped the fencs on the other side, and
moved down an adjoining field of corn in
their course. At the farther end of the
corn field they stopped, and when the pant
ing shepherd had come up with them and
succeeded in rounding them up, he could
not help out note that they had surely an
ticipated the owner of the wheat and corn
IN the harvesting of a good share of his
| crops.
The news of this disastrous appearance
| OF the wandering shote started anew the
| hunt for him, but, like HamiIcar of Garth
age, pursued by tue barbarian hosts, when
the hunters thought they had him they
hadn't, and the next thing they knew he
would be heard of some here else feasting
IN corn field here and in garden patch
there, until he came to be looked upon as
an evil compared with which the dry rot,
the weevil. the potato bug, the drought. and
the tax collector were trifies
Certain pessimistic tillers of the soil
prophesied famine unless the porcine outlaw
| could be run down without delay, And so
1t went until Aug. II, when the shote
having been heard from as levying on
the products of farm in the northern part
of the township, force of seventy men
marched out to either capture the devas-
tatlng pig or drive him to some other bali
WICK On that day success had made the
pig oveT-contident, or else the corn on the
farm where he was reported to be was par
tlcularly succulent. for he was surprised at
his feast. The hunters came upon him
while he fed. He broke for cover. His
pursuers scattered in ali directions to head
MN off. From the manner in which ne
made his way through and over fences and.
when surrounded, broke through the ranks
OF his eager pursuers, it seemed to them
that he was one of that ancient herd which,
once upon time, ran down into the sea.
and that he was still possessed of the indi-
vidual that prompted them to their uu-
doing.
The hunters might have killed the pig.
but his owner needed him for the falls
butchering, and they respected the owners
needs notwithstanding their extremity.
Over five large farms the chase continued,
until at last the shote was cornered, and he
turned at bay. One venturesonle young
! farmer, Job Stauer by name. sprang upon
him. Job shouldn't have done it. for the
pig fought like fury, and in marvelously
| quick time the rash husbandman was as
completely bereft of clothing as was at one
time that pioneer in a 1riculture, the origi-
nal Adam. But might at last prevailed.
and the long-defiant porker was over,
| powered, bound, and carted back to his stv.
from which he had emerged five weeks be-
| fore, ostensi6ly to be the sport of the popu-
lace, but really to become its scourge. That
| was why the people of LumberviIIe were
| Juoilating about when | was there on
August H. l heard a good many
OF them say that if Lumbarville ever again
remembered the ever-glonous and never-to
be-forgotten birthday of American indie
| pendence they would so far sacrifice them
selves as TO leave the CREASED pig off the
programme. But the drinks were going
around lively, good deal livelier than they
seem likely TO be here" said the strange
man, after pause, as he got up and asked
when the next boat started for Penn Van.