From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/28/1866, p. 1, c. 3

HOG CONFISCATED. – A good sized porker strayed from the house of a gentleman living near Chimborazo, and took up his pen in the yard of a negro living not far off. The next morning “de gemman” with whom he had sought quarters had killed and dressed him. The owner of the hog has gotten out a warrant for the arrest of the negro.

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