Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — Deranged by the Bite of a Hog. [ARTICLE]

Deranged by the Bite of a Hog.

Nine weeks ago Peter Harris, living on the Belair road, Just back of the Baltimore cemetery, and in the employ of Mr. Chester, blacksmith, was bitten by a wild hog, which had been roaming about that portion of the city, resisting all endeavors to trap him. Mr. Harris suffered severely from the bite, and soon begad to exibit all the symptomsof hydrophobia. He foamed at the mouth like amad dog, became hysterical, smashed chairs and lookingglasses, and wanted to hit his friends. Measures were being taken to remove the ■unfortunate man to quarters where the lives of other people would not be endangered, when suddenly, about ten days ago, he mysteriously disappeared, and has not been heard from since. The conjecture is, that Mr. Harris has died, or he would have been heard from somewhere ere this, as he was at the time of his departure a raving maniac. He was attended by Dr. White, of Chase street, who states that hogs, as well as dogs and wolves, are subject to hydrophobia, taking the disease themselves •without having been bitten. Mr. Harris was a marriea man, twenty years of age, and worked on a farm.— Baltimore News. __ Ex press men—retired printers. An oat-worthy animal T-the horse. A difficult lock to pick—one from a bald head.