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retrenchment and delighted in cutting down celeries. 

 He never was a candidate for any public station, and it 

 is believed that his modesty would prevent him from 

 accepting the offer of any office, from that of Committee 

 on Swine down to the President of the United Stales. 



Notwithstanding he was ten feet long from extremity 

 to extremity, the event proved that he was not long for 

 this world, and in his last extremity no friend was found 

 to save him from the hand of the assassin. He was rap- 

 idly increasing in size until the time of his departure, 

 which was in November last, at the age of two years 

 and six months. At the post mortem examination of 

 his remains it was found that his enormous bulk had 

 reached the weight of more than twelve hundred pounds! 

 What prodigality of fatness was here ! what a mass- 

 meeting of pork, concentrated in a single individual ! 

 The County of Essex challenges the world to produce 

 his equal. 



His usefulness ceased not with his life. By the fol- 

 lowing estimate from Mr. Alley, we are made acquaint- 

 ed with the value of his remains, considered merely as 

 an article of domestic economy. 



They would have furnished a public dinner for His 

 Excellency, the Governor ; His Honor, the Lieut. Gov- 

 ernor ; the Executive Council, and all the Mayors and 

 Aldermen of the three cities of the Commonwealth, and 

 have supplied a second table for the School Committee 

 and Common Council of the city of Salem; — besides en- 

 abling this latter body to give a " cold shoulder" to the 

 clergy. 



They would also have provided fat and rashers for the 

 chowder of the city government of Salem, on their an- 

 nual visit to the harbor to contemplate the two Miseries 

 and Cat Island. 



Solid fat for one hundred and twenty-seven pots of 

 beans. 



Liquid ditto to fry seven hundred and fifty-five pounds 

 of fresh fish. 



Ditto to saturate six hundred and seventy-four pounds 

 of salt ditto. 



