The Cecil Whig

Run Over.—A colored boy, about seven years old, was run over, on Back street, on Friday evening of last week, by a large log wagon belonging to Hill, Harlan & Co. The wagon had a large whiteoak log on at the time of the accident. One of the wheels passed directly over the loins of the child, crushing it in a most frightful manner. Strange to say, the child is still living, and the doctors report favorably of its case.
The accident occurred from "hanging on the wagon," and should be a warning to parents to keep their children away from teams. To prevent such accidents from taking place, if the teamsters use stern measures, and drive the boys off, the parents are so silly in many instances as to resent the interference of the drivers, and appeal to the law for redress, thus encouraging the already too impudent boys of the town to practice their mischief and endanger life and limb. These remarks apply more especially to the whites, the colored parents having not yet discarded the wisdom of Solomon, by "Sparing the rod and spoiling the child;" but still adhere to the faith that there is a good deal of virtue in a birch.