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ft Mtioned. - .On Friday last, Mr. Pearce was eonlrdriving 02 head of choice stock cattle councided in court. The case will be triedat, the March term, 1878, when some rich developments are expected.It is well known here that some ofour loyal citizens did a thriving business in cattle and horses mysteriouslyobtained in the bordering counties o West Virginia, and driven to Pennsylvania arid other markets and sold; itcertainly would not be justice for Mr. Pearce to pay for them, although Mr.over the Northwestern pike, from I am0lChicago to Hampshire county, West icad Virginia, and at the point where the suitpike runs into this county, Sheriff 110Dunham with a posse intercepted them | and levied an attachment on the cattle j ^ond under the Maryland laws, sued out by | S0]lt;1 Ebonezer Kitzmiller, esq., of this vcounty, on one of the above judgments. reeeiThe cattle were brought to trie farm of agenNathan Casteel, esq , near town, and of a kept over night, and on Saturday morn- j ^lding Mr. Peaice gave a bond for the ap- w praised value of the cattle and replevied them until the matter can be de* 1 rcpaT1T!com Fell, strei is rc tivci uia, Geo 1 lai .J e rtKitzmiller s claim may be legal. U is | , ra alleged and generally believed th at j nnr•amimany of the judgments against M r. | wai Pearce were obtained upon trumpe d J cup accounts for cattle which never wen tinto the Confederacy at all, but were driven t* Northern markets and sold ,bvr professional drovers” wearing the I ,n*|blue “uniform. clhw a
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Alleganian and Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sat, May 12, 1877
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