The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-15
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
A BRAVE BOY.

A BRAVE BOY.
The following incident will serve
to illustrate the brave and hardy
character of our mountain boys. The
blood of the old pioneers who con
quered a home amid hostile savages,
veromous reptiles, dangerous ami
mails and the ruggedness ofnature
still courses through the veins of
thor descendants. Yesterday morn
ing, Dorsey, ten-year old son of
widow Hartsock, who lives on the
east side of Polish mountain, Willie
on his way to school, accompanied
by cur dog, started fine four.
pronged deer. The do gave chase
and caught the deer, but was soon
shaken off. The deer ran through a
rail fence and into a pool of water
below a bridge on the pike, where it
was oyertaken and seized again by
the dog.
The little fellow who had followed
in chase now jumped from the bridge
and caught the deer by the horns,
and held its head under water until
the animal was drowned. We chal-
lenge the country to produce a paral-
lei to this. When we consider the
danger Of the deer when brought to
ay many instances occur to us of IA
talities that have hefallen the robust
and experienced hunter. We cannot
but characterize the achievement Of
young Hartsock as an act of bravery
worthy ofmaturer years, and man
hoods strength and SKILL CUR6.
AUegd7idR.
THE BOSS" DEER OF THE ALLIE
GAMES.
One day last week Mr.. Joel Bren-
neman, farmer residing in Grants
willie district, Garrett county, killed
on Negro mountain, a few miles
south Of GAINESVILLE, buck which is
supposed to be the largest deer slain
in that locality for many years past.
The carcass was cleaned where it feel
and hauled to Mr.. Brenneman's
house, where it was dressed and
weighed. The saddle weighed ninety
six pounds and the fOrequarter and
neck one hundred and twenty pounds
making TWO hundred and sixteen
pounds of dressed meat. UnfOrtu-
nately the head, horns and intestines
We're not weighed, but at a fair esti-
mate, would certainly have been one
hundred pounds. The hide weighed
nineteen pounds. Estimating at this
weight for the offal, the deer weighed
three hundred and sixteen pounds.
These facts are vOuched for by gentle
men in this city and in Grantsville.
AN INTERESTING CASE.
Suit has been brought in the cir
cult court for Allegany county by
Hon. William Walsh and Mr.. S. A.
Cox, attorneys for the North Branch
coal company, against the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad company, to re-
cover 81 900 for five hundred tons of
coal taken by the defendant for
freight. The mar of the plaintiff al
leges that in June last the North
Branch company shipped by the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad from
Bloomington for Cumberland, five
hundred tons OF coal to be delivered
at the canal wharf, and rendered for
freight thirty.five cents per ton,
which amount the railroad company
refused to receive, demanding eighty
three cents, and upon the refusal OF
the plaintiff to pay that rate took the
coal and made use of it.
The apparent object of the suit is to
recover for the loss of the coal, pros
pective profit, etc, but will involve
IA subject of the greatest magnitude
and the utmost impOrtance-tht
right CT the railroad company to
charge greater rate per ton per mile
between local stations than or
through freight. The rate of thirty
five cents per ton from Bloomington
to Cumberland was arrived at by the
coal company by multiplying the
rate per ton per mile on coal between
Piedmont and Locust Point by the
number of miles between Blooming
ton and Cumberland, which figuring
gave a rate of twenty-three cents, bu
a "liberal allowance" was made ant
thirty.fve cents offered. The lreigh
I charged by the railroad company
WAS 80 pantS nor ton or about ~ cent