Lost Cow at 541 H Street

[RJNorton]

Forum member John Hewitt sent this to me. He came across it in the July 12th 1864 edition of the Washington Evening Star. I told John that Mary Surratt had not yet moved in at that time, and I did not know what was going on at the boardinghouse prior to her arrival. So the question is why would someone have a cow in town?