Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1856-11-20
dftistfllaneous.
ROMANTIC STORY.

Considerable excitement was created
at Rockfish village, North Carolina.
about eighteen months ago, by the mystic
rious disappearance of young lady, who
lit was afterwards concluded was dead.
She has since turned up in very unex.
pected manner, as the following letter in
the Fayetteville North Carolinian will
show. The writer says
A year and a half passed by. The &C.
currence of Miranda's fate began to be
abliterated from the mind those friends
who mourned for her had laid aside their
weeds and had resigned her as lost for
ever.
Let US go back to the eventful night of
her disappearance, and learn the true fate
of our romantis heroine.
1t appears she became dissatisfied with
her condition, for some cause unnecessary
to detail, and left her boarding house
while all beneath its roof were buried in
a profound slumber, and for fear of being
seen by some one in the village, she took
the path leading to the margin of the
pond, passed by the beach near its head
and thence through the woods to the main
road. She found herself at daylight some
distance off, determined. in order to con-
ceal her identity, to doff the attire of a
woman, and assume that of the sterner
sex. An opportunity soon offered for
seeing at farm house near by, pair of
pantaloons and shirt hanging on the
fence she managed to secure them, and at
once appropriated them to her own use.
In this disguise she Travelled on to Ben
netsville, S. c., where she procured work
as boysa diligently applied herself
lepr seys mouth al aheuts sgxcttrffrl the
feast stGpiiciion as Us her sex. AHer asso.
ciates we're the males of the village, and
though she frequently went with the boys
to the river to wash, she never could be
induced to go in herself, always volun-
teering to watch the clothes while they
were bathing.
Work becoming a little scarce, John,
| (for that was her assumed name,) left Ben
netsville and went to Cheraw, where she
labored two or three months, until she
Iprocured funds enough to take her to
Charleston. In that city she was taken
sick with fever, and although under skill
ful medical attendance, she managed to
preserve her incognito.
| John finally, like the moth to the can
die, yentured too near her old range, and
was discovered, first, as one of the oper-
atiyos Of a factory in Fayetteville, by
some of those who had known Miranda
at Rockfsh, Finding herself suspected
she left, and hired to an old bachelor
some miles from town. doing faithfully
mans services ON the farm and in the
house, sleeping with the crusty old bach
elor at night, withouthi suspecting what
| kind of bed fellow he had, until curiosity
brought her to town to hear the discus
sion between Bragg and Gilmer, when she
was again met by some of her old acqua-
tances and fully recognize as Miranda, the
lost maiden of Rockfsh village.
Miranda has promised to assume the ap-
propriate costume of her sex, though she
says that the men have much more fun
than the women: that it will be hard for
her hereafter to sit and listen to The ever
lasting gossip of the girls, since she has
mingled with the men, attended the cleo
tions and tax gatherings, and become in
| terested in politics.