Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-08-29

,,o,,or,,c Storv-Another Female in Male Attire,
Considerable excitement was created at Rockfsh
village North Carolina, about eighteen months ago,
hv the mysterious disappearance OF young lady,
Who Il was afterwards concluded was dead. She has
since turned up in very uneA peCted manner, As the
following letter in the Fayetteville North Carolinna
will show The writer says:
wear and half passed by. The occurrence of
Marjnda' fate began to be obliteraed from the mind
those friends who mourned for her laid aside their
weeds and had signed her as lost forever.
Let us now 60 back to the eventful night of her
disappearance, and learn the true fate of our roman
tic heroine.
1t appears she became dissatisfied with her condi.
ton, for some cause unnecessary 10 detail and left
her boarding house while all beneath its roof were
buried in profound slumber and for fear of being
seen by some in the village, she took the path
leading up the margin OF the pond, passing by the
beach its head and thence through the woods to
the main road. She found herself at daylight some
distance off, and determined, in order to conceal her
IDENTITY to dof the attire Of qroman, and assume
that Of tie Sterner sea. An opportunity soon offered
for seeing al farm house near by pair of panta-
looms and some shirts hanging on The fence, she
managed to secure them, and at once appropriated
them to her use. In this disguise she travelled
on to BennetsVle, s. c., where she procured work
boy, and diligently applied herself for several
months without exciting the least suspicion to her
sex. Her associates were with the males of the vii
lage, and though she frequently went with the boys
10 the river 10 WASH, sne never could be induced to
20 IN herself, always volunteering to watch the
clothes while they were bathing
Work becoming little scarce, John (fOr that was
her assumed name) left Bennesvlle and went to Che
raw where she abored for two or three months until
she procured funds enough to take her to Charleston
In that city she taken sick with fever and though
under skifu medical attendance, she managed TO
preserve her incognito.
John finally, like the moth TO the CANDLE ventured
too near her old range, and was discovered first, as
one of the operatives of factory in Fayetteville, by
some of those who had known Miranda at Rockfsh
Finding herself suspected she e and hired herself
to an old bachelor miles from town, doing faith
full man service on the farm and about the house
sleeping with the crusty old fellow at night without
his suspecting what kind of a bed fellow he had
until curiosity brought her to town to hear the dis
Cusson between Bragg and Gilmer, when she was
again met by some of her old acquaintance, and
fully recognized Marinda, the lost maiden oil
Rockfsh village.
Marnda has promised to assume the appropriate
costume of her sex, though she says that the men
have much more fuA than the women that it will be
hard for her hereafter to sit and listen to the everas
ting gossip of the girls since she has mingled witt
the men, attended the elections and tax-gatherngs-
become interested in poltics-heard the candidates
and been Rugged and treated SO well by them.