The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-04-28
Girl in Mems ClOthCS-A Female
on the Way 10 Pixies PcNk.

! A young gentleman arrived in town OF
Saturday and put up at the Farmers Home
who represented himself ss on his way tc
Pixies Pesk. He was we'll dressed and goo,
! looking, and appeared to have money to pay
for all he got, although quite prudent in hi.
expenditures, as was denoted by the style O
public house which he resorteu to. His en-
tire ignorance OF the route, or of the naces.
sary equipment, attracted some attention,
but people set him down as verdant young
gentleman, and kindly gave him all the in
formation in their power. There was moth
ing ab ut him that excited suspicion, al.
though the landlord thought him somewhat
isstidious in refusing to sleep with another
IN man, and he staid over night. This opera.
ton was fata 10 him, however, as the wo-
men folks disco'e ID, by some inexpicab lie
means, The next morning, that the supp posed
young gent was girl of eighteen or nine
teen years of aye. They were highly scan
dalized at this as women ore apt to be r
such cases, and insisting upon having an Of
ficer sent for. Deputy Sheriff Camp soon
| arrived and took charge oi the now discon
soiale young woman, who WAS completely
overwhelmed at her discovery, and deprived
of all the self possession which had charac
terized her disguise.
She went with him willingly, being as
sured that no harm would be done her, anG
above all that she would not be put in Jail
and told her story unreservedy. She die
not leave her quarters, however, without Civ.
ing the females who had discovered her dis
euise pretty smart piece OF her mind -
On arriving at officer Chmp's Office, she
confessed her design, and acknowledged that
she had run away from her home in Canada
with the intention Of making her way to
Pixies Peak, which loc tlity, however, ,he
had very little knowledge of. She had Ia.
ken moLey from her tbthrr's desk for this
purpose, and appropriated her brothers. bes,
suit IN which to travel. She said ehe thought
Plks's Peak was a little ways from Chic 20,
and she thought Chicago was about flly
miles from Detroit. Her idea of the ex.
peUse had been obtained from the newspl-
pers, and she had provided money enough to
take her all the way there. She was I'd
looking Ond intelis ent, and SO abundantIy
emerge tic that he was quite sure that she
was competent tor the tlsk.
Being informed that she must 20 home,
she begged hard 10 be released, which was
perempto lily denied. She then imp !ored
ierveDtly that her name and that Of her father
might not be nude public, promising under
condition that her request was complied
with, to 90 home and stay there and be h
good girl A recital OF the dangers she
must enc untsr on her journey, and the life
she must le I'd when she got 10 her destina.
ton, reconciIed her tO this arrangement, and
she went home cneerfuIly in the charge of a
Canadian officer who was summoned for the
purpose.
She said her father was farmer in com.
Portable circumstances. 1t is not the first
of such waywurd fancies on the part OF
young girls that we have had to record, and
singulary enough most of them come from
Canada. We have never withheld names
before, but the circumstances of this case
justify US in doing so, as the girl was more
imprudent and thoughtless than snful.--De-
troit Free Press. ' ...