The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-16
wHEEIJNG W. VA SATURDAY JANUARY l6, 1869.
lEoIIie, the wfckedest womnn I'm tho
west--she 10 1Harried and Sent 10

IHoIiie, the wfckedest Womnn i'm tho
west--she is Married and Sent 20
Cheyenne.
A correspondent sends the Kankakee
Illinois) Gazette the following lively
sketch:
Every body in Kankakee knows Mol
lie. To those of our readers who. are
so unfortunately circumstanced as to be
compelled to live away from Kankakee
we will say that Mollie had no other
name. She never had father or moth
er, nor brother or sister, that any body
knew of. She never had home out
side the county Jail. She was brought
here in 1864, from New York. She never
knew what school was; she never
heard a sermon; she never was inside
of church; she never heard of Sum
day school; she never heard a Kind
word spoken; she never was sober mo-
ment when she could get whisky, aud
she could always get whisky when she
could get out of Jail; and she was al
ways out of Jail when she made SO much
disturbance that the iailor could not
keep her in; and she was always in Jail
when she made SO much disturbance
out that she could not be endured. She
was Republican by profession and
Democrat by instinct.
She swore the most terrific oaths
with greater volubility of tongue than
could be done by any person who lived
outside of Chicago. She talked the
vilest, and sang the worst songs; she
was filthy as the lowest, and slept out
of doors more nights, and in doors few
er nights than any other being who
ever lived. When it rained the fastest
and froze the deepest, Mollie would get
the drunkest, and was then the hap
piest. She would have been an excel
lent subject for the late Social Science
Convention to have operated the So
cial out of her, for she bad great deal
of it. The police feared her, the Police
Court detested her, the Common Coun'
Gil made ungallant remarks when they
audited bills marked, "Diet for Mollle
in county JAIL" and these bills they
audited at every meeting; and the jailor
was known, on several occasions, to
make use of ofdownright profane language
when he saw the police and the IRE
pressible Mollie marching, arm In arm,
up 10 the jail door.
Mollie was not the only wicked person
in this city. There was "Jlm," an
aboriginal of Momence, of whom but
little is known here; but unless nature
lied in Jim's face, head and general
makeup, he was worse, wickeder and
lower than Mollie. He made the ac-
quaintance of Mollie in Jail, while con-
fined on n charge Of stealing nine drinks
of whisky from an Alderman in No
mence. That they cOurted is true;
whether they loved or not is not known.
She begged to be released from jail, and
promised to marry and emigrate to
Cheyenne. The Common Council voted
Mollie new dress, and the happy couple
sixty dollars to pay their fare on their
matrimonial trip.
They repaired to the Office of the Po-
lice Court. The Police Magistrate has
an original way of doing things. They
said thew wished to be married. The
Magistrate, with uplifted hand, said:
".Jim, YOU do agree to take Mollle, |
and live with her, and go to Cheyenne
with her, aud stay with her, regardless
of law and consequences !" Yes"
"MOllie, you do agree to take jim,
aud live with him, and go to Cheyenne
with him, aud stay with him, regardless
of law and consequences y yes.
'Then | give yon these two railroad
tickets. and order you to stay there un-
til the Vigilance CommItte doth hang
You both. Amen"
And Mollie and Jim took their de-
parture.