The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-21
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We have It upon the authority Of the
Columbus, CO., Journal that recentl,
there was consigned to the county
jail. there, q prisoner pleutsously pro
vided with names, and surpsmes. , 1t
was the humor Of this person some
times to be called ]. F, Goldsborough,
occasionally Charles Smith, and then
again Mr.. Frank Belden. The pris-
oner was committed for larceny, as we
shall presently see, and when received
by the jailor wore pantaloons
with the cir. Of one accustomed to
those garments. 1t turned out, how
ever. that j. F -Charles-Frank was Of
the softer sort of sex that, her true bap-
tismal name (alss! that we should be
compelled to say soy was Mary, and
that she has run such career during
her twenty-five years Of life. as to sug-
gest entirely new views Of female
capacity. than which no more interest,"
ing topic can at present be discussed.
Mary, at the age Of twenty-three,
being determined to live by her wits,
had the wit in the very beginning, to
discard her long clothes and to employ
8 tailor. Making progress in her
masculine career, she became bar
keeper in a saloon, and dispensed drinks
OF various sorts to the thirsty OF Column
bus, who swallowed their beverage in
stolid ignorance of the angel who min
istered unto them. Pursuing the
manly scheme OF lite which she marked
out for herself, she stole $500 of the
spirit sellers money and. (stll panta
looned) launched upon wider and
more dangerous enterprise.
In Cincinnati, Mons. Mary was
waiter in a saloon, where she might
have continued to dispenses chops and
change plates if she had not thought it
pertinent to the manly part which she
had assumed tn worship a the shrine
OF Bscchus, Her ibstions being too
frequent and too strong, she was de-
posed from the position OF waiter, when,
going to Cleveland, she became still
more manly, since there che assumed
the arduous role of lover, and laid
siege to the affections of Miss Kitty
ONeal, to whom she pledged undVing
affection. 1t was a matter of course
that Kitty should be left to. die of a
broken heart, or to live as she could
with a damaged one; for the eccentric
Mary essayed other achievements of
genius. Generally che was a thief but
now and then she deviated (still in
pautaloons) into honest ways. Upon
the Mahoning canal she was employed
to coerce the, frey, chargers Upon
some steamboat she obtained the office
Of clerk, in which she gave great salts
faction, uutil the rosy god once more
misled her. All this time she was just
as manly as she could possibly be
She smoked the fragment weed With
a boldness which excites our astonisb
meut, she also masticated the same.
No young gentleman could take per-
pendicular drinks at the bar with
greater frequency and elegance. So
went on our epicene, imbibing,
chewing, swearing, and
making love with just as mnch auda.
cious impudence as if her name had
properly been John or Sam instead OF
Mary.
But we are obliged to record that
this talented damsel tempted fate once
too often, and that is why she is now
in Columbus Jail. The kind conductor
OF railway train from GAINESVILLE to
Columbus. surprising her to be an hon.
est gentleman, allowed her to sleep in
a csboose car, aud she requited this
touching beuevolepce by stealing hls
gold chronometer an implement
which no conductor can well spare.
For this the young woman will for
some time to come remain clustered
up; but when again at large, a noble
career is yet before her, for she may
take to lecturing.. She has at any
ate done something to viudicste the
equality OF the sexes. II her garments
have been manly, so have been the
achievements OF this Ohio Moll
Flanders, and she has at least demon
strated that in all this world there Is
nothing sharper than sharp-wit,ed
woman-until she gets into jaiL-N. Y.
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