Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-01-31

the strange marriages, the palm OF oddly
must certainly be conceded to those from
which man has been excluded. One case
Of this sort came to light this year, when
the Edinburgh police laid their hands upon
ayoung woman who was wanted" from
information supplied by an Irish girl, whom
the masquerading female in question had
married. while employed in the neighbour
hood of Kirknewton. The couple had lived
happily together for time (; but quarrel
ing over some domestic matter, the wife re-
solved to part company, and informed the
police what manner of husband she had
married.
A stranger story of this nature is t'd in
1.-THE Gentleman's Magazine" for l776.
A discovery Of a very extraordinary kicd
was made at Popular, where two wo nen
had lived together SO for thirty-six years,
and kept public house, without ever be-
ing suspected, but the wife happen ng to
fall ill and die. few days before she expir-
ed revealed the secret to her relatives. made
her will, and left legacies to the amount Of
half what she thought they we're worth.
On appealing to the pretended husband, she
at first endeavored to support her assumed
character; but, being closely pressed. she
at length owned the fact, accommodated all
matters amicably, put off the male and put
on the female character, in which she APP
peared to be a sensible, well-bred woman,
though in male attire she had always affect
ed the plain, Flooding ale honse keeper
1t is said they had acquired in business
three thousand pounds. Both had been
crossed in love when young, and had chosen
this method to avoid further opportunities;
the female widower afterward prosecuted a
man for extorting money from her before
the disclosure, by threatening to proclaim
her real sex and proving her case, had the
satisfaction of hearing the offender sentenc-
ed to four years imprisonment, and expo
sure in the pillory. In 1777, woman was
pilloried in Cheapside, and afterwsrl sent
to prison for six months, for dressing her
self in male attire, and marrying three wo-
men, with whose clothes and money she
had decamped at the first opportunity In
1878, another deceiver gained possession of
hundred pounds; but instead of lingering
the money. the woman-husband was intro
duced to the lord mayor by her cheated
spouse, and paid the penalty of detection.
A TRUE WoMAN.-Josephine was one of
natures Queens-she was divorced says
her biographsr, but her love did not cease
in her retirement she enjoyed all Napoleon's
success, and prayed that he might be saved
from the fruits of his ambition When his
son was born, she only regretted that she
was not near him in his happiness and
when he went prisoner to Elba, she beg
ged that she might share his prison and re.
lieve his woes. Every article that he used
at her residence, remained as he left it,
the book in which he had last been reading
there. the page doubled down, and the pen
that he had last used it, with the ink dried
on its point. When her death drew nigh,
she wished to sell all her jewels, to send the
fallen empei or money and her will was
submitted to his correction. She died be-
fore his return from Eba; her last ~ords
expressed the hope and belief that ''she
never caused a single tear to flow" She
was buried at the village church of Ruel,
and her body followed to the grave not only
by Princes and Generals, but by thousands
OF poor, whose hearts had been made glad
by her bounty. Her marble monument
bears only this inscription, eugene and
Hortense to Josephine"