The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-01-04
AN EXTRAORDINARY YOUNG WOMAN.

We have it upon the authority of Tile
Columbus CO., Journal that recently there
was consigned to the county Jail there a
prisoner plenteously provided with names
and surnames. 1t WAS the humer of this
person some times to be called j. F. Colds
borough, 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
jailer wore pantaloons with the air of one
accustomed to those garments. 1t turned
out, however, that J. f. Charles Frank
was of the softer sort of sex; that her true
baptismal name (alas! that we should be
compelled to say so) was Mary, and that
she has run such q career, during her 25
years of life, as to suggest entirely new
views of female capacity, that which no
more interesting 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 behinning, to dis
card her long clothes and to employ tail
or. Making progress in her masculine
career, she became barkeeper in saloon,
and dispensed drinks of various sorts to
the thirsty of Columbus, who swallowed
their beverages in stolid ignorance of the
angle who ministered unto them. Pursu-
ing the manly scheme of life which she
had marked out for herself, she stole $500
of the sprit-seller's money and (still pant
alooned) launched upon wider and more
dangerous sea of enterprise.
In Cincinnati, Mons. Mary was waiter
in a saloon, where she might have continu-
ed to dispense chops and to change plates
if she had not thought it pertinent to the
manly part which she had assumed to
worship at the shrine of Bacchus. Her
too strong, she was deposed from the po-
sition of waiter, when, going to Cleveland,
she became still more manly, since there
she assumed the arduous role of love, and
laid siege to the affections of Miss Kitty
O'Neal, to whom she pledged undying af-
lection. 1t was a matter of course that
Kitty should be left to die of broken
heart or to live as she could with a dam
aged one; for the eccentric Mary essayed
other achievements of genius. Generally
she was thief, but now and then she de-
waited still in pantaloons) into honest
ways. Upon the Mahoning Canal she was
employed to coerce the fiery chargers
Upon some steamboat she obtained the
office of clerk, in which she gave great
satisfaction, until the rosy god once more
misled-her. All this time, she was just as
manly as she could possibly be. She
smoked the fragrant weed. With bold
ness which eXcites our astonishment, she
also masticated the same. No young gen.
tleman could take perpendicular drinks at
the bar with greater frequency and ele-
gance. So went on our epicene, imbibing,
smoking, chewing, swearing and making
love with Just as much audacious impu-
dence 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 Col
umbus Jail. The kind conductor of a rail
way train from GAINESVILLE to Columbus,
supposing her to be an honest gentleman,
allowed her to sleep in caboosc car, and
she requited this touching benevolonce by
stealing his gold chronometer-an imple-
ment which no conductor can well spare
For this the young woman will for some
time to come remain clustered up: but
when again ut large, q nobier career is vet
before her, for she may take to lecturing.
She has at any rate done something to vim
dictate the equality of the sexes. If her
garments have been manly, so have been
the achievements Of this Ohio Mol Elan
ders, and she has at least demonstrated
that in all this world there is nothing
sharper than a sharp-witted woman-until
she gets into jail.-N. J. Tribune.