The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-02
An Extraordinary Young Woman.

We have it upon the authority OF the
| Columbus %. Journal that recently there
| was consigned to the county Jail there
prisoner plenteously provided with names
| and surnames. 1t was the humor OF the
person sometimes to be called j. +.
| Goldsborough, occasionally Charles Smith,
and then again Mr. Frank BeldeN. The
| prisoner was committed for larceny, and
when received by the jailer wore pant'-
! looms with the air of one accustomed to
| those garments. 1t turned out, however,
| that J F. Charles-Frank was OF the Soitel
! sort of sex; that her true baptismal name
| (alas that we should be compelled to say
SOY was Mary, and that she has run such
| a career daring her twenty-five years OF
| life as to suggest entirely new views ut
| female capacity, than which no more in
| teresting topic can at present he discussed
| Mary, at the age OF twentv-three, being
determined to live bv her wit, had the wit,
in the very beginning. t. discard her long
clothes and to employ a tailor. Making
progress in her masculine career, she be
came barkeeper in a saloon and diSpenS-
ed drinks of various sorts to the thirsty OF
Columbus, who swallowed their bcyer-
ages in stolid ignorance OF the angel who
ministered unto them. Pursuing the man
lv scheme Of life which she had marked
out for herself she stole S40O Of the spirit
sellers mon and (still pantalooued)
ous Gus sea of 3AIgts3 3Agen wider and more danger
In Cincinnati Mons. Mo, .......
a saloon, where she might have T,'iStiii'iel ~
to dispense chops and to change plates Il
she had not thought it pertinent 70 the
manly part which she had assumed I"
worship at the shrine of BacchuS. Her
ibations being too frequent, and possibly
100 strong, she was deposed from th''
position of waiter, when, going to Cl"vc-
land she became still more manly, since
there she assumed the arduouS r"i' nt
lover, and laid siege to the affections oi
Miss Kitty 0'Neal, to whom she pledged
undying affection. 1t was Il matter ol
course that Kitty should be lett to die OF It
broken heart, or to live as she could with
I damaged one; for the eccentric Mary
essayel other achievements OF genluN-
Generally she was Il thief, but now amt
then She dcvated (shll in pantaloon~) in
to honest ways. Upon the Mahonng
Canal she was employed to roerrr the
fiery chargers. Upon some Steamboat shr
gave great satisfaction, until the rosy god
once more mi>led her. All this time She
was lust ~ manly AZ She could possibly
be- Slc smoked the fragrant wcrd WuI
Il boldnpss which cNcites our a-touI-!
ment she also nasticatcd the same. So
young gentleman could take perprudiru-
lar drinks at the bar with greater fire
| quencv and elegance. SO went ou our
rpicene, inbibng, smoking, chewing.
swearing and making love with Just IL
much audacious impudenre - il her name
! had properly been John or sam instead ut
Mary.
But we are obliged to record that TINS
talented dam~el tempted fate once too
| often and that is why she is now in Co.
| lumbus jail. The kind conductor ot a
railway from GAINESVILLE to Columbus.
,upposinr her to be an honest gentleman.
allowed her to sleep in Il clboose chr,
and she requitcd this touching honey"
lence by stealing his gold chronomyter-
an implement which no conductor can
well spare. For this the Young woman
| will for some time to come remain clut~
tered mp; but when again at large uuhlcr
career is yet before her, for she may take
to lecturing She has at any rate done
something to vindicate the equality of The
sexes. II her garments have been manly
so have been the achievements oi this
Ohio Moll Flanders and she has ~ least
demonstrated that in all this world there
Is nothing sharper than "a Sharp-wi'tri
woman-until she gets into iail. n \.
| Tribune.