The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-05

But the Summer time will come again,
And the flowers all will bloom and grow,
And the bleat of the lamb will te the same,
And changed to rain, the snow, the snow.
ON SEA AND LAND IN MANS A TIRE.
From the New York World.]
In Recorder Parsell's court room in
Astoria, yesterday, sat rosy young
woman of eighteen, the picture Of health,
wearing rough suit of mems clothes
looking like nice boy. She was ar
rested in Long Island City Saturday even
ing. and yesterday she told her story
with composure. Her maiden name is
Alice Holmes, but she has born several
aliases, among them Jennie NJ. Doten.
She was born in Wareham, Mass, al
though her relatives now live at Marion,
Mass. Her father was English, while her
mother was native Of Massachusetts,.
Up to the time she was fourteen years
old she remained at home and attended
school. During vacation she made
visit to the West, where she made the
acquaintance Of telegraph operator
named Bastablc. The acquaintance
ripened into intimacy and they concluded
to get married clandestnely, she being in
her fifteenth year and he in his sixteenth.
After brief experience of married life,
however, they separated, and she re.
turned home, while he remained in the
West. The fruit of this marriage was
child, which is now in it's third year.
Alice got employment as a bookkeeper
fer Messrs. j. E. Liscombe & Co., at Ply
mouth, Mass, where she was known as
Nellie Archer; her child, meantime,
being placed with her brother, with
whom it still remains. Her father
dying left considerable property,
Of which her brother has pcrsistently re-
fused to give her any portion. She finally
had some serious difficulty with him, and
had, as she expressed it, "a choice of
leaving the State for few months or be-
!ng placed in confinement
Shs accordingly left home on the 18th
IF February last; went to Attleborc,
Mass, and worked at the straw business
Here the idea struck her that she would
adopt mans attire, and donning suit,
she went to Providence, where she was en-
gagged in the coal yard Of Hopkins &
Pomeroy. firing Of this, on the
18th of April she went to Clark's Falls,
Conn.,, where she was engaged on a farm,
June, when she returned to Providence,
md found employment on little river
steamer, called the Schultz. After few
Jays, becoming dissatisfied, she went to
Newport, where she shipped on board
:hc United States steamer Powhattan,
being enabled to pass examination by the
surgeon, as she alleges. by the conniv-
lnce of two young fellows of her
acquaintance who shipped with her, who
Knew Of her sex, aud who each paid the
surgeon twenty-five dollars to pass her.
She shipped under the name Of Albert B.
Clifton. The Powhattan went to New
London, and subsequently came to the
Brooklyn navy yard. Orders coming for
he Powhattan to proceed to Port-au-
Prince, and not desiring to go so far away
rom home, "Albert" deserted and made
Ter way to New London, where she
shipped on board the wood schooner
Jamestown, running to Virginia. She
made. two trips, when she returned to
New London and shipped on board
coal schooner, the William H. Baker,
jhas. B. Baker, commander. After two
rips she left this vessel at New London,
md, being short Of money, smnggled her.
elf on board the steamer City
If Boston, and arrived in New York
N the eth of November. The next
lay she shipped on board the coasting
schooner Gar, Captain D. j. Hammond,
unning between Boston and New York.
1t the end Of month she left this vessel
New York, and went across the river
% Long Island City, where she was en-
,loyed by Mr.. Pirz, proprietor OF the
Camdia Chemical Works at Dutch
Kills, who agreed to pay her
81 a week, with board and clothing, until
prlng. She boarded with Alfred Hahn
or a week, when she left, as she alleges,
N account Of the bad order in which the
,nuse was kept, and went to board at
he company's boarding house. While
It Hahn's there was suspicion that she
vas woman. She was detained.
nd taken to the First Precinct
;lation-house at Astoria. She had an
examination before Recorder Parsells.
Tho decided to discharge her on her
promise to resume her proper attire and
20 leave the city. She says she likes the
ea, is never sea sick: and prefers mems
lo,hing because she can see more and
,arn more as q man than as woman.
A young man in Olathe, Kansas, who
particular about his washing, the other
law wrote note to washerwoman and
ne to his girl, and, by strange fatality,
.ut the wrong address on each envelope
nd sent them off. The washerwoman
,as we'll pleased at an invitation to take
ride next day, but when the young lady
cad: If you muss up my shirt bosoms,
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