The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-02-12
A Girls Adventures.
EIGHT MONTHS ON SEA AND LAND IN
MANS ATTIRE.

In Recorder IorSell > couIO iooih, AL
Astoria, recently, sat a rosy young wo'
man of eighteen, the picture OF health,
wearing a rough suit Of mems clothes,
and looking like a nice boy. She was
arrested in Long Island City, and told
her story with composure. Her maiden
name is Alice Holmes, but she has borne
several aliases, among them Jennie Nj.
Doten. She was born in Warehem,
Massachusetts,, although her relations
now live ut Marion, Massachusetts. Her
father was English, while her mother
was a native of Massachusetts,. Up to
the time she was eighteen years old she
remained ut home and attended school.
During vacation she made visit to
the West, where she made the acquain.
lance of telegraph operator named
Bastable. The acquaintance ripened
into intimacy, and they concluded to
get married clandestinely, she being in
her fifteenth year and he in his SIX
tecnth. After brief experience OF mar
ried life. however, they separated. and
she returned home, while he remained
in the West. The fruit of this marriage
was a child, which is NOW in its third
year. Alice got employment as q book
keeper for Messrs. J. +. Luscombe n
Co.. at Plymouth, Massachusetts,, 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 prop
erty. of which her brother has persist
emily refused to give her any portion.
She finally had some serious difficulty
with him, and had. us she expressed 1t,
ga choice of leaving the State for Il
few months or being placed Ill confine-
ment." ,
She accordingly left home on the 18th
of February last, went to Attleboro,
Massachusetts, and worked Mt the straw
business, Here the idea struck her
that she would adopt mems attire, and
DOMINIC IL suit she went to Providence:
where she was engaged in the coal yard
of Hopkins and P6meroy. firing OF
this, on the 18th Of April she went to
Clurk's Falls, Connecticut, where she
was engaged on Il farm until the last
Monday in June, when she returned to
Providence and found employment on
little river steamer called the Schultz
After few days, becoming dissatisfied,
she went to Newport, where she shipped
on board the United States steam frlgate
Powhatan, being enabled to pass ex-
animation by the surgeon, as she ALE
ges. by the connivance Of two young
fellows of her acquaintance who shipped
with her. who knew of her sex, and who
each paid the surgeon $25 to pass her.
She shipped under the name Of Alfred
b. Clifton. The Powhattan went to
New London, and consequently came
to tho Brooklyn Navy Yard. Orders
coming for the Powhatan to proceed to
Port an Prince, and not desiring to go
so far away from home, "Albert de-
serted and made her way to New Lon
don, 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 II. Baker, Charles b. Baker.
commander. After two trips she left
this vessel at New London, and being
short of money struggled herself on
board the steamer City of Boston, and
arrived in New York on the 18th of No.
vember. The aext day she shipped on
board the coasting schooner Gar, Capt.
d. w. Hammond, running between
Boston and New York. At the end OF a
month sho left this vessel in New York
and went across the river to Long ISL
and City, where she was employed ny
Mr.. Pirz, proprietor of the Gambia
chemical works Mt Dutch Kills, who
agreed to pay her $Sa week, with board
and clothing until Spring. She boarded
with Alfred Hahn for week, when she
left. as she alleges, on account OF the
bad order in which the house was kept,
and went to board ut the company's
clearinghouse. While at Hahn's there
was suspicion that she was a woman.
She was detained, and taken to the First
Precinct station house at Astoria. She
had an examination before Recorder
Parsells, who decided to discharge her
on her promise to resume her proper
attire and to leave the city. She says
she likes the sea, is never sick, and pre-
fers mems clothing because she can see
more and learn more as q man than as
woman.-New York World.
Fossil MAN.-Mr. NJ. D. Conway says
that two popular errors in regard to the
age of the world and the origin OF man
were chargeable to Archbishop USHER
and John Milton. The Archbishop sue
ceeded in getting the chronology of the
Bible placed in the margin, so as to
make the world about 5000 years old.
John Milton described our first parents
as lordly and noble in appearance. He
said these two errors had been corrected
more clearly within the past fifteen years
than in any other period, and he attrib-
uted the new light of science largely to
the fossil man found in Abbcville by
Boucher De Perthes, and afterwards ex-
amined by DR.. Carpenter, of London,
and others and to other discoveries in