Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-08
MAN-W0MAN
New Developments in This Celebrated
Family One More Daughter In
Readiness to Don Male Attire.
Phenomenal Changes In the wolI.IInown
Family OF the Shenandoah valley
ut Virginia.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

Two years or more ago the Enquirer
nearly paralyzed the crcdulity of its read.
crs with Il story from Winchester, Va,
which, nevertheless, was true In every
particular II told OF Il transformation in
sex Of woman into Il man, and of the
persons marriage to a girl acquaintance.
The story is worth q brief repetition.
The Payne family 4, one of the oldest
in the Shenandoah valley and, like many
others In that region, tho close OF the
war found them the Impoverished pos
SCISSORS of many acres of land. The head
OF the family had died, leaving widow
and several daughters. One of them,
Lydia Rebccca, from her masculine
prOcliyties, assumed control of af-
fairs. She was u graduate of the
female seminary not far from
MartnSburg where She went through
class after class with surprising rapidly.
Relieved OF school, she took hold of the
farm, donneh Il felt hat, looscr clothes,
and was soon displaying man-llle
energy, She could chop wood, op throw
Il sheep for shcarng, with the skin of any
farm-hand in cIlncighborhood. With o
mind above garden truck, She began n
system of stock trading with people on
adjacent farms that from a natural
shrewdncSs always resulted to her bene-
llt She traded any and everything, from
chickens TO horses. Under this manage
ment the Payne farm improved High
stepping game fowls took the place of
common barnyards Berkshire plgs super
seeded lhocyery-day porkers, Merino sheep
supplantcd the ordinary stock Aldcrncy
and Jersey cattle occupied the stalls oil
the old brindles, aud bluoded horses
f.YpgI a. -ltQifG ipta a 0
county fairs her stock carried away thc
blue ribbons, aud many an old-iimcr had
cause to regret his swap with Lydia. As
daring herscWomuu She had no equal In
virginia, Mounted on mettlcsomc roam
it was sight to see her coming down the
Winchester pike, clearing tollgate bars, II
the keeper was slow Ia getting out, taking
fences or bitches rs they came without
hcsitancy, "That girl viii WInd-up bad, -
was often said with much hcudwagging
To help along the value Of the Eaync teal
estate She induced the government To
establish postolice there under the
name OF Rest p0stoiilcc and make her
POSTUM tress. In connection with IL 4he
established store, and hired q MISE Sarah
NJ. iintO4as assistant. For greater cdu-
yenencc IN taking care of postal affairs
aud selling goods She slept IN he store
with Miss Hinton, who naturally was
avcrsc to occupying the building alone.
Lydia was now forty and Sarah thirty
seven, poor aud exceedingly plain. II
was at the age of puberty that Lydia's /
physical changes began Tie store had
been IN operation for year, when from
the association bcgOtten OF close daily
and nightly intimacy, Lydia told the secret
OF her life and Us suspicious 10 Sarah, !
concluding by suggesting marriage II
NJ first an examining physician would I
verify her suspicious, Sard consented 4
and next morning Il Winchester doctor
found her belief was correct ana gave a
certificate to that effect. On The next 4
day the two We're married an Enquirer I
special from Cincinnati arriving there IN (
time to witness the ceremony. 10 change .
Lydia's name would require an act % The .
and, not caring to wait So
long the license read for thu marriage " (
Lydia Rtbccca Payne 10 Sarah ~ lin-
ton" Since that event the title has been
made Lawrence Register Payne.
II now appears that Leila another OF
the Payne girls, IS, or has, developed Ike
her former sister AMI present brother
The mbjolned special tells of e.:
MANCHESTER, VA. NOV. 4.'rhe Hugh
Merritt (ot Bcllairc. Ohlo,) habeay corpus
case for the recovery Of TIE custody Of
his beautiful thirtcen-ycar.old daughter,
Bessie, from the Payue family IS now on
trial IN our county court. The Judge
ruled to-day that il MIS- competent testl-
nony to prove thd Sex Of Miss Leila Payne
By herself when she Is put on the stand,
Tie grandmother Of Miss Leila having
testified ia her deposition now filed IN the
muse that Leila admitted TO her after her
1uther's death that she was Of The mas
,uiine gender. The case is attracting
much attention. The father Is present,
md has been granted free communication
With his daughter.
Tie counsel for Merritt wish 10 show
hal Leila Is not a Proper person 20 have
barge OF Bessie, having lived for about
birty years 10 che world as a female, !
IouDts being expressed IN her nciglgor
lood as 10 her sex "a