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Yesterday a nuuwuline looking woman named KliMhoth Taylor, with the ulin-of lUppy Ned, *w charged before the Warrington Borough court witli being drunk and creating a disturbance. It appeared that the prisoner wan found surrounded hy a crowd ol n thouoand people, who were pelting her wit h stows, etc., and shouting at her Mnn-Wonian.'' The explanation in that the prirowr's husband wok n sea captain, and on hid death she betook herself to a sailor's life and nerved for several yearn in the capacity ol nil able-bodied seaman without the discovery of her *ex. During the American war die served on ono ol the blockade runners, ami at the ooncln* don of the war she went from Liverpool to Warrington, nnd nettled on one of the farina in the vicinity m an agriculture man-servant, still maintaining her dla-guise successfully. For her employer she tincd to lr*nk in lraraes, plough, nnd do other kindanf masculine work, quite aa well bh her follow aerranU whoso arx was not a natter of dispute. At one farm for some time die carried oti a love intrigue with one of the •ervariU, and her sex becoming known she received her conge, and wont to work elsewhere. She always appeared in the town in man's clothing, and her history having been widely circulated, she was occasionally subjected to rough treatment, and has been lined and sent to prison lor drunkenness, tin the present occasion, aa she promised reformation, and had been Ill-treated, she was discharged with a caution.— Ln'rrpool Mcrrury.
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The Louisiana Cotton Boll
Lafayette, Louisiana, US
Wed, Sep 05, 1877
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