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Cupid in the Leading-Strings of Mars—Some days ago a young woman arrived in Chicago from Louisville, Ky., whose history is thus recorded in the Post of that city:
“She gave her name as Annie Lillybridge of Detroit, and stated that her parents reside in Hamilton, Canada. Last spring she was employed in a dry goods store in Detroit, where she became acquainted with a Lieut. W—— of one of the Michigan regiments, and an intimacy immediately sprang up between them. They corresponded for some time, and became much attached to each other. Some time during last summer Lieut. W—— was appointed to a position in the 21st Michigan infantry, then rendezvouing in lonia county. The thought of parting from the gay lieutenant nearly drove her mad, and she resolved to share his dangers and be near him. No sooner had she resolved upon this course than she proceeded to the act. Purchasing male attire she visited lonia, enlisted in Capt. Kavanagh’s company, 21st regiment. While in camp she managed to keep her secret from all. Not even the object of her attachment, who met her every day, was aware of her presence so near him.
From the account published by the correspondent of the New York World, we extract the following description of the rebel Capitol.
So soon as we descend into the plains of beautiful Virginia, we observe the change in all that distinguishes an old from a new country. Richmond is a model of that exterior respectable convervatism which is the chief boast of that people. It is in its natural site one of the most picturesque places in the world. Richmond of to-day is, however, the Richmond of two years ago turned out of doors. With the seat of Government came also the troop of sharpers, gamesters, politicians and adventurers, from which the South was never free. The hotels are anomalous, and do not court comparison with the hotels of even Washington. On the streets may be seen the same string of tawdry men and women, a little the worse for wear. Handsome women we saw, however, whom fashion could hardly adorn. The stores are still open and equally crowded, but the shelves are very lean and bare. There is a certain effort of dress on the part of the military, but is far from being a success. The vehicles are faded and shaky; the horses poor and jaded; the streets, naturally beautiful, neglected and overrun with war
traces. Some of the private residences look quite old and comfortable.
New York, May 31.-(AP)—Jeers, catcalls and shouts of “down with Mussolini,” caused by the presence of 200 Fascisti marchers, created a disturbance in New York’s Memorial Day parade. Mounted police charged and dispersed the disturbers whose ardor, undampened by the soft rain which fell on ceremonies throughout the east, at first threatened serious trouble.
Attired in black overseas caps with black tassels, black puttees, black breeches and shoes and the symbolic black shirts, the Fascisti gathering fell in behind a band of boy scouts.
STATE ROAD NO 1 CAN NOW BE COVERED IN COURSE OF TWELVE HOURS, IT IS ANNOUNCED
JACKSONVILLE, May 29.
State Road No. 1, the Old Spanish Trail, is so well advanced toward completion between Jacksonville and Pensacola that the run of nearly 400 miles can now be made comfortably in twelve hours according to the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. An attache of the Chamber, in a motor trip from Pensacola to Jacksonville this week, driving at night, made the run from the ferry landing at Mulat, to Jacksonville in eleven hours and ten minutes with one hour and eleven minutes devoted to stops along the route. His running time was 9 hours 59 minutes for the 373 miles. The ferry trip across Escambia Bay requires about fifty minutes while the distance from the ferry landing to Pensacola is nine miles.