Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — MARVELS BY TELEGRAPH. [ARTICLE]

MARVELS BY TELEGRAPH.

Singular Stories Wired to the Press. The Strange Case es Jane Payne—A Marvelous Piece of Surgery—The Penalty of Marrying Young —Tale of a Squirrel’s Tail.

CHANGE OF SEX. The Queer Cue of Jane Payne. [Wheeling fW. Va.) Dispatch to Cincinnati Commercial.] Jane Catherine Payne and Mrs. Annie Hintdh were married at Martinsburg, this State, yesterday, by Rev. John Longstreot. The groom has been known for ten years in Martinsburg as a lady of correct habits, modest demeanor and marked Intelligence and refinement, and has been Postmaster, and kept a little store in the village known as Rest, thirteen miles from Martinsburg. From childhood she evinced remarkable business talent. Attaining years of maturity she engaged in commercial pursuits. No one in the vioinlty is more favorably known. Living quietly and attending closely to business, neighbors gradually came to look upon the proprietress of the little store as an old maid. Judge of their astonishment when, last Tuesday, Jane. Catherine appeared in Martinsburg, announced her conversion from the gentler to the sterner sex, purchased and arrayed herself in a suit of masculine habiliments, and stating her intention to marry a lady who for years has been her assistant in the store. In explanation, there had never been any occasion to doubt her femininity until a fortnight since, when she was led to visit Drs. Maguire and Love, at Winchester. They announced to their patient there could be no doubt of perfeot masculinity, and the ignoramuses who superintended her advent Into the world deserved to be prosecuted for their stupidity, which brought about the subsequent wearing of petticoats Instead of trousers. She has no mustache or whiskers. Much confusion results in the community over this sudden change of sex.