Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1858 — Two Girls Walking a Match. [ARTICLE]

Two Girls Walking a Match.

While the attention of the sporting world is strained toward the-butche.'v in Canada, a walking match between two girls, which under other circumstances would elicit a good deal of attention, is quietly going cn at Alontgoinery Hall, .No. 76 Prince street. On a raised platfofm at the side of the hall, four feet wide by thirty feet long, two young women, dressed in light fancy costumes, are slowly walking to and fro, each awaiting the time when the other shall sit down, go to sleep or fall off the platform from exhaustion. They commenced their weary round at noon yesterday, and will probably keep it up till Saturday, as both' have walked for 60 hours before. Their dress is aim >st the Bloomer; they wear tights,, however, instead of trjwsers. This gives them a very petite appearance. One of them,“ Pricess of Lynn,” is a blue-eyed girl with fair hair, cut short and surmounted by abroad-brimmed summer hat. She wears the tri-color, has a pleasant address, apparently a good deal of spirit, as she walked the plank' with considerable energy last evening. She said -that she had to walk pretty smartly to keep warm. She thought she Tiad taken a little cold. She had walked 60 hours before in Lqwell. She is five feet in hight. and weighs 120 pounds, reduced by training from 130. The other, “Flora Temple of Boston,” is an inch shorter, and considerably smaller; she is a brunette, and although her muscular system is remarkably well developed, weighs only 110 pounds. She also has been under training for a month, walking eight or ten miles a day, living nearly on raw beef-steaks, and otherwise conforming to the training rules. She wears’a Native American badge, and the cap which her husband. Lambert, wore when he walked a thousand miles in a thousand hours. She said that her first walk* of this kind was with her husband, when he walked 110 hours continuously. She walked the last 50 hours with, him. Then a woman was fooli-h enough to challenge her to walk, and she walked for 60 hours. And so now again. She talked and we were told that she had obtained considerable reputation as a writer for _the weekly papers about Boston. She saw no reason why a woman should not be able to walk as long as a man; certainly women had to endure more than men generally.— New York Tribune.

G5“We learn from the South Bend Register that Hon. Aquilla Jones, the man the ] Lecomptonites could not control last winter -j after they nominatd him for State Treasurer, and who afterwards was so zealously engaged in helping to lead on the opposition van, is talked of all over the State as the man for State Agent, and also John 11. Harper, the late Republican candidate for State Treasurer, is talked of for Trustee ot the Wabash and Erie Canal.i For United States Senators the names of John D- Defrees, IL S. Lane, Alvin P. Hovey and J. G. Davis (Representative elect from the 7th District) have been suggested. The Register does not know whether either of them will be candidates or not. — Westville Herald. (Kj~lt is stated that J J. Alston, of Tipton Co., Tennessee, has lost six hundred hogs by the Kog cholera, which is raging in that section.