Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-06-06

way opening into the street, where all
this while he had been weeping at the
door. He Is since dead-and the re-
lnembrance of him has ever been as
ociatcd in her mind with recollection
Of his suferlngs through that horrid
night. After this her husband ordered
her to keep her own apartment, md
locked her out from the rooms occupied
by himself, and the governess and the
family.
lie excluded her from his table for
some weeks and placed the governess
at the head of it in her stead.
But il may be necessary to go further
into detail. Ills cruelties have continu-
ed to the present hour. They have been
repeated during the past summer with
peculiar aggravation, when her children
have been witnesses of the Illuminating
scenes. For some months past she has
been compelled TO wear tight bandage
around her wrist from the effects OF his
violence in attempting to thrust her from
the room in the presence OF her children
lie charges her with insanity ; and tells
. UtV tUut SIlf - uIiIt w OC tItii
ion. He has given the charge of the
keys of the house TO her second daugh-
ter, and installed her in authority over
her mother. lie has abandoned your
petitioner as n husband, having kept II
separate sleeping apartment for many
years. As far as he could, without ex-
citing public observation, he has declined
all intercourse with her refusing even
to speak 10 her, except in the presence
Of company, or TO minister rebukcs. -
Although he is worth, as she has reason
to believe, more than one hundred thou
sand dollars, he refuses her all supplies,
except those on his table, at which she
is permitted to sit in silent neglect and
her father has for long period furnished
her with the means of procuring the
principal part Of her dress Even TO the
postage of a letter, the funds of her hus-
band have been denied her. lie told
her about six months since, that there
would soon be nothing for her in his
house for that matters were ripeDing
for separation thus intima,ing that he
should shortly turn her out of doors.
Indeed, she is no longer the wife of
her husband, but is already divorced
except by the forms of law. In addition
to these domestic injuries, he has lately
availed himself Of his high standing as n
scholar and a clergyman, and man of
wealth, TO circulate most wrongful and
injurious reports for the purpose of turn
ing against her the current Of public
opinion. reports, from her re-
tired and private station, she is wholly
unable to correct with the publicity with
which they are circulated.
He has lately called together the fe-
male members of his church, and still
more recently the male members, and
in her absence, and without her knowl-
edge, made her the subject Of public
odiunI, and to deprive her Of all sources
Of pity and consolation.
The unmanly and outrageous attacks
upon her person, her character and her
peace, have reduced her to a state OF
wretchedness which can be endured no
longer. Her only hope is from your
Honorable Body. She therefore prays
this General Assembly 10 take her case
into consideration, and upon finding the
facts herein stated to be true, to grant
her bill of divorce from her said hus-
band and to appropriate to her such n
part of his property as is necessary and
proper, and usual in such cases, and to
grant her The society and guardianship
of her two youngest children-and the
petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever
pray. SARAH Nj. JARVIS.
Middletown, January 3lst, A. ID. 1889.