Litchfield enquirer., 1853-09-15

tlIenl iE their pockeis--weni rejoicing hone, over miles 0f sand. and through the tfIbuIafion 0f many stage coaches. Smith arrived at home in lhe evening, and as he sat down iil ile apaflor, his pretty wife be- side him-h0w pretty she did look and five of her children asleep overhead, the AOlher five studying their school lessons in corner of IiIe room, Smith was induced to expatia,e upon the good result Of hts mis- ston 10 Trenton. z turnpike, my dear Tam one of the directors and will be president; il will set us up, love, we can send the children to boarding school and live in style, out of the toll Here is the2charter, honey.' | Let me see II, said the pretty wife, who was one of the incest wives, with plump ness and goodness, dimpling all over her face, lel me see il : and she leaned over S.nitll's shoulder, pressing her arm around his own, as she looked at the parchment. But alI al once Smilh's vis8ge grew long Smlth's w,fe's grew black. S:niih was not proiane, but now Le ripped out an awful oath: D. ii, wife, these iafeyaag rascess at Trenton, have gone aad diUorced asP
 Il was too true, the parchment whiChhc held was bill Of divorce, in which the name of Smith and Sinnh's wife appeared in trighifally legible letters Mrs. Smith wiped her eye with the corner of her apron. Here's turnpike 2 she said, sadly, and with the whole len of my children Staring 1 me in inc face, ain'tyo wife Here's turnpike
 'D- the pike. and tie legislature, and - Well, the fact is, that Smith, re- duced 10 single blessedness, and enacted' l into stranger to his own wife, swore aw- | G.u.s IA ..k II Il. most of the denzens of Smiths village had gone to bed, Smrh bid his late wife to put | on her bonnet, and arm in arm they pro. ceedcd 10 the house of the clergyman of l their church.
 'GoOdness bless mel! exclaimed the good mild man, as he saw them enter, Smith looking like the very last June chad, and Smith,s wife Wiping her eyes with flIe cor ner nf her apr0n-s Goodness bless me, what's the matter ?
 The matter is that want you t0 marry us two right off replied Smiih.
 Marry yOnP eiaculaied the clergyman, with expanded fingers and awful eyes, are you dr01k or crszy?
 T ain't crazy, and wish scas drunk,' said Smith, desperately the fact is, broth- CT Goodwin, that some scoundrel at 'Trens tor, ,unbeknOwn 10 me,and al dead of night, have gOne and divorced me from my own wifi, ,she the mother of of-nine chlldren!' | s'ren,' suggested Mrs. Smith. who was crying, { tieFe'sa turnpikev
 l We'll the g00tl minister seeing the state Oc the case, (ihe Trenton parchment was duly produced from the pocket of the lu~ gubriOus SMIt1T, Jmar'isu uEtirmUveFssraight way, and would not take fee; the fact is, grave as he was. Ee was dying to be alone. sO that he could give vent to . suppressed laugh, which was shaking him all Over-- and Smith and Smith s wife went joytully home, and kissed every one of their ten children. The little Smiths never knew that their fatheT and mother had been made foreigners to each other, by legislative en. ac,meni. Meanwhile, and on the self same night Jones returned 1tO his town, Burlington, be,,eve--and sought at once that fine par of black eyes which he hoped shortly 10 call his. own. The widow sat on the sofa, white 'kerchief iied carelessly about her round white throat, her black hair laid in silky waves against each rosy cheek.
 Divorce is inc gord,' cried Jones play-
 fully batting her double chin. The fact
 is, Ehza. l'm rid of the cursed woman, and
 you and TIl be married to night. know
 how to manage those scoundrels at 'rren-
 ton. A champagne sSp2eF tor was it
 breakfast } did the busiIless for them. Put on your bonnet and things, and let us go 10
 the prescher's at once.s
 The widow, (whO Was among widows as peaches are smone apples put on her
 bonnet and took Jones' arm, aHd---- a
 Just look how handsoTe it is tO put on parchmentl' cried Jones, pulling the doc uBent from his pocket. and with much rOsiling spreading it 0ut before her. l Here's the law which says that Jacob Jones and Anna Caroline Jones gre twOi look st ? Putting her plump aloved hand on his shoulder, she did look at II.
 .0h dear r she said, with her rosebud lips. and sank back, hall fainiing, on the sofa. .Oh bszes r cried Jones, and sank be- side her, rusiling the fatal parchmentin his
 hand. Here's lots of happiness and cham
 pagne GoDe 10 ruin.'
 I Ii was hard case. Instead of being
 divorced and a, liberty 10 marry the wid-
 ow, Jac0b James was simply, by the Leg
 islatuFe ot New Jersey, incorporated into
 . turnpike company. and which made It
 worse, authorized (with hls 6r0iher uirec-
 tUrs,l 10 construct a turnpike from bufllng- ton io Bristol. When y0u reflect ihat hvfn hnrton and Bristol are located just ssmlle apart, on opposite sides ofgihe Delaware l river, you will perceive the extreme hope 1 lessness of Jones' case.
 Its ell the huls 0f that turnpike man, who give lem the champagne supper, or wac il q breaklasl q cried Jones, in agony. If ihev'd chartered me to De | turnpike from Pig's Run 10 TerraPln | Hollow, might have horne il, but the very
 idea nl building turnpike from buLlng.on !: of it.. So i. did.
 And you ain, divorced z sasd Elzas tear rolling down her cheek.
 sNo r thundered Jones crushing his hat
 he, ween his knees, and what is worse the leqislature is adjourned and gone home Idrunk, and won, De back tO Trenton ill nex. year. IL was hard case. The mistake had oncnFred in lhe laal