The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-15
Life Down East

Not since the Rev. hall Ock case has an event
occurred which has afforded so much fun to
the scandal IaOngers Of the classic and beau
tiful city of Hartford, away down among the
PuritnnS. as the Bennett divorce case. Of
which We have spoken in two or three in
stances. The Boston Post has had an excess
slvc enjoyment in the details, and done them
up in small parcels to STIR up to laughter the
staidcst reader. Here is ITS chronicle of the
last testimony, just before the case was given
to the jury:
"ScipiD Uevonshire is the name Of the col
ored cO@chman who testified to Mrs. Ben
netts suspicious promenade in the forest,
and be also swcars that the Doctor. her hus-
band, was uniformly kind and gentle to his
children, bringing them toys and sweetmeats,
and always seeming anxious to contribute to
their amuscment- The 'adv in this case be-
fore becoming Mrs Bennett, gained her live
tihool by making pantnioons, subsequently,
if the Doctor adheres to the truth. wearing
them. That she spent money more freely
than she has admitted, seems to be proved
by the sums given her by the Doctor-%4O,
$50, and 500 ut time. She bought expen-
sivc fans ut Havana. had at one time money
to tn, amount Of $ 70 concealed in her
trunk; owned a valua de cross valued at
SlUU, and ring worth $50, and her !Iewelry
bill alone. was, upon one Occasl IN. SbUO.-
Some of the Doctors testimony is really
paintivc. lie seems to be very fond of his
wife, and she fond Of, everybody but her
husband; he bought diamonds for her while
they were on visit to New York, worth
81, 200. gave her handsome present for
reading the Bible through, held his temper
even while counting Mrs. Benefits dresses,
and finding from thirty to forty, among them
one which cost SIS. Yet, when he was af-
tlicted with boils, so situated that he could
not attend to tom h;mself-poor mnn-she
refused him any aid whatever; so that, left
to the mercy of hired nurse, his pain was
allcyiattd at the expense at his modesty.-
Such h, artles>ness crushed all sympathy for
Mary. lIenceforth we shat! consider the
Doctor an in urcd man, though as a pii!.Yen-
der he did falsely represent himself iii pam
phlets, meant to aid the sale of his medicines
rs the son of wealthy English nobleman, the
poSsessor of a valuable recipe, the father of
twelve children, several Mt the breast, and
in many ways encouraged Iccrptions which
were better for his income than his charac- +
ter.o
Awfai to relate, the jury, after being out
some time. came into court, reported that they
could not agree, and were discharged. Six !
of them being for Mrs. Bennett still being
Mrs. Bennett, and six that she "shouldn't .
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Erroneous Statements.
The Burlington Hdwkeye of the 2Sth
contains an article on the NJ. & NJ. r. r.
which clearly shows that the editor is igno-
rant not only of the road about which he ,
writes, but Of railroad management in
general, or else he is not very particular
about giving facts. The whole article was
evidently published with an eye to the
Eddyvillc Convention, and to mislcad the
citizens Of TIE DrS Moines Valley in the I
belief that the NJ. & NJ. Railroad is used up.
1t says-"Thcy have used up every avala-
bic resourcc-mortgaged every inch of their !
road and every acre of their lands, and are
now at Washington and Iowa City with the
two divisions, and unable to proceed another
rod. If some 100000 acres of land, the ,
large subscriptions of Scott, Muscatine,
and Iowa City, and Of private citizens has
all been sunk in driving two branches of
this road some fifty miles through the thickiy
settled part of the State, what are the chances /
Of their building it seventy miles to Oska- |
loosa,' and one hundred and twenty miles !
to DeS Moinrs.
All this is very ridiculous. Whoever is
at all acquainted with the Land Grant act.
knows that as yet the NJ. & NJ. r. r. have |
not title to any of the lands, nor will they
have until the road is built some distance |
west Of Iowa City or Washington. The idea ,
Of the Company having mortgagcd "everv |
acre of their lands" is certainly very great
Our contemporary should either have some
correct information on the subject upon |
which he assumes to rlighten his readers,
or else left the Illuminating task to others .
hotter informed. The Company do not get .
the right and title to the '.whole of their .
lands" until the road is completed from the
to tn" Miss ouri river.
In regard to the Company being ''unable
to proceed another rod" We would inform
our very jealous neghbors Of Burlington,
that the heaviest work in Iowa, Pottawatta-
ME. and Powcshcik counties, has been let
to energetic and driving contractors, who
have now about four hundred men at work.
They will push the work through with all
possible speed, and be ready to complete the
light work il the spring. The main line
will be extended next year, and there is-not
much doubt but that the branch will also.
We are glad to have 1t in power to say,
there is now more life and activity marking
the policy Of the managers Of this road, than
we have seen for long interval. They are
now schemng and working earnestly to ex-
tend the road, and thus increase its value to
themselves and to the public Davenport
Ga oeite.
~ In speaking Of Frank Plerce's COM
oulsory evacuation of hotel at Florence,
o give place to the ex-kins of Prussia,