Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-21
January and May.

The New York Gazette thus relates
recent divorce trial in that city
Mr.. Israel Fisher appears to have mar
red his present wife, Matilda Fisher
SINE time in 1860. From both differences
and facts the husband was O man wei
stricken in years, being now over sixty
years; while his spouse alleges that she ii
not over half that number Of years. The
marriage might then be called a union be-.
tween January and May. as will appear
from the following affidavit Of Janu.
uary, Mr.. Fisher. After stating that he
was married to the defendant in March,
1860, from which time he has continued
to cohabit with her up to the llth Of No.
vember, 1864. he goes on TO tell a most
melancholy story, which affords another
proof of the fact as old as the hills,
that old men should not go in search Of
young and bonny brides.
THAT at intervals between said mar
rage and the month Of November. 1854,
the defendant would and did, without
n cause or provocation, leave her home
and remain abroad several weeks at a time,
while much of that time deponent would
not know where she was, and he was
compelled to cook and keep house for
himself.
Deponent further says that the defend
ant, on the Sth day Of January. 1865,
commenced an action against him IN the
Court Of Common Pleas, on the alleged
ground Of cruel treatment, and among the
| first allegation. contained in the complaint
in the said action, was ''that he was about
sixty years Of age. and that she was about
thirty years Of age"
1t further appeared that Mrs. Fisher ap-
piled on that occasion for allmony and
allowance for counsel's fee, whereupon
Mr.. Fisher made an affidavit embodying
the following facts:
THAT a few months after her marriage.
deponent became quarrelsome and pee
wish. That Fisher sent for q daughter,
living in Europe, by his former wife.
This daughter, plaintiff alleges, was treat
ed IN an outrageous manner by the defen-
dant."
If the testimony Of several witnesses be
true, Mrs. Fisher had a chronic trouble
she constantly, but it appears vainly, de-
sired to be in a condition which they wish
to be who love their lords. By her hus-
bands statement, il seems the daughter
above referred to got married. and in due
course had a baby ; on hearing which
Mrs. Fisher worked herself into a terrible
rage. saying her husband had another
heir. his grandson, but she could have no
children, adding, see, that id b-h
(meaning her husbands d~aughter,) has
go, a ahild and l can't have any" An
other witness, Mrs. Hansel, states that
one great cause Of Mrs. Fishers irritation
was that ,..she had no children and that
the reason was that the defendant was too
old" That a year after the marriage she
came to Mrs. Hansel's hocse, and said she
would not live any longer with her hus-
band unless she could have a baby" that
"it she had a baby she would be more
boss in the house"
Henry Jacobs proved that Mrs. Fisher
came to his house to see q child born to
deponent, and that she made a COM
plant against her husband because she did
not have any children; she complained
that the defendant was too old for her.
and that he lay in the bed like a log OF
It appears that early last year Mrs.
brought an action for divorce in
the Court OF Common Pleas for brutal
treatment, when the foregoing facts were
in addition to which a great num-
Der Of witnesses testified to her violent
abuse of her husband, and to her having
frequently assaulted him, pulled his hair
ard knocked him down. The husbands
harmless and inoffensive conduct was
fully established. The Court refused to
grant her a divorce. She appears to have
brought her husband before Judge Dodge,
at Jefferson Market, Judge Mansfield, at
Essex Market, and other Police Courts in
the city, on complaints Of brutal treat
ment, desertion, etc., but on every occa-
sion the charges were dismissed.