The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-04
THE sTEWARrDIVoRCE cAsE
More About 1Irz. lIeAEasters, Report--
COFrespondenee Between lIr. stew

THE STEWART DIVORCE CASE
More About Mrz. MeAasters' Report--
Correlp0ndenes Between Mr. stew
art and HERSELF ~. -
- From TIE GtioG0o RepiEb6oan.
A part of Mrs. McAfasters report was
nnavofdably omitted in SATURDAYS Re
publican, and II Is now given to render
the report complete. The following is
the "on dit, from the TIi5Eae, of June
30, which Stewart cut from that paper
and had Mrs McMasters send his wife:
"OS Drr.-Thata young and eloquent
divine fthis city is about applying for
divorce from his wife. So the Scandal
mcngers may have a further feast. The
elevated position the petitioner holds
in society and In the church, will insure
public, attention TO the deveIopmeuts
which may result r
This was the hrst notice given in the
papers OF the Stewart trouble, and is
said to have emanated from himself.
Soon after Mrs. McMasters LEFT the
city, Stewart wrote 70 her. His letter
and her reply are here given:
AR-STEwARr TO MRS. MINISTERS.
''SuTH s. DIVERS DRUe STORE.
GCoR. LAKEASD DKARRoRS SIS
ASA 'sCHIcAeof ILL.,, April I6, 1865.
''Sfr FRrESD-I have been SO busy
for the past few days that I have not
had time TO breathe, much less
write, except on business. Just came
into this store for the purpose of max
ing some purchases for my toilet, and
while they are doing them up will
write you line. What have you been
doing since you left the city2 and are
yo9 quietly ensconsed, in your quiet
nome IN the countryf There has moth
nature. l.-,s-l -.-.-E -
II omen laugh at certain things that
transptred while you were with us. i
want you 70 write me a good long letter
OF news Immediately on receipt Of this.
and Will agree 10 answer at once.
When do you visit The city again, and
what are your plans for the future? 1
wish to be remembered to- that little
friend = ~ - HART.
ace MRS. AafAsrKRs' REPLY. ss
-. - -, = April 1e, 1855
"MoS Aau-Your letter of recent date
came safely TO hand some days ago, and
At the same time that I Congratulate
myself upon the fact of being the IA
vored recipient, have half a mind TO
quarrel with you for having written so
hastily, and as natural consequence,
80 briefly. As a professional and liter
airy man, there can be no antagonism
0Nh hUGCA4 OAL AukcE6 anu - ptur E1cIt-
Iore, You, OF all men, can have no ex-
cuse Tor falling in the duties of a COR
respondent, for we know that although
bTeTfty may be the soul of t1It, it is any
thing but the backbone of correspond
ence. -l-J3---l l-i ~ we
81 have been safely domiciled beneath
the protecting shelter of the patsrnal
root-tree "a literary application upon
the commonplace idea that Pm 'tu
huml nearly two weeks, but do not
know that can respond to your plain
tive appeal for "a good long Letter of
news by a single item. 1 reached
nome about midnight of the day 1 left
Chicago found all well, and manifest
ing suspiciously superhuous amount
OF JOY al my returni one sweet child, a
blessed little tiye-year old, who calls me
mamma, was quite enthusiastic in its
demonstrations, as If il were quite an
unexpected relief to find we still in the
body pent.' l -Es1
''Do you remember what Timothy
T1tcomb says about writing of a spell
of weather. I was about TO write that
we've had lovely, spring like days, and
balmy, starry nights, sandwiched down
with aboisterous, crinoline-destrOying
Grafton of Timothy interdict, refrain
so you lose that valuable piece of in
formation. 1 ~ =L
"But, bless mel how the wind blows
to-day The wind spirits are out 'on
lark and, like all masculine bipeds
who go larking, are guilty of all sorts
of indiscretious, which must come nm
der the head of spreeing it. You never
spree IT do you. you tmnacuIate en-
bodiment OF all the virtues? went on
a gentle, moderate kind of "a tare' (I'm
not very we'll versed in the orthography
Of slang, so don't view me with critics
eye) hast Saturday afternoon, and don't
priEh Rnn1d hara
termination sat upon my brow, and
round my ruby, (nOtrongey, mind youl
lips there played a smilS OF fell resolve,
as I entered the fearful precincts where
is so often tested the power of our ta-
bernacles of clay to suffer and To grunt
not, to endure and to below not, and
over whose portals should be written
the inscription to Dante's he'll, was it
Dante's hell
"If not, whose hell was itHl Leave
hope behind who enter here'-a dem
lists office. / went in with my sister,
buoyant, jubiIant, with a sort of DEVIL
may-care, pig-on-ice Independence, but
came out bewildered. befogged, my lit
tie rush light of intellect almost extin-
guished, the odor of chloroform liuger-
ing about me, and alasI alas fearful
chasm, where chasm never was before
-in my upper jaw. This toOth-pulling
is glorious business, isn't It? wonder
IL a little service in q dentest's chair
wouldn't have driven poor old Job to
indiscriminate "cussin"
whats the order of the day at No.
81 Does the red-haired young lady
with the pinky eyelids and painted
face continue TO pour her SORROWS into
the sympathising bosom of Mrs. s.,
who retails them Immediately to you
"How is Miss EmmH7 How are you
coming on with your bookf Before
You finish it, let me know, and will
give you few items. "a word to the
wise," DC. -r.,,.s
Let me hear from you soon- Until
then 1 remain, truly yours.
FRED DoueLAss's IDEA OF SOCIAL
EoUALu1.-Fred Douglas has had oc-
casion to define his idea of social equal
ity-the occasion being his demand