The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1868-05-03

The papers North have been engaged for
some time in giving the details of o trial
for divorce instituted by q Mrs. Judd
against her husband, the Rev. Orrin B.
Judd, LID. The case has created some
sensation among the evangeHcals," and
great disgust even among the " "worldlings.'
This man Judd, it seems, held . high po-
sition among the {" godly," and the devel-
opments ON the trial are not calculated to
inspire much confidence in these Rev.
Chatbands.
The New York World gives the following
synopsis of the case:
It appears from the testimony of the plaintiff
and other witnesses in that behalf, that in 1864
Elizabeth was the recent relict of New York
lawyer Of the name of Gray, who had quilted
this mortal scene, leaving her an estate Of forty
Thousand dollars. To hsr, thus made wealthy
"poetess of some celebrity" and her senti-
mental nature yearned for the filling of the
vidual void created by the withdrawal of
if not the person, of the widow inspired
ardOrs in the breast of the judiciOus Judd,
and he proposed to her possessions, encum-
bered though they were with her person. II
was pleased when 1 married DIR. Judd
bears testimony the plaintiye plaintiff, "that l
let him manage the estate. myself, and all"
How did Judd requite this touching trustful-
nesss i" He did not take money enough with
him on our wedding trip to pay our expenses"
Even ministerial man does not live by bread
alone, and though the pocket Of Judd was full,
in the heart of Jadd there was an aching void
which all the widows money could not fill.
Judd theEeupon took unto himself house.
keeper, whose name was Susannah Reynolds,
and . xendish familiar, whose name was Burton
clerical cloth. Sing, muse, the sorrows of
Elizabeth, and eke the falsity of Judd. Not
only did Susannah take upon herself the task
to torture the servants in the domestic estab-
lishment of Judds which his lawful spouse
rightfully regarded as an Infringement Of her
connubial monopoly, and prepare the matutnal
coffee for the lips of Judd, but also, virtually if
not virtuously, did she usurp her place the
cup of existences sweetner to the jaded Judd.
These chaste columns may not be polluted with
susannah, but it appears undeniabie, if the
evidence be true, that such loves there were,
and that they came to the ears of the only gem
US, in effect, hath no fury like poetess scorned
and there being no Lesbian promontory handy,
the evident conrse of our Connecticut Sappho
was to fall foul of the seductive Susannah with
raging reproaches. But how did Susannah
ceive the just anger of Elizabeth With con-
triton, with tears with prayers, and promisesf
Nothing, of the soft-s told Susaniiaii to- leave
my house, as she had spoiled all my happiness;
she said nothing, but began to sing, Nearer,
my God, to Thee and went into another room"
What wonder that by such fagrant Aippancy
severing the arteries of the rival with scissors
and getting conspicuously into the local papers
in consequence. In such distress there is to
the female mind but one refugee feeling mas
culine bosom whereon to weep it's woes. Such
u bosom the Tilted Judd thought to find in the
Rev. Burton Sperry. But the bosom of Sperry
was oak to the sorrows of Mrs. Judd, and triple
brass begirt his heart against her plaint. Il
spoke to Rev. Burton Sperry about my treat
ment, and he began singing aegro melody,
beginning Up lions Hill, and concluded by
i,,,sx ~, r
should suppose from this that Sperry is Spar
tan, and obdurate to the wiles and woes of
beauty in general, we have the testimony of a
servant to a line of conduct quite contrary
pursued by Sperry toward Susannah, on whom,
indeed, the affections and attentions of both the
elders seem to have converged. This behavior,
indeed, SO far from indicating extreme austeri-
ty, seems almost to transcend the trammels of
that clerical decorum which is enforced with
peculiar rigdity in New England:
When Mrs. Judd was away, have seen
Susannah and Sperry go into the kitchen and
dance Highland fling have seen heI
get upon Sperry's back and he would carry her
round; rpa III. He generally played .leap-frog, and
nah and but her as sheep would, you know,
with his head against her stomach Susannah
used to sing Glory Hallelujah,' and such songs"
The woes of Mrs. Judd are indeed hard to be
borne. If there be truth in witnesses, her hus-
band has outraged her i'll many ways, her hus-
bands housekeeper has supplanted her, her
husbands friends have snubbed her and danced
with her servants wild cancan beyond the
most daring dreams of the Mabille. She has
been reduced from the ornamentation of society
to practising quackery on deluded women for
her support; from the peaks of Parnassus to
peddling of pomatum; nay, it is even charged
upon her by those whose cruelty drove her to
that extremity, that she has written article
for the New York 1fbmRe. Worse than all, she
has had the shame of hearing her own daughter
avow upon the stand that she made the
acquaintance of her husband through per
sonal' advertisement in the New York Herald.
Let further into wretCleUnpSS 81
profound.
In all seriousness is it not astonishing that
men OF advanced years, of decent repute, and
ot sacred calling, should allow statements |
about themselves to be published, which, if
proven would disgrace Il sneak-thief i'll the !
estimation of his fellows?
ORDINATIoNs.-On Saturday, April l1th,