Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-06
MARRIED OR NOT MARRIED.?
A Peculiar SANDER Case.

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From the New York Tribune, 18th ult
The Northeuder publishes an outline Of
what must certainly prove a most extraor-
binary case, az the trial Of 1t progresses an
the New York city courts in May OF June.
A lady brings an action for Islander against
a gentleman, on the ground that he 'on
divers occasions hiss said, she is my wife,
and can prove H." This language the
defendant admits nsing, reiterates the words,
and aflirms also that he is regularly and
legally married to the woman, and that
they have cohabited for many months. The
couple became acquainted, as he afiirms, in
the spring of 1863, al a time when the com
plainant was a teacher in public school,
and the defendant a member Of a State
Volunteer regiment Ia 1864, he was on
duty in a quartermaster's depot on one Of
the adjoining islands la the interim Of
the period iGst mentioned, they had appa-
rently become much attached to each other,
and an engagement Of marriage was mu-
tually agreed upon. In the year last noted,
il was supposed that the young man was
soon TO be ordered TO the front, and a.
they feared they were about being separat-
ed, possibly forever, immediate marriage
was resolved upon but, owing TO the
lady's desire 10 retain her situation a. a
teacher during her husbands absence, they
determined 10 keep the marriage a secret.
A few days after this course had been set
tied on, the young soldier came to the city
20 make suitable arrangements for the we'd
ding. 1t was concluded that they should
depart from her house, for the ostensible
purpose of visiting the theater, and the
marriage should take place during their
absence. This was all carried out /; they
called at a Methodist clergyman's house,
and the ceremony was performed IN the
presence Of his wife ard other witnesses
the young sChool-teacher receiving the
marriage certificate, aud the young soldier
paying the clergyman's fee. They subse-
quently went to the theater, and spent the
remainder Of the evening there, returning
to their home at reasonable hour.
But the new-made husband was not or
dered into active service, and the war
terminating, was honorably discharged, and
returned to mercantile pursuits. lie then
went to the house of the young lady's rela-
iives to board; and, although they resided
under the same roof the marriage was still
kept secret. This continued for some two
or three years, when, for some reasons, the
wife took dislike to her husband, and has
since refused 10 recognize him. The affair
excited considerable comment, not, as may
be supposed, Of hattering character, and
the trustees of the school in which the lady
was employed, hearing of the clandestine
marriage and conduct Of the wife, sent for
the husband 10 obtain an explanation, the
result Of which was a request that the
teacher resign her position. She then re-
taliated by visiting the mercantile house
where the husband was employed, and oh
tanned his discharge, following this by the
commencement of q suit against him for
Islander. An these allegations by the de-
PENDANT and his friends are positively de-
MED 10y the complainant and her friends.
The lady vehemently denies that she was
ever married 10 this or any other gentle
man, and says that she knew the young sol
der only "a an acquaintance, and nothing
Of the kind described 10y him has ever oc-
CURED between them; that il is a case OF
mistaken identity in regard to the occasion
in the clergyman's parlOr; that she never
was there on that or any other occasion.