The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-01-09
Chicago Sensational immortality

y Chicago sensation may be known
without look at the words which de-
scribe its existence. y Chicago sensation
is unique it exccIs in its peculiar quail
ties those than occur anywhere else; it is
more horrible, or more nasty. or more
thrilling. than any other city produces.
II ii j. :. murder il i an ininlitablc one
Ii IL surrounded By some strange aud hell
like romance; its blooGline would
The my'itudinous seas incarnadinc:
it's mystery Is uncarthIy. Ii it is some
rare aud innocent adventure. the accident
is singular ana the result thrilling II il
- u sUiuCtion. rapo ar n a.var.a the
filth of ilc else is umui;erab!e and croueh h
10 priute every clean thing; the dirtiest
deeds that men and 40 men can do are ac
cc>sories. and are inf:icatey blended with
ali the clements ot the aff ,ir The news
papers with spa>modic enterprise. tell all
the detaiS. ami with charming lnquaciiy
dilafe in the editorial columns on the main
ieatures cf Il = case Nothing is hidden ;
the elsewhere unnsmcl secrets Of mar
rage beds are divuscd as gossip of the
with most industry 10 conceal. they strive
with most industry to expose. Al'n nost
everyhudy lives IN glass houses tran>par
rent to the vul gar eycsght and go abeut
with IL window in their bosomS. " hat
the state ot society must be can hirdly he
imagined. but we may guess fiintly az the
n,furc OF seine cf It's dcpravities.
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trial; one soon to he tried. and one about
to be commenced, which newspaper
names rs follows:
Singular Divorce Suit-A Wife Char
res Her Husband With Cruelty, ln6lelitv
aud Attempting tn Poison Iler-Curiou>
Spiritual Developmcnts-What the Spirit
jim Sad"
The Messenger Divorce case has been
on trial FOR some days, ana Is the only de-
cent one. if we can use the word as applied
to any divorce ease, in the batch. Acts
of insanity growing oit of splritualism
are its main incidents; and the facts go Ia
show that The wife belongs in an insane
asylum instead Of at the head o. home.
The T'cknor case is worse than 5csiial--
the wife complaining Of repeated acts OF
cruelty and nficIity. one of the latter be-
ing performed in her preset &c. and the
husband accuses her alsr of infideiity and
of attempting to knock him q, wn with Il
poker Yet fil;hier facts, to which NC can
not alnde arc testified to by the eight
year old daughter OF the parties. 4 he
people have moved in good society. and
arc wealthy rhc husband being engaged
IN the commission business. The Quimby
ease will sooo be uicd and it will afford
the most shocking disclosures. This is
also wealthy and ari>tocratIc family, and
the husband is accused of criminal inter
course with his wfe's mother. counter
charges of crimiaalte with clergvnlen aud
doctors being brou .ht by the husband.
II the crimes that go undiscovered or
at least unpunl,hed there. are in the usual
ratio To those all the details of which are
published 10 the world. NiEevah must
have been pous town compara ad to Chlca-
20. q. that there were Jonah that we
could send thiiher without danger that he
would be swallowed by Il whale on his voy-
age or be garroted an thrown into the
river OIL his arrival-H Pam Pioneer