The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-13
M'FARLAND'S NEW PRANK,
What he Expects to Accomplish by Upsettina
the DivOrce-A War Upon WOmen.


From the Indianapolis Times, June 10.
Either Daniel Mcfarland or his lawyer is dlssats-
fed with the verdict which declares that the former
nounced yesterday, he has gone to Martinsville to
ask rehearng of the suit in which divorce was
decreed to his wife. He proposes to show that he
had no legal notice OF It's pendency and that no
that -
MRS. CALHOUN
lied. We are no way concerned as to the result OF
this application. Its most obvious suggestion is that
which began with, that he or his counsel, is not
feels that he has escaped the gallows only to land in
piliory; that his want OF sense enabled him to
averted the odium of abusing woman.
Mr.. GRAHAM,
in the eyes Of those whose distance and Indifference
have made them fair judges of his conduct is ent-
tied to the distinction OF being the dirtiest fellow
that ever managed trial, and his client is worthy
Of him. To tighten this load OF contempt, he finds It
necessary to show something than the insanity
of the murderer. He assaled the reputation of es-
mable women with the reckless lndecency OF bro
thel bully He outraged the privileges OF the bar as
grossly as he did the duties or citizen and the cour
tesy OF gentleman. His justification was that he
was exposing licentious conspiracy a "free-love"
combination, to seduce the murderer's wife into
adultery. Nobody believed him but those who would
have believed anything that smrched
HENRY WARD BEEcHER
or the New York Tribune. His proof would have
been cOmcal in its irreleVancy II it had not been
contemplate in its purpose. He is left in the plea
SAINT position of having acquitted murderer by
least one decent woman. Ills remedy now is to show
that they were not decent women, and his only
course is to reopen the decree OF divorce. That
will enable him TO introduce testimony assailing
the woman's virtue, thing easily procured by
gentlemen with Mr. Grahams familiarity with the
Tombs practice. He may add something TO the
r cord that will place him little more nearly in the
attitude OF defender of virtue than a traducer OF
decency This is the secret OF shls application for
a rehearing In the divorce case. Mcfarland can
have nothing gain by setting aside the decree, fol-
| his wife won't live with him. and his control OF the
children d0es not QeDeQQ this decree blt
that OF the Eastern court which tried his habeas
| corpus case. II he cannot get
HLITTLE DANNY"
at ALL he can get him in New York, but he can't gel
him here, for the Morgan Court has no jurisdiction
about the Hudson river There is maniestly nothing
in this rehearng but the chance of improving the
| decidedly bad condition in which Mr.. Graham 3 sue
has left him and his client l Is TO be the sup
| plement of the New York trial. There will be ons
very marked Improvement in 1t, however, over the
other. II McFarand's counsel shall come here u
conduct II, they will conduct themselves With some
little regard for the feelings OF other people or thel
| will 60 home with their own seriously hurt. Thei
| client will be no hero among men who have no
| learned that IL was brave to sneak up behind al
enemy and shoot him, and that 1t is manly TO evad'
i the consequences by allowing dirty lawyer Il
SANDER decent women. They have not forgotten
MR.. CHARLES sPEECERs
memorable self-convictiOn OF fasehood In Mrs. Cal
houn's case, and the dead Rabbit" OF New YOrl
| don't burrow about Martinsyile. The people ther
are Industrious, intelligent, we-todo farmers, ant
| the worst possible crowd for Mr.. Graham to max
| his ''side-bar" speeches TO. They would have sen
! Mr.. Mcfarland to the penitentary or the lunati
| asylum. At all events, he would not have been
| hero, and his lawyer would not have been pet o
the sex he malgned.