Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-03-23
e1Te Selling In nns1anu.

Ia lo3, one Smith took his wife from
Ferryhdge to Pontefract, distance OF
tweHtymiles, and put her up for sale in the
masFfplaee. The biddings were started al
twds pence, and she was knocked down al
elevn shillings, the spirited purchaser lead
ing isnargain away by halter, amid show
ers { mud and snow from the spectators.
A feOw at Tuxford let his wife and child
20 # five shillings ; and in 1859 a similar
scanalous exhibition took place at Dudley,
wht the wife was put up by auction at three
halfence, and sold to the highest bidder for
the I'm of sixpenee.
Hz1e above cases, the wives seem to have
falln 70 chance buyers; but generally the
alta was prearranged one between the
buyr, the seller and the sold, who seem 10
haFsalVed their consciences by going through
thefremony of mock auction. On Yalen-
tine day, 1906, a man named GOwthorpe
exposd his wife for sale in the market at
HuHit clock in the day but the mob
Inferred with such effect that he was con-
pellerO withdraw her. However, in the
eyenif, he again brought her out, and sold
her \ twenty guineas to a man who had
lOdges-t his house for some years In 1904,
a mannd hls vile got into conversation
with igrazier at Purham Fair-a conversa-
tion rulted in the man offering to exchange
his bter half for a bullock, if he might
choos Jne for himself from the drove The
grazi agreed, and the lady readily acceded
and G next day was duly delivered up,
with he inevitable halter round her neck
the hYband taking his bullock away, and
aftervrds selling that too for six guineas. In
IS44,i Glamorganshire laboring man, after
living cry unhappily with his wife for come
time, discovered that she sought sOlaee in the
affeetios of a neighbor. To make the best
of b. matter, he called upon his rival, and
after a amicable discussion, agreed TO sell
the case of 1t to him. The following Sat
urday he accordingly appeared in the mar
ket v;h his wife, attired in a new black
gown nd a white bonnet, with a halter
rounlIer neck, and then and there handed
her Ger TO her paramOur upon payment OF
tNo s.ilings and sixpence in this instance
an upirtuous wife proving half a crown TO
her ssand and we are told the purchaser
alxz4 aoasted it was the best bargain he
---F - IS - iifci Not 80, successful in
ppsintnaor.s - .s.s.ss.sr ss.sssr sse...Pls,
the Somlord Mercury of the Goth Of Nov.
lS5,, - On Monday, disgraeeful exhibi-
tion-the attempted sale of a wife-took
plac in front of beer house at Shearbridge,
Lite Horton, near Bradford The fellow
wh, offered his wife for sale was Hartley
ThupSOn. She was a person of prepOssess-
inslppearance. The sale had been duly
announced by the bellman, and large crowd
assnbled. The wife appeared with halter
adrned with ribbons, round her neck. The
sa, however, was not completed, the reason
fo,this being that some disturbance wa,
Grated by a crowd from a neighboring fac
toy. and that the person to whom it wa'
innded to sell the wife was detained at his
w-k beyond the time. The couple, though
n5 long welded, have led very unhappy
Ii, aad it is said they and their friends were
5 egregious'y ignorant as to believe they
yeld secure their legal separation by pub
ic sale.'' In 1868, a workman at the Cy
artEia Iron Works sold his wife to a fellow
sorkman for g los. in cash, and los. to b,
pent in drink The wife appeared mor'
unused than panied by the performance, anC
-ent home with her purchaser after enjoy
~ her share of the beer Chambers Jour
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