The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-06-20
Mr.. M'FARLAND y T,1Nn1,Y.
PREPARING -
CALHoUv FILL FOR LUCIA a..
~ BEECHBR & co.

Of the rcrirry Chsrscd-The svmr.,hv =
In reopie In the West MIR. McP. Fin N 4
room which was Civ,., Mrs. CAL
Jsn'.a and Mrs McFar,..ud
Mcfarland 'Oae 13.--The terrible Daniel
but he H.. d, ,een here lodging in the Bates House,
pA,AL" lone. lie appears TO be still on the " war
His coming was teegraplied from Cncin.
na ahead OF him. and his arrival a large gather.
ing was at the depot anxious TO the lion. As be
jumped from the train he was soon recognized. Not
few were perhaps little apprehensve that on ar
irving in tile place calculated to call up unpleasant
memories In his breast, his mania might explode:"
but his calm and harmless mien soon reassured
them-so much so, thu, some ventured up to him
and took him by the hand. He was the observed OF
all observers during the hour he remained sbout the
dero waiting for the train to Martinsvile the little
town where his matrimonial bonds were so easily
broken, which he undoubtedly once thought were
as hard as adamant. Mcfarland paid no attention
10 the constant gaze OF the Of eyes upon him
and indeed seemed unconscious OF the notice he was
attracting.
The writer OF this going 10 Martnsvilic at the
same time, took seat In the same car with Mr. Nc.
Fsrland. In few minutes every one on the train
knew he was aboard. No one. however, made free
70 speak TO him. and he probably thought Of enter.
ing the quiet little town entirely unknown but The
telegraph again had heralded his coming On the
Cars stop twenty minutes for a divorce" a joke
frequently induged In when the train stop. at this
dePo' since the cele6sated divorce was obiained.
zens expecting his arrival the Q tire to sec
him. Loungers thronged the sidewalk, storekeep-
ers were standing In their doors, mothers In their
hall doors with their children half concealed behind
their dresses. all waiting to tie man who had
given their formerly almost unheard of town world
i put up at the same hotel with MeFariand-the
Mansion House-tle same hotel where that party
put up one night who obtained the divorce against
him. He was assigned 10 room No. ii, and he thus
n" e 70 sssP S 10 the and
noun a On az ri .oa ae%ossee % n.s .e being ,here
Ts I oyer the and
apologized TO him for unwittingly putting him In
that room, and offered to give him another but
ghosts, and meeky added that Al was also the nun.
Der Of his ce in the Tombs. lie found the follow.
a: s. heFarland, MOOrsville; Mn. Calhoun, New
on the following day Mcfarland retained the law
vile, and also the services OF Judge Buskirk, OF
bloomington, to break up the divorce He says the
following are the points taken:
suit notice was 1ot pubilshcs according even TO
aa sS Ss G d s Il Se na .a n wSs S
seems TO gall him the most 20 use his expression
S Of Rs o. old sage and Mrs
Mr.. Mcfarland maintains with intense feeling that
that divorce through was infamous perjury. and
that he means to show IL in due time. Indeed, l
,nsyio and they say that not one &c Of R the bar Of
the place, except the lawyers who acted for the
plaintiff, ever knew or heard that there was such
case on the docket OF the court; everything In
The matter was done so secretly. And they say
further, that no citizen OF the place ever saw the
notice OF suit published. There they all consider
Judge Woollen. who granted the divorce, is re-
Judge. lie feels now that great fraud was per per
petrated upoh him, and none viii be more willing
Indiana to wipe the stain on his court by revers-
log his own decree when the evidence Is produced
erai feeling In indianapolis is the desire that Nc
Fariand push the matter with visor In order that
wSere Wrong has been perpetrSteG uenS ,ns
OF sister state through her courts, BY the practice
OF a fraud. she has an honor aud an interest at
stake in undoing the wrong.
In the Mcfarland divorce case, Judge woolien
for some time hung fire on tho question OF Mrs.
McFarlano's bona Hd6 residence As 70 the sum
cient grounds for the divorce otherwise, sfter Mrs
Calhoun lad given her evidence, be had not the
Mcfarland AZ the most hideous monster that ever
wore human shape and swore, among other things,
that be was In the habt Of smashing looking glasses
crockery. furniture, keeping the neighborhooi up
roar Ous In his drunken braTk, OF the most savage
psces us Of = ios resor slosss % s' time In
Mcfarland heard how he was described, ent
sat upon his face. lie remarked merely owever,
with Ieekness altogether becoming Horace Gree
ley: "Well don't RENE .nber any of those tbings
and as TO visiting low places OF resort brothels,
&c. can't sec how that woman could kn ow OF this
unless she bad been with me-"
People here who had taken stock In Mrs. McFar-
lnnd's interest were much disappointed In the test
mony OF Mrs. Calhoun IN the great trial They ex-
plain 1t however on the ground OF her benevolence
for Mcfarland that she was not so eloquent and
graphic witness against him In New York as she
was at Martnsvilc.
Mcfarland, 1t is said, has retained the services OF
the Hon. Joseph T. Mcdonald OF Indian polls to
act In conju notion with the other lawyers hereto
lore mentioned IN setting aside the divorce. II he
Is successful In this IL IA fair to presume that there
will be an afterpiece to the free love tragedy, in
which Beecher. Frothingham, Greeley, and ColGax
will trip the ght fantastic toe"