The Portland daily press., 1873-05-06
Wiscasset Letter.
WIscAssET, May Sd, 1873.
DIVoRcrs


DIVORCES.
The proceedings of the Supreme Court now
in session have been encumbered and deformed
with domestic infelicities in the shape of "bills
OF enforcement" 1t is evidently growing evil
IN society here as elsewhere, and may be TO-
garded as the legitimate result OF departure
from the marital laws of the Bible; and IS an
infection which is rotting away the very foun-
dations of Christian civilization in New Eng
land.
A RIGHTEOUS JUDGE.
.Tudce Cutting at the opening of his term
noted the mischievous device of thelaw to I'M
settle the marriage relation, in the docket
entries of cases pend ing for divorce.
He called the attention of the bar to the mat
ter and announced ''that in all cases where
adultery of the parties was an alleged cause, he
would only hear the cases in the presence of
the jury" He declared he would not lend iu-
dicial sanction to this facile instrument of
crime in getting up divorces.
FEATURES.
The saddest feature of this sitting of our
court is the suit of Emma G. Call VS.. Moses
Call, showing that the faint of our divorce laws
has infected what are supposed to be the better
circles Of society. The case is ably managed by
A. P. Gould, ESQ.,, for libellant, and your gen.
tlemany and courteous Strout, of the firm of
Gage and Strout of your city, for the respon-
den. Fouler exhibits ebulitions of blasphemy,
tyranny, wanton persecution and studied cruel
ty, where no physical assaults appear-if we
except attempts at abortion-upon young and
Christian wife and mother, and chiefly because
she was Christian and was true to her Chris
tian instincts, can no where be found in the an
nails of civilized turmoils.
The respondents reputed wealth and posi-
ton in professional circles has of itself given
the trial wide interest. This trial shows how
human belief shapes and controls IhG iinfan con-
duct. 'Your thogqslhssss aspire higher and fur
tRAissfhieef and rest upon happiness beyond. But
for myself give me enjoyment while I have be-
ing or life to appreciate it, and will give up
the hallucination of imaginary happiness,
when the ssnsorial faculties are obliterated
with the dissolution of all organization" Such
was the respondents answer to the Christian
and touching appeals of his Christian wife of
hopes hereafter. Happily the case was cut
short by the respondents attorney. saying that
after establishing the fact of no crime against
his Client he would not contend, as the trial
had developed the fact that there was a total
incompatibility between them, and that the
married relation could not be sustained
Whereupon the divorce was decreed.
sPRAGUE, sTURaIss s co.
Governor Sprague of Rhode Island, with his
friends Sturgiss & Sanborn of the Kcnnebec
and Coburn Land Co., are here locating the
sites of their manufacturing establishment on
''Brick Point" the bridge to which is already
piled, and work begins next week on the mill
foundations.
SQUIRREL ISLAND
see repeated notices of a claim of dover in
the right of the widow of the late Judge Bruin
of New Jersey, upon the Squirrel Island sea-
side hamlet in Boothbay harbor. Your quon-
dam friend J. NJ Carleton seems to be the
head and 'butt' of the projected legal specula-
tions afoot. and Friday petition was generally
signed by the gentlemen of the bar, which the
Hon. Mr.. Carleton is expected to present to His
Honor for an adjournment Of the court on an
excursion to Squirrel Island, at the expense of
the fortunate holder of the stakes of the great
law suit in prospect. The proprietors of SPUR
rel Island seaside homes may expect to feel the
"avenging. sword'o Of legislative memories fierce
ly. drawn in avenging power in redress of the
widows wrongs. But be sure there is live
s'molusk" at the bottom. s.