Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-06-05
Mr., Summers Divorce.

It has already been announced that
Mr.. Sumner had obtained divorce
from his young and dashing wife, on
the ground Of continued absence
five years under the Massachusetts
laws. She was the widow Of mil
lionaire Massachusetts, Congressman:
MIR. Hooper--and only twenty
two. The Cincinnati Enquirer says:
We know not how it may be, but
it has been and said that a jealousy
on the part of the Honorable Senator
had considerable to- do with this un-
fortunate proceeding: There was,
naturally, disparity Of years and
of tastes and habits. This almost
universally produces an unhappy
marriage. But in this instance It
was aggravated. Mr.. Sumner was
not only a bachelor of long matured
habits, but he had formed other con-
nections and associations peculiar to
For EnsfEancs, fa s""e ie tRat Rat fd fSaid tnaJ ne
always had his carriage at the door
at party or ball they mutually at
tended, at which he would say, MAD
anne, il is now 10 o'clock it is time
to go home, and our conveyance is
below" She would reply, &c I am
happy to hear it. You are sleepy
and tired. Go home and 60 to bed,
bat am not yet ready. I will fol-
low you by and by. So, good night
my dear" Then, as you have said,
the Senator was said to be morbibly
Jealous of certain gentleman con.
nected with the Prussian Embassy,
whom he had himself introduced to
his wife, extolled in the highest terms,
and which gentleman afterward es-
corted her to many evening amuse-
ments, which her husbands habits
forbade him to attend. One day this
young attacAc. received very per-
emptory letter from Berlin ordering
him to return home Immediately, and
recalling him from the Prussian Lega-
ton. He was thunderstruck by the
intelligence; net conscious of any
ofenae against his government, he
could not conceive what IL meant.
He therefore wrote to an influential
friend at home to make inquiries Of
Count Bismarck as to what was the
real reason for this very extraordlna-
ry proceeding.
In reply, he was informed that the
chairman of the Senate Committee
ON Foreign Relations, who was thes
Senator Charles Sumner, had written
letter requesting his recall, and that
the Count did not consider that be
was authorized to-. refuse request
coming from such an influential source
in the government to. which he was
accredited. OF course the young
Prussian gentleman duly informed
Mrs. Sumner of all this, and rumol
hath it that that lady was not al
pleased with the conduct of her hus'
band in the matter. The German
Secretary returned home, and tor {
time the cloud upon the marital rela
tions of the Senator disappeared.
But by and BY, as it was announced
to the public, and, we think, by al
agreement between the parties, Mrs
Summers health required that sh'
should leave the American continent
and breathe for time the air OF Ea
rope. This was accordingly done
and the atmospherehas been so braclnG
and the scenery so pleasant-to say
nothing Of her companionship
she has fingered there so long as tc
enable Mr.. Sumner to obtain tie
divorce for willful absence, required
bv the statute: Nh. Sumner viii re
sumo his old bachelor relations, and
his late wife-a young, handsome
and wealthy widow-will be prize
to be contended for by gentlemen o
position who are in. the matrimonia
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