The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1873-06-13
MR.. SUMMERS DIVORCE.

1t has already been announced that Mr..
Sumner had obtained divorce from his
young and dashing wife, on the ground OF
continued absence-6ve years under the
Massachusetts, laws Sh. was the widow Of
a millionaire Massachusetts, Congressman
MIR. Hooper-aua only twenty-five. The
Cincinnati Enquirer says:
We know not how it may be, but it has
been said that jealousy on tho part of the
Honorable Senator had considerable to do
with this unfortunate proceeding There
was, naturally, disparity Of years and Of
tastes aud habits. This almost universally
produces an unhappy marriage. But in
this Instance it was aggravated. Mr.. SUM
ner was not only bachelor of long roasured
habits, but he had formed other connections
aud associations peculiar to himselt aside
from that fact
For Instance, it was said that he always
had his carriage at the door at party or htll
they mutually attended at which he wnu,a
say, Madame, it is now 10 o'clock it is
time to go home, and our conveys ace is
below" She would reply, II am happy to
hear it. You ere sleepy and tired Go
home and go to bed, but am not yet ,aedy
! will follow you by and by. So, good nighl
my dear Then, as you have said, the
Senator was said to be morbinly jealous Of
certain gentleman connected with the
Prussian Embassy, whom he had himself
introduced to his wife, extolled iu the high
est terms, and which gentleman attsrward es-
corted her to many evenings amme-
mcnts, which her husbands habits for
bade him to attend. One day this young
attacle received very pcremptory letter
from Berlin ordering him to return home
immediately, and recalling him from the
Prussiun Legation. He was thunde,struck
by the Intelligence; rot conscious of any
ofense against his government, no could rot
conceive what it 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 extraordinar,
proceeding Il
In reply, be MAS inforued that the chair
man of the Senate Co,nmittee On Foreign
Relations, who was then Senator Charles
Sumner, had written letter requesting his
recall, and that the Count did rot 2oai:b1'
that he was authorizsl rerusc request
coming from such ;n influential source in
the government to which he was accredited.
Of course the yolng Prussian gentleman
duly informed Mrs. Sumner of all this, and
rumor hath il that that lady was not ar:nll
pleased with the couduct of her husbandin
the matter. Tho German Secretary rrturT
Ell home, ard for a time th'4cloud :.
msIitaI relat st4
! VI, S-s-i4sRssf iSsrs.
But by hna by, as it was annoasssdt
the public, and, we think, by an agreement
between the parties, Mrs. Summers health
required that she shouM lea ve the American
continent, and breathe for time the air of
Europe. This was accrodingly done, and
the atmosphere has been so braciug and the
scenery so pleasant---to say nothing of her
conipanionship--that she has fingered there
80 long as to enable Mr.. Sumner TO obtain
the divorce for willful absence, required by
the statnte. Mr.. Sumner will resume his
old bachelor relation, ant his late wife--a
young, handsome and wealthy widow---wil.
bea prize to be contended for by gentle
men of position who are in the matrimonial
market