The Osceola times., 1873-08-16
lsEaiEs. so. 4. BY RAsrBERIY hush
GLIMPSES OF PRIMITIVE AR
KANSAS
Being Fragments of her History,
Cleaned from the Advertising
Columns Of the State Ga
z,tte of the Year l84l.
Mary Ann Susan.

1t hath been said by some shrewd
observer that human nature is tho
same in all ages. In these our OWL
days it may be n comfort to know
that SO far back as the year 1871
men and women were married with
out being matched, and that domes'
tic infclicity was not unknown to
the early and primitive settlers OF
Arkansas. The same undoubted
authority that has acquainted us
with the episodes in the life OF
Black Solomon, Bill, ct al the Pret-
ty Horse, Dapplc Gray and the Bay,
and the contumacious Mr.. Jones in
forms US that wives were addicted
to that last resource of feminine
spite of leaving the bed and board
of their husbands without cause or
provocation and we should also be
proud to know that the injured bus
bands duly notified the public not
to credit these misguided women on
their account. But one instance
only ] shall select to prove that
women are women in every age,
an instance drawn from legal
advertisement signed by Lawson
Runyon, clerk, &c. In Hot Springs
county, there dwclt in the year lS41
an individual by the name ofGarrctt
who had some time previously TAX
en- to wife a lady by the name OF
Mary Ann Susan 1t was indeed
bold and hardy step on the part
of Garrett to unite himself to q lady
distinguished by 50 many epithets
as Mary Ann Susan. A man ofor-
dinary sagacity would have reflect
ed that no lady thus burdcned could
well have been otherwise than i'll
tempered. He had enjoyed the fo-
licities of matrimony but for tt
but, will leave him TO tell his own
story in his own words: He COM
plains "that within very short
time after his intcr-marriagc with
Mary Ann Susan, she began to dis
play her tyrannical qualities, show
ing such disposition Of an ungov-
ernable and discordant temper, that
no man of an even and quicsccnt
temper could possibly live with her
in peace; and that such were the
indignities, insults, abusive and un-
becoming treatment from Mary Ann
Susan to said Garrett, that no hu-
man being could, without the most
servilc and humiliating feelings,
submit to her tyrannical treatment ;
and therefore he prays the chancery
court to dissolve the bonds of mat
rimony between him and tho afore-
said Mary Ann Susan, etc, etc."
Garrett also, it seems, made oath
that Mary Ann Susan had left the
state and become O nonresident,
and she was therefore warned to
appear and answer his allegations,
or they would DO taken as confess
cd.
Can any one read this narrative
of real life unmoved? With what
artloss and unaffected simplicity
does the meek, even and quicsccnt
tempered Garrett relate to the read
ers ofthe Gazette how the tyranical,
diseordant, ungovernable, insulting,
abusive and unbccoming Mary Ann
Susan rendered it impossible for
him to submit withouttho most sor-
vile and humiliating feelings to hor
tyrqnical treatment? Or what man
or woman would not heartily say
anon TO BIS prayer to the honora-
bic, tho circuit court in chanccry
sitting, to dissolve the awful bonds
that linked tho lamb-like Garrett to
tho tigress Mary Ann Susan? If
thcvc are chords in the human mind,
and Mr.. Guppy, no mean authority,
says there are, the prayer of Garrett
must have struck at least hundred
in the mind Of tho honorable, tho
circuit court in chancery sitting,
and SO rung in tho head of the