The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-02

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residents Of Paris hlaii hlaivie; opened subscrip.e
ton books. The Dationsl assembly to-
day voted urgently e the motion to ap. :
propriate one million frances for, the re-
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The trial of . very peculiar, and in
many of its aspects, one-of the most ex-
traordinary cases that ever came before, q.
court of law, was% commenced ,in. the u.
is. Circuit Court. Judges Miller and Nell
son presiding. At st. Paul, Minnesota,
on the oath, instant. !, The case was
origin ally instituted in the District Court
of Scott county Minnesota; but Vas on
application Of defendants, who De citi-
|zens Of Philadelphia, removed to the:
court before which it was tried. The.
right of removal being indubitable under;
the law, no objection was made on the
part of the plaintiff. further than that the
costs of the suit would necessarily be
greatly enhanced thereby, while at the
same time it was alleged that the real
cause Of the removal was the fact that
public sentiment in that county was
largely in iavoraf the plaintiff.
TIE PARTIES.
The parties to the suit are Geo. Giles,
plaintiff, and An n Main and husband of
Philadelphia, defendants. The plaintiff
is the son of A. p. Giles, Esq, OF Belle
Plaine, Scott county, who is the brother
Of Hon. WIN. F Giles, Judge of the U.
S. District Court of Baltimore, and is
consequently connected with one Of the
oldest and most aristocratic fami-
lies Of the Monumental City.
He has also connections in
this city Of the highest responsibility and
character-being the nephew Of Mrs.
Smith, the wife II the well.known physi-
clan, DR.. F. r. Smith. He came to this
State in 1858, fom Virginia, and settled
near Belle Plaine, on q farm which he
purchased and which he cultivated with
considerable saccess. The defendants,
who are the plaintiff father and mother.
in'law, are wealthy Philadelphians, with
the blue blood of the Quaker City circling
in their veins.
Itappears from the testimony offered
that the defendants came to Belle
Plaine in 1889 and took up their resi-
dence for brief period, bringing with
them their daughter, Ann R., then a
beautiful and accomplished young lady
of 20 years, with taste for the fine arts,
and drawing and painting in particular.
With these accomplishments and the
glamour Of wealth with which she was
surrounded, all the aristocracy of the coun-
try village were soon at her feet with pro-
testations of undying love and affection,
and giving promise.of a prosperous voyage
through life with flowing sails. Of all
the ardent swains who courted and fiat
tered her, the plaintiff, who at that time
was some 26 or % years of age, and a
man of high order of intelligence and
very considerable culture, was the chosen
one, and they became engaged, with her
parents consent, and with every possible
indication of a happy future. The nuptials
were afterwards consummated at Phila.
delphia, and, as plaintiff alleges,
for year thereafter and after
their return to their home near Belle
Plaine their cup of happiness was full to
the brim and running over. They were
living in a comfortable home and with all
the surroundings Of cosy independence il
not actual wealth, when the mother.i,,.
law entered the Eden of their home, on
the plea Of teing present and assisting at
her daughters first confinement which
occurred in February, 1871. Previous to
this their life had been one Of unbroken
happiness, nor did any serious difference
occur at this period to break the
prevailing harmony. During the sum.
mer of 1871 after the daughters recov.
cry, she with her parents visited their
home in Philadelphia, whittier the new
son-in-law hied himself away and spent
some time with them at their residence
In ths fall of that year the wife and her
parents returned to the husbands home
at Belle Plaine and the whole party took
up ktheir permanent residence. Their
commenced the change. Their hitherto
prevailing harmony was broken, and a
the result is fully detailed in the evidence
we need not further allude to it. The
whole affair appears to be q medley o1
matrimony, mother-in-law, medicine, pol
itics and religion-principally mother.in
law. -
The plaintiff being a Southerner by
imbued with those principles which birth
reigned supreme in that section, ant
(which eliminated in the recent unhappy
war, of course received no sympathy, and
not even liberation from his mother.in
law, who was of the bluest political stripe
which would do no discrcdit to the mos
hide-bound descendant of Jonathan
Edwards or Cotton Mather. The Wild
domain Of the State, let alone the mar
row confines Of an ordinary dwelling
were, of course, unable t.
contain and keep in har
mony two such discordant elements
In religion they came no nearer together
The irrepressible mother. .in.law was ,
true blue Presbyterian, after lin tn,
words of PAUL. the most straightest sect
of her religion, while the son.in.law wa
an Episcopalian, and prided himself upo,
1.-THE liberality Of his opinions. Nor dit
they agree upon the question of phvsic-
the lady being homeopathic and dep
recating everything belonging to the reg
ular school, while plaintiff based all hi
hopes of cure for sublunary ills upon tn,
theories and practice of the regular disci
|ples Of Galen. -
One Of the complications of the mys
terious affair is the insanity of the father
in'law who has been in an asylum sinc'
his wife (the mother.in-law) took he,
daughter away from Belle Plaine.
The suit was brought for enticin,
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