The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-29
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court Of law, d was scommenced,}in the IT,
s: Circuit Court, Judges Miller and Mel
son, presiding, at st. Paul, Minnesota,
on the 24th instant. The case was
origin ally instituted in the District Court
of Scott county Minnesota; but was on.
application Of defendants, who are citi-
zensi 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 tina. 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 favor of the plaintiff.
THE PARTIES.
The parties to the suit are Geo. Giles,
plaintiff, and Ann Main and husband of
Philadelphia, defendants. The plaintiff
is the son. of A. P. Giles, ESQ.,, OF Belle
PLANE, Scott county, who is the brother
Of Hon. VIM 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
charac+ er-being the nephew of Mrs
Smith, the wife Of the wellknown physl-
clan, DR.. F. R. Smith. He came to this
State in 1868, from Virginia, and settled
near Belle Plaine, on farm which he
purchased and which he cultivated with
considerable success. The defendants,
who are the plaintiffs 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
PLANE in 1859 and took up their resi-
dence for brief period, bringing with
them their daughter, Ann R., then
beautiful and accomplished young lady
Of 20 wears, 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 pndying love and affection,
and giving promise.lof prosperous voyage
through life with flowing sails. OF all
the ardent SWANS who courted and fat
tered her, the plaintiff, who at that time
was some 26 or % Yeas Of age, and
, man of a. 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 happy future. The nuptials
were afterwards consummated at Phila-
delphia, and, as plaintiff alleges,
for a year thereafter and after
their return to their home near Belle
! Piaine their cup of happiness was full to
the brim and running over They we're
living in a comfortable home and with all
the surroundings OF cosy independence if
not actual wealth, when the mother.in.
law entered the Eden of their home, on
the plea Of heing 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
homo in Philadelphia, whittier the new
son.in-law hied himself away and spent
I some time with them at their residence.
In the fall Of that year the wife /. and her
parents returned to the husbands home
at Belle Plaine and the whole party took
up their permanent residence. Then
commenced the c2ange. Their hitherto
prevailing harmony was broken, and as
the result is fully detailed in the evidence
we need not further allude to it. The
whole affair appears to be a medley of
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, and
which eliminated in the recent unhappy
war, of course received no sympathy,and
not even federation from his mother-in-
law, who was of the bluest political stripe,
which would do no discred dit to the most
hide-boun descendant Of Jonathan
Edwards or Cotton Mather. The wide
domain Of the State, let alone the mar
row confines of an ordinary dwelling,
we're, of course, unable to
contain and keep in har-
mony two such discordant elements.
In religion they came no nearer together.
The irrepressible mother n-law was
true blue Presbyterian. after Tin the
words of PauO the most straightest sect
of her religion, while the sonin'law was
an Episcopalian, and prided himself upon
the liberality of his opinions. Nor did
they agree upon the question of physic-
the lady being homeopathic and dep
recating everything belonging to the reg
ular school, while plaintiff based all his
hopes Of cure for: sublunary ills upon the
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