Connecticut western news., 1875-10-22

Oak" variety being particularly fine, 8
 sample of which we have seen and can
 testify to being large and luscious. We
 understand this variety, (the Charter Oak)
 are not very. extensively raised, it being
 more difficult to get successful crop. Mir.
 How'd has our thanks for this fine sample. Bridgeport Postmaster Dismissed.-
 The Hartfort Courant says James E.
 Durham, postmaster at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
 has been suspended by the President for
 having sold appointments. He was notified
 the 9th inst. by the postmaster general
 that the knowledge of these facts had come
 10 the department. He has not denied the
 allegations, and on the 18th inst. he and his friends asked that he might be permitted to
 resign and nothing be said about it, to
 which the department reluctantly consented
 His resignation not forthcoming it was
 telegraphed for, and on Friday, the 18th
 inst. Durham telegraphed that he would
 not resign but gave no reason for this
 change of mind. The office has been
 rendered by the postmaster general to Cole nel J. W. Klpwlton, chief clerk of the post office department, who declines to
 accept until the republicans of Bridgeport
 can be consulted. If it should appear that
 he IS not as satisfactory as any appointee
 would be to the patrons of the office,
 Colonel Knowlton will probably decline
 and the republicans of Bridgeport will then
 be invited to name successor to Dunn am,
 The salary of the office is $4 900 per, anuum.
 The following is the letter of lismlssal sent
 by the postmaster general to Dunham on
 the 9th inst. IT..
 SIR.-Information having been received
 by this department that you have received money for procuring appointments. notice
 has this day been sent to Senator Ferry to name your successor. To particularize, Andrew J. Osborne paid you $l5O in three notes of $50 each for securing his appoint ment as route agent on the Housatonic railroad, and George l.. Howe, or his friends paid you $50, more or less. for securing his appointment as mail messenger between Bridgeport and East Bridgeport. The rule of this department is inYariable in this particular. It does not permit any post master or other employe to receive com pensation or brokerage for procuring appointments. The necessity and proprie- ty of the rule will doubtless be apparent to you."a 6. Esa @
 A Remarkable Trial.--A case of more than ordinary interest is now occupying the attention of the Superior Court at Litchfeld. The parties are very respecta- bly, connected, in fact move in the best circles of Litchfield county soclety, the husband being a college educated man, a ! physician of some practice. The wife has petitioned the Court for bill of divorce from her learned lord on the ground of l intolerable cruelty, and such other conduct | as permanently destroys the happiness of the | marriage relation, and testifles that he has ! failed to provide for the family, is ugly and abusive, the use of disgusting | and obscene language, not being by any means a. rarity, and even at the family | table, and in the presence of his two grown up daughters, he would snarl and snap @ out filthy exclamations., Nor was his obscenity confined to his language. for the testimony accuses him of rendering himself | disgusting in the extreme by habits which he not only had no disposition to restrain, but instead an inclination to cultivate, as claimed by the Petitioner, and ostensibly for no purpose or motive but to display his "pure cussedness." .a...
 This is indeed the most aggravated case of this class of '' grounds for divorce' that has ever come to our notice.
 In response thls college educated physician admits the truth of the above charges, to some extent, and explains in extenuation of his remarkable conduct, by saying that when young and studying for his professional life, his father-in-law was not only willing but anxious he should receive the hand of his daughter in mar riage, and when pleading his inability to support wife on account of his straighten- ed circumstances. in fact being scarcely able to prosecute his studies on that account, the father, in his zeal for the welfare of the young student and would-be- prospective offered to support his family in the event of his marriage with his daughter, that he might prosecute his professional business unembarrassed. To this he assented, and this glib tongued ''saw bones' now in court claims that he was simply living up to his marriage contract by providing nothing for the family.
 In reply to the second and more severe he says the statements con- corning bis habits are true, to some extent; hat it was not his fault, but his misfor- tune; that they were source of quite as much annoyance, disgust and mortified ton to himself as they could possibly be to others; that he had for many years been Afflicted with disease which the combin- sd skill of the best physicians of the coun- try was inadequate to afford him relief, and called 1anepGnites, alias Victorian, alias Drum Belly, alias, Wind Dropsy alias SEu'skoruns, sort of idiopathic disorder. He said he had fumigated him self with cotton saturated with the most f1avoring extracts, but nothing would avail.
 It is scarcely necessary to say the defence of his conduct is very learned one; in fact genuine collegiate defense. and at this writing the case is not decided, and the result of the trial cannot be given this week If however we are permitted to anticipate the judgement, we should say the petition should be granted and the Respondent King of the Guano Islands of the South Pacific. It is customary in law cases of magnitude and importance. to make mention of the counsel engaged on either side. Those on this case would