The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-17
A PHILOSOPHIC HUSBAND.
THE ABSOLUTE SALE OF A WIFE AND THE REASONS
THAT PROMPTED THE BARGAIN.

About four years ago family named Wy
mans, consisting of the husband, wife and
three children, took up q homestead neal
Baldwin, Lake county. Ill, and up to some
.. four weeks ago, pursued the even tenor Of
.heir way, in no manner doing aught to at.
tract public attention. They conducted
themselves in all things as good citizens. L
was known, of course. in their neighborhood
that they were in Strengthened circumstances,
but, as they were doing apparently as well as
the general run of new settlers. no one
thought the worse of them for this.
A short time ago they moved to Baldwin,
and Wymans, the hu sband, went to work for
James 7. nney, cutting logs, ETC., while the
industrious wife gave her best assistance TO-
wards supporting the family by taking in
| washing and doing such other work as came
to hand. Not long after taking up their resi-.
dence at B I'D win, TInney came to board and
took up his quarters with the Wymans family.
Then it became apparent TO the husband, and
the idea grew more and more obtrusive, that
the dome amor of his wife and Of Tinney was
not consistent with propriety, to say nothing
of virtue. Finally Wymans mustered courage
to free his mind, and spoke to his wife about
her conduct in the friendliest manner in the
world.
Not to be outdone in civility, she frankly
replied that her aft c.ions were firmly and ir-
revocably conferred or Tiuney, and that she
greatly preferred living with him. Wymans
i. philosopher; he realized that the discard
ed man who suffers himself to be deluded
with the hope that he can revive the affections
of q false and tickle woman, is fool Once
let corjugal life become contaminated with
infidelity, and there is not in the whole
chemistry of love an agent powerful enough
to eliminate debasing suspicious of criminali-
ty, or restore confidence in that purity which
Of all things else goes to make up perfect
domestic union. Wymans had thought OF all
this, and Immediately, without showing a
feeling or passion, proposed sep
aration, saying if she loved Tinney
best and wanted him he would sign over all
right, title and interest which he had in her
to Tinney, provided the latter would cove
nant to take good care of the children and
allow him to visit them as often and stay as
long as he desired. The alienated wife, with
a flushed precipitsncy, undertook to procure
Tinney's signature to q contract of that ma
ture. That very afternoon she accomplished
her desire, and the contract was signed and
delivered. The three parties concerned
leaving out the children-being then disposed
to amicably arrange matters between them,
Tinney suggested that it would be the proper
thing to record the transaction by bill of
sale an instrument whose undisputed validity
would prevent any after Gaps, should either
side repent of the bargain.
There were some hlggling as to the terms,
none whatever to the proposition per Sc. The
conversation ended in q document being
drawn up and signed which specified that, for
and in consideration Of fifty dollars in hand
paid, Wymans conveyed to Tinney the
woman, his wife, his three children and also
q COW and one calf The woman was de-
scribed by name and age with almost as much
particularly as the COW and calf. This bill
of sale is recorded in the Township Clerk d
Office in the Township Of pleasant Plains.
Lake county. Tinney and Mrs. Wymans are
now livil e together.