The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-19

Keenan,.
Vinegar Bitters Walker,
When Joseph Walker first began to
make his ''California Vinegar Bitters,'' a
woman of his acquaintance peddled the
bltters in basket from door to door and
so aided him in accommodating about
$1,000, with which he was enabled to
start the manufacture and sale of his
bltters on a larger scale. Meantime he
married her. This woman, now Mrs.
Eliza Jane Walker, has sued for divorce
in Judge Daly's court at New York, and
her husband has on his part also asked a
divorce.
Among her reasons for applying for a
divorce, Mrs. Walker says that MIR.
Walker sis inclined to coarseness, rough.
ness and unevenncss of temper; that he
has voice which, as occasion inclines
him, startles one with fear, and that since
he has risen to wealth he is without an
equal in the use of profane, violent. vi.
Imperative and indiscreet language in the
family circle and elsewhere in reference
to the defendant and himself.''
Mrs. Walkers complaint further AYERS
that without proper cause Mr.. Walker
has frequently threatened to advertise
her in the daily newspapers, cautioning
the public against trusting her on his &C.
count, and that his friends and business
partner often dissuaded him from this,
but that once one of the notices was pub
lished in an altered form, emitting her
name, and that another notice is in her
possession. The complaint adds that
Walker offered the complainant physical
violence, and has so reviled and abused
her as to PROSTATE her with sickness.
Her physician has thus become her most
expensive necessity. Her husband, the
complainant continues, has attempted, by
offering brides to his friends, to ruin her
reputation SO that he might have grounds
for divorce. She denies all charges of
adultery made against her, but prefers
many charges Of adultery against him.
or late, according to Mrs. Walkers
complaint, Walker has been improvident,
squandering his money at the rate of 500
a day, and has been shifting and moving
his property in manner prejud,cial to
her and to her children. Since this &C.
ton has been commenced he has seized
her coach and horses, and has driven her
from his house, taking in her place his
son, Gerry Walker and his family, and
transferring to him all the appointments
of the house as gift.
In conclusion, Mrs. Walker prays that
her husband may be ordered to provide
her with furnished house in this city,
of kind to which she has been accus-
toned, and to pay for her support $500 a
week and her counsel fees, or else that
he be ordered to afford her relief suffi-
cient to buy proper furniture, span of
horses and a coach, and pay her counsel
fees and $500 week for her support. As
final decree she sues for $4,000 ali
monY during her life.
In reply, Joseph Walkers lawyer read
charging upon Eliza Jane Walker habitu-
81 drunkenness and immortality, including
adultery with several persons, one of
them well known in New York, who
visited her in her husbands house and
met her while she rode in her coach.
Mr.. Walker, denying that he has COM
mitted adultery, AYERS that at no time
has he been worth more than 100000,
and that recent losses have reduced his
fortune to less than 100000. His chill
dren. grandchildren and step-grand chill
dren number at least fifty, and almost all
of them enjoy his support, or, at any rate,
his generous assistance. One Of his sons
is well-known as sporting man, owning
three celebrated horses, and living to
some extent at the expense of his father.
This son lived in his fathers hotel, near
Natick, Mass, and is the person who was
taken into the Charles Street House, with
his family, to take charge Of the proper.
ty, the furniture in which was afterwards
given to him. It is said that Mr.. Walk
cr's weakness of intellect is frequently ex.
hibited in his carelessness about his mon
eys and nearest interests. He is said(tc
have lent large sums upon fictitious bonds
and mortgages. His establishment of the
Pulsometer Iron Works, in Jersey City,
is said to have been rash and unbusiness-
like venture, costing $500, 900, and result
ing in total failure.
An application was recently received
by lady who had advertised for a maid.
The person who applied appeared to be
quite satisfactory but the lady wishing
to say something kind at parting remark
ed, 81 am sorry to see by your black
dress that you have been in trouble late.
ly.' "Oh, no, madam, thank you, not at
oil" replied the young woman, ''1t's only
for my late mistress. I have been par.
fortunate in service, madam.