The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-12-14
A Divorce Suit Which Has Been
withdrawn Three Times.

PoOple IN love are always lools per
haps this is too harsh, so we will COM
promise by saying they seem
to gain nothing from expert
cnce, no matter how bitter IL may
have been, or how dear has been the
cost. In the Circuit Court yester-
day the suit for divorce of Mary
Dress vs.. Henry Dress was call
ed, and on motion of plaintiffs attor-
neys was dismissed. The particulars
of the case transpired q few weeks ago
in a case of alleged assault and battery
before Esquire Morris, wherein the
plaintiff and defendant were as in the
divorce suit. Mary accused Henry of
assaulting her with a knife, and threat
cning to take her life, for which she de-
manded that he be put under bonds 10
keep the peace rs toward her. The jul
ry found for the defendant. During
the trial of this case it TRANSFERRED that
the pair had been married less than Il
year. He had Il divorced wife and
some children living in Cincinnati, and
she had two children living with her at
thc time of her marriage with Dress.
After the marriage Dress went to live
with her, as she had a house furnished
and was paying the rent. In order to
do the thing up in style, Dress added half
a dozen chairs and a clock to the house
hold furniture, which it appears was his
.A.l-,. ~ tln ,nat1n Attn,
n few days of happiness, a skeleton was
discovered in the family closet,and Ma
ry and Henry separated, he leaving the
house, and in the course OF n few
weeks Mary went to her attorney and
had n complaint for divorce drawn up.
But before it was filed, however, Henry
; got tired Of single misery, and returned
to Mary, who was persuaded to with
draw the suit for the first ii me.
Every thing went on lovingly for a
few weeks, when trouble began t.
dawn again, and one evening HenryleiI
home, after having smashed all his
chairs and his clock, and swearing he
would never enter the house again
i. This was the signal for q new divorce
complaint which was drawn up anc
filed. But before Court met the iickl'
Henry had again returned and prevail
, ed upon his wife to withdraw it, and
$ for the third time, was happily domi
t ciled in the house. Mary was paying
: tho rent, while Henry was clothing thu
children and his own children in Gin
b %cinnati. But, after a short time, hap
4 piness again took flight, and Mary sai'
s that Henry came home that night in
o fearful tantrum and drawing a knit
+, told her he was going to kill her. He
8 little child, n bright little girl of eigh
:, Years, rushed in between them and beg
II ged the man mo to hurt mother, IAN
d he gave up the idea. Then it was tina
a third divorce complaint was filed
which came up for a hearing yesterda
> and was dismissed. 1t is fair to SUP
pose that love is again serene in tn
household, and we shall wait patientl
for the fourth complaint.
=, Henry is about 4S years old, awb
ward, with a broken nose, seemingly
hard. working, industrious man. Mar
is a good-looking woman, apparent
!, 80, and has n melancholy cast OF Eel
- lures, with moist eyes, which overtlo"
ed considerably while she told he
story.-EuanSvtUe (Ind) Journal.
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i, IT is rather rough on the settler
re along the line of the Rio Grande to /
under the apprehension that they go
~ bed at night as citizens of one oountr
=" and wake up next morning as the den
as zens of another, that they may be subje'
IS to the laws OF the United States oneida,
d. and to those of Mexico the day afte
W all by reason of the shifting of the Gu
es rent of the river that forms the divi,
w. ing line between the two republics. I'll
worst Of it is that nobody is to blan
Oh for it and nobody can help it, since it
"a due to the operation of natural Law
no and huvial forces. In one region d
Vs. extensive tract of land, that former
u was on our side, Is now over on Il
GU other side; and 1t appears that, thous
10 the changes have sometimes been
NO our favor, Mexico has been the grea
=" est gamer. Some of D engineer OF
VI GERS hold that the old channel of Il
river should be fixed as the boundaI
of line: hut the question is full of dit1icl