The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-12-14
A Divorce Suit Which Has Been
Withdrawn Three Times.

People in love are always fools-per-
haps this is too harsh, so we will COM
promise by saying they seem
to gain nothing from expert
ence, no matter how bitter it 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 traHspired a 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 knife, and threat
ening to take her life, for which she de-
manded that he be put under bonds to
keep the peace as toward her. The ju-
ry found for the defendant. During
the trial of this case it transpired that
the pair had been married less than
year. He had a divorced wife and
some children living in Cincinnati, and
she had two children living with her at
the 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
dozen chairs and a clock to the house
hold furniture, which it appears was his
whole contribution to the castle. After
few days of happiness, a skeleton was
discovered in the family closet, and Ma
~ and Henry separated, he leaving the
house, and in the course of few
weeks Mary went to her attorney and
had a 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 q
few weeks, when trouble began to
dawn again, and one evening Henry left
home, after having smashed all his
chairs and his clock, and swearing he
would never enter the house again.
This was the signal for a new divorce
complaint which was drawn up and
filed. But before Court met the tickle
Henry had again returned and prevail
ed upon his wife to withdraw it, and,
for the third time, was happily domi-
eiled in the house. Mary was paying
the rent, while Henry was clothing the
children and his own children in Gin
cinnati. But, after a short time, hap
piness again took flight, and Mary said
that Henry came home that night in
fearful tantrum and drawing a knife
told her he was going to kill her. Her
little child, q bright little girl of eight
years, rushed in between them and beg
ged the man "not 20 hurt mother" and
he gave up the idea. Then it was that
third divorce complaint was filed,
which came up for hearing yesterday
and was dismissed. 1t is fair to sup
pose that love is again serene in the
household, and we shall wait patiently
for the fourth complaint.
Henry is about 4S years old, awk-
ward, with broken nose, seemingly a
Woodworking, industrious man. Mary
is a sood-looking woman, apparently
80, and has melancholy cast of fea-
lures, with moist eyes, which overflow
ed considerably while she told her
story.-EUansviLI (Irld) Journal.
IT rather rough on the settlers
along the line of the Rio Grande to be
under the apprehension that they go to
bed at night as citizens of one country
and wake up next morning as the deni-
zens of another, that they may be subject
to the laws of the United States day,
and to those of Mexico the day after,
all by reason of the shifting of the cur
rent of the river that forms the divid-
ing line between the two republics. The
worst of it is that nobody is to blame
for it and nobody can help it, since it is
due to the operation of natural laws
and fuvial forces. In one region an
extensive tract of land, that formerly
was on our side, is now over on the
other side; and it appears that, though
the changes have sometimes been III
our favor, Mexico has been the great
est gamer. Some of our engineer OIL
GERS hold that the old channel OF the
river should be fixed as the boundary
line; but the question is full OF difficult