The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-21

funny Jokes which will be cracked in
the newspapers over the curious legal
controversy which has arisen between
the town Of Coventry and Manchester,
Connecticut over one PATHS Parmclia
Snow, q town pauper, who has had only
seven husbands, and is now a lone
"widder." In scripture, the number
seven is said to signify fuluess or cort-
petencss, and it certainly had some
special significance to the Jewish mind.
Perhaps this lady thought of that wien
she ceased the marrying business. AT
any rate, she stopped at seven instead Of
going on to ten, which would have been,
perhaps, more in consonancc with the
ideas of modern peoples who have
adopted the decimal system. But us
the history and the legal points are the
only things about the affair which can
claim our permanent interest, we shall
do nothing more than state the facts as
they are circulating through the papers.
IL Stciiis t1Vt, Niicl iVhi'cSH .Shi' VI
age, this fascinating young lady married
William BLY,, of Springfield,who desert
ed her after three days of supposed fe-
licity. Hearing ofhis death she married
David Rogers Of IIadlymc, six months
after which the supposedly defunct BLY,
appeared, bur was bought offby Rogers
for five dollars and silver watch. Rog-
ers soon after went to sea, and was re-
ported hung at the yard-arm as pirate.
She then married Frederick Wheeler of
Columbia, and had one child by him,
after which event Rogers, as good as
several hanged pirates, suddenly made
his appearance, drove Wheeler away
and lived with her nine years, wien he
died i'll good earnest. Five months al
ter this sad event she married Henry
Myers Of Williamsburg, L. l., but was
divorced from him less than twenty
mouths later. In the same year she be-
slowed her hand upon James Davis and
moved TO Wisconsin, where she abode
with him for few years, afterward
getting divorce and wedding James
Marshall. She chccred him for about
seven wears, when she got another di-
vorce, came back to Connecticut and
married Emanuel Anthony, who tired
of her in six months and skipped ont
between two days. Since then. Mrs.
PATHS Parmelia Snow, Bly,, Rogers,
Wheeler, Myers, Davis, Marshall, An
thony has had naught to do with mstri-
mony. Seven had her to wife, and her
case would be nuts" 10 the Saddu-
Gees, did any exist at present.
Out of this affair has grown singu-
lar complication, for the town of Govern
try, on whose hands she HOW is has
sued tho town of Manchester for her
support, claiming that she is settled
there by reason of the fact that her third
husband, Frederick A Wheeler, is set
tied in Manchester. 1t is claimed that
her marriage with Rogers was void be-
cause BLY, was alive at the time, but that
Wheeler marrying her subsequently to
Bly's death, the marriage to Wheeler
was legal. On the other hand, the town
of Manchester claims that the BLY, whom
it is claimed died In 1887 is not indenti-
fed as the man who married her in
1885; that the man Bly, who married
her, being proved to have been alive in
1886, prOsumptively was alive in 1871,
when she married Wheeler, so that
Wheeler's marriage is void; that the
BLY, whom Coventry claims married her
In 1885, and who died in 1887, was sn
entirely different man In character and
everything from tho man whom she
says she married under the name of BLY,.
1t is also claimed that the marriage with
Wheeler in l8il was void, because ut
that time Wheeler's step-mother was
the sister of this woman, married to
Whseler's father and living with him az
his wife, the law prohibiting marriages
within certain degrees, "a in this case
the marriage of man with bis amt.