The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-30
Gen. Banks Accuser.

Respecting the latest Washington sean
dial, in which the name of Gen Banks is
mixed up, the Washington correspondent
OF the Hartford Times says: The gOssips
III the treasury departments are all agog
over some scandalous developments that
have Just been made in the divorce case
OF Martha G. Thompson VS.. John 9.
Thompson, which has been before the
equity court Off and on since Nav last.
The fair plaintiff is well known and
handsome ''clerkess" in the treasury de-
partment. She is very stylish and at
tractlve. Some years since, in tn evil
moment, it appears, she married one John
Z. Thompson, who is pretty well known
III the west us Il newspaper correspond
ent. At present he is running an anti
railroad paper in indianapolis, Indiana
lie also got into prominence as a cores
pendent of the New York Herald and Gin
cinnati Commercial. This man Thomp-
son was not the kind of a man she thought
he was, says the plaintiff, and the defend
ant responded by saying that she beat the
devil. Several years since Mrs Thnmp-
son came to this city. She soon made
many friends, and without much difficulty
secured a clerkship in the treasury de-
partment. After that she secured posi-
tlons for several Of her relatives Her
husbands business kept him III the west
According to her showing. he turned out
to be a very worthless kind of a fellow.
They have repeatedly had quarrels, and
as last resort she went TO indianapolis
about Il year ago or less, and filed an APP
LEGATION for a divorce. The case came up,
and wa IiCt1i,SnI II
she was not a resident of that state, which
1t appears is necessary before Il divorce
can be secured in that state since its very
free divorce laws have been changed
Mrs. Thompson then came to this city,
and by her attorney filed another appli-
cation. Notice was served on Thompson,
but nothing was heard from him. The
case then proceeded as in default. Evi-
dence OF the marriage was taken, as also
the evidence of the plaintiff, telling the
bad way in which she had been treated
by Thompson. A couple of weeks AGO
Judge Wylie, holding the equity court,
which in this district has jurisdiction in
such cases, granted the divorce. giving
the plaintiff the right to resume her
maiden name, and the custody of her two
small children. The matter was kept
very quiet, and but few of her fellow
clerks knew anything of her difficulties.
Mrs. Thompson was just about thanking
her stars that her troubles with the bad
Thompson were over, when she was no
titled that he had sent to the court an
answer to her charges, and his objections
as demurrer to her receiving the asked
for divorce. Judge Wylie, on the appli-
cation OF the counsel for the absent de-
PENDANT, rescinded the order granting the
divorce, and thus left the case open again.
1t Is this answer that has kicked up the
row, again. In it he charges her with
adultery with numerous clerks in the
treasury department, giving names and
details, charging that the acts referred to
were committed in several of our most
fashionable boarding houses He also
swears that she has frequently held Grim
inal intercourse with Nathaniel p. Banks.
OF Massachusetts, in the st. Cloud hotel,
Of this city. Then again he gives the
names OF witnesses to prove every one of
the charges, which but adds fuel to the
flame. Some of General Banks friends
called at the court house to-day, and,
after reading the answer of Thompson,
telegraphed him the portion of it that i'm
plicated him. The answer of the general,
it is expected, will be received very soon,
and it is very probable that he will give
his evidence in full. All the other par
ties, male and female, implicated will be
given an opportunity to have their say,
and as a result the case promises to raise
the biggest social sensation that we have
had for a long time. The several board
ing house keepers are violent in the de-
Tense OF the reputation of their houses.
and demand that they shall have their
say. 1t may be added that the courts of
this district are becoming more famous
for granting divOrscs than even the d.
vOrce courts of Indiana in their palm
lest days To-day two divorces were
granted and one applied for, but it fire.
quently happens that four or five divorces
are granted in one day and as many APP
piled for.
In Bangor on Sunday, as Mr.. Simpson Rollins
was sweeping off his door steps, he was taken sud
denly Ill and only lived about thirty minutes after
entering his house. He about sixty-three
years old and has been affected with heart disease
for some time. The diseased was well known as an
active Democratic politician.
LOWELL, Aug. % Ezekiel Worthen. Jr., q
years Old, shot his wife at her boarding house g.
Lawrence Corporation, last night, infctng a
wound which may prove fatal. They had been
married some years and have had five children
She some time since left Worthen on account of
his abuse, and it was in order to persuade her to
return that he called on her last night