Daily Republican., 1879-05-20
AREMARKABLE WEDDING.
A man Gets A Divorce From HIS
Wife for $1,000.

A native of Southern Illinois, Jacob
Kande by name, married, nine years
ago, good looking, healthy, intelligent
farmers daughter, near Dodgo'a. He
was a farmer himself, honest and in
dustrious, and they would have lived
together with as little friction as most
couples have, had 1T not been for her
she says had it not been for his-tem-
per. They both seem to have been
endowed with superabundapce of ex-
plosive irritability, which, excited by
the slightest circumstance, knew no
limits and challenged all control.
Albeit mutually fond, cross world
from one angered the other and produc-
ed domestic storm of the most furious
order. Rancorus speech would elicit
violent acts. They never came to
blows, but they broks things so miscel-
laneously and recklessly that after a
quarrel they usually needed fresh
supply of crockery and window glass.
They had we'll nigh exhausted the
stock of earthen ware in Cairo, when
they determined that it would be advis-
able as we'll as economical! to separate.
She went to her father, and he resum-
ed his bachelor ways, until, repenting
of their folly, they resumed cooperative
housekeeping.
For weeks matters went along smooth
ly; but, having dispute one morning
at breakfast, he kicked over the ia
BILE. She retaliated by throwing Sun
day suit of his clothes into the fire, and
by burning down the barn, and tearing
new gown, recently imported from
Springfield, H., into shreds. This last
outrage she weuld not brook. She, un-
encountered by children, sought the
shelter of the parental roof once more;
and he, dsposing of his property, went
to the far West in search of fairer for
tunes. After trying divers kinds OF
business, he turned his attention to
silver mining in Nevada, and prosper
ed by it.
Three years since he encountered his
ex wife in Virginia City, as the wife OF
one Edgar Monroe, who had lost all his
means, once considerable, by adverse
speculations. Monroe was heartily dis
satisfied with the West and anxious to
return to Ohio, whence he had come,
having met Mrs. Rande at an agrlcnl >
tural fair at Columbus and welded her
out of hand. Rande called on his form
er ellow-fghter, and his old affection
revived, as she confessed hers did. She
said that she did not believe Monroe
cared much for her. Rande waited on
him formally, explained the object of
his mission, and the nature of his de-
sires.
The conclusion was that Munroe, in
consideration. $4,000, cash down,
agreed to quit the State and in due
time get divorce in an Indiana court.
He kept his covenant, and nearly two
years ago Mrs. Munroe became by pro-
cess Of law, Mrs. Rande once more. Last
spring she presented her first and Last
lord with twins, and the parents are
declared to be exceptionally harmon
ious, no more tempests sweeping across
their domestic hearth, and the supply
of crockery diminishing only through
ordinary mishaps.
Other similar examples on the Slope
have resulted to the benefit and added
contentment of all persons directly in
volved, and intermediate husbandstip
promises to be profitable to the inter
mediate husband, and an augmenter OF
concord between the original parties re-
united. Some men are possibly so COM
stituted that they can he more attached
to, and agree better with their wives at-
ter they have been the wives of other
men. They cannot, perhaps, quite ap
precate anything until they have lost it
and got it back again. and such queer
fellows may be helped by following the
Mohammedan fashion i'll matrlmony.
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