Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
Treasury of $4, 900 to John l.. Williams

" in full for services rendered and losses incurred by Eleazer Williams, the father of John l.. Williams, being the amount claimed by Eleazer Williams during his lifetime under the ninth arti- cle of the treaty with the Six Nations of | New York Indians, January 15, 1888" Eleazer Williams in 1842 began to assert | publicly that he was the son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. His story was to the effect that he had been stolen from prison in Paris and brought to America by an agent of the royal family, and it was fully told by the Rev. J. H.
 Hanson in Putnana's Monthly in 1853.
 Williams died five years later. Accord
 ing to the other story of his life he was
 born at Caughnawaga, in this State, in
 1797, and was the son of Thomas Will
 Hams, an Indian chief.
 The Legislature of Indiana has
 enacted law giving to married women
 many rights and privileges nos hereto
 fore enjoyed by them in that State. The
 act provides that 8 married woman may
 bargain, sell, assign, and transfer her
 separate personal property the same as
 if she were sole. She may carry on any
 trade or business, and perform any labor
 or service on her sole and separate
 account. The earnings and profits
 accruing from her trade, business,
 service, or labor, other than labor for
 her husband or family, shall be her sole
 and separate property. A married
 woman may enter into any contract in
 reference to her separate personal estate,
 trade, business, labor, or service, and
 the management and improvement of
 her separate real property, the same as
 if she were sole, and her separate estate,
 real and personal, shall be liable there
 fore on execution or other judicial pro-
 cess. She may bring and maintain an
 action in her own name against any
 person or body corporate for damages
 for any injury to her person or character
 the same as if she were sole, and the
 money recovered shall be her separate
 property, and her husband in such
 cases shall not be liable for costs.
 Some of the English newspapers
 are now taking more hopeful view
 upon the financial and commercial
 situation than they did few months
 ago. They argue that the present de-
 pression is simply the result of the over-
 production of the three great years of
 commercial activity, 1S72-3-4. Business in Great Britain began to decline ir
 1875, and has gone on declining ever since, till it has now reached the minimum; production is less tban al any time in the past eight years. Hope full British economists predict that { new period of activity is sure te begin soon and attain it's maximum before 1885. Tt is known that divorces are easily obtained, but it is known only to those , interested in the business how very l easily this work is done. The Nev t York World lately put reporter on thu track of the business and the reporte l by paying $50, succeeded in obtaining 1 8 bona fide divorce for an imaginar. couple. Although it was obtained by professional city divorce broker, it va 8 obtained through the Walworth Count.
 Circuit Court, Judge Wentworth, ant - within few weeks from the date of ap s plication. The imaginary husban' 8 lived in New York and the imaginar, @ wife in St. John, N. B. Every imagin ] ary deception was used in the case, an d still divorce was obtained without dit '- ficulty, showing how easily the unscru '- pulous divorce brokers can do thei s work. Here is field for legislatio # that is sadly wanted.
 y The late Madame Elizabeth Bons 't parte was a very shrewd business we d man. Left $1OO,OOO by her father, sh e left $S,O00,000 to her grandsons. Sh 'e lived in 8 boarding-heuse, paying $2 E per week for her board. Her grandson of were her pets, while to everybody els n she would be close. She made extrav' 8. gant Christmas and Thanksgiving pre- Il ents to these grandchildren, checks fc il $5,OOO or $10,000 being the ordinal oe amount. Otherwise she lived quite r, 7e tired, always in boar ding-house, whel in she had some twenty trunks, containin B. costly dresses, piled up in her room 'h never keeping house, never giving dil C. her parties or the like. Baltimorear of remember having seen her last on tt m street wearing an old plaid shawl, s. worsted dress, and a Dolly Varde
 apron; she never making use of tl S. costly dresses she possessed. She w CT 94 years of age at the time of her deat y- and her history is most peculiar on