, 1879-05-31
The Gallagher Diyoree Case.

The Gallagher Divorce Case.
MY name is Gallagher" said the
stranger, as he entered Col Browns law
Office. Il called 10 see you about Il suit
for divorce
''Tahe seat" said the colonel
SIN the first place, said Mr.. Gala
CHER, II want to ask can divorce be OBJ
tanned on the ground Of general incOm-
patibihtyF
II dunno" SAID the colonel 81 must
ascertain the facts.
.'Beca;ise, if | can, ! want you to be-
begin sixty-eight divorce suits for me to-
morrow, upon that ground
Sixty eight =
'Let me explain You see, about four
years ago 1 went to Salt Lake City, and l
was converted to the mormon religion,
WhenI joined, Bishop Grub said ought
to marry, and SO | proposed for his
daughters, and We were CONSOLIDATED at
once. On the following Thursday the
bishop died He lett eleven widows.
His executors pointed out that | might
probably assuase the grief and get a
firmer grip on the property by taking
them out Of their lonely condition So |
married them, and also pooled i'll two sis
:ers of one of them, living in Idaho, and
cousin of another COUSIN who was
single, and had cast in her eye.
That made twenty, did IL Z observed
the colonel.
Twenty. Well then, the impression,
your honor, naturally got around that l
was n marrying man, and 50 the twelve
apostles at their next meeting sealed to
me four widows and an old maid that
were drifting about the settlements with
10 one III particular to look after them,
and rs took the act good naturedly, why
on the following week, Bishop Knox got
the apostles to pass over 10 Inc JOB lot
Of his relations, including t%o aunts, one
grandmother, and Il second cousin, and
Bishop rooie threw III a step sister, 4
mother i'll law, and three miscellaneous
orphans, who were related to nobody.
So, you see. ! MAS gradually getting quite
family about ne
=! scc,' sad the Colonel.
'.And taer, Your honor, if any unat-
tacLed women would come along III emi-
grant trans, they were always ordered to
be married to me, SO that eventually, III
addition to my other wives, | gathered IN
two Welsh women, a Mexican, an old
lady from the Sandwich Islands, three Pc
ruvians, the widow of japanese acrobat
and a hickapoo s4uaw thought the
heads of the church were little hard on
me, but had to submit"
Did you have d happy householdT
:I'm Just coming 10 that. l can't say
that ne were all perfectly conGenial, our
tastes differed so. The Bishop Grubb
delegation, for instance, would want caro-
mels for breakfast III the morning, while
the folks from Peru were determined to
have clans Bishop knox's detachment
would insist on cleaning house at the very
time when Bishop O'Tooles relations
wanted to give party. If the Sandwich
Islander and the squaw wanted to boil a
dog or two in the coup kettle, there was
ALWAYS "a fuss with the other women, and
the Mrs. Gallagher who came from Japan
used To make the resi- of the ladies furi-
Gus by turning somersets in the parlor
when there was company, and by stand
ing on her h, ad on the piano stool As
for wash dag, Well, one wanted it ON
Monday and another would have it on
Tuesday. and SO on If there had been
thirty seven days in the week, We should
have had washing going on each of them. "
"No unanimity, as it were I! observed
the colonel.
Precisely. And then Emeline, one of
nv first batch of wives, had studied med
icine, and she was always practising upon
the others. She introduced whooping-
cough to the family in order to try IA
vorite remedy of hers. Imagine sixty
sight women in one house, with the
whooping- cough, And then she put ip-
ecac in their tea few weeks afterward,
to see if it would give them asthma ; and
it did. The whole crowd went around
oaspinr for breath, and j think the Mexi-
can woman is probably short winded for
life. | demonstrated with Emeline, but
the verv next day she tried TO vaccinate
the old lady from the Sandwich Islands
by boring hole IL her elbow with gim-
let"
Didn't mind you, eh =
"No. And so one day about three
weeks ago | brought home poodle for
Julia, one of the younger ones This
looked little like partiahty, and ofcourse
the sixty-seveR others wanted poodle
aniece at once, Now. I'm not able to pay
a dog tax sixty-eight times year, so l
declined. saw there WAS trouble brew
mo and the next day when came home
every woman Of them had dog of her
own: been out and bought them They
ranaed from blood-hounds 20 black and
tar terriers. demonstrated, and then
we'll the women began to cry, and that
sat the dogs TO barking, and then Lucinda
vent for Julia's black hair, and the other
ladies Ioined in, and the dogs pretty soon
hecan to engage in the controversy, and
in few moments what might have been
a happy family circle was good deal
more like a copy Of the hattie of Water,
loo So fed and took the hrst train for
tbe East. and abandoned the Mormon re-
iioion permanently. and what l want to
Lnov IS if | can have those sixty-elgh'
marriage bonds united. Money Is no oD-
;ect so that | can get loose.
AZ think it can be done, said the col
onel. ssCall in tomorrow.
And Mr. Gallagher withdrew with the
air of a man whose mind had been greatly
e.l;srsd -Mar adder In n. Y. Herald