The Red Cloud chief., 1880-12-23

Are Tyranny. torture and wrong the
civil rights Of the people thou rnles,?
/ hsve kept all thy laws diligently. O
Queen. listen. II is thy Prerogative to
command. Let right be donei' The
crowns have fallen lately from the regal
heeds Of several Princes in Europe:
and The grestest monarch that ever held
the English scepter looked back and
moralized, and Her Majesty exclaimed:
. Millions Of money for moments of
ttme!'"
Ladies a wax wondrously grandilo-
qucnt when in the mind. A kentuckian
victim Of mans Inconsistency thus set
forth her plant in q petition for divorce:
''Dark clouds Of discord began TO lover
over the sky Of welded felicity. and the
miAacious lightning Of disun.on begai.
to dart its lurid flames across gloomy
| clouds of atramental blackness, obscur-
ing every star Of hope and happiness
whose ~resplendent glory illuminated
| the dawn of the first few brief years OF
her welded life, when she gave her
hand and an undivided heart to the de-
PENDANT. who in the sulfry month OF
July, 1876. after having been warmly
and snugly wintered within the fond
embraces OF her loving arms, and close
ly nestled to a heart that beat alone for
the defendant. showed his base, black
ingratitude by abandoning her without
aus whatever, except the Unsuitable
thirst for novelty, which Is the FREEDOM
inant character OF defendants nature"
II the deserted one was in the habit OF
holding forth in this style, the wonder
is that the union endured even a few
brief years.
A very extraordinary petition for d.
vorce once came before the Courts in
Tennessee. The petitioner set fOrtL
that his wife died in February, 1871.
leaving eight children; that his mother
in-law took great interest in her grand
children; and feeling that she was
nearer and dearer to his children than
any other human being. and was bound
to them by the ties Of common afec-
ton, he, in September of the sanse
year, married his mother-in-law; it
never occurring to him or her that
there was any technical objection to
their taking such a step. Two months
a~fterward, he was Mortified by acct
dentally discovering. not only that he
had committed an illegal act, but n
unsanctioned by the church of which
he was a member. He therefore petit
toned the Court to pronounce the mar
riage null and void, and declare com
plainant and defendant free from the
supposed obligation and its conse-
quences. No opposition being raised
on the lady's part. the Court decreed
accordingly, and the too-hastily con
tracted union was formally dissolved.
Another attempt to escape the con-
sequences of matrimonial misadven-
ture did not end SO happily. In this
case, the widow of an officer who fell
fighting for the North, tired of her
mateless condition. had, by marrying
again. relieved Uncle Sam of a pen.
siOner. Unfortunately, Ter new part
ner treated her SO badly that she
was compelled to 60 TO the Di-
vorce Court for relief; and that OBJ
tanned, petitioned Congressto reinstate
her name on the military pension roll;
on the plea that she had reverted to her
former status as an officers widow.
The committee to which the novel
cidiui was Ieiciicu' IcPoitcu thae thCy
could find no instance of such a thing
being allowed, and declined to advise
Congress to create a dangerous and
i~nconvenient precedent.
Here we stay our pen. not for lack OF
material, but because we have no dis
position to try the patience of our read
ers as hardly as petitioners are apt to
try that of the authorities to whom they
pray.-Ghdmbers' Journal. -