Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-09-02
OUR NEW YORK LETTER

New YoRK, August, 3Oih, 1891.
Editor Of the Times:
We hear sometimes of the good old British
rule (Which is alleged never TO have been re-
pealed) by which q husbs nd tired of his spouse
may ,rot her out in the msrke, place, with
halter round her neck, and sell her on private
contract, perhaps even giving boot to get rid
of her, if the better half 10 too bad We have
had an illustration of this method Of divorce
made easy, in wealthy, if not refined circles in
the upper part of our city. A buxom mstros,
whose husband left her amid any amount Of
luxury while be hurried of early asd came
home late, delving for dollars diligently, found
an affinity in q carnal carpenter who had been
called in to effect some trifiing repairs. After
several months Of bliss under the rose, the hus.
band finally paid attention TO a deluge of an
onymeus letters that had threatened to over
whelm him, and, calling the erring pair to-
gether, asked few questions, which were
frankly answered and then philosophically
proposed to sell his wife for 81. The offer was
accepted, and the woman left her brownstone
front with its ct ceteras for the attic of the
plane shower. She regrets lost luxury, but
complains of the groutiness of her sx-husband
and eldest son.
Another cheerful affair was the telescope pro-
longation of wedding and other festivities in az
wedding on the programe, but as the high con-
tracing parties were little tardy, the moupais
quart dheurre was utilized to christen three
children. Then wedding No. came of, which
proved so interesting that no less than three
succeeding couples owned up that they were
engaged, and were spliced in turn in an I'M
expected sort of way that must have been ex-
ceedingly delightful.
A woman has just died at Long Branch from
too much dosing with some patent medicine
mixture that is warranted to reduce obesity
There is a good deal of humbug about many
patent medicines but they are not all by any
means to be whistled down the wind rs of no
account. In the wilds of Central Africa, the
plague striker bazars of Bagdad, or the cholera
choked caravanserais Of upper India, certain
American patent medicines of well known
efficacy are found and thoroughly appreciated
by the conservative natives who are 10th IN Iced
to touch any new thing. Then there is the cry
of adulteratiOn and sewer gas, and SO forth.
Some Of these cries are overdone and oftentimes
the so-called authorizations are wholesome
enough, and are understood to lie present by
even the most ignorant consummer. Still it is,
fancy, better to avoid all possibility of mis-
take and am glad to see that two well known
and very successful FIR ms have ma ntained strict
ly to this day their prin iple OF sci ing exactly
what they purport 10 sell thus, VIII we buy
a packet of Havemeyer, L f Isr'< ru Sugar
we can bit againts "ll the horse, lii I'd and
arc $: IS on The planet that we get pure sugar
and no,hing else, and wien the 7 .u-Lers sell
US oeomarg irine or pure butter We know we
are paying our money and t.king our CHOICE
and get just which of these too much wrangled
over article of diet We pay and s.k for. So
when they sell the Ango-Swiss baby food, and
claim its superiority, we may know that It
actually is a prime article thoroughly adapted
to she required purpose. Honesty is undoubt-