New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-02
mt Majesty addressed by the lady,


Countess Of Derwentwater in her own
conceit, whose vagaries led to her in
generation in Newcastle jail. 80
Queen!" wrote she, "Mercy and JUS
tice is thy mission on earth, and why
allow one inoffensive heir of Derwent-
water to be falsely incarcerated, shut
up for seven months, languishing, and
deprived of even q breath of fresh air!
What doth it profit man if he gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?
Are tyranny. torture and wrong the
civil rights Of the people thou r1lest?
| have kept all thy laws diligently. o
Queen, listen. 1t is thy prerogative to
command. Let right be done!' The
crowns have fallen lately from the regal
heads of several Princes in Europe;
and the greatest monarch that ever held
the English scepter looked back and
moralized, and Her Majesty exclaimed:
g Millions of money for moments of
ttne!'''
Ladies can wax wondrously grandilo-
quent when in the mind. A Kentuckian
victim OF mans Inconsistency thus set
forth her plant in petition for divorce:
''Dark clouds of discord began to lower
over the sky of welded felicity, and the
minacious lightning of disunion began
to dart it's lurid flames across gloomy
clouds of atramental blackness, obscur-
ing every star of hope and happiness
whose Respondent 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 sultry month of
July, 1876. after having been warmly
and snugly wintered within the fond
embraces of her loving arms, and close
ly nestled to heart that beat alone for
the defendant, showed his base, black
ingratitude by abandoning her without
cause whatever, except the Unsuitable
thirst for novelty, which is the predom-
inant character of defendants nature"
If 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 forth
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 affec-
ton, he, in September of the same
year, married his mother-in-law; it
never occurring to him or her that
there was any technical objection to
their taking such step. Two months
afterward, he was Mortified by acct
dentally discovering, not only that he
had committed an illegal act, but one
unsanctioned by the church of which
he was a member. He therefore petit
toned the Court to pronounce the mar.
rage null and void, and declare COM
plainant and defendant free from the
supposed obligation and it's 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 a 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, her new part
ner treated her so badly that she
was compelled to go to the d.
vorce Court for relief; and that oh.
tanned, petitioned Congress to reinsto tie
her name on the military pension re il;
on the plea that she had reverted to her
former status as an officers widow.
The committee to which the novel
claim was referred, reported that they
could find no instance of such thing
being allowed, and declined to advise
Congress to create a dangerous and
inconvenient 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
Chambers Journal.