The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-20
THE CHRISTIANCY DIVORCE.

Ex-senator Christiancy's Answer to his Wife's
Cross Bill---H How He was Inveighed by the
Treasury Girl---A Sensational Document.
Washington dispatch.
The long expected answer of Minister
Christiancy to the cross bill for divorce en-
tered by his wife has been filed in the equity
court. The minister's answer is very SEN
sational, and if the picture he paints of his
married. life is true, never was a sad old
man, upon the verge of the grave, yoked to
a more exasperating She devil than Mrs.
Christiancy. In answer to the second point
of her bill he admits his marriage to the
complainant, but asserts that it was at her
own instance. He was led into it by her
skillfully turning what was intended for
mere compliment into a proposition of mar
rage. He says:
Although I promptly apologized for it
when saw the construction she put upon
it, she as promptly declared her wish that
I should marry her, to which did not as
sent until after had honestly and earnestly
endeavored to convince her of the unftness
of such marriage on account Of the diff
erence in our respective ages. Butt finally
yielded in her solicitations upon repeated
assurances that she loved me better than
any other man, which assurances she VOL
unteered to declare to me were false the
first moment We We're alone together in our
room at Philadelphia, the first night of the
wedding and before she had taken off her
hat, avowing her love for another man to
whom she said she had been engaged and
declaring that on the morning of the we'd
ding day she had tainted at the mention of
his name, and that she had prejured her.
self in her marriage vow. She demanding
an immediate divorce, and upon my tell
ing her there was no grounds for a divorce
and that none could be had.
He denies that she has been faithful
and obedient wife, and AYERS that within
month after marriage she entered into
various and scandalous and improper intrig-
ues, especially with one Frank T. Ander-
son, which she kept up down to about the
time she left Peru, and that she had been
guilty of the undue and scandalous famil-
iarities, and, as he believes, adultery, not
Lima Peru, and in steamers sailing to and
from Collao and Panama, and others going
from Aspinwall to New York, with several
different men.
She has on many occasions wished that
could die, declaring that I was the only
obstacle to her happiness; often screaming
aloud, saying that it was her intention
to cause an impression that was abusing
her. She has on two occasions, at Wash
ington and Lansing, willfully produced up
on herself miscarriages and abortions.
The ex-senator denies that he ever touched
her in anger, and never heard such charge
it to be true that while at Healing Springs
she was guilty of criminal intercourse with
at least one man, if not more. She often
said she would make plausible case for
divorce, and at any time would get assist
ance to carry bill through, and all the mon
ey she needed for such purpose from
man in Baltimore, whom he forebears to
mention at this time. He admits that he
didn't furnish her money to go from Peru
to Washington, because she declared one
George E. Haight had furnished her $500
in gold for the purpose. She showed him
the same, urging him to keep it in an
iron safe for her. In answer to the
twelfth point, he denies that she is under
the care OF physician in consequence of
his willful neglect to provide her necessary
premature birth. On the contrary, he de-
clares both premature Births as she calls
them. were purposely brought on and pro-
duced by her own deliberate and willful
action.
While at Healing Springs with the said
Frank Anderson, she frequently wrote COM
planning of illness and suffering from the
causes above mentioned, and of her inabil-
ity to take any exercise; yet after her re-
turn she told me she had been the most
daring rider among the ladies there, riding
the widest horses over the toughest mount
ain roads; that she had frequently climbed
mountains on foot in thick timber with An
derson alone.
Long Infantry Range.