Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-28
ODDITIES OF DIVORCE.


psicAftens Produced in Suits to Allay
Marital Misery.
From the ". Y. World
In the World recently have been given some
instances Of eccentricity In the matter Of mar
riages and Opponents. Even more eccentricity.
perhaps, Is displayed in the matter Of divorces,
which has its comic and ridiculous as we'll as its
serious side. Thus nothing could be more
practical than the action of the Ohio woman
who recently married man to cancel a debt of
$500. and then got divorce from him for $50.
coming out 1850 ahead. Nor can the Wiscon-
sin wife be denied praise IOr her ingenuity who
obtained evidence as to her husbands wander
ings by painting the s0les Of his boots. One of
the allegations made in a Louisville wife's bill
for divorce was that her husband, to cure
her of jealousy, compelled her to kiss
the woman Of whom she was Jealous,
having brought the latter to the house for
the purpose. The wife Of travelling preacher
In Maine has sought divorce from him on
the ground that because of his Bohemian mode
Of life aud his lazy shftless manner Of living
che had no credit among merchants, SO they in
his absence. refused TO let her have a salt mack
erel or red herring to suhsist on, and thereby
her health became impaired" &c. At Shelby
Vile, Ind, physician sued his wife for divorce
on account of her ''cruel and inhuInan treat
ment." She refused to believe that all his alb
sences from home were professional. and de-
that he should stay in of nights. He
said hs patients would not stand neglect. Then
she adopted the plan of taking poison whenever
he had night call. thus compelling him to re-
main and doctor her. She swallowed a deadly
drug in this way several times. and her life
was saved with difficulty. In Davenport. Iowa.
q woman Offifty-seven recently applied for third
divorce from the husband of sxty-fOur, to whom
she had twice been remarked, the complaint
being in each case cruel treatment. At Des
Moines, in the same state, Mrs. Jennie Hyland
obtained divorce from her husband for cruelty,
him almost Immediately and then in
vOked the aid of the law again. alleging unbear-
able cruelty once more. Wee Stone, a Chinese
at Tiffn, O., not long ago cele-
brated his birthday by taking out his naturaliZa-
ton papers and suing for divorce. A few days
since Mr.. Philip l.. Reeves obtained divorce in
this city and married again on the same day,
being more fortunate in this respect than lady
in Vermont, who had arranged for her remar-
rage. invited the guests and ordered the supper,
and then saw the suit which was to set her at
liberty put Off till the next term Of court. There
is a bOOtblack in Portland. Me-. who has been
the victim ofsome curious family complications.
and now claims to have three fathers and two
mothers. His father and mother were divorced,
and each married again. Later his mother pro-
cured a second divorce andmarried the third time
woman in Chicago last year, Mrs. Elizabeth
Faivy, asked for divorce from two husbands.
In 1868 she married Dennis Falvy, at Lynn.
Mass. but in 1872 he deserted her. Two years
and she married him. Subsequently she learned
that Falvy was living in Quincy Mass. and
was married to another woman. aud Mrs. Falvy
sought to be released from Falvy be-
cause OF his violation of the marriage VOWS. and
from Hines because she could not legally con-
tract marriage at the time she married him.
Among the most remarkable of causes alleged
In divorce suit was that charged by Cincn-
natl woman last year. wiful absence for more
than three wears of the husband to whom she
was married in September, 1880. A still more
startling disclosure was that i'm Milwaukee
where a lawyer. having obtained Judgment in a
foreclosure suit in which he was himself plain
Till, was astODished to receive a certificate from
the clerk OF the court purpOrting to be true
copy of Judgment of divorce between the
parties to the suit 1t is not often that one
sees a husband of 90 sue for a divorce from
a wife of IS, but that sight was witnessed last
year in Des Moines, Iowa. Cases of making
up after divorce are not rare, but at Shelby
Vile. Ind. last year a couple named Sandufer
made up before divorce in an unusual style.
decree had been granted, when. said the local
paper, "Sandufer and the woman who only one
short moment ago had been his wife rose in
from their seats and by one ac-
cord quietly withdrew to a corner of the court
room, where they engaged in earnest converse
ton. Very soon the officials and spectators no
[iced That the couple were greatly moved at
what had happened. for great tears suffused
their eyes and rolled down their cheeks In a
shorter space of time than it requires to write
t the myStiled pair embraced. then kissed each
other, then repeated it over and over clinging
to one another with all the tenacity of youthful
lovers Men Uttered. women cried and the
Judge grew indignant. Rising from his seat the
court declared that a couple capable of such
as the one just made could live
together. and taking up his pen he drew it across
the docket, erasing the decree" At Chicago
when granting a decree from moderate but
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man fit to Ice the father of his wifes children? The
greatest cruelty that can possibly be inflicted
upon woman IS to make her the mother of
children likely to become drunkards. The legis-
lature would be justified in proving that where
q man has so INDUCED i'm drink as to have faint
eel ms blood and thus made it probable that his
offspring will take by inheritance tendency to
VICIOUS courses. that fact alone should be good
ground for divorce although he may in all
other eases be a kind. indugent husband. able
and willing to give his wife an abundant sup
port tTsere was published in The World
few days ago an article showing the direct ratio
between drunkenness and divorce i'm SwitZpr-
land. and it may be said that it is rather pity
tiiat the statistics of the same SUBJECT here can
not be collected and collated by authorities
more impartial than some who have recently
the task To return to the curl
osities of divorce. At Memphis in August last
one Adeline Harris sued for divorce from Daniel
Harris and John Duff tie former had enlisted
and was reported dead when she married the
second, who maltreated her. At Chicago i'm
July when Mrs Peter DOutier obtained divorce
Tor ili-treatment her husband killed her At
Taunton. Mass. a husband weighing over 200
pounds sued for a dvOIcefrOm his wife woman
Of less than medium size. on the ground of in
tOlerable cruelty. An Ohio woman was remar-
ried last summer ten months after obtaining a
divorce. but this performance viewed from the
standpoint of CELEBRITY, was not as noteworthy
re- that of the Brooklyn courts in June last in
the Brush case. In which on Wednesday morn
ing the court made an order referring the case
to referee. who tried it on Wednesday after
noon and reported it on the next morning
lThuisday) for a divorce. This report the court
approved, and before sunset the
decree for the divorce was entered. curious
point was raised in Illinois last year, where a
woman who had been divorced attempted when
she remarked to compel her first husband to
continue the payment of almOny. The supreme
court decided against her. Treating almOny''
SAID Judge Scott, las the equivalent of that
obligation for support which arises in favor of
the wife out Of the marriage contract and which
IS lost when that contract is annulled by the
decree. she obtains the same obligation for sup
port by q second marriage. 1t is unreason-
able that she should have the equivalent of
an obligation for support by way of almony
from former husband and an obligation from q
present husband for an adequate support at the
same time" II she had carried her nOint she