Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-14
TWICE IN A YEAR.
a wife, widow aud - Bride In one Dny
Sequel To "a Recent Eiopement.
lsf Louis EopubIlcnn,l

sf. Louis Rcpubllcnn,I
Gnlena, Mo, March 5.-The Young
couple who sloped from this place last
Thursday have returned and the ro-
nance = ended. The clipping parties
boarded the train, the alla need bride
az Logan, and the prospective groom
nj Verona, whence they went to Sen
eca, In the Indian nation, where the
services of minister were procured
ana certificate issued. Immediately
after the knot was tied the contract
ing parties again boarded the train and
went straightway to the resi-
dence of the BRIDES father, at
the Galena springs, one mile west of
mere, where they are now quietly and
happily quartered. Mr.. Gentry. father
of young Gentry, has returned also
rom Lawrence county where he went
~ search of the horse his boy had sold.
The purchaser refused to give up the
morse without replevin suit, which
idea was abandoned by the distressed
parent
The bride In this ease was divorced
one day and married the next, making
her twice married In one year, and she
not twenty years of age. Thehusband
Is II lad In his teens. The time used to
be when divorce suit was "A mon
strSsity and generally looked upon as
being connected with disgrace, and
people would 20 for miles to attend
court when suoh thing was In pro-
cess OF trial, and quite frequently n di-
vorce case would he III court several
years before decree was granted.
Your correspondent was In CONVEX
sation recently with gentleman and
u native kentuckian, whose age Is
now three score, on the subject of d.
vorces. lie related divorce case
which occurred in "Old Kantaclxr in
olden times, the parties 10 tho suit be-
ing Charles Jasper and wife, both he
longing To the first circles of soci ETY. I'm
Pulaski county.
He related that the parties had lived
together several years before their do
nestle relations were disturbed. and
That an only daughter grew from child
hood 10 womanhood whilst the divorce
suit was pending,
AT that day and time In Kentucky.
divorces were obtained through an net
OF the state legislature. The plaintiff
to the suit was AT the time member
OF the legislature, before which body
he was to win or lose, In the course
of ten or twelve years the suit was
ended, and both parties relieved of dis
ability Some SIX months afterwards
they were reunited and started ON n
second voyage, ms unconuerned rs
though nothing had happened. Now.
we have 20 eNchim; 80 Temporal! O
nlDres ~
Both the times and manners or the
country seem to have made wonder
tnl change Divorce suits now are as
common In tho courts us common ass
saults. Where Is the county In Mis-
souri, In whose circuit court there is
not one or more divorce suits pending
at every term
Doubtless there are thousands of
men and women in the United states
who make II business to study an
grounds for u divorce, and have M
least nom three To five husbands anu
wives picked upon IN case of scpara.
lion, And il Is quite amusing ia
attend court and hear the sworn state
r'ents TINT are nl.,tle relative 60 domeS-
Tie HE. We need u prohiNitory law
on this subject some brother or sis.
ter will please put the bah IN motion.