Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02

NEW YORK, May 1.-The divorce suit of
 Agnes Robertson Boucicault against Dion
 Boucicault was discontinued to-day by mu-
 tual consent. It is not known what basis of
 settlement has been reached and all parties
 to the suit refuse to make any statement
 whatever on the subject.
 ance Workers Domestic Happiness Ruined-A Suit For Damages Against
 the Alleged Destroyer.
 BRooKLYN, May IA domestic scandal of
 great importance has created another moral tornado in the congregation Of Plymouth church, and the evidences of the wreck now in sight are ruined home, an exasperated
 husband, an angry and defiant wife and
 $1OO,OO suit for damages against the alleged
 seducer. The husband is Eli Johnson, for
 merly of Chicago, who lost an income of
 $1, 900 a week by the Chicago fire and was afterward chosen to disburse the $200, 1000 contributed by Cincinnati for the sufferers. During the entire war he was member of l the executive committee of the United States Christian commission. In Cincinnati
 he built up the largest Sunday school in the
 United States, leaving it with unincumbered | property worth $15O, ,000. He traces his an cestry back to William the Conqueror on the | paternal and to the Earl of Shaftsbury on 1 the maternal side. Of late years he has been professional temperance lecturer and has been at once eloquent and success I ful. He has crossed the ocean four times on featuring tours and the Earl of Shaftsbury has presided at his lectures in | Iaodou. Mrs Johnson is 8 fine looking woman with 6 ruddy complexion, a well
 rounded form and iron grey hair. She was | born in Ohio and was married to Mir. John son in Indiana according to Quaker rite in 1850, he being then tWenty-two years and l she nineteen years old. The alleged serpent l in the Johnsonian Eden is MT. Henry A. | BigIey, wealthy grain and provision broker of 39 Pearl street. New York, member of l the Produce Exchange and the New York 1 representative of n. S. Nichols and Robert Iindblom & Go. of Chicago. He lives in 1 elegant style with his wife and family at No. 1 227 Park Place in this city and is 8 pronnin- ent member of Plymouth church. The storm | burst today, when 8 summons and con- plaint in Mr. Johnson's suit against Mr. HigIey for $10o,00o damages l for criminal conversation were served upon MT. HieIey. The complaint alleges that on 1 fifteen specified dates the defendant had
 criminal relations with defendants wife.
 These dates are between February, 1882, and
 April, 1888, during most of which time MT. l Johnson was in Australia on . lecturing tour, | and during which time Mrs johnson AVed at 1 the Remsen House and attended Plymouth
 church. generally occupying MT. Higleys
 pew with him and his family. MT. | Johnson returned in March, and was well
 comed at a public meeting in the Academy of l Music. of which Mir. Higley was the princi- l pal organizer and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher 1 the principal speaker. Soon after his re- 1 turn MT. Johnson's s1sp icions were aroused ana to test his wife's fidelity he told her that l he was going to Saratoga for @ few days. She accompanied him to the Grand Central depot in New York, bade him good bye af- 1 fectionately and then as alleged sent the fol 1 lowing dispatch to MT. Higley: