The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-05-24
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Rayville, 9th DISTRICT have but littl
time for writing ut present, but I cannot refrai
from giving you brief outline of an interestin
and novel law suit, which was begun on Saturda
evening last before Squire Mccullough, our new
ly-appointed magistrate for Rayville and vicinity
Some two or three years ago mans wife refuse
to let him live with her, and turned him adrift t
shift for himself and shortly after she married an
other manor such is said to be the fact. The
husband No. had her arrested for bigamy, Blu
through some mishap or legal technicality h
failed to have her convicted and she still remaine
faithful to husband No. 2. Husband No. l nov
sues husband No. for the service the "mutua
| wife" has rendered to husband No. during tn
past two years, at the rate of 81 per month, max
ing total of $685. which brings it within mag
istrate's jurisdiction. Quite number of witnesse
! were examined and considerable i'll feeling wa
manifested at the trial. How this novel affair will
end we cannot predict, as the magistrate has no
rendered his decision, and in all probability it ma.
yet furnish some amusement for your Towson
| town folks.
The weather has been very favorable for whea
and grass and the prospect for good crop of each
is encouraging, but il has not been very favorable
for preparing the ground and planting corn. SOM
| farmers are done planting, some are now planting
and some not done blowing. Fruit of al
| kinds promises to be abundant.
Supervisors Mccullough and Benson have {
force OF hands engaged In opening the new county
road across the Devils Backbone"
| few years before the late war man married
his cousin and they had two sons, when the hus
band enlisted in a Maryland regiment, jumped thu
| bounty and served during the war in Pennsyl
vania regiment, leaving his wife to keep house fol
| his father, his mother being dead. When the wal
was over he returned, and as his wife appeared tc
like the father-n-law who is also her uncle, bet
ter than the husband, the latter turned the wife
kn Dnvnya cxyvv v1I0
when he married again and brought wife No. or
a wedding tour to visit the father and wife No.
Before they returned to Pennsylvania the father
of wife No. became aware of the fact that wife
No. was living, and had this "mutual husband
arrested for bigamy and lodged in a Pennsylvania
Jail, taking the daughter home again. But after
awhile the father of No. relented, procured the
release of the son-in law and allowed his daugh-
ter to live with him, and they still living in
Pennsylvania and raising family of children
Wife No. is still living with hcr husbands father
having been married to him few years ago by
a Pennsylvania preacher-ani they are raising a
large family of children-one son and five daugh-
tiers. may also add to the above that the two
eldest daughters of wife No. l, by her husband No.
2, who is also her father law and uncle, are
living with old men who have each left their
wives after raising families and after having be-
come grandfathers.
Now will some one figure out the relationship
these wives, fathers, fathers-in-law, sonsin-law,
sons, children and grandchildren bear to each
other, and if he can do it without swearing and
pulling his hair, he shall have the premium for
having the cleares brain of any man in the county.
The above is an actual fact, without any exag-
geration, and can be attested by score of wit
nesses. Please do not print any more fiction
about the Upper End, but when you want to have
a good Joke on US we can furnish you with truth
that is stranger than fiction. OBSERVER.
Letter From Juror to His Wife.--Dear
Hannah You are well aware that it was with
reluctance that discarded my old chip hat and
whitewash pail and the bean patch to serve on
the jury. / could not help mounting stump and
cast look back at Idlewild Jour home) as pull
ed out on last Monday, and it was lucky did, for
in the act of turning around my attendant dis
covered that my cheek was tinged with our morn
ing repast-ham and eggs. No doubt it was the
imprint of the parting pledge of affection 1.-THE kiss
ycu gave me, and it is quite likely we will follow
suit next week. Suppose we change our bill of
fare. Please prepare some slap-jacks.
As passed through the county seat of our dis
trict l noted the appearance of our "temple OF
justice"-Merriken's meat -house-where Squire
HoshaIl and Constable Spicer try "dorg" cases
with an idea Of making contrasts and drawing
some differences with the massive structure at the
"hub" of the county.
/ tried to dispel from my mind some unpleasant
impressions had formed on former visits. be-
ieve did wrong in harboring i'll feelings against
the County Clerk Of 1867 in delaying my mar
rage license, and l forgive you freely, but you
were the fault of it. You made me wait from one
Sunday night to the following one, seven long
days, before you would tell me my fate, and you
know you was dead in love with me all the time.
For the reason Of our short acquaintance don't
you think you split hairs in the injunction, "Be-
ware Of entertaining strangers lest you entertain
angels unawares,' in suggesting that should also
obtain the consent, not only Of your parents, but
your thirteen brothers and sisters, their husbands
and wives and children, test that would have
caused old Jacob to cuss if he had to go through
such an ordeal especially if he had to get them
all up a ladder on fodder rick, like 1 did your
father, to ask him. No wonder l was wrought up
and sensitive when the County Clerk put me off.
Hoshalrs court house and "dorg" cases beat
this one all hollow in hustle preparatory to open
ing. Hero there is large yard filed with state
ly trees and shady seats, and everything is still
and solemn like Patience the monument
smiling at Grief.
1 have formed some very agreeable acquaint-
ances and enjoy myself splendidly, with only one
regret: wish could get home long enough to
enjoy one more salute of affection and plant few
beans. Au revoir, SoLoN oHlNGLE.
TowsoNrowN, May 22d, 1884.