The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-12-26
BTOadbTimS New York Letter

BTOadbrimS New York Letter,
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
We are about to scalp the MOrmons
for maintaining loose matrimonial
code according to our system of ethics.
Yet day after day things come to light
in this goodly city, on which matters at
salt Lake are quite an improvement.
Wives arc taken and dropped with as
much impunity as pair of old shoes,
and husbands are parted without mo-
ment's notice, and in nine cases ont OF
ten, the woman fails to better her con-
dition, but on the contrary, she frequent
ly abandons home and children to fol-
low some vagabond who eventually casts
her off.
But one of the quecreSt arrangements
turned up in our sister city of Brooklyn,
which as usual, furnishes me with the
bulk of my interesting items. In the
city of churches and Henry Ward
Bcechcr, lived comfortable couple who
had been married eighteen years. Con-
trary to all experience, the marriage
had been an exceedingly happy one.
Mrs. NJ. thought her husband teapot,
and Mr.. NJ. thought his wife was a
daisy. About two years ago Mrs. NJ.
was taken i'll, and partial paralysis in
capacitated her from attending to her
household duties, so she sent for her
friend Mrs. y. to come and take care OF
her house and her husband.
Mrs. Y. was a widow whose husband
had crossed the StyX some five years be-
fore, leaving herin somewhat straitencd
circumstances. She was a most esti-
mable person to look upon, and she
nurscd her sick friend with a devotion
that certainly did her very great credit.
At last it became evident to Mrs. NJ.
that the land of the golden slippers was
not far off so she summoned her hus-
band and the widow to her bedside and
gave them her blessing and told them
that the best thing they could do was to
get married at once and be happy. This
! exactly met the views of the widow Y.
and Mr.. NJ. So without waiting for the
unimportant formality of Mrs. NJ. max.
ing her final exit, they repaired to the
nearest Methodist parsonage, when the
minister, seeing they were both of age
tied the holy knot, and received two
dollars and half, and Seyenty-five cents
for the certificate, not to mention a
kiss of the bride thrown in. Mrs. Ms
case was hopeless, and after the mar.
riagc she was removed to the hospital
where last week she died. All the time
she was in the hospital her husband
paid the expenses, but at her death hel
brother claimed her body and refused tc
let her husband attend the funeral, but
after the funeral was over he sent the
husband a bill for the funeral expenses
The husband refused to settle the bill a.
they had not allowed him to attend tn,
funeral, so the brother had him arrested
for bigamy, though his sister, who wa,
the injured party, if there was any in
jury, was safe in the promised land; hui
bigamy is bigamy, even if ghost is tn,
complainant, and Mr.. NJ. and widow Y
have States prison staring them in tn,
face, though everybody immediatel,
connected is perfectly satisfied eXcep
the brother whose only injury was Ss7. 81
for his sisters funeral.
1t is no uncommon thing for three O
four widows to turn up at the Surro
gates Court-of men well known in tn,
community, and many of whom mp t,
the time of their deaths, were supposed
to be leading most exemplary lives
Looking back few years, a man a.
well known as Burton, the actor, lef
three or four widows, every one of whom
seemed To have legitimate claim to tn,
property. Marcus Cicero Stanley, tn,
lottery man, left two widows, each on,
claiming to be the original Jacobs
Davis, the gambler and sawdust man
who was killed while trying to rob !
Texan, had two wives, and each o
them declared he was a most eXemplar,
and affectiOnatc husband; and il is onl,
a short time ago since l reported tn
death Of an eminent New York mer
chant who was known by one name a
his office in New York for twenty years
and by another name at his private resi-
dence in Brooklyn, where he resided
with his wife, who swore after his death
that she never heard of his New Yorl
name, and on his will being presented
for probate, his real wife whom he haC
abandoned twenty-five years before, ap
peared and established her identity b,
her marriage certificate aud other col
lateral proofs. Her husband had ac
cumulated fortune OF $500. 600, anc
ever since he had deserted her she hat
maintained herself and her children b,
washing. The remarkable part of tho
story is that they were living not a hall
mile apart and had never met or heard
Of each other in all these wears. II is a
] satisfaction to know that wife No / roi