The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-27

is SO easy and tue release from matrlnony
so sure. ltrequirss very slight proVocauon
where no attempt is made to govern the
passions or curb the temper, especially II
they are at all high-stTung, to pile up
| grievances and work the mind TO such
pitch of excitement over little things, 1t
may be, as to seem to Justify them in say
ing under oath that living together Is IN
suppOrSable and renders tine husbands or
wife's condition intolerable.
In Vermont it must appear that there has
| been 'intolerable severity" and IN Florida
''habitual indulgence of violent aud IN
governable temper" must be shown. In
Kentucky the husband Is not bound to cut
up in a very boisterous manner, but
| his conduct, cruel. and inhuman, must in
dictate a ..Settled averSio 4" 20 bis wife, and
| this grim and sullen conduct must extend
over period of at least six months. Cruel
| ty, pure and simple, whatever that may
| mean, is q good ground for divorce in Ala
/ hama, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
| Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia.
Illinois, Indiana. Kansas, Kentucky, Louisi-
ana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
| Mississippi, Missouri, Nebr Iska, New
| Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Isl md, Texas, Vermont, Washing
ing on and Wisconsin.
| What amounts to cruelty, however, seems
| to be an ope question. Whether one sin
| divorce seems to be also matter of doubt.
| But in many states it must be of such a
| char cter as to endanger life or to impair
the physical health of the complaina 1t.
| Bursts of passion occasionally, petulance
of temper, rudeness even, and sslles of
| passion won't do in some states, unless &C
| companied bv acts of personal violence u
danger to life, limb or health. In other
words a man can be sort of petty tyrant
| about the house, but his meannesS in some
localities if it does not result in injury to
! bealth, will not relieve a suffering wife
| from the njugal yoke. But in Kentua ky,
| if he keeps up the petty tyrant business
| longer than six months it might be con
strued by the meek wife as "a settled aver
sion" to her, and she will be enabled to get
released by the court But the courts have
entertained all sorts of views as to what
| constitutes extreme cruelty or intolera lie
severity In Florida, however. habitual in
| diligence of violent or ungovernable tenn
per is sufficient.
AS TO DISCRETION.
Desertion furnishes u go d ground for d.
vorca in many states. But a husband, by
merely parting from his wife, or abandon
ing her, as in New Mexico, will not by that
means become freed. The desertion must
| continue for from one to five years. accord
| ing to the geography of the situation. In
| Arkansas, California, Colorad) }, Dakota,
| Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Utih, Washing
ton, Wisconsin and Wyoml e one year or
more will suffice. In Alabama, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Ne
braska, Nevada and Tennessee two years
are required. In Connecticut, Delaware,
Georgia, Maine, Maryland Massachusetts,
| Mi neSo5a New Hampshire, o 10, Oregon,
Texas, Vermont, and West Virginia three
years are necessary. In Rhode Island and
| Virginia the absence must continue five
years.
| Drunkenness is also ground for divorce
| in some parts of the country, and in some
| quarters it is steadily maintained that this
crime constitutes very grave otfenSe, and
| is not at all a light or trivial cause. DIR.
| Collyer, in tle sermon above REFERRED to,
expressed himself very emphatically on this
| subject, and his words are entitled to m )St
| respectful attention for the clear and forcl-
| BILE mode in which they are expressed. The
| doctor says:
II am not here to dogmatize or lay down
the law that when men and women have
once made their vows they must abide by
them, whatever may befall. l believe
rather, and with all my heart, that there
may be mar iage which it is far more
| sacred to dissolve than to maintain-a mar
riage which is not only imprisonment for
| life in a dungeon, but Imprisonment with
| torture and with one life, or it may be
| two, forever on the rack. While it is not
| the dogma of the churches of a nell in the
world to come, it is hell upon earth. And
SO VINO are we that we should say, There
you are, and there you must 5tay, for there
is no release but in the G aveF"
! THE DRUNKARD's DANGER.
! In more than If the states, however
| the law-making power has decreed that
| life is too short to be married and stained
| by miserable, debauched, drunken hus-
band. They do not require a poor, weak,
| suffering woman to walt until she seeks the
silent repose of the grave in or
der to gain relief from such a
life Of misery as she would be obliged
| to undergo tied to a besOtted husband.
While there is life there is hope, and the
motto of the thirty-three states referred to
| is that the woman, if she be pure d
worthy, is entitled, under such circum-
stances, to two chances at the altar, and
kindly interposes an opportunity for di-
vOrce from the drunkard. This rule pre-
walls in Arizona, Arkansas, Califo MA
| Colorado, Connecticut, Dakot Delaware,
Florida, Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, X tnsas,
Kentucky Louisiana. Maine, MASSACHUSETTS,,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,
Montana, Nebraska. Nevada, New Hamp-
SHIRE, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode
Island, Tennessee, U ah, Washington, Wis
consin and Wyoming.
| III AVlZOud, lulenSSS, pFOulgdcy OF uISSl
patton is-a ground for divorce The motto
of that territory seems to be that the "cur-
tain lecture" is a thing OF the p st; a tale
a memory. And the good wife may cul
loose from prohIgate or dissOlure husband
and seek for pastures newN A husban
IN that locality must sow his wild oats prior
to C urtship and marriage, for ice he be-
comes a Benedict he must be staid and ex-
empl nv and his conduct in every respect
strictly proper.
So vagrancy constitutes ground for di-
vorce in Wyoming, and in many states con-
vlctlon of crime and Imprisonment there
for gives the wife cha ice to regain her
maiden name
The question may be asked, where does
the great Empire state of New York find a
place in all tnese vaciou, phases of spotted
wedlock? 1t will be borne in mi ID, how
ever, That New York allows divorce only
upon the ground of unfaithfulness.
In case, however, a husband or wife
| should be so unfortunate as to be sen enced
Tor LIE to state prison. the otler party
could ma @ry again without violating the
law against bgamy. But New York and a
number of other states authorize a separa-
ton, or divorce from bed and board" as
1t is called, for cruel aud inhuman treat
| ment, which may result from conduct dur
ing TITS of intoxicati N.
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