Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24
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was serene and beautiful. Never had they
been so happy in the East
Everything was, however, too lovely to
continue. Soon it was noticed that Mrs.
Aliens cheeks began to pale andsher manner
lost its animation. She was tt victim of
unaccountable fits of depression nd her con-
dition gave her husband great alarm. The
best medical advice was taken, with this
result: The doctors issued another
of the first: "Mrs. Allen" said thev, "vou
have an affection of the heart, which was
and would continue latent during residence
on the Atlantic coast. Further stay in this
rarefed atmosphere means certain and
speedy death for you. You must 60 back
to New Haven. You must live by the sea-
shore, where the air is least rarefied."
Mrs. Allen, heart-broken, bade her hus-
band what they both deemed an eternal
adieu and went back to New Haven, where
she is now living very quietly.
The Law of the Curious Case.
Now here was, and is, something unheard
of-an absolute divorce by climate. The
wife cannot live in Colorado or in any
mountainous country; the husband can live
nowhere else. "What is meat to one is the
others poison" Neither the law nor the
courts recognize such condition of things
as legal cause for divorce The facts con-
stitute an absolutely anomalous case
An eminent lawyer of this city who has
been the legal adviser of Mr.. Alien was
asked if the facts as narrated were correct
ly given, and if he had ever known of such
another case. ''The facts are as you give
them, substantially" said he; 'T have
never known of such another case. The
law does not recognize any such cause of
divorce"
But, he continued thoughtfully, con
reflection, do know of other cases which
show the same conditions existing in modi-
fed form. Judge Joe Bell, who was at one
time United States District Judge in New
Mexico, and who married Miss Sturges, of
New York, was utterly unable to live in
this dense, damp climate, and rather than
die here has gone West to i've for good.
Asheville, N. c., has many residents who
find life enjoyable, and, indeed, maintain
able only there. Fortunately, their wives
can live with them. But divorce by cll-
mate may some day be recognized by law"
Sad Case From Connecticut
A similar case which resulted in the sepa-
ration of two young Connecticut people
about to be married is recently reported
from that State. Christine Mansfield, of
Birmingham, Conn, had for some time been
tne amanced vile OF Albert Berslnger, q
young German employed by the Derby
Silver Company. In the summer OF 1890
young Bersinger developed an affection of
the lungs, and an examination by doctors
showed that consumption had made marked
PROGRESS. He scraped up what funds he
could and started for the pine forests of
North Carolina, where he was told the dis
ease processes would make least headway.
Miss Mansfield could not marry and ac-
company him, as they would both have liked
her to do on account of business and fnan-
cial reasons. When his money run short
she sent him her savings, part of which had
been intended to purchase her trousseau. He
grew desperate, and in one of his letters
limited that rather than longer burden her
he would put an end to himself. She at
once took what was left of her funds and
started for Asheville, bringing her lover
home to die. Despairing of his ever being
able to wed her she pawned her Jewels to
procure for him luxuries that would COM
fort his last moments, but he died shortly
after his return to Birmingham and
she is now an inmate of the State insane
asylum. JAMES S. HAMMOND.