The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-01

] nuSLlcr OF the LOrQ ENmOutl- All was
going on lovely, and the sale was still
| open. when two constables took a hand
/ in the sale by seiZing the goods and the
I auctioneer, and conveyed them 10 the
| GuildhaL to be questioned by the mayor.
The worshipful gentleman put IL TO Mr..
| Brooks how he dared commit such an
illegal az and he answered in an lnnO-
cent SORT of manner that he supposed
| il WIS all right, as he and his wife had
/ both agreed that il was the best thing TO
/ be done They had not lived together for
u a long time; she had had, to her shame,
| be il said. children by other men; she was
I no wife TO him, and since he had under
stood there was a man willing 10 give
I him go for hers down and the other III
I at Christmas, and as his wife was anxious
Y 10 belong 10 this man, they both con-
scented the sale should be made. There
/ was" said he, nothing below board in 1T,
| as II had been advertised publicly in Mud
! bury three successive market days" The
I wife, also, asserted that she had been Civ
/ en- 10 understand that she could be hon
/ estly separated by being sold on market
1 day in the market place.
The mayor desired to know the name
| of the person whose intention Il was TO
buy her, and she answered that il was a
certain Mr.. k. and" she continued,
I 4 am very vexed that he has not kept
his promise" She then went on to in
form the mayor that she was so deter
mined to be freed from Brooks. that she
had. on finding Mr.. X. was absent, en-
ployed the hostler of the Lord EXmouth
Inn, where she put up her horse, to buy
| her with her own money, unless she
said, Il go for more than go" The may
or bound both Brooks and his wife over
to answer the charge at the next ses-
siOns, and as neither of them were able
TO find sureties. their own recOgnizances
We're taken. but with what result We are
unable to say.
efT1rr nd
Thomas Jones. working for Il house
painter at Caerleon, and, not knowing
his own mind, rashly married silly
girl. In three weeks they were weary
of one another, and the girl agreed TO
let her husband sell her. Accordingly,
with a proviso that if the buyer after
three weeks repented of his bargain.
the salesman should take her back and
return half the purchase money. Thomas
| Jones sold his young wife for threepepce!
In the month of March. 1866, a carpen-
/ ter Of Southwark, named HigginsOn, went
/ into an ale house for his mornings
| draught, and there meeting a fellow car
| penter, their talk turned upon wives Hig
/ ginsons friend lamented that he had not
| wife, while Higginson grievously lamented
| that ne had one and wished there was
some way, beside committing uXorcide,,
| of getting rid of her. Higginson's friend
/ assured him that there was a way, mas
/ much as old English customs had made
| it quite lawful for a husband to dispose of
/ his other half.
mo one would be such fool as to buy
my wife, said Mr.. Higginson, with pro-
found sigh.
Il would do So" answered his friend,
land think 1 had made a good bargain,
] too"
At this the eyes of Higginson began to
! sparkle like drops of glue. "Done!' he
delightedly shouted, and clenched the bus
| mess on the spot.
Mrs. Hlgginson was fetched by her new
/ lord and lived with him as his wife. A
| few days afterward, however, Higginson
began to be weary in a nest without
mate, or either suspected that he had not
! done the right thing. So he went to his
/ friend and demanded the return of his
Wife Mrs. Hgginson refused to be re-
| turned; a sale was a sale, as she viewed it,
| and not a joke. Higginson demanded her
| return again and again, but to no pur-
| pose. After a week or two he gave up
making demands and Mrs. Higginson was
| concluding that her original owner had
! peaceably ceeded her at last, when she
was cited to Identify his dead body. He
| had hung himself.
In August, 1773, three men, accompanied
by three of the fairer sex, went into the
| Bell inn, Edgbuston street, Birmingham,
and, calling for the toll book, which was
| kept there made this entry:
j, ]
| parish of Welawhile, in the county of
| Stafford, this day sold his wife, Mary
! Whitehouse in open market. to Thomas
| GriiIiths of Birmingham. Value one shill-
| ing. To take her with all her faults
This was signed by Samuel and Mary
Whitehouse, the husband and wife,
| and witnessed by Thomas Buckley of
| Birmingham. 1t is presumable that the
faults were dear enough for even so pal
| try a sum a shilling.
In the summer of 1867 a sale took place
which turned out to be rather a bad bar
1 gain for the salesman. In this case the
lady was merely a wife by courtesy, and
could lay no legitimate claim to the title
She had. for several years, resided with a
| bricklayer's laborer at Marylebone and
finally Wearying of her, sold all his right
title and interest in her, together, a mat
ter. of course, with the good will He val
/ ue0 her at no less sum than five shill-
ing and three pence and a gallon of beer
and this he obtained for her Three weeks
after the sale, the lady being duly housed
with her new lord and master, a wealthy
! uncle in DeYonshire died, ana, quite I'M
eXpoctedly, he acknowledged kinship and
left her the sum OF ZOO and a quantity of
plate. WhcreupOn the new protector sig
nited his dstaste for protection and in
continently married her. This is vouched
for by the London Chronicle of June 4,
1867.
On the Sth of July 1865, a fellow at Tux
ford took his wife into the market place.
with d halter round her neck and her
child in her arms. and sold her and the
child, for vie shillings. The newspaper re-
cOrding the transaction observed: 1T is
to be regretted that nobody present had
the courage to take the rope from the
wife's neck and lay it on the husbands
back
What is peculiar about these sales is,
that the women who We're sold seem to
have rejoiced in the change more than
they lamented the degradation. Thus, in
June 1865, this was so plainly marked
that the wife of a Rosemary Lane plas-
terer, who had been sold TO a sailor for
50 shillings and a gallon of ale, according
to LIoyd's Evening Post of June l3, 1856,
actually hired a fiddler to precede her
with a rude epithalamium to her new
home. and this after a married life of only
two weeks duration. OF a certainty mar
riage was a failure here.
Economies of the Time.
From the St. Louis Republic.
We have horseless carriages, oarless
boats, delivery carts operated by boypower
working on pedals and sewing machine