SELLING A WIFE.

Evening Star, Issue 3406, 21 January 1874, Page 3

SELLING A WIFE.

_.A few days ago'(says the ‘North i6tago Times ),. rather a singular commercial transaction took place within a few iniles Of our office. It appears that a settler, with the view settling his domestic' difficulties, eptered into a bargain and sale, by which he rul himself of all his encumbrances, and provided the purchaser with a wife and three 'children, four sections of land, dwelling, house, and three or four cows, all in one lot!; the; consideration,” as d;he lawyers would put it, being the sum of L 36 in coin. Rumor says that “the grey inarfe was the better horse, and 'was rather addicted to the infliction of corporal Uuiiishfhent on the vendor] who, however, succeeded in finding in the purchaser—who is a very powerful specimen ot humanity—a man willing to undertake the taming of tho shrew ” business, sans peur it aot sans reproaohe, even with the welter weights of three; young, hopefuls, or reprobates, case may be, and to give a little cash to.:boot in\ consideration-.of the other belongings handed over. . ..