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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1676, 17 December 1873, Page 2

An extraordinary divorce suit, in which a woman named Ann Eliza Webb asks for the dissolution of a supposititious marriage with Brigham Young, is compared by the New York Tribune, with a curious case whiph we do not remember to have heard of before i-^" Several years ago an Americau pugilist went abroad to pummel the English champion out of his belt. This chivalrous purpose naturally endeared him to his countrymen. An actress of more imagination than conscience thought it would be an excellent plan to assume his name during . his absence, and, in pursuance of this scheme, placarded herself extensively as 'the wife of the bravest raan in the world.' The public, of course, flocked to see Mrs ISenicia, and such is the power of the dramathj imagination, that she doubtless came to believe herself the lawful spouse of the absent bruiser. But when he returned, and characterised her flattering assumption of his name as cheek, the lady saw her prestiga seriously endangered. She saved herself by a stroke of genius. She went West, and got a divorce from her unappreciative hero. She returned in triumph to New York, proudly shook from the playbills the title Bhe had only worn by a self- conferred brevet, and gained great credit by the pluck and spirit with which she met and subdued the embarrassing circumstance."