A MARRIAGE MANIAC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2091, 28 August 1890, Page 1

A MARRIAGE MANIAC.

The divorce records of Pfovidehcb,

U.S., Were recently about 'to be en-‘ riched (writes, a correspondent of the San Prancisco Chronicle)' by the entry of , avery^peculiar' petition 'by Mrs Stella Weston, wife of the Rev. Charles Weston, of Wisconsin. Mrs Weston, who is 32 years of age, has been married nine times in bight years, Weston 1 being her first 1 ’ and ninth' husband, He is also her Second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seyehth, and eighth HUbhhd. her freqtienf mai*riagi* baVine' bbeh* iolbmhised yjri’th I ’lbe According tbj hbr, slate mbnt Weston is a ever seeking to bb manned, but never ihaistihg upon;a new hnde. ' owhig to this hiatrimonial mania. Mra . Weßtjn says her married life hah,been 'one' longkhd'hatbowjing honey They* were first married ,in Wisconsin, according to tbe fblm of thqMethodist Church; 'iKiiifbtfe; was selected for:, the honeyihobn tour, and while inDubliri he told her' hb thought their marriage 1 wa’s nbtecclbkiasticalljr^^perfeef’becahs’e the person’who unitbd them'nad ,Uqt| been ordained by apostolic imposition of hands, and he made arrangements for another - marriage in St. Patrick’s Cathedral of Dublin. She thought him over-scrupulous, bub consented; He found a flaw in this fnarriage, and was married again in Dublin, and then by a Presbyterian on the steamer. Marriages by Baptists, Unitarians,I Swedenfiorgians, and spiritualists followed, and then a year ago his wife left -him. She has bad letters from her husband telling her that he has ascertained beyond all possible doubt that a Congregational marriage is the only one that has the endorsement of Heaven, and that if she will but consent to a wedding in the Congregational Church he will forgive her and promise that' this shall be positively the last nuptials he will ask her to participate iu,