DIVORCE SENSATION.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1731, 21 July 1874, Page 2

DIVORCE SENSATION.

EX-AMEBICAN CONSUL AT AXJCK. LAND RESPONDENT. Another divorce sensation, not exactly in high life—the heaven of snbddyism — but in our social purgatory, has happily succeeded the decision of the Anderson discussion, which opens a new sphere for female ingenuity through declaring that a married woman can legally exact alimony from as many pre vious husbands as she can espouse and be divorced from. Mrs. Annie E. White applies to the Supreme Court for an injunction, restraining James B. White from visiting, speaking, writing t0,,0r of her, his wife, or otherwise annoying the lady, she having applied for a limited divorce. Mrs.White, young,-pretty and decidedly interesting, avers that she was married in 1867 and enjoyed a honeymoon ■ of a year's duration, at the end of which the happy man took to rendering his brgjr miserable through physical' and memßv cruelty, until the year 1870, when he departed for New Zealand to officiate as United States Comul, at which place he remained for three years, leaving his deserted wife at a college to complete her education beneath moral suasion. Having escaped cannibalism, either through being too tough, or the New Zeala'nders being too tender, Mr. White returned to this city, trusting to find his affectionate wife dwelling in this quarter, but ,was disapointed, inasmuch as he discovered her living in Philadelphia, where she had, after graduating at college, net only, as she admits, obtained a major degree of Mistress of Arts, butaccumulated sufficient money to return to this city and purchase a house in the Seventh avenue, which she soon filled with boarders;<all well paying save her husband, who insisted upon deadheading, a weakness she tolerated fora time, and then sent him to a spare room up stairs. Among the curiosities imported from the South Seas the ex-Consul acknowledges to have brought along with him a green-eyed monster, whose sagacity demonstrated that* while the hatband wu aloft, lvi wiie xeemred below

the, attentions of "another man," as White's counsel delicately, alluded to a suspected adulterer. Beneath the influence of the monsLer White went for proof of his better half's infidelity and consequently seized upon and carried off her,title deods, private papers and jewelry, including a golden locket containing a photograph of the mysterious other man and a lock of his hair, a gratuitous satire upon the ex-Consul's wearing of a wig. Like Mr. Brown of popular renown, Mrs. White did not " give it up so " but went for her husband, her papers, her jewelry and that identical lock of hair, all of which precious articles she recovered and has carefully treasured up, with the slight exception of her liege lord, whom; his presence being obnoxious to the other man, she h^s decided to dispense.with as i an ineiMbrariise upon her purse and*her 'person. As White issomewhafc of apolk tical notoriety,in the old Ninth Ward, his misfortunes hAvp attracted a deal of attention, butelicited nothing in the shape of: sympathy, inasniuch "his better halfy being young, pretty and capable of taking her own part, finds couritlejss! chammo^ns among the" boys of the yifc lagfe-ever ready to defend the fair whent they stand in no need of protection. In fact our chivalrous citizens significantly inquire^hy .White, knowing the : malign nant presence of that other man,. dpes.;.noit tu>n the tables on his faithless* Annie; but all who. appreciate the worthy ex-Consul's B»gaci(y!would instantly respond that he could not find in his heart tp abandon. T»luntarily the light of his Bouli her bed and freeboard^—iS. F. Sunday Chronicle.