A RICH PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 818, 30 May 1871, Page 3

A RICH PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

The following is an exact copy, says the Memphis (Tenn.) " Avalanche," saving the names, of a petition for divorce recently filed in the First Chancery Court in this city. While it may be wanting in earnestness, there is no lack of humour: —, Sarah W , v. Randal W , alias Randal P . Tour petitioner, who has been for two years and is now a resident of Memphis, represents to your Honour that on or about 23rd October, 1869, she was lawfully married with defendant, Eandal W , who sometimes calls himself Eandal P , also a resident of Memphis, and has made him a dutiful and an obedient wife. They lived together about two we: ks ; they were united as two clouds which meet—at evening. They were two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. For the first

week ho was kind, and their lives were harmonious as music. Duriug the second week he was harsh, cruel, and inhuman in his conduct, and made it Unsafe and improper for to cohabit with him and bo under his dominion and control. He was the worst kind of an Othello ; threatened to drive her out of the house, and tried to force her to leave lain. Ho then deserted her, leaving her on the classic Hatchie, like 'Anaden weeping by the waters,' or like Dido, with a willow in her hand. She is coloured, he is ditto, and a gay Lothario. He had never returned to charm her loneliness, but since the time of her desertion, within two weeks of the solemnization of their nuptial rites, he had been cohabiting unlawfully with one Chany Anderson, with whom he h,ad committed adultery of the darkest kind, and repeatedly and continuously at divers times. Promises considered, &c, prays for such relief as your Honour may grant, and the complexion of the case may demand."