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Show Queer Pennsylvania Justice. A novel sentence has been pronounced by a justice at Huntington, in this state. A wife had kissed "another man;" her husband had chastised her with corporal punishment, and Justice Kelly, supplying the third act in a drama unhappily played with too much frequency in all our courts, gave a verdict ver-dict "that the wife retire to her usual place of abode, and lock the doors k that no strangers can be admitted Ipr a period of six days; that the husbiid for the same longth of time board with his next-door neighbor and sleep in tie barn, and that each party pay half tV costs and stand committed until tip sentonce is complied with." Of tm efficacy of such an original judgmert there cannot be much doubt, although a question might be raised on the constitutional con-stitutional ground of its being cruel a d unusual punishment at least for t e next-door neighbor. The usual pvi-Ishment pvi-Ishment for wife-beating, however, s so clearly Inadequate that, in the i -sence of a whipping-post, the result f the now departure in dealing with tl s despicable crime deserves care(d watching. Philadelphia Record. I |