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Show There is a male citizen in Osh-kosh, Osh-kosh, Wis., who lately set out boldly to vindicate the equality of man with woman in the matter of breaches of promises of marriage. His affections, it seems, had been trilled with by some reckless maiden, who thought to abandon him to pine ever after with ''a irron and vellow melancholy," bis prospects blighted, his heart crushed, and all that sort of thing; but he determined de-termined not to endure it, and brought a second suit against the feminine deceiver, de-ceiver, this time appealing to the laws ' of Wisconsin and the judgment of his peer?. These re-olute proceedings brought the yonne lady to term?, not, indeed, to carrying out tho original contract, but to a compromise by which .he requited tho young man for the iriury dono to his toolings, by the pay-I pay-I ment of the sum of five dollars. This lame and impotent concluj-iun to the whole matter is rather unfortunate. The young man ought, for the sake of the precedent, and for the benefit of j his iD;urcd feilow-beings, to have t carried the proceedings through, and ' hotved to the arrogant sezstiilmoreein-i sezstiilmoreein-i phaticilly that the noblest emotions ol i the mainline soul are not to be trided , j with. 1 |
