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Show In the year 1S62 there was one divorce to every twenty-one marriages in Vermont. The statistics for 1877 show an average of one divorce to every fifteen marriages. Of the 175 granted last year, twenty-six were for adultery, fifty-nine for desertion, seventy-nine for intolerable severity, and eleven for refusal to BUpport. Brutality towards wives is on the increase, in-crease, th9 uumber of cases grautad for thia cause having nearly quad-runled quad-runled in tixteen years. This is anything any-thing hut a good showing fur pious Vermont, the-"iand of steady habits." |
