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Show Aim Elizi. Once iieaiii we have souif-lliin to recoid in the Ann ElixaTIriglim Young divntvn suit. Mouth alter month :iiiI ytar alter year has this notorious ease furnished one of the "objects lor Blteet and legal conversations, conversa-tions, hero and elsewhere; Mid news-paper news-paper in America and nome in Europe, Eu-rope, have had numerous "nays" on the vexed question, and tilh'd a Kotl deal of apace with it. A new phase has now boon put upon it by Chief Justice Son aefler, who will probably have tho honor if it be such ul finally settling and disposing of the Young t'J. Young suit. Last week the order to show cause why an ne-t ne-t cution should not issue against the dafendant's property to make the alimony pendente Hie awarded by McKean, was arguod, and yesterday morning Chief' Justice Jus-tice SohaefiYr decided it. The judge ruled that by execution wan the proper way to raiio the mony. The order for alimony was held to be legal, but the judgo reduced the amount of the allowance from &i0U per mouth to $100, which makes tho sum total, to date, $3,000 Mislead cf $1S,000. Thirty days were alluwud , in which to pay the money, ut thu ond of which time, should it remain unpaid, execution is to issue. Whe'her or not tho ruling be correct law, there is some sense in it. The judga docs I not indicate that ho is anxious to "bleed" the defendant, and no "missionary" "mis-sionary" spirit is exhibited in his decision. de-cision. Judge Schaefler gave no reasons for hia ruling. Wo shall probably hear no more of t the case in the courts, for the next thirty days, and if the defendant should then puy the alimony, the action will be lost sight of until its final adjustment. |