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Show WHEN WIVES SELL HUSBANDS IInny Instances in Which Women Have Disposed of Their Spouses During ih' reeenl hearins: f a ease at PaO- dlnistun police court, Sydney, New- South Wales. 11 transpired that the plaintiff had sold In r iu--l.ui,l. ai;i.ln.t w hom she was now pro- oeedlns for usIhk threatening lunKumre. to u i lady to whom she ha. I given an ajixmml nut to Ir. any wu hereafter molt-st the Uuyur or lake uny proceedings uifutusi her 0 Join ' lur In in proceedings in any court of luw 01 loulty The docunwllt Went on to stpl: "In ths I event ol sny breach pi this an i ineiil l.y me, 1 1 .1 bersby hind myaelf, mv hein.. rxevutor ami udi.ilrdstrators to pay the said purchaser I I the sum of ftOO M tmd for IliiuhlutisJ dam- ui'S " lstilte thl IK.-I11K "duly signed ani j WltneeOOd, the defendant's solicitor alleged that the wif hud repented of ihe transaction and was taking prorerdings for u Judicial SSPOTO' lion. The summons wa.i . ventuully dismissed At Muni- h nscently s sraman sold her hus bund. a good-looking ne'ei -do-well. lo u nelghb S for a small i um of money, and was pleased enough witn h.-r hurnln until, on a distant relatlvo's death, he c:inie Into a con-Idenible con-Idenible fas-tune. Then she attempted to re-rume re-rume h-r murllul right but was so effectively resisted by liei ex-husband's preeent possessor i : that she resolved to haw revuurse to the law's i Intervention. To tins end she consulted a , lawyer, only to dnd that, through some tech- I nicsl tlavv. her own murrloge wnj Illegal and I her claims on the man and fortune consequent- ' ly Invalid for hi) fronrs a ParlaWB laundress sold iter husband, whoso lailness and lnl-nierance s.emed Incorrigible, to tho proprietress of o ir. al . -t..hll..!im.i,l I'iM'rr the new leglme. I howeve,-. the man wss compelled to turn over I a new I erf, and soon became such a model helpmate that his legal spouse began to regret ! the transaction end made advances to regain ! posse ai!o n. These the piTchiser resented, and. , on tnt-i -etinK e. I.tt-i fr.m th.- tier lo h . I husband, jemlrcd to the former's house with ; a slid'., which she wleldvl w'.th surh vigor j r at tho i lctlm's crlOS reached th- tars of a I i .asslng policeman, whose authoritative appeal B11M alon Imposed t n In the -arv mi' , thi- writer w.o- present a' nn ! Inn In i 'rarow w hen a woman put up her hus- I biuid nt ruction She herself sctcd as ouc-t ouc-t ton for. while the lot to be . dlsriceed of a sirsidnn young fell, w of not unprepce.o-lnc n ii .iri -e. wh.t w"- el.'enil n.,t sve'ti1 f I the proceedings sal on a stool tit her feit. Bids j I mi briskly, SOd the man was ultlmotlv ( knocked .town to a comely, if mature, widow, ; with wIi-mii he left the hostelry, evidently on the bcM of terms with himself end his pui-chaser. pui-chaser. Rvn In eur own .-"unirv similar transactions ' are on record- Th" end of the rlghteen'h cen ' tury nffor.ls moie than one exnmplp of such 1 Plegul barter. In 1774 a Mrs Crutl.-v of Leeds I employed the town crier to inske public an-i an-i nouneemeiii thn she WOUld on n day named I . II her hunhsnd. dose, Ihed as n good carpen- , ter and a faithful husband, to the hlgh-st , tldder. Dssplts the eulor bestowed upon him, j the man jnuit hsv s haa grievous taulU, for be I fotflhed no more than b s.'illllngs and a gallon ggfl A slightly better prl.-o was paid for n South- bH amp t,.n man, who In 1S01 was sold by hi:. Wife H h Mrs. Uruce. at an Inn In tho Hanipshp. town Me was fastened around th.- neck with H a hulter, which was held b his wife. Who gH having useur. .. th. -,.. pr.-fent Ihat hi r husban . H was faithful. Industrious and rrsinil.h i H Hi bids. 1 .. - . nn.. brisk I H end s bottle ol brandy ultimate! pli Ing tl hu.-hund In possession of the ;.i oprletress of H a ' handler's shop. H At M in. h - r i few years prevloinly u in.T H named Price was sxild In the market place bj H - llmiilatn the proclaimed hu many accompllsbmente, where- Of the wide range extended from bjotiiuikln to flute ploy'.ng This Admirable Ollchton the object ot a keen contest, and it mi not jH until a guinea, a new dress end n ialr t H fowls had been bid that he hid knocked down. fg'g'g'g'fl |
