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Show SNUBS FOR THE ASTORS It is curious to see the sensitiveness ot Col. .John Jgeob Astor to the soeiefv snubs ,'hat he lias received by rcamn of bis defiance ,f the ter,s nf the New York decree "t divorce which forbade him to remarry. As a question ot legality, legali-ty, he verv tustlv urged tr,if, g r, he did not remarry m New Vr,r; there was no offense against that de cree. vino the jurisdietioa of the Xe-Vork Xe-Vork courts .Joes ny extend beyond the boundaries of that state, it a buI ticieut for him that the decree of di vorce wa- granted, and that must be res pec tad ia all the BtaJtea. The prohi hit ion of the court as to hi renian iage is a matter that no offieisting clergj man or officer authorized to perform th,- marriage ceremony n e, ,'ake into sceouat, outside of Xew York. But the wonder bj that soeiefv in New York has takeu up this question with so much vigor agaiust Col A-tor. It has been cruellc said, but mtb too much truth, .'hat large number- of tbe four hundred in New York have ex changed wivf, from tune to time, sometimes through the divorce court aad sometimes without tbat tormalifv; et none of them heretofore. have seemed Sn lose an-,- particular caste or standing in ,ociety bv tbe changes mad. Theretore. one wonders how it is I that siicl, a riid line is drawn all at enee agaiasl Col. Astor and hit new, w ire. Thev haVS ' learlv done BOtbieg I mneh out of the aray more tugs their society fellow, have done, and Why those same fellow 8inner9 should now ostracise the one who had gone bui little, if any, further ihao tbey have gone themselves, ia tbt rnverv. There if ust he aome explanation beneath tbe nirfaoe, some reason whv Cel. Astor is sa ibbod, entirel? separate fron his die obedience to be order of tbe New York coin entered along with his former decree 0f divorce What that real reaaou is will prehahh appear W r ...n. the meantime, one ,an onlr De aurpnaed to see the ( :o(r with which society puniabes Col. AstOf and ha taken little or no Bftjice of fimilsr I onenex in otbeis. |