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Show A NOVEL DIVORCE. Samuel M. Cutler, special pension examiner, ex-aminer, returned yesterday from Nelson county, where he went to Investigate the claims of an old colored woman .who wanted a pension on account of her husband hus-band having been In the war between the States. i , . 'Tasked her If she had a picture of the departed," said Mr. Cutler, "and she handed me half of a tintype on which was the man's likeness, and on the shoulder of which was a woman's hand,, showing that hki companion in the picture had been cut out 'Who was that woman T I asked. " 'Eiat wus Ann,' she replied. "Was she his wlfer I asked. The woman wo-man who was applying for the pension was named Laura. ' " 'Well, she wus a kinder sort of a wife,' was the answer. 'Dey lived tar-gedder tar-gedder foh some time, but he wus married mar-ried to me 'fore he knowed her. I Jest cut dat picture In two an' dat deevo'ced em.'" - |