Show ASSAULT A case of assault by a wife upon her husband was recently brought before a philadelphia alderman and in the course of the egami nation the husband testified that for twenty years he had no peace of mind that his wife beat him that for eight years I 1 past she had bad locked him up in a i room and excluded him from her bed that on the slightest provocation she abused him and to use his own lan guage 11 she has made me of no use 1 1 she has broken my muscles she has broken my nerves she has broken my constitution and I 1 cad do no work I 1 am fit for nothing she wears the breeches I 1 dont he also charged her with visiting a fortune teller to ascertain when lie would die |