Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1879 — INTERESTING TO MARRIED WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING TO MARRIED WOMEN.

A question of considerable interest to married women throughout the State is pending in the United States court, involving their rights in real estate owned by their husbands who have gone into bankruptcy, and held at the time of filing the petition. Until the law of 1875, a married woman was compelled to await the death before she could receive her share in his real estate. As the law now stands she takes an undivided one-third of his real estate in fee simple immediately upon a “judicial sale’’ of her huedand’s iuterest being made, and may have partition as though he were dead. The question raised is whether the bankruptcy of the husband and the sale made by the assignees are a “judicial sale” within the meaning of the law. It has been held by Judge Elliot, of the Superior Court, that the sale of the real estate by the assignee is a jddicial sale, and entitles a wife to partition. Under the bankrupt law a dead fs- executed by the judge or register in the court, of the bankrupt’s property to the assignee. It is claimed that this alone entitles the wife to partition, and it is this particular question that is under consideration by Judge Gresham. —[Indianapolis Journal.

The Chicago Tribune says: The appointment of persons from civil life to vacant second lieutenancies tu the army has caused much criticism. The law provides for the promotion of meritorious non-commissioned officers, and contemplates the appointment of civilians only in case of the failure of candidates from the former class. Yet it seems to be the practice of the War Department to ignore the non-eOmtnissioned officers altogether, and look out for young men of good families in search of a career. This usage is not only in violation of law, but very injurious to the morale of the army. In a republican army there ought to be some chance for merit in the ranks to be rewarded. The gr *atest general of modern times—Napoleon Bonaparte—believed in this principle thoroughly, and it was well known in his x army that there was no place to which a brave man aud a good soldier might not aspire.

The Maine farmers do not quite understand John Sherman’s financial conclusions. The Boston Globe tells the farmers all about it when it says “the unindebted farmer is quite as rich now, with a farm valued at $2,500, as he was ten or twelve years ago, when his farm was valued at SSOOO, mortgaged for $2,500, is to-day not worth a cent. Not that his farm has shrunk in real value till it cannot pay the debt, but that the debt has expanded in value till it absorbs the farm. It is just this for which they thank John Sherman and his party.” Tell not your secrets in a corn-field; it has a thousand ears. A judge, sentencing a man to death, observed: “Prisoner at the bar you will soon have to appear before another and a better judge,” % . Congressman De La Matyr, of this State, is delivering Greenback speeches in Maine. As he is a Methodist clergyman in good standing he was invited to preach in the First Methodist Church in Bangor last Sunday week. Republican managers, at the instigation of Senator Blaine, had the >nvitation revoked. There was much indignation at this action, and. in response to an invitation by citizens, De La Matyr preached in Norombega Hall at night. It is the largest hall in the city, and was filled to oveiflowing, notwithstanding a heavy rain storm was raging.