Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1858 — Grass Widows in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Grass Widows in Indiana.

A correspondent of the Dayton Journal , who has been traveling out in the Wabash regions of Iloosicrdoui, discovered one peculiarity in every town he, tarried in: “Speajving of grass reminds me of th 1 fact that Indiana, (and particularly the Wabash) is literally swarming with grass widows. Every hotel or tavern has or have had one or more of those bewitching vixens domiciled with them for tcif days, which makes them citizens and residents of the State of Indiana, arid with a little hard swearing, natives too. Atyhc expiration of ten days a suit is commenced against some vils JnCsband, aud, as a mdtter.of course, a divorcees granted, if for no other epiise than ineonrpatibility of temper. Here are congregated from all the States in the Union (except Illinois,Who is a competitor for this profitable lawyer trade) all the disconsolate; ’grass widows. A case J heaijd of in Peru, where the widow of a millionaire had come from Brazil, remainedJilere ten days got her divorce, with SIOO,OOO of alimony, anJ would have had more, hut old Croesus had-no more in the United States that was comeatuble.