Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1880 — A Tale of Married Mysery. [ARTICLE]

A Tale of Married Mysery.

The bells of St. Peter’s church, in Dublin, rang out a joyous peal on the bright May morning, eight years ago, on which Miss Caroline Thorp, the daughter of a solicitor, was led to the altar by George Bacon, who there vowed to love and cherish her all the days of her life. The bride of eight years ago, for whom the marriage bells then made sweet music, appears in the witness chais in the matrimonial court yesterday and told the story of her wedded life. She is now a broken-hearted looking woman, with three children, who came to ask the judge, in the name of humanity, to undo the marriage that was celebrated in St. Peter’s church. The poor women, in the midst of tears and sobs, related her piteous history to this effect: Soon after George Bacon became her husband he took to drink, and commenced the career ot neglect and cruelty which he consistently adopted toward her in various parents of the world. Upon the death of her mother she became entitled to a sum of £4OO. With this the husband, wife and family proceeded to Quebec. On the voyage out, George, having much leisure time on his hands, devoted it chiefly to worrrying his wife, sccarding to his custom. One day he stole her purse containing some mcney, which he expended in whisky and gambling. He had a four days’spree; he was drank all the time, and got into delirium tremens, in which state he landed at Quebec, where, owing to his Incapacity to do anytning but stagger about and swear, the luggage of the entire family was lost. From Quebec they went to San Francisco, where, if possible, his treatment of his wife was worse than it had been in Dublin or in Quebec. It waa’t George’s fault that he wasn’t the mere murderer of his wife and child in. Ban Francisco. When drunk one day he let fly at her from her revolver, and barely missed sending a bullet into her head; he discharged another barrel at one of his children, but missed his aim. He drank straight on until delirium came, as usual. He next resolved to remove the family to London, England, and took ship accordingly. During the voyage across he kept up a high state of delirium, and in one of his fits of frenzy it seems to have struck him that a practical way of ending the matrimonial trouble would be to throw his wife overboard. He pulled her from her birth by the hair; the passengers interfered and took her away; but George swore he’d do it yet before the end of the voyage. In London hqobtained a situation and gave'her but 8s a week, sometimes only 18d, for the support of herself and three children. They lived in a dark cellar; she was half-naked, for he pawned all her clothes and every portable article to get money for drink. All this time he didn’t forget to ill-use her. He usually beat her with a poker, until he pawned it In September of last year he dragged her out et bed by the hair and kicked her bru tally. At l»st she summoned him before the police magistrate for his violence, and he was rent tor twelve months to Clerkenwell prison, where he is at present Tne wife instituted a suit in the Dublin matri monial court for a judicial reparation from this brute. When the judge heard this tale of eight years’ suffering he gave a decree for separation, observing that it was about the worst case ot married misery that ever came before him.

A telegram from Ragusa, reports that the Montenegrenians are abandoning all their positions near Dulecigno, and are marching on Tusi and Podgeritsa, which they intend to attack without delay. It is said they have resolved to gather the crops in the fields, belonging to the Albanians, as they advance. Matters in Buenos Ayres has again assumed an unfavorable aspect, owing to the refusal of Buenos Ayres to accede to the conditions imposed by the national government Buenos Ayres continues to make warlike preparations and receives arms and ammunition from Montevideo, notwithstanding the blockade.