Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 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 beld at the time of filing the petition. ' Until the law of 1875, a married wotaan was compelled to await the death before she could receive her share hi bis real estate. As the law now stands she takes aa undivided one-third of his real estate in fee simple'immediately upon a “judicial sale” of her husdand’siuterest being made, and may have partitiongs though he were dead, 'fiie 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 lafir. It has been held by Judge Elliot, of the Superior Court, that the sale of the real estate by the aaeignee ia a jddfcfiel sale, and amities a wife to partition. Under the bankrupt law a dead fb executed by the judge or register fb the court, of the bXrikrnpt’g property to the assignee. It ie claimed that this alone entitles the wife to partition, nnd it is this particular question that is under consideration by Judge Gresham.—[lndianapolis Jouririkh This may be a civilized country, bnt tbe' mode of punishment now used in the Sing Sing prison, New York, must have been borrowed from tbe savages. The instrument used Ufa- paddle two and a half to three feet long, shaped like tin oaryand shaved thin,* so as to be flexible. The blade is perforated with 25 to 80 holes at the end. The viotim is stripped and fastened at the wrists and ankles in a stooping position, and is struck with the paddle with such force that the flesh is forced into tbo boles, and When the paddle is raised for another blow the suction literally tears the flesh away, lacerating the back of the viotim fb’a-meot horrible man. ner. No wonder that men who hav'4 been subjected to this terrible punishmont once become perfectly reckless, and will die rather than submit to it a second time.—[Warsaw Republican. J ,

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