The Salt Lake Herald

It Grows More Interesting- Like a Giddy Gusher-She Makes the Old Man Uncomfortable and Wanted a Divorce Before.

Washington, 25.-In the Christiency divorce suit, the testimony of ex-Senator Christiency is being taken. In connection with it several important letters have been put in, among them a letter written by Christiency on the 18th of August, 1875, to his wife's father, W. Lugenbeel, with regard to Mrs. Christiency's alleged bad conduct. It begins with reference to the correspondence between himself and Mrs. Lugenbeel before the marriage—a correspondence in which Christiency says he endeavored carefully and scrupulously to convince her she ought not to marry him, and in which he insisted many times that she should reconsider the matter. He admitted he loved her, and said, if, after a full and mature consideration she still wished to marry him, he would consent. He declared if she still wished him to make her his wife, as a gentleman, he had only one course to take. The marriage took place, and if the love which she professed for him had really existed, nothing, he says, could have made him happier. On the morning of the wedding, however, she heard of the return of Lugenbeel, and fainted. When they reached Philadelphia and were alone, she told him she had been engaged to Lugenbeel, and that the engagement had been broken, and she did not know how deeply she loved him until his name was mentioned. She said she had perjured herself in her marriage vows, was miserable and wanted a divorce forthwith. When they returned to this city all went well until she met Lugenbeel in the art gallery, and from that time she seemed dejected and desperate, and again asked for a divorce. Soon after this Frank Anderson became attentive to her, and her affections seemed to attach themselves alternately to him and to Lugenbeel. Again came the frenzy for divorce. Finally she quieted down and appeared to think more of her husband. After she returned in August, 1876, her love for Anderson broke out fresh and her hatred for her husband increased. She also had a fondness for Sam Register, of Baltimore, and for one Mayer. She often declared that she wished her husband dead and said he was all that stood between her and happiness. Christiency then refers to the act of his wife when she went to the springs in preference to going to Saratoga or Kansas with him, and says he felt suspicious that she had gone to the springs with some old lover; and when she wrote him she taunted him with being old, did not pretend to love him, said she would not live with him, that she would spend all the money she pleased, that she would run him in debt, and that she wanted a divorce. Her husband replied that he could not quarrel with her, nor would he be ruined in the way she proposed.