The Jeffersonian

An Iowa Divorce.
Indiana divorces have become so notorious, from the facility with which they are obtained, and the lack of respect with which they are generally regarded by the courts of other States, that they have become a by-word among all the people.
But Indiana promises to have company in the loose divorce business. Iowa is kindly taking rank with Indiana; at least there is a case which indicates as much.
Several years ago a man residing in Pennsylvania visited Iowa, in company with his wife. He was so pleased with the state that he resolved to make it his home. Returning to Pennsylvania, he made preparations to remove his family to Iowa. But his wife absolutely refused to accompany him. She would not leave her comfortable home in Pennsylvania for the comparatively unsettled prairies of the West. Her husband, however, was determined to remove to the West, and leaving his wife, came to this State and located near Waterloo, in Black Hawk county. After a few years passed, property in Black Hawk county increased in value, and the Pennsylvanian, with the property which he had left behind him and that which he had acquired in his new home, was accounted wealthy. His wife steadily refused to live with him in Iowa, and he therefore sued for divorce on the ground of desertion. The divorce was granted by the District Court of Black Hawk county.
Not long ago the Pennsylvanian died leaving a large property in Pennsylvania and Iowa. His divorced wife sued in the courts of Pennsylvania for her dower in the estate, and recently obtained judgment in her favor, the court holding that the divorce obtained in Iowa was a fraud, and null. The Pennsylvania judges have not a high opinion of Iowa divorces.
Dubuque (Iowa) Times