Portage Sentinel

Singular Divorce Case.

A favorable report on a petition for divorce was made in the Connecticut Legislature a few days since. The circumstances, as detailed by the chairman of the committee, were as follows:

The petitioner was married at the age of 20. She was a respectable and intelligent young lady, but owing to some peculiar circumstances, her mind became affected, but not to absolute insanity, but she was in a distracted state, and in this condition came to New Haven on a visit to her sister. At this time she became acquainted with her husband, who is a colored man, through the agency of a colored woman, who was employed by her in washing. Her husband had never proposed the match nor had she; but one evening she was invited to the house of her washwoman, and there found a company assembled, and she was informed she had been published, and that those present had come to see her married. She consented, and the ceremony was performed by a colored clergyman.

Her husband then carried her to New York, and placed her among associates that were very disagreeable to her. He went to California some months ago, but has recently returned. She has recovered from her hallucination, and looks upon her husband with disgust and horror. He had received her notice of her application for divorce, but did not appear in opposition.