The Daily Phoenix

An Interesting Sequel to a Hasty Divorce.—A correspondent of the Volksfreund, writing from "the Indiana Prairie," April 30, relates the following:

"In Sullivan County, a young married pair, who had been united in the bonds of wedlock about six years, having become somewhat mutually disagreeable of late, the husband, in his anger, hastened to a lawyer, and took steps to obtain a divorce from his wife. One day he came home to his wife and said to her: "Betsy, I have fulfilled your wish. You said you wished you were separated from me. Here is the decree of divorce."

His wife was at first surprised, but far too indignant to betray any emotion. She said she was ready to leave. She only needed to pack up her goods. She wished he would be present to see that she took nothing except what was her own."

He stepped into the adjoining room with her where the bureau and clothes-press were. The wife proceeded in silence to take out the clothes, when suddenly her eyes fell upon a small dress, and quite overcome, she broke out in convulsive weeping. The husband, hitherto an indifferent observer, remarked her emotion, and discovered the cause. It was the dress of their only child, a little daughter of three years, who had died almost two years ago. The husband was not less affected by the sight than his wife. He embraced her with emotion, begged her pardon again and again, tore the decree of divorce into a thousand pieces, hastened to the Clerk's office, took out a new marriage license, and was married immediately to his late wife."