The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1864., [Electronic resource]

A Novel suit for a Divorces

‘ A fashionable couple up town married, but not mated, as the story goes, quarrelled a few mornings since, and the irate wife, by advice of her parents, has sued for a divorce. The case is only noteworthy from the ridiculous cause of the quarrel. One morning, it seems, the husband washed himself, as, usual, in the bowl used by both; the lady for some reason, refused to use it that morning, and rang the bell for another. It was brought, when the now indigent husband flung if violently to the floor, breaking it to pieces. The wife there upon called him hard names, when he locked the bedroom door and insisted that she should use the bowl. She vowed that she wouldn't, if she went "with a dirty face for a week. " He aware that she should; and so, filling the bowl, he seized her hands, and using sufficient force, washed her face for her. He then unlocked the door and went to his business, while she went to consult a lawyer, and the suit was commenced.

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