A North Carolina Woman Kicks her Second Husband Out of the House when her First Comes Home Rich.

A chap went off from Brunswick, North Carolina, a few days ago, and his wife, after becoming disgusted with his protracted absence, got a divorce and married again. Things went along smooth and quiet enough until about a week ago, when the first husband came back, as suddenly as he had departed, bringing with him $75,000, which he had made during his absence. When hem Gold hips once wife what a big stake be had, she promptly kicked her second husband down the back stairs into the pig-pen. His tears might have failed, but his money brought a flood of love into that woman's heart that she could not resist, and with a howl like a Comanche, she exclaimed, "Take me, John Henry, I am yours forever."

Reprinted from Illustrated Police News, April 3, 1873.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 26, 1879.

A newly made benedict discovers the name of a former lover of his wife’s on her ankle, and makes it the basis of a suit or divorce; Galveston Tex. 

What a Husband Discovered, and How a couple were separated.

The pretext which a man naturally jealous will find to keep the fire of family discord up to a white heat is forcibly illustrated in the case of a man who shortly after his marriage made a discovery in the morning on arising which ruined his domestic peace forever. Previous to her marriage his wife had another suitor, who was ‘the only man on earth” to her. While the tattooing mania was at its height, she testified her love for her lover by having his name pricked on her ankle. Subsequently, the engagement was broken off, and they parted forever. She solaced herself, however, a short time after by giving her affections to another, and was rewarded by obtaining a husband. The latter was of a very jealous nature and construed every act into inconstancy on her part. But the worst of all was when he discovered the name of the former lover where it had been printed. After that, nothing could prove to him that she was true. He harped continually on the subject. A divorce is wanted to end the misery.

National Police Gazette, October 30, 1880.