Anna Jones divorces Frank Jones

COLORED ENOCH ARDEN.

A Negro Woman With Too Many
Husbands.

An Enoch Arden phaze crops out in
a divorce bill filed in the Chancery
Court yesterday by Anna against
Frank Jones. The plaintiff alleges
that she married Frank some years
ago, but he scorned, betrayed and
abused her maiden affections, some-
times with an oath, often with a club,
frequently with an ax-handle. It
seemed to be the chief charm of his
existence that he had somebody to
wear out his fishing-poles on, and he
was never so happy as when breaking
the crockery or smashing the furni-
ture. At last he departed for the Mis-
sissippi bottome. An overflow came,
and with it the news that he had
fallen from a canoe and lost his miser-
able life. She did not go into mourn-
ing, but took a new husband in the
person of Mit Stevens. The marital
ship was sailing along very smoothly,
when the overflow gave up its victim--
Frank reappeared. Two husbands are
impossible, and therefore the much
doubled up Anna desires the judge to
cut the odious knot which binds the
festive Frank to her.