Forty-seven Divorces Wanted

During the year 1893, there vere 251 cases started in the circuit court, of these 106 were chancery cases, j 102 were law cases and 43 were criminal. Of the chancery cases, 47 were divorce cases. Think of it! Forty-seven couples have during the past year invoked the aid of the court to unloose the marriage ties that bind them. There were 347 marriages in the county during 1893 so that the divorces sought are equal to about one in seven of the new marriages. Besides the cases mentioned above as being started in the circuit court during the same time 21 transcripts of judgrnents from justices courts were filed in the circuit court. The number of convictions in the justices' courts of the county during 1893 were 330. This includes all the drunks, disorderlies, criminal, assault and battery cases, petty larceny, etc, but does not include those bound over to the circuit court for trial.