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The Burch Divorce Case

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Day
4
Month
January
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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From the Chicago Tribune, Dtee. M. It will be recoived with very gueral satisfaetion by our readers, and especial! ƒ by the friends of both p.irties in this most painful and unl'ortunate affair, the intelligence tbat from present proraiso, and by rusults already attained iu that direetion, the whole mal tur at igaue in the late Buren divorce case is to be taken frow tho court8, and, by oompetent and oandid ODiir.idi.'rnt on of the rights ai.d interest of botli, adjustod by nugotiation and cempromise The arrangement already consuinraated st:tys inidway the h.-ar'mg in progresa for a day or two past at Juliat, before Judge Norton, on the hulean corput brought at suit of Mrs. Burch for tha ooatody of the two children. l'his hearing was to have terminated last evening, but we are happy to learn that, in this city, yeaterday afternoon, a compromise and partition wero agreed upon, by which one of the ohildren, the youngust daughter, Elarriot Corning Burch, is given to the mother ; and tb.E eldes', Mary W. Burch, remaiuing ia tb home of her father. As we have stated, from this beginninf of adjustmeut is promised a final and private settlemenk of the whole affair, without a repetition of the paiuful notorietj won for the same in a public trial, and yet without prejudiee to the rights of those most keenly interested. Our publio will be glad to dismiss the melancholy case from the prominence it has occupied, and. iu the rush of ui her vente, allow % veil to fall upOD a 3ocial drama which has icircflv a parallel, if any, in tho anual of modern society. The child, Harriet, aged two years and a half, was given into its mother's koaping in this city yesterday. The eider daughter is nearly twelve years old. Tha intelligeuee of this very satisfactory conBunimation and avoidance of further litiatiou on this branch of the case was telsgraphed to Joliet, and stayed proceediugs there before the final argumenta set For this eveuing.

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