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GRANTED A DIVORCE FOR DESERTION
Mrs. Susan Sewall Secures Liberation From Her Husband.

Dissolute Habits of Arthur Sewall's Nephew Cause Him to Lose His Ship and His Wife.

BOSTON, Jan. 3 — The January session of the divorce court, Judge Blodgett, began this morning. There were forty-three cases on the uncontested docket. Several divorces were granted for desertion. Among these was that of Mrs. Susan Sewall against E. R. Sewall. Mr. Sewall is the nephew of Arthur Sewall, the famous shipbuilder of Bath, Me., and late candidate for Vice-President of the United States.

Mrs. Sewall, whose maiden name was Baker, was married in San Francisco in 1856. Sewall was a shipmaster, and his wife accompanied him for four years on his voyages in different parts of the world. Mrs. Sewall testified that her husband's habits of drinking lost him command of his vessel in 1892. In that year Mrs. Sewall visited her parents in Harwich in this State, and afterward she went with her husband to his home in Bath. They returned to Harwich and soon after Mr. Sewall went away professedly on business. Since that time his wife has seen him but once, and that was at the Adams House in this city in October, 1892. She heard of him in New Jersey and in San Francisco, where he had associations with other women. During this time Mrs. Sewall has lived at 212 Columbus avenue in this city and has supported herself by dressmaking. San Francisco Call, 4 January 1898.²

A notice was published in The London Gazette: NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, William Bamford, Daniel Ashton Bamford, and Henry Bamford, carrying on business as Silk Throwsters, at Bent Ley Mill, in Meltham, in the parish of Almondbury, in the county of York, or elsewhere, under the style or firm of William Bamford and Sons, has been dissolved, go far as regards the said William Bamford, by mutual consent, as from the 31st day of December, 1881. - Dated this 4th day of January, 1882.⁶