Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: May 1, 1880 NOTICE OF DIVORCE Stephen Mazzani, whose residence is unknown, will take notice that Anastasie Mazzani, on April 23d, 1880, filed her petition in the Court of Common Pleas of Scioto county, Ohio, alleging that she was married to him on the 20th of April, 1863; "that by said marriage she had one child, named Josephine Rogina; that plaintiff possesses in her own name a tract of land lying in Union township, Scioto county, Ohio, containing five acres, and also another tract in said township containing 103 acres, both of said tracts being conveyed in her by J. Perry by deed recorded in Scioto county record of deeds, vol. 13, page 370, that on the 6th of April, 1877, said Stephen Mazzani, regardless of his marital vows, and without any just cause whatever, deserted and abandoned said plaintiff and said child, and has been wilfully absent ever since, and asking that she may be divorced from said Stephen Mazzani; that the custody of said child may be decreed to her; that she may be allowed reasonable alimony; that the title in fe??imple to said real estate may be vested in her, and for other and further relief. Said Stgephen Mazzani is hereby petitioned that he is required to answer by the 31st day of May, 1880, on which day said case will be sat down for trial. ANASTASIE MAZZANI C, McFarland, att'y.