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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1888)
S30mem3l r MARRYING THEMSELVES. Governor !;;?: lulixtn't t !n- I'ii-t Ill-IMUO jh Krcoril in Ai:rrie:t. The hiciiloni iuuv i Io.-: u u.a:i of .soma notoriety recently iwviorrac.! his own mar riage ccrorauuy (ir it ini'-j'.it be trailed such) in New Yori: ij t.ut mlw;it preciNicnt. Tho marriage of 3It. i Ljevii?tono ami Dr.IJlack Wcll, about tl'iriy-'ivc yea:v xi'i-: was of somewhat tho s .r:c nature: but. according to the Boston :-. tii'K tin re is a t-M older precedent in Dvs;o;i. vii., tint or Governor Richard Belhu.','j.im. of il:i- .u'l.usctts, of which colony he w.is on.' of the original patealees. This iv:narlrabic urarruigu was enacted nearly two hundred and fifty years ago. and under circumstance of peculiar notoriety. Richard Iiehiarrb.isa. who wa bred a lawyer, had bocn recorder of the old town of Boston, in Haland. Ho eaino to Boston, ' in the colony of 2I.niJ.cir.i30tU", in !;;. and in the following year was chosen its Deputy Governor. In August, 103 J. he was chosen Selectman of Boston, and, with his tirst wife, Elizabeth Pent ley, he joined the ortho dox church m August of the year following, making a public profession or faith. In 1C41 he was chosen Governor in opposition to Winthrop, and was chosen again i-i t&M, and again in V.VSS. after the death of Endi cott, continuing in office for the remainder of his life, his death occurring December 7, 1072. In i;rl tie was mude Jlajor-Gcneral, and in that year the King ent four com missioners to regulate the affairs of tho province, ordcnt.g Belhugaam and others, who were obnoxious, to proceed to England and answer accusations that were mado against them in person. His Majesty, how ever, is said to have been appeased by tho present of a ship load of masts. But the peculiar matter in point occurred in the earlier part of Gov-nior Belling ham's colonial career. Hislirst wife, who accompanied him from England, died in 1CJS. There had been m the familv beforo this occurance a young woman named Penelope- Pelham, whose posi' ion : tipears Jto have been that of housekeeper or assistant in household matters. After Mrs. Belling ham's death, the continuance of this young woman in the Governor's household was the occasion of considerable gossip. To his other dignities, Governor Bellingham add ed that of judge or magistrate for the trial of causes, and this gossip so scandalized the court that it was decided to depose him from his position. This was in 1011, when his housekeeper was but twenty years of age. But he refused to leave the bench, I and the grand inquest presented him for breach of order of the court and the Secrc- I tary called him to answer the presentation Being Governor, as well as Judge, he was not an easy subject to handle. However, in deference to public opinion, and no doubt as a matter of policy, he called together tho ministers and some of the people, inviting them to bis house, and there, in their pres ence, bringing Penelope forward, he intro duced her to them, saying: "This is my wife, but I will have no law about it. God is enough for me and her." This was all the marriage ceremony vouch safed by the Governor, and appears to havo been acquiesced in by the community, for ho was never after troubled about it He was not a godless man, but rather a strong church member. His second wife, so strangely wed, is said to have borne him six children, who. however, all died young. His religious peculiarities maybe seen in part by bis will, which provides that, after the decease of his wife and his grand daughter, the bulk of his estate should be spent for the yearly maintenance "of good ly ministers and preachers" of tt truo church, which he considered to be that of the Congrcgationalist?- His sister Annie, widow of William Hibbins, one of his as sistants, was executed as a witch in June, 1G56. Though latitudinarian enough on the subject of his own marriage, Governor Bellingham was violently opposed to inno vation in religious matters, and was ex ceedingly severe toward the Quakers, who affirm, says Drake, that he died distracted. WILD WESTERN TACTICS. Perfection to Which Murder as a Fine Art Wan Brought by a Miner. "Talking about murder as a fine art," said A. J. Plcasanton, who lives up near tho Dakota Bad Lands, to a St Louis Post Dis patch reporter, "talking about murder as a fine art I am reminded of the perfection to which the safeandscientificslayingof one's fellow-men was brought many years ago in the Northwest, and which opened my eyes not a little to methods of the mining men among whom I went to live when I first visited the Black hills. Now, don't under stand me as inveighing against the West and its border life, or criticising for criti cism's sake the code of morals of the pio Jteers. Far from it- The country oj which I speak is misrepresented enough, and its manners held up to a gibing public by reck less writers too cftcn for me to strengthen the impression that the frontiersman is normally a cut-throat. What I do want to say is that there is no more dangerous man on earth than the citizen of a frontier town when he becomes absolutely convinced that he must have the life of an enemy. Times arc changing now, and the period is pass ing away when each one set himself up for an all-sufficient judge of personal right and wrong. People go to law where they formerly reached for the handiest weapon, and Black stone is resorted to oftcner than the Bowie knife. But it was different when 1 first went West, say when the Homo Stake min ers were pillaged of their first big-pay dirt, and I must confess that my heart failed me until I grew accustomed to the new order of things. Mind you, I am not speak ing of desperadoes, but of men who made of murder a necessity when con fronted by somo stern situation, and who would go to work in the most cold-blooded manner imaginable in order to attain tbeir end. It was very terrible to my inexperi enced mind when Jim Waters, we will call him, for I don't wish to revive unpleasant recollections up at home, shot down a man who stood high in our little community of miners and traders a few miles to tho north of8turgis,in a littlo town that has long since been abandoned. Waters had made up bis mind to kill his enemy, and how do you suppose he went about it! Why, in true Western fashion, for he had no desire of having his neck stretched for his pains. The party of which his foe was a member was working a claim just across the ridge from us, and one fine morning Waters saw his man slowly walking along tho summit of the rise, axe in band, looking .w1 ! tnin.1 n tnoiln nn in an 1 isn v "- Jrjir,, iI7I "? k ' instant, and he quietly left camp in the direction of his enemy. We could hear nothing of the quarrel. Tho first thing we Ir v was that Waters had turned and was ng at full sliced, pursued by the man vas afterward convinced he had ly started out to kill. Tbo pursuer tlc and raised his axe as if to 'ben we saw Waters turn and u . "'" " , was a little puff of smoke! Jfco -shooter, and the man with I d. Self-defense, wasn't it! what they said at the triaL ' itnesses swore and what felt in oar hearts that i t-bloodod murderer. 1 1 "ustrate what I The West is . oKniee ' - A CZSFZRATE OUTLAW. HIS l'urhiiit and Capture by a Kerry, CooI-IIeailcd Detective. A Canadian officer at Calgary, N. W. T.( tells a New York n( correspondent this story of an adventure with a desperatf whisky-trader: "I have had some close calls with whisky-traders in my time, and still," he added, meditative!-, ' I never had to shoot one yet." After a moment's pause he continued : ' One of the most des perate men I ever arrested for having whisky in his possession was Blank. It was in the fall of ISsO. lie had a four-in-hand load of whisky, gin and braudv that he was running across, and he and his partner were both nding in the wagon, Blank hav ing no saddle-horse. This cargo was all ho possessed in the world, and ho knew that if ho was caught ho could not pay a fine of ' f 100, for this was his second offense, and, of course, his four horses, wagon and liquor would be confiscated. When I first caught sight of thcni'they wev about three miles off. and I at once rode towards them to seo who they were. As soon as they saw that 1 w;u after them they whipped their horses up to a gallop, but my hor&o was fresh and a fast runner, and before they had gone far it was plain to see that I was gaining fast on them. As soon as Blank saw this he stopped, cut ofT the leaders, aud mounting one of them, galloped oil; but by this time I was within half a mile of the wagon. " When I rode up alongside I saw at a glance that it contained whisky, and also that the man who remained with it was not its owner. I dismounted aud made him my prisoner, telling him to remain there with the wagon until 1 returned. 'Look here, stranger,' said he, 'don't follow that man, he won't be taken alive. He is armed with a Winchester and a Colt's revolver, and to prove to you that he won't bo taken alive, I'll tell you who it is. It's Blank.' " 'That's tho very man I want,' said I. I jumped on my horse and put the spurs to him and rode after Blank. I caught up to him about half a mile further on in a coulee, whelk he had dismounted and was trying to hide. I galloped no tu him so fast, and pulled up so quiet, lb.:!. :;i stepping back to avoid iny horv, he c 'ght his heel on tho ground aud fed. Bolero he could regain his feet I had dismounted and covered him with my revolver. lie sprang to his feet and tried to draw h:s. 1 laid my hand on his shoulder, tolling him that he was my prisoner, at the same tune holding my re volver close to his head. Bv this time he had his partly drawn, and, seeing thus I pressed the trigger until the hammer of my self-cocker was as far back as it could go without snapping. He told me to shoot and be cursed, and at the same time sprang forward, so that tho barrel of my pistol caught him on the temple, tearing a deep gash back into his scalp about six inches long. This partly stunned him, but in two or three seconds he recovered. "His revolver was a Colt's 45 single action, and therefore it required to be socked before it could be fired. By this time it was drawn, and he attempted to cock it. I caught hold of tho hand in which he held it and turned it to one side, and at the same time told him that I would count ten, and if he did not drop his pistol when the number was counted I would blow out his brains. Ho called out: 'Blow away.' I counted up to nine, and pressed the trigger so that the hammer rose, and on seeing this he dropped his weapon and gave himself up. I got him mounted on his horse and brought him back to the wagon. Every thing was as I had left it, but the prisoner who had been there was gone, and I did not blame him for going. " Of all the men I ever arrested this was one of the most desperate. If I had given him tho least chance be would have shot me. On the other hand, had I been in the least excited I should have shot him. But I am not of an excitable nature, and besides I never want to take away that which I can never return." "Well, yes," said I, "I think a good many men would have lost their heads under such circumstances and pulled the trigger." I suppose some might have done, so," said Simmons, as he scratched a match to light his pipe, which had gone out while he was talking. Then he added thoughtfully: "What puzzled me most is that when he ran with such force against my revolver when my finger was pressed against the trigger it didn't go off and shoot him." WORK YOUR MOLARS. A DentUt Says Teeth Decay BocaaaoThay Arc Not UMd EaoagR. "Teeth decay from inanition superin duced by sedentary desuetude, so to speak," remarked a dentist while drilling into the cavern of a New York Journal reporter's molar. "How can idleness hurt teeth, doctor," sceptically queried the scribe. " The non-use of the teeth tends to atrophy. The more one uses his teeth the harder and healthier they become and can mora readily resist the corroding influences of time. Teeth that are not used much become very weak and less impervious to decay. If you will notice a patient that has been ill for weeks and living on milk and soft food when convalescing finds that his teeth hurt him when he eats hard victuals. "Soma men have healthy teeth all their lives because they were given good hard food during infancy. That is the period to begin to save the teeth. Mothers and nurses give children soft food utterly igno rant in many cases of the result Crusts and hard stuffs should be given to children as soon as they can eat them. In this way the teeth begin to grow healthy and grad ually harden with time and use. I confess the chewing-gum girl gives her molars plenty of wholcssme and unwholesomo ex ercise. But chewing gum is not especially healthy, because only part of the teeth are, used. It is jaw exercise more than any thing else. But in eating hard, wholesome food all the teeth come in contact with the substance. Tobacco chewing is not healthy for the teeth because the tobacco is generally placed in one location, like chewing gum, and there remains until thrown out. The Southern negroes have better teeth than most any race, becau so they use them frost childhood up in masticating hard food." RasorsGet Tired. Barbers often assert that rasors get Urei of shaving, and that they will perform set fafactorily if permitted to rest for a ttae. It will be found by microscopic exanuaatisa " " K mr yj aV aA fMm 1a atayinnlnw aWaa taessawnand and in the same direcUoa . . v ,,. MtwM j,--. has the ultimate fibers of its surface or edge all arranged in one direction, like the edge of a piece of cut velvet; bat after a month's rest these fibers rearrange them selves heterogeneously, crossing each other and presenting a saw-like edge (aa described above), each fiber supporting Ka fellow, and henee cutting the beard instead iui..4mMLl ilnm flat without ittina wtoid by wucu ""UJ2: A Pretty Close Saaeese. Store clerk "A hammock, miss! Cer- tainly. Here is one warranted to sustaia a weight of 280 pounds." Young lady (sens) 'Two ninety; let me see. John weighs 1M and I weigh 125-five and four's Bias, with nothing to carry; two and six are eJcht. with nothing to carry; one is two: total. 289. (To the clerk.) Hat's mighty near, but 1 guess it will as," ) A tn sA-Nt UNACQUAINTED WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTRY WILL OBV '-"t MUCH USEFUL INFORMATION FROM A STUDY OF THIS MAP OF THE " S(Vc5E5- WSr ? CHICAGO, ROOK ISLAND & PACIFIC R'Y. Its central position and close connection with Eastern Lines at Chicago and continuous lines at terminal points West, Northwest and Southwest, xnako it the true mid-link in that transcontinental chain of steel which nnitC3 the Atlantic and Pacific. Its main line and branches include Chicago, Joliet, Ottawa, Ia Salle, Peoria, Geneseo, Molina and Bock Island, in Illinois; Davenport, Muscatine, Washington, FairSeld, Ottumwa, Okaloosa, Westlaberty. 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Celerity, certainty, comfort and luxury assured. THE FAMOUS ALBERT LEA ROUTE Is the ffcvorite between Chicago, Rock Island. Atchison, Kansas City, and Min neapolis and St. Paul. The tourist route to all Northern Summer Besorts. Its Watertown Branch traverses themost productive lands of the great "wheat and dairy belt" of Northern Iowa, Southwestern Minnesota ana Jsast-engaiaaou tub snort line, via Seneca ana Kankakee, oners sur yette, and Council Blufia, St. Joseph, worth. "Kansas City. Tfinnespolis and For Tickets. Mans. Folders, or any apply to any Coupon Ticket Ofice in E. ST. JOHN, B CLARKE, President, Albany, N. 7. J. A. TTJLLEYS, Vice President Kobu V.8HIBEY, Treasurer. NEBRASKA & KANSAS. FA RM LOAN CO ' PAID UP CAPI1AL,$50,00Q. Red Cloud, Neb. Albany, New York. DIRECTORS: tl. Clarke, Albar v. New York Geo R. Beach, BalstonSpa N.Y. W. H. Robeson, Albany, N. Y. E. S. Francis, Pitteticld. Ma3 i.V.Shirey D M. Piatt E. K Highland. J.A. Pulleys M.B.McNit MONEY ICANED. On improved farms in NebraMcaand Kthfa8. Morrev furnished as soon as the security is approved Principal ana interest payable in Red Cloud HIGHLAND & WECLH Addition to the city of Red Cloud By far the most desirable property in Red Cloud TENTH St I 121 2 20 3 3 e ! K 1 15 K 14 9 13 10 12 1 11 B i-3 NINTH AVENUE Lots reasonable, location easy of access, Beautifully situated. Buy now GUMP & HEAL ESTATE&L0AN BROKERS Negotiate Loans, Pay Taxes, Insurance Written, Call and examine our bargains. Correspond ence solicited, GUMP & WARNER. Or.ra House Block Red Cloud City Harness Shop -BY - J. L. MiLLEfe DKALXRTJr HABNES& COLLARS, SADDLEh lORSfi-BLANKETS; WHIPS HARNW1! vary thing usual kept ui t ir,tH:.-is karness saop. ana council Jtuuns, in iowa; uauatin, Trenton, Cameron, St. Joseph and Kansas City, in Missouri; Leavenworth and Atchison, in Kansas: Minneapolis and St. Paul, in Minnesota; Watertown and Sioux Falls, in Dakota, and many other prosperous towns and cities. 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