Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1893, Page 20

SCOTIA'S COURT OF HYMEN The Original Gretna Green and Its Unenvia- | ble Matrimonial Record. A SAFE HAVEN A Pince, nating Folk and History Welrdly Fascl. Orlgin, tise wnd De A Notorious Inst Grotesqie Grrets L ence of Tur Brr tions © not { ery, ther quariar one spot forlori to lincss its miscrable folk and hi and infan place are woirdly fuscinating nas historic or personal i has nrov \ degrod en rep that is startling, its vern erocions and 50 unc 1 hi 1y 15 that ich o folk and 8 wncient ter hist cmain in sl Gretna Green, In v mantic vious, Scott be termed the seandalc of B orc such s world toriety. | yoars trailed through ¢ ar D 1t ma iteratur pied ain 1o other | 1 and e nearly 1 iten ery form of romun; vy manner of news v povrlar bulind aud rhyme, obtruded itself into noble as well as lowly socicty, stalked Bl tragedy und comedy penof as great a poct Hood in Laing, the closing Had 1 command, thou should'st witys In chai Chinlse and it has ov the presence 1ve chancellors to purs its course of dishonor and disquict in the highest courts of the th In fact, in tho entire English spea world the nume of Gretua Green and the notion of Gretna Green marriages are as familiar to all classes s is the commouest nurser rhyme. Apor ed much of in engaged the and sadirist as Tom his v 0 ind patr-—-and lain in Pere lo entered without rever A Popular Business. Yet you will not fird e of people either in America or in Britain who can tell You, any more than they can give the origin of the ionest nursery rhyme wha originally really mado the place famous or infumous, the conditions its notoriety, whether have been removed or n itsolf is o place with geographical Limitations or an interesting myth growing out of the vagaries and witticisms of marital literature. Illustrative of dignant assertion made to since by a most eminent cler gow that ( Green marriages abolished by W a half cen Wi that probably not 100 couples were loged by popular nearly 10,000 0 married i ni reen; murriages of the olden sort, with ve t moditication, areconstantly being nnized” at the it time; and, us 1 shall suow, T hold a ficate of marri of my own, issued by the present “Bishop of Gretny,” William ~ Laing, post man, No single clear and coneise accoun found in the books comprising and incidents leading o th ncient notorious ma; 1ts ovagin prin { English law ighteenth e law held that m contract in the pr rendering the se matte) undc sinstic ments. —10a de real propor continuing these conditions whether ( real this w wer 1 be he conditions estublishment age Mecea of arily was due to the bout the middle of Ancient Enghish legal by civil sence of two witiesses vices of tho priest merely o of sentiment or religion Decisions Lis law, influenced by powerful ecele sm. led to serious entangle- A civil contract marriage was vulid ce. In the matt y to the offspr mar- ion al in- than the law Iebe nexorability of tho cleri flucnce in the co uther ated by unp; known as “Ileet 1 sequent scandals ago in Loudon. To end this was passed the Inglish marriage act of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke in 1754 This prohibited all clandestine and so-called “irvegular” or civil contract warriages and made it com on all English subjects, except i mar 1 cording I of England. Evading the L; So unjust & measuro was cer with evasion. Obportunity for this was found in the necessarily unchangeable rule in the English courts that any marriage validly performed in the country in which i been co 2 must ve held valid 1l purposes in England. Rebeliious s aud seerd iting hearts naturally arest country offerin; “This one was Scotland, At tho of the reformation Scotland us well us land rofusc ceept th council of Trent, which ren fzation of marriage by a p Scotlund’s ancient marri aucient Kngland. 1 all that has been requis Seotland has been an mter- 1l and act onsent, coustitut he time given an u ible intention and determination to enter the rolu and their and a q n to meet ng- vision of the emn Cessary law was th written of witnesses before clared. This wa was Scottish law acquire notoriety runaway English couples, law to I vidences of that fact, or whom the neiont Scot when (€ lences same is de. And it is Scottish been in Scotland, nov is there today, any bie to this form of marr save that of public sentiment. The peoplo of Scotland, including a laro proportion of the clergy. evor sturdily withstood actment of laws by tho Scottish which might annul this form of ma tend to cloud heirship under it conditions of registration huve alwiys pre seribed certain ceromonials for celebrition of regular murriages. such us tho publics tion of buus and the ofticiatiug by a clergy n. But the gular” marriage by wit nessed civil contract has neyer bocn suce fully assuiled, and has never been subject to Through defer \ chicek upon the und “Coldstreaw” marringes of peoplo—for the border vill: am in Berwickshire once posse almost as ‘unenviable a reputation us Gr —in 1830, Dy permission of Scottish rey sontatives, ai act was passed by the British Parliameut imposing the condition upon Scottish eivil contract warriages that one of the contracting parties shall Lave been a resident of Scotland for u period of twenty- one days immediately precediug such m; riage. A Decaying Snap. In other words, any civil contract marriage u Scotland for hundreds of years bas been, and uow is, a valid one; the requisites for marciage at Gretna today are precisely the sme as they always were, with the excep- n_ of subscquent registration and the itling condition of brief residence of one of 118 contracting parties; and within the past enty-three years the present *bishop of etna” hus murried between 900 @ wvaples, chiefly runaway Loglish wen and wamen, or nearly one-tenth of the cntire number so marrlgd at Grotna Green siuce its first “scandalous” marriage of record It is ulmost as much resorted Lo at present for “irregular’ marriage ceremony 4s it was 100 yours ago, though the fine color and At clamor of the old coachiug days, when thie old Carlisle and Glasgow road resounded with riuging Loofs and the shouts of pur sued and pursuers, are eluinated by the railroads; and every wail o Gretna brings “Bishop" Laiug letters of e inquiry, one of which is truly copied, barring the signature, in the follow Kegurey, Eog., Aug. 28, 1883 —Dear Sir: Would you kindly inform wme what length of FOR FLEEING SWAINS | David | 11,000 | THE OMAHA nd ties goi marr you at Grot Does it require both bride ana bride 1o be a certain length in Scotland or only the bridet Do you require residence in Scotland? 1f s should it be? [rom the minis or registrar? What time of T ir ties be there Are vo « r 1, and D marry Sund What Thé partics I write for are respectable peo ) jle to pay & high fee—say from reply will any ce ate as to tho you is your fee! carr, cad. Also by n band. It is hardly anyth bt of green the bride may not have will have to cut w wiil we know Favorable Locution. ly ehosen as an objec: for both flying debtors fr Lngland solel ocation. The rland, still its the castern one comi ds, York, Boroughbrid ent Bowes, the seenes ¢ Hall in “Nicholas Nick dreary Stancmoor, from Liveruoo! 13 the northwestern ires—joined _at the city of Car 1 Carlisle the single brond ston: passed the Fsk und oo i 18 origin f safety iples it of i “n conch gh Led and an then favorable roads of ki hichw river batal over bet wi ream was the vetween Iongland and whatever legal or e by tiana ndary iy ut whenever debt i the inexorable harass statute, once crossed the thoy were instantly s beneath the ever wels ris of Scottish law 1 Gretna had been a favorite ¢ absconding debtors from th middle of the seventeenth century, its Hrst ivregnlar” naeri f whichi there is ree ord did not oceur until 1371, seventeen year subsequent to the passage of Lord Chancel lor Hardwicke's hated English maei ct; but- the circumstances were so i 1 an widely he that G ¢ becatio Hynie X for hunted, haunte ranaway This first marriige was of John dgar, St. Mary's parish, and_Jean the parish of Hetherel, both of the English county of Cumberland has it that these two, instead of cof concti-and-four over the post rov isle, escaped their opposing re boat s the Solway Firth. They upset by storm wnd o | incoming whose violence dr { the purs and caused the others to abandon the Liie couple thems escaped with thew lives; m o brin wnd sand, th ) » way on foot from the shoreside villa s Lo Gretna, wh they were Joseph Paisley for this sof became the most notorious wan of b in Scot- lund, as well as the ale ish have f thing, time 108t excerated s individual known to the anng sociul anathema, The Anclent Tow At this time Gretna, perhaps a half mile from the Surk along the hizhway toward 1 , comprised not more t a half s. There v simply a fow rude buildings clustered abo. an old thatched kirkk and the olden farmstead of Meg's hill. The fi 1s the laird of and’s rosidence, were also the little n hind the kirk and » littlo shop in which the not blacksmith a; 3 s it— sold tea, to wufl as wi S smug- gled whisky to the *muckle right sort.” The cxploiting “of the Idgar-Scott marriage, Paisloy’s defiance of English and Seotel i thorities and his cunuing in securing the UScottish legal advice, enabling him le the form of procedure according to attesting marriages simply as u wit- 89, with the consequent establishing of the absolute legality of these ges and the uni 1 the self-ce “Bishop o na,” and the Maxwell residence was usformed into a commodious inn. proving inadequate for ac Siv- William Maxwell, the tive villuge in the half mile distance between Gretna and the Sar which he called Springfield, and which in: cluded two inns, the Ki Arms and Max- well Arms;and these by the beginning of the present’ century became the most noted posting uts in the two kingdoms, From Pas of the Cuml couple in time of his IS14, it is computed tha i commodations laird, builtan e \ xpenses of lish couples ; who visited pla of marriage; other me for clients, who hoped 1ind lack of proof; from the curious w ho ero attracted by the extraordinary char crof the place: and from the gencral Ilessness and extravagauce on every hand where marringo fecs from runaway English commion folls, gentry and nobility ranged from 5 to 100 guineus, us they aid. with any amount of the llow stuft” for liordes of “witnesses,” hindy men and sutraps who lived perman ntly at the inns, nlied the rude cottages or' swarmed lie hurpies about the then busy stable yards, A Grotesque Character. The present heveditary line of **Bishops of stua” was st ed just before the deuth of Joseph ! fat and corruption, in I814 He was u terrible drinker of cogiiae, and his advancing age with his physical joys and fllictions compelled him 1o delégite his oftice to other and younger hands in the pe son of one David Laing, an Ulster pack pedd daughte u charac und Springfield those who pursued runaway outluy of ristel to establish proof barvisters who ¢ to w sssd 80 hard sts that none disputed the legitim > succession, He died in 1837, The third “bishop” was his son, Simon Laing,who fattencd upon the incr ing trafiic until 1856, when something of a as gven Gretna ( ssage of the act beiore requirig one of the contrs e Scottis reside i tely preceding mavriuge. Lawg didd'in 1871~ The four nd “Bishop of Gretna” 18 Willium P her 8 postan at Springfield and CGretua, a livtlo mite of an old man 71 yeurs of age, wenzened, shriy uniting ull 'the bibulous pr wsgors with: lowest ords when on his oficial i vicious and ruminative ndfather Small weed,” when “officiatin or numbling over his oakeu chést of records in his tiny, tum- bledown cottage beside the impetuois Sark The ola moss-gro tna kivk is still standing head stones o nd other worthics, 4t the northern end of the long, dreavy sireet. The Kings Arms aud the Maxwell Arms, midway to the Savk, are ruinous decayed, and remain but filthy dens where drunken hinds and brawling tramps hold common orey. The straggling U s overgrown wilh rank grass and weeds. O1d women with bloodless fuces und barburic buirns with dirty faces leer and oot ut y you pass. Down at the edge of thie bi ing the lust vestige of Scot tish lund beside the Savk, in the third cot- tage frow the stream live William Laing und his half imbecile old wife; the latter now deaf for juore thuu fors saud with 4 pincl the trem bl cap upon This 1nds a8 postman ; o Paluce, just oue room in this stone cot- tage and that not twelve feot square. 1he street door is at the side of the house frout Behind this is & vecess and a bed. A back door opens upon & little walled kail- Opposite the bed is a wide fireplace ¢ food is cooked upon and againsts peat fire as in ancient times. Opening upon the strect is one window, wide and low. Under- neath this stauds a deal table, and benoatl the table 1s slout oaken, irou-bound chest This coutains the records of nearly 10,000 Giretua iazes. They are worth more than their weight in gold. The old man hugs the delusion that he will somolime geob bbeir weighi in gold, He l & Co., 514 South DAILY BEI neve up. permits man or woman to set e 1 these records, save for gold, and then in a fever of frignt lest harm shall come to these hoarded silent witnesses, or from suspicion that some plot against him for their possession is inqre com after many vir' s after yielding dircet demanas for drink. und <it bribery, Then, by impugn e, railing at his assumption ¢ tly power il contemptuously deny that were being per stung his episcopal 1 the registers of had himself marr offered, if there was siller ahint it," to illustrate the ceremonia then and there, with myself for the bride: grovm and his teetering, tottering old guid- wife, Biizaveth Laing. as bride The old man, half wild with dignation, slaphed his horn. won his nose, grasped a s one hund from the table, and clutehed his poor old spouse and whirled her upon her feet before him A Moek Cer wn’ oop! Sta L Ulap nmand little old ¢ ) his many after down « his high t som marria hin s0 he o by ity that v nearly 1,000 couples b ind also excitedly | \d in los with moany. * 0op t'gith honds vy We joined han's and the a siogle mon Ye unser aye, wumman? Spak oop the trembling yet piti lidwife beside me. Y und cackled nssent v reason why ye shudna tak umman v’ b B wiu' weeded wite? in ' that ken,” he saia impa nd [ answered, *No. “D'ye ken' this to his wife, Yony r son why ye shudna tak this mon t' be ye Lawu' woeded n Jop, 100, y€ A boho! Giein t She gurgied and eackled agair “Ye baith gie in t'a’ o' that?? We both asscnted “Then,” siid the old wreteh savagely and triumphantly, “ye've bund yersels mon an® wife afore thiae wutnesses, anw',” he added in an ugly undertone, as heseated himself from h L at the table to fill out ourcertificate of martiage, “th' deil tak baith o' ye Ihis is what 1 ot as evidence of the gro. this KINGDOM O SCOTLAND, NIV OF DUMFRIES, F GIETNA O CERTIF rn: That Ed the City and s Elizal THESE AR to Al Whom They Muy « L. Wike- ¥ of New Trom the s County of Duni- ow both s D twnd ved 1o that they are both ns, I now been Mupricd 1 Livws of Scotland: Witne nds ut Gretna, this 17th Duy of July, 1590 Witnesses ¢ Willin Liing When Iaw in Scotland 1 always fun down 3 aretn to look in upon the hom I sustain such peculiar and L relati And 1am not quite sute that this one gular” warriage at Gretna has not done some good. For when I sit Wwith tne pitiful old pair at their ting deal table, munching oakeu bannocks an inping steaming tea, T Sometimes fancy that in the sccond childhooa that is now upon them, my | GLOWING The | City yo n tender courtesies to the deaf aud palsied | heth Laing, perhaps awakened Jealous fires in her have somewhat softened and v marital rigors of Willium and “Bishop” of grewsome Gre EnGaR L, WAKEMAN — = HEER BALY. ke Herald I htve a friend of schoolgirl days, Those days of joy, Who 0Wns it most entranciug Her baby boy. through re testy consort, subdued th Laing, pos ze, ns his futu Despite his youth, And shows me, with exultant eyes, His atest tooth, : fortune's prize, She cares no more for novels now; nner bland She ealls my kind attention to His dimpled hand! Lreally think 1 his nos And should the; $0 very pink, The baby's toes? of the Tutest pla She dntérrny 1t looks like She pats the fla And gets It surely « The 1 Of art [speak;: she looks away With hurt surprfso: For are they blue or are they gray, he baby's eyes: It T venture to suggest At he's il right, 1L elasp him fondly to her breast So close and tight. wway at me and say, ‘When pui A ministering nguish g the brow, wgel thow' r Bromo-Seltz Indianapoli i said the captious o “pay ultogether too much attention to gettmg the heathen to e folks' clothes and making them short, und all that sort of cbbe we do,” said the ¢ood man, meckly, “You bet youdo. Why don't you devoto your time to teaching them how wicked it is 1o take adyantage of thair brethren at every chance? Why don't you pay more attention tt teaching them not to rob, lie and steal Well,” auswered whe missionary slowly, SI T talk to them ie way you would have me do the, > 10 asl me 1f the white men are not in the habit of doing the very things you are condemning so; and, as I could not lie to them about it, I think it best that th things be nov mentioned ore than is necessary.” \ in Brook nt pulpit “incumbent” from Oxford, England, would be the proper thing. In duc time a tall, dyspeptic, smooth-shay man with the cler unifo the p : he wan noted for his nd the Euglishn Ah, Mr. Bond, glad to meet yéu, I'm sure, I cau believe you are a gentleman, but in my position 1 re ize youas a clergyman, flush came the reply: “And I shuke hands with yon u though I cannot admit that you ar man, evening ut a social g duced o a Baptist cler ready wit. Tuking his | 1 condescendingly a gentl “Who was the first lawyer?” said one 10th Moscs is mentioned as a law didn't get id het? much for s services, 'l het he is the man who did it.” +Did what “Started that joke about a small compen- sation being fee-nominal.” “You Christians,” said the Mohammedan, “ave too by the actions of the fanat Arabs, aud iguore our gence *1 see,” admitted his hear Shristianity were to be speeches of Sam Jones. " hera come times when all of us sympa thize with the Episcopal bishop wh: right indiguunt at some wrong who arose in the convocation sayiug President, | think it 1s the duty of this right reverend he to set forth a form of sound words Lo be 1 by a man under strong provocation,” distinguished proue to judgo us al and_ ignorant peopie of intelli St ds as if Dr. Thirdly—Sorry your husband isn't out to church today, is he'illt Mrs. Hicks—No he is0't sick exactly—just one of bis weekly attacks of being homesick. - * & Wilson. upper and low only lock-stitch muchine that makes an elustic seam. It is the dressmaker's favorite on that account. Sold by Geo. W Lancuster Sixteeut street, with its r, is the SUNDAY, SEPTE ' PSYCHO TRAIN CALLED BACK | A Reminiscences BER of the Early Days of the Transmissouri Metropolis, Mira Ninety- Promin, hree 0t ¢ The recent visit of George Francis HOPES RIPEN INTO REALITIES Realized Betweo Seventy-One n torrespondon: Ahzens of Omuha and Teain, Traim to Omaha recalls many reminiscences that will spondence with the itself OMAIA 4 Sept Train, Pre without a rival in tropolis of the most veautiful and fertile 0 in tho world, I'he dari and d emigrants have been po L yeur by t they cor reat rail rtheast and tions ,with the continent at one more will Chillicothe & ( (N} rat hidly appro: Northwestern 1 with marvelous ce I'he Southwesi Platte river bri tentded to the state line ton with the M eiving to Omaha mites sh connections The B, & M will shortly” b and will vin thr by way of Om: “The Union | for the North Nebraska and South Platte Omaha the comnm, extent of te city i " thi manufuactorics. Lo you, who 1 warmest ress upon very interesting the hulf-way of natio this n bo added rter than Lo River completed to tic and th the cout creial cont ritory and the ric s western holesale houses, so much needed I clivmpion, which ¢ specially The following Man of Desting explains 1571 Francis Headquarters, New Yor thie the ity re. the great valley sends groeting, subtful days have gone by, it nto our stale wnds, and the cry east, the I connee 55 the number Louis, 1s from the utheast sec and highway point, to whic the St A radirond © neross the Missourd rive hit ompletion. The ilroud is pushing forward erity 0 will soon have the and their rona ex thence Lo a connec: issourl, Kansas & Texas, an outlet to the guit 70 the ocean by castern vilroad in ska Fort Kearney ins from that point g0, 1eh t to Chi Northwestern te, o B. & M. in for the result of the largest st uributary country. Then I Omaha's ablest the new cra of city is about to ifying. we been ictions of your famous speech of ratitude, should be heard heve Learning t of acknowledging owes to you, and day when you e y way n meet ss the questions of the da being more than veri you Tuis fiv that your voice ain at this time, i you are shortly to lecture in neighboring stites, we ¢ this methoa the debt which Nebraska propose that y your friends here in your fully, your Very respec tservints, SUS. CALDWELL, A. SaAUNDERS, H. W, Yares, EzrA MILLARD, C. W. Hawmivioy, CLINTON BRIGC L. CREIGHTON, GeonGe L. MiLLen, H. Kovsize, A. Kovsrze A. S, Pavn J. P. Peck, K, and Presir Hovse, mivtee of Citizens turneth away have pulled from 2,000 to A fault if we ~don't 200,000 people. 1 ask ot go aheid. miles of v Yok, Oct wrath together, them 1wl ST A. D. Bavcosne, G. M. Mivis, J. . Boyn, I, WAKELE: Geonge \W. Jonx L. R S. . Brows, Joux Tarre, W. W. Low JONAS Giisk, SILAS A, STRICKLAND, Byiox Rk, many others Doaxe, HEADQUARTERS, GILSEY Dear Com- Kind words ten years we seeing Omaha of O W00, and it shall not be my join hands till it reaches The cronk At pla Fifty thousand miles of les of lake and ri 7 telegraph con Omaha the cen ot St. Louis of the novth and the Chicago of the new west. s siid the alkali plamn potash soda ast guuno and lea in the world. 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