Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-07-21


Something Of the Soels,v ,o Which
Guiteau BeIoored.
Can In the Cincinnati Ensuirrr
Gunteau Is type Of large class in
the country, who, having picked up a
little law, written a speech or two tc
deliver before the public. or strolled
INTO a prayer meeting and attracted
consideration, come to think them.
selves national characters: and the
more ragged and dirty they become the
more they hken themselves to distin.
gulshed men OF antiquity-such as Dio
genes and Socrates. Guiteau. as has been
said IN southern newspaper. is con.
siderable of satire ON some of tbe
elements in the Republican party.
There Is no record that he is a drink.
ing man. He has been a lecturer on
temperance. He would be perfectly
acceptable, with "A clean suit OF
clothes, to the total abstinence wing of
the Republican party. Then he was
one OF your prayer meeting men. In
stead OF locating somewhere, joining a
church and bringing up his character
slowly, he would pounce into church
the hrst time after his arrival at a
hotel, and address the people on some
thing or other.
lie was one of those little snap the
ologians who read little Of the Bible
and Jump TO a conclusion which they
consider to be an important turn in
theology; and so it is as important as
many of the turns that have brought
considerable theological fame. Every
body was looking for the second COM
ing OF Christ, and he put three or four
paragraphs together somewhere and
discovered that Christ had already come,
and the exact year he came,
and nobody noticed it but himself. This
was sufficient, had he q congregation,
to set the man on series of travels
throughout this country, Europe, and
the Holy Land.
1t was the same kind of discovery
that his lord and master, Noyes, of the
Oneida community, made when he
read in the Bible one day that in
heaven they are neither married mol
given i'm marriage. Therefore, says
Noyes. marriage is not heavenly in
stitutiOn. Ergo, the world must bC
made heaven. Resolved, That mar
riages shall be burst up. So Noye:
went down in Connecticut, where there
was strong-minded woman with ar
unintellectual husband, who had {
good farm, and he showed the afore
said husband and the sister that to b,
just like other heavenly people, he mus
come into community where Their
were no marriages, and bring his SON
and daughters in, and turn all thei
worldly goods in the common lot
"Then," said Rev. Noyes, IL will
initiate you into the best substitute 70
marriage"
Noyes went preaching over the coun
try. lie was a Baptist of the sec
Gen. Arthur was raised in. BENZ
pretty well known among the Baptists
he got hearing in many a Baptis
family, and SO moved his communit,
from Connecticut to New York, ant
had become a considerable commercial
concern when Guiteau and his fathe
went into the community, according b
accounts, and the young man staye'
there much longer than his father, AM
was engaged i'm one of the numerOu
quarrels in that community about tn
women.
recollect some years ago seeing
man who had sued that community +
recover his wife and sum of none
he had put i'm. He went there expect
ing things were much lOoser than the
were; but he found old Rev. Noyes Tn
only man who was married to every
body. Noyes was married to thi
nOvice's wife and his daughters, toe
and after that the wife would hav
nothing To do with her husband. Tn
women i'm the community generall
disliked this husband. He had not
religious tongue in his head. lie wa
a purely physical lover. He could no
butter his parsnips with sentiment
He sued the community for his none
and his wife, and set up the point tina
the women would not tolerate him
This nasty community was allowe
to continue i'm the state of New YORK
near Conkling's home at Utica, twent,
years, and would have been a tremen
dOus nuisance to this day but tina
NOyes got old and concluded that Their
had better be marriages on this cart
in order TO give him a rest. 1t is nov
secularized, and raises gilt-edged but
ter, bear traps and Yankee notions. /
furnished, however, the assassin of TN
president. After he got out of tn
Oneida community Guiteau went to tn
different theological eonventicleS
where somebody had bolted away from
his congregation, and was preaching
essays instead of sermons. He wa
very much infatuated with Prof
Swing, in Chicago. He joined tn
Shakers awhile. He followed Bob In
gersOll around to show what a fool Bol
was, and correspondingly how great
man Guiteau was. Never able to pa,
his bills, ne retained q serene equanim
ity, as il this world owed him living
and it was a small matter not TO settl
bills when one had great ideas in one
head. The last of his patented notion
was that by discharging a pistol int
the president he could save the Repub
lican party. IL this kind of man i
crazy, he is TO be found at large il
every community.
Died a Tramp.
Indianapolis Journal