Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-31
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which measures llS cubic feet. Ira
dition makes this spot famous as the
scene of the formation of uc'ent
alliances between England and Scot
land. The parish itself is ut
! terly devoid of scenic interest, although
from Solway- side, but fifteen minutes
walk from old Gretua, especially
towards nightfsll, a magnificent piano.
rama of the Cum berland mountains of
The English Lake DISTRICT is pre-
sented to view. The heights and lower
| lying spurs of Scawfell, Skiddaw and
HeliYellyn lie under the golden tinge of
the setting sun in hundreds of individual
masses, glorious in gorgeous depths and
surface colorings; while nearer, in
the foreground, just beyond the crested
charges of the Soiway's incoming tide,
may be had a glimpse of the modest
| Burgh- Marsh, and its gray old monu-
ment marking the spot where death ar
rested the impetuous career of the first
mighty Edward, as he was marching
with giant strides across this very Dor
der to conquer Scotland.
There are altogether but four villages
in the parish. These are Old Gretna
Rigg of Gretna, Greenhouses, a mouldy
| and sleepy half score of houses on SOL
field. Il is the latter two, which are
practically one village, which TO I36
years-or from 1854 until 1890, for, as
shall show, the practice is in vogue to
this day" Scotch border marriages
have made famous or Infamous The
two villages comprise one long, stray
Cling street; the Grstna Green or north
western end have perhaps score OF an-
cisnt dwellings, an old kirk, kind-yard
aud manse, and the Springfield or south
western extension fully 100 houses of the
most doleful aud forlorn character. The
latter terminate abruptly on the bow of
q sunny brae or bank, below which
winds the impetuous Sark. It should
be born in mind that the center OF
this stream, which is not forty rods from
the abrupt aud dumped village-end, is
the actual boundary line between the
"kingdom'' of Scotland and England;
and that whatever legal or moral vexa-
lions might in the olden times, or now,
Turk in the "Debatsble Land" between
the Sark and the Esk, whenever debtors
or lovers, flying from the memorable
harassment of English statute, once
crossed the middle of the Ssrk, they
were instantly
SAFE FROM THEIR PURsUERs
Deneatn the eVer-Welcoming aegis of
Scottish law. Added to this fact was the
almost equally important one that the
great coach-route, from London itself,
and indeed from all parts OF Central and
Western England, to Glasgow and all
western Scotland, traversiDg the forth |
ned English border city of Carlisle, not |
ten miles distant, led over the Sark /
which Is here spanned by q great stone |
bride, and thence on to Glasgow, passed |
directly through Springfield and Gretna |
Green, forming the long, broad village |
street; while down 10 the here quite re- |
cent era of railways al old inn, first at |
Gretna Green, and later the Kings |
Arms, which is still an inn at Spring.
field, was in turn headquarters on this
ancient post route for the fret change of
horses out OF Carlisle on the way 20 the
north. In connection with these facts it
is also interesting to know that another
place in Scotland once en-
joyed but little less notoriety
for irregular marriages than Gretna
Green itself. This was the town of Cold