Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-25
A MARRIAGE ENTRY.

n, the u dhyc OF juiye, A. ~. LOO Nie,iie
uo0drieh, Of tho town o. hr,uvscll ~, "a us
gsl',iy's colony Of New Nofse'sp'ns'er' to -
hut why complete tho record and
s,oil the storyi This marriage entry
s.cro,aed and recrosscd with scratches
i. nect,liar manner, so that 1t is by
no means easy to dccipher.
n would be breach Of confidence
.,c,nfess how the facts in the fol
Living narrative came into my pos
s..,sion. lot tho reader remember that
tho events TRANSFERRED in the proud
IA town Of southampton, on Long
Isl,pd and he will northumberland
,be restrictions imposed upon mo by
=, indirect descendant Of the person
chose naso / have changed to Hugh
puckiir. The good people Of the old
Tong Island towns are rcmarliablo
1or something moro than an ability
"a ,aise good cabhagos and aspafa.
,1,s thew are proud of their Unborn
shrewdness. and with them an old
fool Is more an object OF contempt
than an old rogue.
1, will BIZ little uso for gossips 10
.,r.nlate on tho identity Of Hugh
'RrrknG. for tho marriage entry
r1ves Of course, nothing but the
sp,,orl Of the nuptinls, and my in.
fornor is prepared strenuously 20
Jcny that his great great grand
fathers great uncle Is tho person a.
ludel to.
suppose every town, no matter
how insignificant, has it's queer old
character. Just IA il has its church,
h, local traditions and its model
sDendlhrift In the smallest Of set
dement's a dissecting mind will dis.
cover both the Alpha and tho Omega
otmomlity and worthy citizenship.
Hugh Buckliff was man who had
lived Tor Hugh Buckliif alone, There
were dark umors ailoat concerning
him. but ! have been unable 20 learn
that they had any solid basis on
which to stand. A boarding old Cit
zen Is always an object of suspicion,
and bis deccaso is usually the signal
for inventive people to hang on each
oae OF his pcculiaritics n bag Of wild
lrusotions. until timo turns him
INTO Il buccanoor, ship wrcckor or
ghouL
Hugh lived with his sixty years Of
Conscience In yellow brick house
within stones throw Of tho Hamp
Ton postr0ad. where his father, who
had loft the restrictions Of the old
Southampton TO become a pirate in
the now, had lived before him.
Whether he managed 20 exist by
aiggarlly drafts on tho patcrnnl in.
henlancc or had come secret way OF
adding thCrpto, no ono know; and
had curiosity on this subject been
ME in the quaint little sea town, 1t
would have been clfcctually barred
by the time stained wooden shutters,
which for two score years had kept
out the sunlight. Certain it Is his
hidden riches were n byword, and the
stories about buried chests of Spanish
gold kept pace with tho othor folk.
lore Of the town.
On tho Sabbath day alone would
Hugh be seen ON tho street, for it
was his invariablo rule TO attend di-
vino service on that day. Esconced
in ono Of tho FREQ pews near the
porch, hc would sit during tho whole
0. the service his eyes closed us
though In sleep, MS oblivious to his
reighb0r's whispered comments rs
he was Of tho collection box. The
service over, no would start homo
ward without 80 much us nod or q
how dye do 10 any one, calling ut
Matt Catllins mill on the way,
where he was sure 20 find a basket
Of the cheapest elibles (,he miller
also dealt IN general farm produce,
his house and store forming an ok.
tension to the mill in exchange for
which he would leave a sixponco
upon the window sill, and that would
Do the last Of him for another week.
Sometimes Matt would happen to
% taking IN antodinner pipe on the
mil stops aud then Hugh would be
forced into saying few words.
Aalt would joke him about his bache-
lorhood, and the old miscr's eyes
would glitter with anger as tho owner
denounced the whole female sex as
money METERS" Gold, he said,
would buy wife as it would buy a
new fence, but for his part he was
only podT man and didn't want
sach embellishments around his
house.
ono beautiful summer Sunday
Iatt was badgeiing the old man in
uls way when his good dame, TO.
turning from her dcvotions, hap.
lehed to henra remark anent her sex
from Bucklin's withcrcd lips which
caused him Immediately 70 be put
GOWN on her black list. Hitherto
sAe mad pitcd him, laying his poculi.
aFiaeR to his misfortune in not hav.
'ng been lucky enough 20 find ad-
hltuince at tho matrimonial gate.
Como in, thou loon !" she cried to
PVT husband. Why dost thou par
ketn Wy '''
IAis likening of their misanthropic
SeVomer to an animal which was tho
ueDl OF the Long Island settler, aud
"a whose head the courts had fixed a
rice put the old man into n tower
lug passion, and he poured forth q
orient OF abuse on tho whole of
NOlnanlSind from Eve lo,ypwav1