Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-11

I BITS or HISTORY.
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| ateS were pressing HarQ at 4 certain
point, General Hancock rode up 10 q
| body of soldiers and inquired "What
regiment is this?" THE First Mime
| sota,' was the response. Charge that
| line" commanded Hancock. Not all
the regiment was there, only elghU
companies. 262 men; while the zoe
against whom they We're TO hurl tnefn-
selves were many times that NUMBER.
But it was theirs not TO make reply
or reason why, and not for one NOM
ent did they think Hancock had
Numbered. Into that gate or deathI
they plunged, while artillery and mus,
kerry raked them with shot and shell9
Straight to the mark they Went, andN
they accomplished what they were
| sent to do; they checked the enemy's
advance and held the ground till re-
Inducements came up. But at thei
end of hat awful Is minutes, 80 of the
262 lay dead, 175 were wounded and 81
held the line of battle.
Lord Sandwich and His Invention.
join Montagu is known in history as
the fourth Earl of Sandwich. Ameri-
ans owe his memory a debt of graft
tude because as first lord of the admir-,
atty he contributed materially TO the
success of the American cause by his
poor management OF the English navy
But he is also entitled to fame on other
and entirely different grounds. He was
an inveterate gambler, and spent most
of his time in a gambling house neal
the admiralty Offices. Frequently he
would become so fascinated with the
play that he would forget to eat or
drink for "a hours at a time. Then he
would hastily ummon an attendant
and order him to bring him anything
that could be had to eat. Usually 1t
would be a slice of beef and two slices
Of bread. Placing the beef between he
two pieces of bread he would devour
them with great relish. He was so fond
of this hasty luncheon, and praised IL
so highly, that it came to be called
after his name, or rather after his
title. To this day sandwiches" con-
tinue to be an important feature of
lunch counters.
A Seven-Days' Fisherman King.
III 16tT, when the kingdom of Naples
was under the grinding rule OF Spain,
n fisherman of Sorrento was stung TO
| madness by the ~indignities offered his
wife by Spanish officials, because she
lad attempted to smuggle a few hand
tulS of flour. So furious was he that
he tore down an edict that a just
been posted by the authorities. The
whole population, including women and
children. rallied around him. Forty
| years of Spanish oppression had made
them frantic. They terrified the viceroy,
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killed many of the Spanish residents.
They secured a revocation of many
obnoxious edicts, the adjustment of
| oppressive taxes, and full pardon for
all who engaged in the insurrectiOn.
The fisherman, whose name was Mas
Hnielo, was the leader in all this, and
| became the idol OF the people. He
| ruled Naples for seven days, but his
euccesS seems to ave turned his
head. He became dictatorial and OPP
pressive, and was put to death by the
populace. Hence he was called the
Seven Days king.
Colonel Blood, Crown steaIer.
One day in 1870 a country clergyman,
lis wife and a nephew, visited the
tower of London and were shown the
usual sights by the keeper. While
viewing the royal regalia the lady fell
Cuddenly i'll and was taken to the keep
er's living room, where she quickly re-
covered under the kindly ministrations
Of the keepers wife and daughter. This
was the beginning of an intimate
friendship between the two families,
and of a love affair between the nephew
and the keepers pretty daughter. Some
time afterward the clergyman,
the nephew and a third man went to
the tower to complete arrangements
for the wedding. The third man had
never seen the royal regalia, so the
Deeper took the party to see it. AS
he was lifting it out Of h chest he
was seized and gagged by two of the
men, while the third made off with the,
crown The alarm was given and the.
thieves were captured and the crown
recovered just outside the gate. The
Clergyman proved to be Colonel
Thomas Blood, a noted outlaw, and the
others his ~accomplices. 1t was never
publicly known what Blood intended
to do with the crown, or why King
Charles granted full pardon TO all
engaged in the robbery.
A Strange VIII.
Peter Thelussen, a London merchant,
lied in 1897, leaving a fortune of C 7e0,-
900. BY his will G100, Oe0 went to his
wife and children. The rest OF his for
tune was committed TO trustees, with
the stipulation that it should be al
lowed to accumulate during the lives
Of the sons and grandsons. When they
wers all dead, the fortune was to go to
The Oldest wins great grandson; or IL
there should be no great grandson, 1t
should go to the government n be
applied on the national debt. The will
was contested, but the heirs were un-
able to break it. The last grandson
died in 1859, and the fortune was deliv-
cred to Charles Thelussen, the Oldest
living great grandson. AT the time the
will was made experts figured out hat
the fortune would amount to something
like G1,50O, 900 by the time 1t should be
turned over TO the great grandson, but
the expenses OF litigation and admin
lstration had been SO great that he re-
reived only about the amount of the
original fortune, 6 600. 600.
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A Petticoat Instruction.
Mobile. Ala, was founded very early
n the eighteenth century. At that time
| almost the whole southern part of
| what IS now the United States was uf,-
der French dominion. The colony had
many ups and downs, and a full quota
Of the experiences incident to pioneer
life. At one time a ship brought over
from the mother country, along with a
supply of food and merchandise, "23
good and virtuous maidens. under
charge of w gray nuns" 1t is re-
corded that all these maidens were well
married to worthy gentlemen settlers
within a month after their arrival-all
but one, who could not find q man to
suit her. Later on the food became
scarce, n these wives rose in rebel
lion, and demanded that they should be
l rfxran s6pnathinO haitian fhnn