The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-10

"Teresa, you love me =
And Teresa replied as she had done
before, "Yes.' But this time she ad-
ded: "The VOW that parted US is &C.
complished, and am no longer for
hidden to be your wife,
JEAN BoScGrR.
Was Marshal Ney Executed.
Globe Democrat Correspondence
Although more than sixty years have
elapsed since the reported execution
of Marshal Ney, the ''bravest of the
brave' of Napoleon's officers, your
correspondent has been placed in pos
session of remarkable account which
leads to the impression that this re-
markable parsonage died and now
sleeps beneath American soil. In
proof of this declaration we cite Il
lengthy statement made by Col. Thorn
as +. Houston, a well-knoWn and cred
liable citizen of this county, residing
near HoustOnia, published in the Sc
dalia Democrat, and corroborated in a
late number of the Southern Home. bv
Mr.. w. O. Sheriff., of Newton. n. G.
According to his statement Peter Stu
art Ney as he was known in South and
North Carolina and Virginia. landed ut
Charleston, Jan. 7, 1916. In January.
1880, he became his pupil, and so con
tinued for five or six years. ABORTION
of this time he boarded in his father S
family. He was nearly six feet in
height. muscular, weighing 200 hun
dred pounds, and about 60 years of age.
He showed his military training in his
step and bearing. His head was quite
bald, showing a scar on one side,
which he said was cut by Il sword in
battle. He was an excellent scholar.
and taught school more for the pleas
ure OF imparting knowledge than for
hours We're passed in reading and writ
ing, and occasionally he furnished
letters for the National Intelligencer,
Washington City. aud the Carolina
Waterman. at Salisbury, n. c. lie
slept from four to six hours in twenty
four. a habit contracted in the army.
lie was a great admircr OF Napoleon.
and spoke Of him with great admir;s-
ton. At the death of Napoleon's son
in 1884 or Issue was greatly agi
tated, burning u number of papers,
throwing his watch on the floor. and
dismissing school. Fears We're enter
tanned that he would commit suicide,
Previous to this event he had ex.
pressed determination to return to
France, but never ;sfterward. lie was
very reticent, and rarely spoke of his
connection with the French army. ex-
cepting when his tongue was loosened
by an extra glass of brandy. On one
occasion when in stupor from drink.
ne was placed across a horse. This
aroused him and his first expression
was: what put the Duke of Elchin-
gen on a horse like a sack Let me
down.
He related the circumstance OF his
supposed execution. The soldiers de-
tailed to fire belonged to his command ::
that as he walked by them he whis-
pered to fire high. His old command
was to lain low, at the heart He
gave the command fire, then fell, WAS
pronounced dead, and his body given
to his friends. He shipped from Ror-
deaux, France, as a seaman, in Decem.
Der; 1915, landing at Charleston.
Colonel Houston now has IL Latin
grammar published in 1918, once the
property Of his old preceptor, in Which
are many autographs of Mr.. Ney, al
most Identical with those under his EN-
craving as given in the life Of "Napo-
leon and His Marshals.' lie also las
and is using the spectacles worn by
Ney. The following stanza is in Ney's
handwriting, with the note: LAS
written in a letter to |. f. Poellintz,
9Th of May. 1928. from Ab!eville.
Va. -
Oblivion is the common lot
OF common men-they die forgot;
He who would live in memory warm,
Must do much good or do much harm.
Fame lifts her voice above OH high
For those who fill the public eye;
Down in the brief ephemeral tide,
Sinks every manikin beside
Ney died in Rowan county. n. c., in
1916. John Ford was his
lie left a large book
of stenographic manuscript, supposed
to be a biography of himself. This
was given into the hands of Mr.. Pin
ney Miles, a member of the New York
Historical Society in l847, with the un-
derstanding that he was to unravel the
mystery as to whether P. S. Ney was
Marshall Ney. 1t seems that Mr..
Ney never fulfilled his promise, al
though he informed Mr.. Ford there