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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-04
NAPOLEON AND MARIE LOUISE.
Metternich Gives an Amusing Account of
His Interview With the Emperor.

Eetternich Gives an Amusing Account of
His Interview With the Emperor.
Metternich tells curious story which
reveals the strange self distrust of Napo-
leon at times. The count-he had not been
made a prince-was sent to Paris to report
to the Austrian court the manner in which
Marie was received at the French capital
by the people Metternich says:
II found Napoleon with the empress.
Conversation turned upon commonplace
topics, when Napoleon said to me: L wish
the empress to speak openly to you and
tell you candidly what she thinks of her
position. You are friend, and she
ought to have no secrets from YOU AS
he concluded this remark Napoleon locked
the door of the drawing room, put the key
in his pocket and disappeared through an
other door. I asked the empress what this
scene meant She replied by putting the
same question to me.
Seeing that she had not been prepared
beforehand by the emperor, guessed that
he wished to enable me to gather from the
mouth of the empress herself some ideas
upon her domestic life, so that T might
give favorable report to the emperor, her
father. We remained locked up together
~ AASetAAy eAA dOuIs WHICH, 1NdpOlCOA L.
turned, laughing, into the room. We'll, ;
said he, have you had good talk' Did
the empress say good or bad things about
mea Did she laugh or cry? LIDO not ask
you for report. These are secrets between
you two and do not concern any third per-
son, even when that third person is the
husband" fjs
Next day Napoleon found an oppor-
tunity of speaking to me.
'''What did the empress say to you yes
terday?' he asked.
''sYou told me, answered, that our
conversation did not concern third per-
son. Permit me to keep it a secret
'''The empress told you, exclaimed Ma
poleon, that she was happy with me and
that she had no complaints to make. /
hope that you will repeat it to your en-
peror and that h6 will believe you rather
than other people,"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-04
Too Much Acting.

The following is told of stagestruck
youth. He was studying the part of Ham
let for an amateur performance, and as is
usual in such cases everything that he
said savored somewhat of the morose Dane.
1t happened that one morning during his
walks abroad he came across an excava-
ton, with two or three men digging below,
and with the gravediggers' scene in his
minds eye demanded in tragic tones:
Whose graves this, sir?" and paused
for reply, but none came. Again he de-
manded, Whose graves this, sir?" But
this time voice, that appeared to proceed
from the bowels of the earth replied:
''Get out, yer born idiot! We're on'v
layin gas pipe" Curtain.-London Tit
Bits
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-04
The European Viper.

Many persons are killed by vipers on
the continent; but, though Pelias berus
is widely distributed over Europe and is
generally known distinctively as the 'slit-
tie VIPER" the prevalent and most dan
gerous species are the long nosed and asp
vipers. Matthiole relates an instance Of
a man who was fatally bitten by half a
snake in France. An adder had been sew
cred in twain with hoe, and he unfortu-
nately picked up the business end Such
an occurrence is quite within the bounds
of credibility. have seen a wretched
python which had been cut in two by a
sweep of cooly's cutlass launch itself
furiously at the man who was preparing
to give it the coup de grace and tear the
torch from his hands
Domestic animals are not infrequently
attacked but rarely succumb to the poi
son. Sheep and horses are struck on the
nose as they Craze, COWS very commonly
on the udders while lying down. A Bit
ten dog repeatedly plunges its head under
water to assuage the fierce heat of the in
fammatory symptoms, but generally re-
covers. Human beings and monkeys suf-
fer far more intensely than do creatures
lower in the scale of life.-Chambers
journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-04
WESTBROOK.
A Busy Meeting Of the City Govern,
ment Last Evening,

Much Routine Business Transacted-The
New Parochial School Opened-A Live
Iy Runaway Yesterday.
The regular monthly meeting of the
city council was called to order last eve
ming, with Alderman Haskell in the
chair. Pres ident Lane was absent.
The claim of Wv. knight for damages
against the city had been settled by the
payment of $165. Mr.. Charles F. Knight
was appointed ballot clerk in place Of
E. T. May berry, resigned.
The order appropriating 5000 for the
purchase of two pungs for the use of the
fire department had it's second reading
and final passage.
Alderman Dana called the councils
attention to the present practice of put
ting in sidewalks on the present level,
instead of the established grade. The
matter was thoroughly discussed.
Alderman Foster. in behalf of the
committee on public grounds and build
Ings stated that the committee now
awaited the instruction OF the council to
make contract for the heating to the
new Forest street grammar school at
the east end. Alderman Foster stated
that the committee favored the "hlower
ystem.n The committee was instructed
by the council to make contract for
the heating apparatus for the building.
Alderman Warren submitted the fol-
lowing order: That $22, 900 be applo-
priated for the building and heating of
the Forest street grammar school build
ing. The order received it's first reading.
Alderman Cloudman reported that the
committee on streets had laid out Seav-
ey and Lamb streets across the Maine
Central railroad
The committee on new streets reported
that the petition Of Joseph Knight and
six others for the re-establlsing of the
grade of Saco street. from Main street
to Stroudwater river, was rejected.
An order was passed instructing this
committee to request the re-etalbishing
of the grade of This street by the county
commissioners.
Alderman Babp presented the follow
ing ordinance:
A petition for a sewer from the Port
land & Rochester railroad to Main
street, the vicinity of Day street.
The petition was signed by James Nc
Lellan and others. Referred to appro-
priaJe committee.
A petition from MI. Hawkes. and A.
l.. Hawkes. for q hydrant near their brick
yard, on Stroudwater street, was proper
ly referred.
The order appropriating $500 for the
repairing of the Main street sidewalk,
from the Universalist church to the
residence of r. D. Woodman had it's final
passage.
A petition was read, asking that the
county commissioners meet with the city
councils committee on new streets, to
establish the boundaries and grade of
Saco street.
THE NEW PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
OPENED.
The School of the Good Shepherd, the
new school Connected with St. Hyacinth's
Catholic church of this city, was infor-
mally opened yesterday morning by SER
vices in the church. After mass was eel
ebrated, the pastors, Rev. A. D. Decelle,
gave short sermon to the children on
. hc clue - education and their duties
to their teachers. 5sstslt#
a RTYNAmAv
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-04
A Good Record.

The steamer Cadet goes off her route,
having made a fine record. She has
missed but one run during the season,
and that was due to fog on starred
trip. Captain Fisher has had charge
of the wheel, Engineer Arthur c .Thors-
en- has pulled the throttle, and Clerk
Sprague has looked after the passengers.
The new timetable goes into effect to-
day.
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A RUNAWAY.

Two horses attached to large truck
wagon belonging to Mr.. F.B. Leighton,
ran away on Central street yesterday
morning, making things quite lively
along their route. They were brought
up by running the pole of the cart
through the front door of residence on
Cross street.
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While Temporarily Insane.

The humor of a coroner's jury must nee
sssarily be CHASTITY, but that it may yet be
really humorous is shown by verdict
rendered at British inquest not long ago.
A carpenter had ended his life by cub.
ting his throat, and after the testimon
had developed the fact that just before
committing the fatal deed he had asked
s'his mother-in-law to kiss him, the iury
brought in verdict of Suicide while
temporarily insane. New York Herald.
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The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-29
walked Them Out.
Greensboro Record.

For some time several Mormon elders
have been working in Deep River town
ship, near Colfax school house.
Time and again they have been told to
get away, which they promised to do, but
as often lied about it. Instead of going
they rcdOubled their eXertiOns in the
PROSECUTING line.
Last Friday a bevy of as good citizens
as there are in the county waited on them
and told them they had not come to use
force, but to gently, very gently, escort
them out of the county OF course if
they declined to yield to peaceable
methds Of persuasion an intimation was
given that there would be a repetition of
the old man and the boy in the apple
tree, so wildly depicted in Webster's Cd
blue back speller.
See they meant business they lost no
time in parleying, but left at once, prom
Using never to return.
A letter was afterward received from
them, thanking the committee for their
mild and peaceful methods, and saying
that they would never, no never, come
back on Guilford sell
This is all very well, and probably
these same men LAY not return, but these
good promises are nothing but a blind,
and Wen wager a hat, which We have bet
on the congressional election and which
we are sure to win, that another entirely
new set of The same breed will be found
a! work in the same locality before many
weeks Watch EN-
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-29
DURHAM, n. &.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 80, 1894
This Date In History-Aug. 20,

3O-John the Baptist was beheaded.
1882 John Locke. liberal and philosophical
writer, born; died 1904.
l76g-Edmund HOyle, famous authority On
games, died; born 1872.
1852 The Royal George, British warship, sank
suddenly at Portsmouth, carrying dow
Admiral KcmpcnfcIdt and 500 men.
1909 Oliver Wendell Holmes born at Cam
bridge, Mass.
l626-GeOrgc Erizbic IIoar, United States sena-
tor from Massachusetts, born in Concord.
1853 Sir Charles James Napier. noted British
soldier in India, died at Oakland, near
Portsmouth,; born u.s..
1871 Charles Paul de kOck, French rOmancist.
died in Paris; born 1894.
1877 Brigham Young died at Salt Lake City,
t.. r.; born at Nottingham VT, 1901.
18Sg-Gcorgc FAwcctt Rowe, American actor
and dramatist, died in New York; born 1929.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-29

the sorts he buys. 1t behooves him to buy
carefully, prayerfully. The verdict of a
petty jury is not moro uncertain than that
of the silk wearing public. Shrewd ad-
vertising, good display, may do something
toward i~ntiuCncingi it, bat the pattern that
toward the close of the season is volumi-
nOusly in stock is at once hewed down in
price and cast upon the bargain counter.
Each year there are new surfaces in vari-
ETY., but Ill of them resolve themselves
into the original elementary combinations
possible to the handlOom. MORE has its
season when it is unreasonable, stripes
come and go, but silk goes on forever.
The use of it increases yearly, and it is
safe to say that the consumption will dou-
BILE in the next 20 years.
Yet the market for raw silk is merely
"steady." China, Japan and India are
such inexhaustible s~tOrehouses of it that
they can send us twice our needs without
materially affecting the price.
There have been sporadic efforts to raise
silk in the United States, but SO far we
have produced SO small an amount in COM
parison that it is not worth mentioning.
The sketch shows a gown of rose and
green changeable taffeta, trimmed with
white lace, green mOusseline de sole and
arrow jet passemeterie.
JUDO CHOLLET.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-29
RED AND PINK COSTUME.

ningly brOidered and sometimes fringed
with pearls. One ccclesiastic had a red silk
pair, with the sacred monogram worked
on the back, surrounded with q golden
glory, and later on they had gloves to
match their different vestments. In fact.
gloves had departed from the primary idea
of utility II become a decoration. They
were too magnificent for common wear
and were frequently carried in the hand or
worn in the girdle. II was by the fine
gloves his page had in his girdle that Conur
de Lion was betrayed on his way home
from the crusade, and SO fell into captiv-
ity. But already the glove was more than
a mcrc bit of foppCry. The knights mailed
glove sheltered his hand. 1t became a sign
of power, and when a gracious lord meant
To signify his intention to protect a town
he sent his glove as a sure sign of his will
lngncss. The glove, too, was the token of
defiance when one knight declared war
against another, and to show his fealtv to
his mistress he bound her broidcred glove
to his helmet. Long gloves came in at the
end of the seventeenth century. Nell
Gwynne's gloves were a proverb for their
beauty. All through this time gloves were
prettily set off with lace, ribbons and
fringe, although the fashion of the finer
artistic embroidery of the middle ages was
falling into diSu>c. The bare hand was
deemed an ofTcnSe, and the costliness OF
gloves defined their wearCr's social posi-
ton.
The illustration shows a gown OF rose
batiste trimmed with vivid red satin and
white lace. This thoroughly French cos
tune is completed by a green straw hat
trimmed with red roses and white quilts.
JUDIC CHoLLEr.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-29
TWO MEN KILLED
In "A D~ispensary Row at lackTili
South Carolina

South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S. G., August 28.-This af-
tcrnOon at 2:30 o'clock in a bloody trag
cdy was enacted at B!ackyille Solomon
Brown and John Gribben, a dispensary
constable, were killed. The double kill
ing was the result of an old feud between
Gribben and the influential Brown fam
ilv. Gribben went to the depot and
opened a case Of dry goods consigned to
Solomon Brown Ostensibly for the pur
pose Of Selling ~c0ntraband whiskey.
Simon Brown, the father of Solomon,
met Gribben on the street later and re
preached him for opening his package
accusing him Of persecution The quar-
rel waxed warm and Brown was joiLed
bv bis sons, Solomon, Isadorc and Her
man Gibben offered to fight any one Of
them and Isadorr, % years cd, accepted
the challenge
GIibben struck at him, but the blow
was parricI and Brown knocked Crib
ben down. At This juncture pistols were
pulled and six or seven shots were fired
in quick succession. Gribben was shot
through the left shoulder and near The
heart. He staggered into a store firing
at the same time at Brown \ bullet
struck Solomon who fell half to the
ground. Gribben continued his firing
and a bullet penetrated Solomon Browns
head killing him instantly. Another
bullet penetrated his heart Gribben's
pistol was emptied as he walked through
the store to the back yard where he fell
and died in ten minutes
Some contend that Coroner II p.
Dichie, who was standing in a store at
the time, fired the shot that killed young
Brown. The coroner proceeded to hold
an inquest however, but the sheriff ar
rived in the midst Of it and arrested him
on a charge of having been accessories.
Trial Justice Hemmett then empan-
eled a Jury and took the testimony in
to Gribben's death. The verdict
was that he was killed by Herman Brown,
and that Simon and Solomon were acces- |
series before and after the fight. The
is now quiet.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-29

lively trivial crime of thieving When
a negro is lynched it is in most cases
for crimes of the most heinous kind i'm
a~ginable. AS l really like the negro lin
his place. l assure Ida B. Wells that
thank a merciful God who does not per-
nit every negro guilty Of theft to suffer
lynch law for tie offence,
am, sir, yours sincerely,
PHILIP MILFORD
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SALE!

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fred Dunnegan and Charity Duncan h.
wife, of the State of North Carolina and CGIIn,T
of Durham, | will offer for sale 10 the highest
bidder at the court house door in Durham
August 6, 1894, at II O'clock W.,
all that lot of land lying and being in Durham
County State of North Carolina. adjoining tha
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containing one acre, mere or less. Fora fuller
description of the same see book No. /, of
mortgages, pages l43 and IA in the register Of
deeds Office at Durham, n c. TINS .IuIy4
1894. Z. Z. O'BRIANT. MUrt.agcr
CHARLE E. TURNER, Attorney.