Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-20
NORTH CAROLINA ITEMS.

Governor Brogden, accompanied by /.
| j. Young and G. w. Stanton, left last
Monday 10 be present at the opening of
the Centennial.
The Gazette learns that little child
of Mr.. ". II. Cohen, of Fayetteville, came
to its death last Tuesday evening in a
very singular manner; it drank some
boiling mOlasses sitting on the stove to
make candy, and soon expired in dread
ful agony.
j. c. German, the pretending Mayor
of Raleigh, followed by his six bogus
Commissioners, appeared before the real
Beard of Commissioners the other night,
and demanded the city government
They told him TO call again.
The Raleigh Sentinel says that the
State of Maryland, beautiful in name,
proud in historic "reminiscences and great
in her present proportions, viii have a
bdilding at the Philadelphia Centennial,
and extends through Governor BrOgden,
hearty invitation to the good people of
this state to partake of the same hospital
ity that will be afforded to her own eiti-
zens.
A little girl killed while hunting for
eggs CALDWELL Messenger; We regret
to learn that little five year old daught-
er of Capt. b. L. BearCl'Of Watauga coun-
ty was killed instantly last Saturday.
The little girl had been under the house
hunting for eggs and as she was coming
out heavy bench which was placed
against the wall, fell upon her, causing
instant death.
The OLD NORTH STATE AHEAD AND No
BODY TO PUSH HER.-What pity that a
small appropriation was not made by the
legislature for the Old North State at the
centennial. Professor Kerr is Just back
from Philadelphia. He SAYS Italy has
sent her best specimens Of marble, max
ing q monument some ten or fifteen feet
high of her very best showing. After an
examination of it Professor Kerr says
that ha4 an exhibition been sent on from
this State our showing of marbles would
have far excelled that of Italy rs we have
the black, the molted, and every variety
of marble known to the art of man, and
had five thousand dollars been expended
by this State with what she has now on
hand she could have made an exhibit su-
periOr to any other State ia presentation
of her material such rs iron, gold, mar
BILE and the minerals, and would have re-
ceived before the end of the year twenty
times the appropriation by the immigr;l-
tion and land buying it would have at /
tracted. Yes, but, "TOo late, too late, /
you cannot enter there. Raleigh News. I
Mention was made in this column a
few days since of deserved ehastising of /
one of the editors of the Wilmington IN. 7
C.) Post by Congressman Waddell, of /
North Carolina. The diffieulty did not |
end with the Gaming made mention of, as /
will appear in the following from the
Charlotte Observer of Saturday: Pas
sengers who arrived here last evening !
from Wilmington report that the little /
pistol and cane are figuring very extern 4
sively down there. It has been publish 1
ed that, ON Monday last, Hon. A. NJ. !
Waddell caned J. j. Cassidey, one of the |
editors of the Post, on the streets of Will i
mington. At this time the other editor, 4
W. Z. Cannady, was at Ashville, and, on /
passing down heard of it. He was very I
angry, and said that as soon rs he got /
home he intended TO cane Waddell Ar /
irving at Wilmington, he got two great 4
big pistols, and, accompanied By Jim
Heaten, a well-knOwn character, walked I
around the streets, professedly in search .
of Col. Waddell. While he was engaged \
in this way, Mr.. Mcpherson, a county
officer of Pender county, who had been
severely attacked by the Post, appeared
at that office, and, addressing Cassidey,
told him he wanted to speak to him.
Cassidey told him to go away; he wanted
no dealings with him, whereupOn Nc
PhersOn drew a pistol and fired. A ne
gro emplOye at the Office was standing
dear and knocked McPhersOn's arm up.
ended this, and now for the next branch
of the subject, shortly after the above
transaction Colonel Waddell, in emerging
from the courthouse, met Cannady,
Heaten and the pistols. Cannady, as
saulted him with a cane, striking one
blow. With this, Waddell drew pistol
and told him if he advanced he would be
shot; and Cannady didn't advance At
this stage friends of both parties seized
them, and hostiiities ceased.