Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-04-01

/ Coy. BrO9Ien has offered Il reward OF
/ $500 for the apprehension Of the negro
/ Lock who fatally stabbed white man
named Barrinser last week.
| 4 weekly Democratic paper will short
/ ly be issued at Beaufort, n. C., by a
stock company, with Dir. b. l.. Perry as
manager.
Last Sunday night while = procession
OF young ladies was on the way from
church in Raleigh, they were interrupt
ed, by a number of rude young men, who
ran in among them. The crowd was be-
fore the Mayor next morning, and they
were fined $25 each and bound over
to Court in $500.
Mr.. Emet BObbtt was very seriously
hurt ut LeuisbuFg, last Tuesday. He had
bought q very wild Sorrel horse from Mr..
Ed Russell, and while driving him to the
buggy, hc became frighteded, ran away,
broke the buggy into fragments and
shattered Mr.. BObbitt's leg from the knee
down.
4 bride bit was found imbeddcd in the
heart of very large oak tree, on the
plantation of Mr.. Nat Harrison, in Nash
county, one day last week. The tree is
supposed TO be over one hundred years
old, and the bit is different from any now
in use.
Lewisburg Courieri Paschal Pearson,
or as everybody calls him, Uncle Paschal,
is one of the few survivors of the war of
| 1872. He thinks it quite small under
taking to walk from his home to town, q
distance of six miles, in about two hours,
and then back again in the afternoon.
He is a good, staunch Democrat, and ut
every election allows nothing to keep him
from the polls.
Goldsboro Messenger: We have been
| informed Of a horrible fate met by a five
/ months old infant of Mr.. Jessie II. Hardy,
| near LenOir institute few days ago. 1t
seems that the mother had gone up stairs
/ leaving the baby and another small child
| in the room. During her absence by
some means the eldest set fire to the in
fants clothing, and ere assistance could
be rendered She was burned so badly that
she died shortly after.
Statesville American: Joseph Wood,
respectable citizen of Wilkes county, who
lived fourteen miles northeast of Wilkes
bOrO, was sitting at the table with his
family, eating supper, on the evening of
the 18th. when = party of disguised men
entered the room and deliberately fired
upon him, killing him instantly; they
also fired several shots at his wife but
fortunately missed her. Their object APP
pears to have been robbery, rs Mr.. Wood
was a gentleman of means, but in this
they were thwartcd by the timely app
earapce Of several neighbors.
| The Nutshell says that six little boys
| were playing around the ears in the rail
| road yard at Newborn, on Monday, when
! two flats being too tar apart for their
p purpose some of them went to an end of
/ one and began pushing it up to the 9TH
er. One OF the boys, Johnnie Arthur,
| aged IL years, ran between the flats to
chocll the one which was being pushed
up, when he was caught about the shout
| ders between the bumpers. His life
was instantly crushed out, the lifcleSs
body dropping upon the track.
We arc pleased at the prospect of re-
| opening the Gold Mines in this section.
Several wealthy and practical miners have
visited this city recently and are encour-
! aged by examination to begin work at an
early day.
We received u letter form New Market,
New Hampshire, last week, asking for
information about the Mines OF Mecklen-
burg, CASTOR. Cabarrus and Union coun-
ties.
If Congress could be induced to do us
the justice of re-opening the Assay Office
at this place, or re-establishing the
Branch Mint, it would be better than au-
thOrizing Assay Offices and MINIS, in
localities where there is not a pound
of gold TO be found.-Charlottc Demo-
| crat.