The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-01-31
Personal Items in the South.

Mrs. Robert T.. Lee has sold her farm
near Warrenton, TO DIR. Drewry, of Rich
mond. It contains about 800 acres, and the
price paid for II was $40 per acre, or S32,-
900 for the entire tract. Ft-
Hon. IIerschel V. Johnson authorizes a
statement that he snot a candidate for the
scat on the Supreme Bench of Georgia,
made vacant by the resignation of Charles
j. jenkins. Governor elect.
Marcus Conner was robbed on the high
way near Columbus, Georgia, by negro.
His horse, saddle, bride and twenty dol
larsfn money were taken.
Fortv-one supcrintendents Of the Frccdr
mems Bureau have been appointed in KEN
lucky by General Fisk.
Augustus f.. Maxwell and Jas. NJ. Bax-
ter, both Senators in the late Confederate
Congress, from Florida, have been appointed
by the Governor Associate Justices OF the
Supreme Court of that State.
The Savannah Herald announces the
death of General Peter Conc, of Bullock
County, Georgia, n prominent militiaman,
Il State Senator for fortY-two years, and
soldier In the war of 1912, under Jackson.
John Spears. aged nincty-five years died
recently ut DanYillc, Kentucky. He WAS
born In Rockingham county Virginia, In
177t, and witnessed the surrender of Corn
wallis and other leading events of the Rev
olutionary war
The buglcr ofCOmpany A, Fourth United
States Cavalry, was hung in Macon, last
Friday, for the murder of Captain Clock, of
the 81 Ohio, in house of ill-iame near
Macon in June last.
The President has commuted the sem
tence of John Kile, jun, Thirty-first Ten
nessce Confederate Cavalry, 80 be hung
TO imprisonment, during and for the term
of his natural life, at the State Penitcn-
tiary at Columbus, Ohio.
The sacrament of baptism was conferred
upon Major General b. f. Cheatham by
Bishop Quintard, Mt Christ Church, Nash
Vile, on Tuesday night.
The salary of General Joseph +. John
ston, as President of the National Express
Company, has been fixed at ten thousand
dollars per annum.
The hall in which the Methodist ladies OF
| Lexington, Ky, were about to hold q fair
has been taken possession of by guard OF
negro soldiers, because, as Is conjectured
by the Lexington Observer and Reporter
of the removal by the congregation, few
| days since, of certain radical officials of the
church.
Lieutenant Pope, an onlcer OF the l9tl
Pennsylvania Cavalry, committed suicide
in his room, at the residence of Judge Bal
lard, in Natchitoches, La, on Friday morn
ing last, by shooting himself in the head
He died instantly.
The Federal soldiers at Harrisonburg
Va, a short time since, caught the teacher
In the Freedmen's Bureau of that place, and
would have tarred and feathered him, but
| had no feathers. The teacher disappeared
and has not been seen or heard of in that
place since.
| 1T. Gov. JACOBS, or KY.-At last ac-
counts from Frankfort, Gov Jacobs, who is
a son-in-law of the late Senator Benton
was dangerously Ill with inflammation of the
brain. He was early in the war and 1t Ii
related of him, that while in the service
finding it impossible to obtain the services
of paymaster, after six months of the
term of enlistment expired, he paid his
regiment from his own private funds
rather than that they should suffer, ant
awaited a reimbursement from the Genera
| Government.