The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-20
SOUTHERN PERSONAL ITEMS.

General j. A. Maltby, @. s. A., proposes to
settle with his family in Mississippi F
Hon. Thomas A, Marshall has been appointed
Chief Justice IN Kentucky, vice Jusrce Samp-
son, deceased.
The Virginia Senate has passed a bill fixing
the,saIary of the Governor OF that State at $4,000
per annum 4, ., r ...s.f t.. t
The trial of A. @. Dexter, late Treasury
Agent, has been resumed before Military Com ,
mission in Mobile. r.f
Henry A. DeSaussere, senior member of
the Charleston Bar, died a few days since, aged
~ years. hlut oEU erersgtil
--Rey. Fountain Brown, prominent clergy
man OF Arkansas, died not long ago, &C the house
of Judge Bocage, In Pine Bluff.
General j. w. Denver and Colonel Titus have
been sent from Washington. to inquire into Ger.
tain cotton speculations at Macon, Ga.
Mr.. w. e. Holt OF the firm of Hinson &
Holt, Of Mobile, died in that city on the 9Th
instant. oo
Lee Is lecturing in Richmond upon the subject
Of 'Laughter-Its Uses, Abuses" etc.
Major Johnson, of Texas, OF the late Confede-
rate States army, has died in New Orleans of
Injuries received by the explosion of the w. Il.
Garter.
james Callahan, living in Fayette county,
KY, will be lOl years old on the 18th OF April,
prox.. He was born in South Carolina, and has
! resided where he now lives sixty years.
l Burton N. HARRISON the Private Secretary
Il
1 prison, was formerly q tutor in the Mississippi
X University.
\ -Major-General Cadmus NJ. Wilcox, G. s. A., is
in the city OF Mexico. He mas written letter
to an Alabama friend, saying that he will not
return to the United States
Colonel H. w. Walton, an able lawyer and
esteemed citizen OF Holly Springs, Miss, has
been killed by John McQuirk, colonel in the
late Rebel army.
On the 9th inst, James Thomas was shot
nnd Had tI,a ahNNh hDn1
of Mountain Hill, near Danvllle, Virginia, the
result OF an old feud.
n DR. Thomas e. Wick, eldest son Of J. Wesley
Wick, and an accomplished gentleman and ply
siclan, was one OF the victims OF the explosion
OF the steamer W. H. Garter. His body has not
been recovered.
"A shooting afTray occurred lately in the
vicinity of Pmckneyville, Miss, between Josiah
n Fenner and James H JONES' citizens OF Wlll1in-
SOD county, which resulted IN the death OF MIR.
Jones.
Governor jenkins, at the request of the
ladies of Mllledgeville, has issued an appeal to
the ladies of Georgia to contribute one dollar
4 each for the relief of the wife of ex-Presdent
81 Davis.
"A man named Con. Sullivan Jumped from
the cars on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rail-
road, while the train was in motion, short
distance this side of the Taahatchie river.
He fell upon the track, and the wheels passed
over and cut off both hls feet
The New Orleans papers notice at length
the death OF Ex-Governor A. b. Roman, who tell
dead in the streets OF that city on Sunday even
ing, the 2Sth OF January, In the seventyfIst year
OF his age. The deceased had been tor many
years one of the most influential men in Louis
1ana
r. p. Waring, ESQ.,, editor of the Daily Caro-
lima Times, published at Charlotte, N. c., who
was arrested some time ago by the military au-
thorities; for the publication of an exceptional
editorial IN that paper, has been sentenced to
pay tine of eight hundred dollars or be impri-
y soned IN Fort Macon ior six months.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson has written letter.
stating that the contributions that are called for
on her behalf, are gwen under false Impression,
and it is inconsl5tenJ with her ideas OF rcctltude
and honor to receive them. She begs that all
efforts made to raise funds for her ''relefn Will
4 be immed lately stopped.
The Newbern IN. o. Times relates the fol-
loving incident as having occurred In Craven
4 county few days ago:-"Ten negroes with
Nathaniel Street, of this county, their leader.
Y went to the house OF Mr.. Hezekiah Davis, on
~ Core creek, and Wnie attempting to enter his
premises Mr.. Davis killed the leader and two
others outright, and wounded the fourth"
On the evening of the 9th inst, Major War
ren, who commanded General Roddy's scouts in
"a the late war, got into nm altercatlOn with Mr..
IN Mcclure at a billiard saloon IN Tuscumbia, Ala.
bama, when Mcclure struck Warren with cane.
~ Major Warren responded with q pistol shot
81 which took effect on DR.. James Burt, who was
X Instantly killed.