The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Southern lands are looking up in price.
Texas lost by the war $3.50, 100000.


Texas lost by the war $3.50, 100000.
Heavy crops of wheat have been seed
ed in Eastern Virginia.
1t is estimated that ten thousand ne
groes will die in Georgia this winter.
Negro political meetings in Galveston
sustain radical rule.
( They afe'going to manufacture ice in
Houston, Texas.
New Orleans is described as very gay
and festive at the present time.
The Alabama penitentiary is crowded
with all sorts ofpeople. TgO -
The destitute Georgians have re-
ceived 100000 bushels of corn from
Kentucky. n : itFtt,,
Counterfeit one dollar notes are In
circulation in Lynchburg.
The Lexington Mills, destroyed by
Hunter in 1864, have been rebuilt.
There is gang Of villains in New
Orleans who kidnap little children on
the streets and then obtain q reward
by returning them.
There is said to be very large north
ern element in the population of Savan-
nah. Boston men are especially numer-
Gus. q f|
The Savannah Nacs contradicts cur
rent reports by saying that with the ex-
ception of two or three sporadic cases,
there has been no return Of cholera in
that city.
A club has been formed in Norfolk for
the "proper and jolly celebration Of
Christmas" They call themselves the
"Ragamuffins."
The Government owes q gentleman
living in Staunton, Va, 800 for hard
work, but he can't get it unless he takes
the "iron clad OATH"
Thornton Holmes, negro, who killed
Jacob James, the negro preacher, in
Richmond, a short time since, for im-
proper intimacy with his wife, has been
acquitted.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sen
tinel ipredicts that what machinery has
done for the West it will do for the
South, now that free labor is substi-
tinted for that of slaves. Almost the
entire region devoted to cotton and
sugar is well adapted to the use OF ma
chincry.
A man, named Capt. jenkins, was
assaulted by three men in Sweet Wa
ter, Tenn, on Sunday morning, and
mortally wounded by pistol shot. Be
fore diving, however, he fired at his as
sailants, killing one instantly and NOR
tally wounded the other. The wounded
men died soon afterwards.
A terrific tornado passed through
Henderson, Rush county, Texas, on the
evening of the 4th inst, killing six
persons and seriously injuring twelve,
and doing great damage to the sur
rounding country. Five or six houses
were blown down, one Of which was an
academy containing scholars, four OF
whom were killed and twelve seriously
injured.
The Galveston Netrs, alluding to the
rapid progress making by that city, and
the spirit of enterprise everywhere
manifested, says "a large portion of our
active trade is now carried on by men
fhn and
believe it is but just to them TO say
that they have set an example OF enter
prise which is at the foundation OF our
present prosperity"
There is reason to believe that the
vineyards of the Piedmont valley Will
become an important source of wealth
to Virginia. The surrounding mountain
ranges give them warm and even cll-
mate, which is peculiarly favorable to
grape culture. They are free from rust
and mildew. During the last season,
when even the excellent vineyards at
Erie. in this State, suffered severely,
those in Piedmont escaped uninjured.
The grapes ripen there nearly month
earlier than our New York varieties,
and are said to equal if not to surpass
them in flavor. The yield is also claim
ed to he more abundant.-N. Y. Post.
The vicksburg (Miss.) Times tells the
following: --. -.
One of the officers of that popular
steamer, the Calumet, which, as every
body knows, runs regularly between
this port and Tallahatchie river, tells
us tho following:
con the Tallahatchie river, not long
since, an enormous rattlesnake found q
setting turkey hen on her nest, and
swallowed her in exactly two minutes
and forty seconds by the watch, and
then swallowed the eggs, twenty-one In
number, three at n time, without crack
ing a single shell; after which he imme-
diately relapsed into that state of tor
pidity peculiar to Tallahatchie river
snakes after big dinner.
anxious to see the dcnoument of this
snake affair, the owner Of this unfortu-
nate fowl allowed his snakeship to go
unmolested, who, coiling himself in
fence corner, remained there quietly for
nipc days, with his, mouth wide. open,
when the eggs, having finished the pro-
cess ofincubation, the juvenile turkeys
stepped out of his mouth, one at time,
but as each one put its feet on terra
firma, it was swallowed again by this
2:4O snake before it had time to look at
the sun.
"All this happened about six weeks
ago, and as soon as the last turkey was
disposed of, the rattlesnake was caught
and put in barrel of two hundred and
ninety five per cent, alcohol, and on ev-
cry clear day those young turkeys can
yet be heard chirping."
IFrom the Louisville JournaLl
Five Persons at Crab Orchard, Ken
tncky, Killed By Eating Diseased
Pork.
One. Of the most prominent and high
" respected farmers living in the vicin-
ify of Crab Orchard, whose name we