The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The exodus from North Carolina to
the West and Northwest continues.
Governor Brownlow's son has been
appointed captain in the regular
army.
jeff. and Joseph Davis's plantations
have been leased to an association of
-cOlored men. --,-.
Horace Randall, the oldest survivor,
perhaps, of days past, still resides in
Fauquer county, Virginia, at the age
of one hundred and five. His history
is Of much interest.
Lead in great abundance has been dis
covered in the valley of the Green river,
in Kentucky. A mine will be opened at
once. Similar discoveries are reported
in Owen and Shelby counties. a-i
The Fincastle (Va.) Herald states that
the hog. cholera is prevailing to a
great extent in Botetourt, Roanoke and
Craig counties. Large numbers have
already died, and in Craig very few are
left.
In Rockbridge county, Va, last week,
the carriage of DR.. James Watson, con-
tanning his wife and family, was met in
the road by another carriage driven by
a colored man, who drove against Dr..
WIS vehicle, breaking it and endanger-
ing the lives of those in 1t. DR.. W. fol-
lowed the driver, and firing at him as
he ran, the ball took effect, instantly
killing him. DR.. w. gave himself up,
and was held to bail in $1,000. =.
The Richmond Dispatch states that
operations have been stopped on the
York River Railroad. The hands have
all been paid off. and the contractors
and clerks have left for New York. The
road has been completed to the Chicka-
hominy.
The Louisville Courier says: The pop
ulation of Louisville is variously csti-
mated from one hundred thousand to
one hundred and fifty thousand, and if
full and complete census he taken
during the present winter, we feel as
sured it will not fall far short Of the
| largest number mentioned.
The Hon. w. \. WoolfOrd, member OF
Congress elect from Georgia, has ap-
piled to the Boston Tract Society for
one hundred Sabbath School libraries,
to be divided between the white and
black Sabbath Schools of his district.
The application has been granted.
COUNTERFEIT COMA counterfeit
five cent coin of the new nickle issue is
in circulation, and is calculated to de-
ccive the unwary. The counterfeit
is remarkably good SO far rs the die is
concerned, but the metal has that greasy
appearance common to compounds of
pewter aud other baser metallic sub
stances. 1t is very soft and cuts easily,
like checse.-NoJHe AdrertiScr.
A Texas lady being asked at a New
York dinner table to drink toast to
General Butler, consented, and as her
glass contained about drop of wine, she
raised it to her lips and smilingly said,
"Icre's drop for Blu ler."
The Goldsboro (N. CO. News says, the
devil seems to hold sway in some of the
eastern counties of The S ate. On Sat
uriay night las, the cotton gins of Jo-
siah Sugg and JOS. Murphy, Greene
county, were destroyed by fire. and other
gins are reported to have been burnt on
the same night, lower down the conn
try.
Last week n company was organized
in Boyle. county, Kentucky, to rid that
section of the band of thieves that had
so long operated i'll that portion Of the
State. One night they captured two,
whom they hung. Afterward they pro-
ceeded,to Cornishville, Mercer county,
and having captured one of the desper-
ADDE'S, hung him.
The latest intelligence about the Ala
bama claims does not appear to indicate
so speedy settlement as was under
stood some time ago. Whilst the London
Times advocates the settlement of these
claims, it is greatly in advance of the
British Ministry, who do not really APP
pear to have decided upon any course
with regard to the subject. 1t is be-
lieved that Il dispatch is on its way
from the American Minister i'll England,
however, which will shed some light
upon the questSon.
Dir. Z. Randolph, c0lorcd, who claim
ed TO be delegate from Louisiana to
the Philadelphia Convention; and had
high recommendation from General
Howard, the President, and other prom
nent men, has come to grief. He re-
Gently delivered IN atheistical lecture
in Chicago, i'll which he maintained
that God was electricity, motion and
light. On learning of this, General
Howard requested him to return all let
ters which he (Gen. H. had given him
ndorsing his character of course.
a DEsoLATE CoUNTRY.-Thc minis
try and elders the Presbyterian church
at Culpepper, Virginia, Court House,
makes an appeal for help to rebuild
their church. That county was utterly
devastated by thewar The church was
made hospital, or barrack, or a
guard house, as the case might require,
and was ut last sold by the
members for small sum in Confed-
crate currency. The commit ee says:
"One can ride on horseback entirely
through the county, i'll more than one
direction, WITHOUT regarding the public
road, and wi hout finding his progress
impedcd by fence. There are prairies
in different parts of Culpepper like the
prairics of the West; no fences, no tim
Der, and only at wide distances the walls
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