The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Work is to be commenced at once on
the Catholic church at Meridian, Miss.
Captain silas May, United States ar
my, died at Grenada, Miss, Oct. 23d,
aged forty-eight years.
The Mississippi State Penitentiary
was leased, on the llth, to J. W. Young
* Co.
There is monetary stringency in
Richmond, Va, owing to the sending of
large amounts of money South to buy
cotton.
The Virginia estates are changing
hands, without bringing much change
to the hands of their owners.
The Federal dead i'll and around
the national burying ground near Chat-
tanOoSa.
The cholera has again appeared at
Shclbyviilc, Tennessee, and Thomson
Tallcgcr, an old citizen, died Of it or
Wednesday night.
All business was suspended ut Athens,
Ga, one week day recently, while the
merchants attended religious revival
meeting.
Judge Sharkcy has returned home
from Washington. He does not think
he bettered his prospects for seat i'll
Congress by his letter on the cons;ltu-
tinnal amendment.
Marion. Miss, having been incorpor-
ated as q town at the last session of the
Legislature. its people are called upon
to elect, on the first Monday Ill Dcccm-
Der, mayor, four aldermen, and mar
shal.
The negro Glenroy Baker, who assass- =
mated Mr.. 4. Judson Motiy, near
Fredericksburg. Va, on the 18Th of last
August, was hung at Spottsylvan!a
Court House on Friday last.
In Kinds county, Miss, there were, in
1850, by the census, 22,3G3 negroes, and
; by a census taken this year, 1850,
, This shows decrease of 5,ll2, being
upwarls of twcnty-four per cent. Hpon
the census of ls6U.
A wife in New Orleans sued for d.
yorce and obtained it on the established
testimony that Il piece of belt ribbon
and a hair pin belonging to another
woman was found III the defendants
bedroom.
TIE VIRGINIA STATE AGRICULTURAL
SoCIETY.-A meeting of the executive
committee of this body was held i'll
Richmond on Monday last, and resolu-
tions were adopted urging the prompt
payment of the State registered bonds,
in which it is required that the funds of
the society shall he vested, in order
that the society may be enabled to hold
its annual fairs regularly.
The Nashville and Northwestern rail-
road, which will connect Nashville dl-
rect with 81. LOUIS, Is making rapid
procrcss in its connection with the
river. The bridge at Johnsonville is in
. course of construction, ana west oi
Johnsonville to Hickman, KY, the
grade is ready for action.
The editor Of the Kinds County Ga
zcttc has been shown, by John Shelton,
Esq, an elegant parlor table, large
enouS for eight persons to dine from,
manufactured entirely from Il Chinese
tree. Fifteen or sixteen years ago hc
witnessed the planting of the tree 10y
Mr.. Shelton. Il was then Il saplin@,
five or six feet high.
Judge W. B. Wood has been pre-
vented from holding the term of Cir
cult Court for Winston county, Ala
bama, which should have commenced
, on last Monday, because III deliberate
purpose on the part of the Radicals oi
that county (of which he was adviscd)
to take his life should he attempt to
hold court.
|: Manufacturers ut the Sonth are be-
ginning TO grow encouraging. One fac
tory in Augusta has turned ont during
, the past year 6,4l0,0O0 yards Of cloth,
and profit of only two cents per yard
would amount to about twenty-five per
cent on the capital of that concern
100000. This proves that there Is
profit to he acquired in the manutac-
turc of cotton where it is grown.
, The two Methodist societies in Harris
onburg, Virginia, have been merged in
to one body, and have placed them,
selves under the pastoral care of the
Baltimore Conference of the Methodist
Enisccpal Church. This union was fully
: accomplished last week, when the two
) societies met together in spirit of cor.
| dial fraternity and blended into one.
The interview between these brethren
= of the same family, who have so many
5 wears been separated and enstrangcd
l from each other, although living in the
, same town. was full OF touching inter
, t.-Rockingham Register.
, Oh IN TENNESsEE.-Lubri oil
, was obtained in Overton county at the
!, dspth of from twenty to thirty feet, but
r not in any quantities. Recently, how
C ever. on sinking the wells deeper, one OF
them commenced flowing at the rate ot
thirty barrels day.
PEANUTs.-This used to he crop OF
considerable value in North Carolina
amounting, as it did. to from $4,000 tc
100000 bushels. The culture has been
revived, and the Wilmington Jomnd
=, states thaethe crop in that vicinity will
be aboat half one. Many shipments
:. have been made, and the crop is steadily
: pouring in.
, Some of the Masons of Massachusetts
3 have presented to their brethren OF
Charleston, S. c., case of Masonic
, jewels, accompanied with letter Of
fraternal greeting in which the hope j:
, expressed ''that the Masonic chain shall
he extended over the whole country
> binding the States more firmly together
: and blending their separate stars in one
! golden halo of light" Resolutions OF
acknowledgement were submitted by W