The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-17
SOUTHERN PERSON AL ITEMS.

mas eieCted John Berger as its Mayor.
-Ex-Goyernor Vance intends TO reside in fu-
ture IN Wilmington, North Carolina.
H. p. Battle, Esq, has been elected State
Treasurer of North Carolina.
S. l.. Leaphart has been elected Comptroller
General of South Carolina.
-Maor-Ceneral D. S. Stanley, lately in COM
mand at San Antonio, is on his way to the North.
Howell Cobb is comfortably fixed on
plantation near Macon.
-Brigadier-General Robert II. Anderson is
chiet OF the police force at Savannah.
General Ewell has lef. warrenton, Va, and
taken up his residence in Nashville.
-Brgadier-Gen A. r. Lawton Is in Savan-
tnah, and has entered upon the practice of his
profession.
-BrigadierGeneral G. N. sorrel is also in
|jSavannah, and has commenced business as
merchant
p. H. Doughtey, City Attorney of Ports
X mouth, Virginia. died IN that place few days
Yago.
William r. Hicks. OF Albemarle. Virginia.
ing strychnine near him.
i. -Ex.Brigadier Generals Evans, John K. Jack
son, and Henry r. Jackson, are practising
law in Augusta.
Colonel Giles NJ. HDlyer, of the Natchez
= Courier, has declined an invitation to run for
Mayor of that city.
Professor Todd has been appointed Presi
+ dent OF Howard Female Institute, at Gafatin,
Tennessee.
William Galbraith has been elected Mayor
1of Shelbyville, Tennessee, vice Louis Mankle,
1resigLed.
Jane Peacock an aged negro, was run over
by the cars and killed at Shelbyyille, on last
MSaturday week.
"A negro riot occurred at Clarksville, Ten
nessee, on Christmas A policeman, a white
e boy, and negro soldier were wounded.
II General Sam. Hunt has resigned his position
Z. on the staff of Governor Brownlow, and gone
into the oil business.
Henry, Brown has been arrested by the Pro.
4 vost Marshal, at Nashville, on a charge of de-
II frauding the Government of $4,000.
The Natchez Courier notices the death of E.
+ B, Whitaker, Esq, Representative elect from
the parish of ConcOrdia, La.
DIR. NJ. Estes editor of the Shreveport Ne,os,
is preparing for the press history OF the Mis-
ouri campaign.
VIM. +. Sanford, of Alabama, has engaged to
write the life OF Hon. VIM. L. Yancey, who died,
4 during the war, in that State.
&C. e. Lewis has been elected Mayor Of Chat
tanooga by forty-seVen votes over r. Henderson,
former incumbent of tho office.
Ex-Governor Moore, of Louisiana, has
returned home from his voluntary exile in
Texas
Luther W. McCord is about to recommenoe
+ the publication of the Independent Citizen at
Pulaski, Tennessee.
1t is denied that Ex-Governor Graham, of
! sident.
The widow OF Stonewall Jackson has re-
ceived contribution OF S525 in SPECIE from the
citizens of Houston, Texas. She also had a
benefit at the Peters ourg theatre.
Storms, who killed the Rebel Colonel SEWER
of Missouri some months ago, and who escaped
from the Parish prison at New Orleans, has been
reCaptured.
General Evans and General Majors, formerly
OF the Rebel army, are in Houston, Texas, and
YpnnraIQ EaathprefDn George n
IT, Miss.
The editor of the Fayetteville IN. c. Ne,os
whose arrest and incarceration was noticed q
flew days ago, has been released and has resumed
he conduct of his paper.
4 Judge Walker. the newly appointed Consul
Vat ST. Thomas, left Pulaski, with his family, for
= that consulate, last week. II. Ward, Esq, has
z succeeded him as Judge OF the Circuit.
james r. Bartree, formerly of Columbus,
Mississppl was killed few days since at Palo
Alto by the accidental explosion of a gun which
ihe held in his hand.
T-Lieutenant General Hardee has returned to
4 Savannah from a trip to Mobile and New Or
Hleans. While in Mobile he was treated to q
w. supper by Federal officers
The Hon. David G.. Burnett, the venerable
& exPresident of Texas, is on visit to Newark,
j., his native city, after an absence OF thirty
five years.
= General John C.. Breckenridge, General
McC Causland, Colonel Harry Gilmor, Major John
Castleman, Captain Kinds and others, who had
been officers in the armies of the Confederacy,
Pre in Toronto Canada.
General Armistead L. Long, one of General
Lees staff, and subsequently in the Confederate
States artillery, has the superintendency OF the
Second section OF the James River and Kanawha
< canal.
Soldiers of the lO3d negro regiment recently
= murdered Henry Grantham, an old citizen OF
Doctortown, Georgia, and severely wounded his
wife and daughter The perpetrators have been
h turned over to military commission.
8 The following gentlemen we're recently re.
elected TO the municipal offices of Murtrees
T boro:-R. d. Reed, editor of Monitor, Mayor;
%. d. Wendell, Recorder; +. W. January. Chief
8 bf Police.
The Provost Marshal at Lexington Va, has
m Contiscated considerable quantity of hides
ound in tannery at that place, They are
4 partly the property Of the widow of Stonewal
aCkson.
Mr.. j. H. Dendy hving near Shreveport
X was murdered on the night of 9th ult., by negro
soldiers. They burned his house to the ground
! His little son, twelve years OF age, was terribly
81 wounded, but managed TO make his escape in
& he darkness.
Mr.. Edward Henrick, one OF the oldest resi-
dents of Montgomery, Ala, died recently
Although during his life he had paid on securi
S ties for his friends seven hundred and fifty thou
.. sand dollars, he died possessed OF an immense
fortune, and leaves no heirs.
james McCalum, ex.member of the Rebel
Congress, has resumed the practice Of the law il
Pulaski, Tennessee, in partnership with eX
Maior-General John C. Brown. Brigadier
E General Gordon If studying law in the same
place
A number of Southern women in Mississippi
have formed themselves into a Ladies' South
prn Aid Association" branch OF which is to bt
Established in each OF the late Confederate
-. ,t,H,sa g.