The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Bishop STEPHEN Eillcott, vi o0oi6"'
died suddenly'at Savannah, on Friday
evening.
The Richmonders are in the dumps
because Ristori isn't going to sing
there. S..
Governor Worth was inaugurated as
Governor of North Carolina on Satur-
day. y
R.F. Harmon, for over forty years
-four inspector at Petersburg, Va, died
last week.
The impressive attitude of the South
ern elephant is a source of annoyance to
its radical owners.
A child, lost three days before the
evacuation of Richmond, has just been
restored to its mother.
Direct trade between Norfolk and
Europe has been established.
Among the recent pardons granted by
the President is that of General 81. w.
Ransom, of North Carolina.
We miss the ks in the Richmond En-
dminer.-Bostoa Post.
That's b. ks Pollard has lcft.-No-
bile Times.
The North Carolina Insolvent Debt
ors' bill has passed the House, securing
100 acres of land and the house to the in
solvent.
The congressional committee appoint
ed to investigate the July riot in New
Orleans are busy taking testimony.
On the 1st of January the freedmen
at Wilmington, n. c., with the consent
of the city authorities, are to have a
grand celebration of the anniversary of
President Lincoln's emancipation proc
| lamation.
The crops both in Eastern and West
ern Tennessee have turned out remark
ably well this year, but are reported to
have generally been failure in Georgia
and Alabama.
An old gentleman living in Crockett,
Texas, is the father of five children, four
daughters and one son, who have all
married in a twelvemonth. The old
man himself has just obtained divorce
from his third wife, and is OH the look
out for the fourth.
The Supreme Court of Georgia de-
cided, in case brought before it the
other day, that "the wife and children
of a person who had created lien upon
his property, may secure their interest
in sthe same, by proceeding under the
insolvent laws, without resort to equity.
A dispatch from Nashville, speaking
of the reception given to the congress
sional excursionists, says: "Not the
least significant of the incidents con-
nected with the congressional banquet
was the fact of its being overwhelming
" attended by leading rebel citizens.
The rebel Generals L.. S. Cheatham and
Maury, and Ex-Governor Brown, made
brief speeches concerning good feel
ing and love for the reconstructed
Union.
A young girl named Elizabeth Hen
bricks was found murdered on Saturday,
December 18th, ut the residence of Mr..
j. b. McLin, in New Orleans. 1t is sup
posed that the deed was committed with
a flat-iron, which was found in the room,
and, from footprints on the floor, that
the criminal was q female. The case
creates considerable excitement, as the
victim was well connected and n gen.
eral favorte among her acquaintance,
and also as the most rigid examination
fails to disclose either the motive or any
clue to the person by whom the murder
a-a-rs.-n-,>.s,
There are now $50 students at Wash
ington College, Lexington, who hail, in
tho numbers given, from the following
States: Virginia, 1870; Tennessee, 40:
Kentucky, 81; Texas, %; Louisiana, II;
Alabama, IA; Mississippi, ~; Maryland,
0; North Carolina, Z; Georgia, &; West
Virginia, 6; Florida, 5; Missouri, 5;
Sonth Carolina, A; Arkansas, 2; District
of Columbia, 2; New York, >; Kansas, l;
California, 1; New Jersey, l; Massa-
chusetts. l; Pennsylvania, l.
The Raleigh Progress of Friday even
ing says: Quite an excitement was Gre
ated this morning by the interference of
Colonel Bumford and posse of soldiers
with Sheriff Ray, while whipping ne
gro, sentenced to receive thirty-nine
lashes for house-breaking and robbery.
In obedience to the order from court,
Sheriff Ray had the negro stripped and
was proceeding to lay the ticks on his
bare back, when n Major Wells, of the
9Th United States Infantry, ordered him
to lesist. The officer was dressed in cit
izen's clothes at the time and was fol-
lowed by q crowd of negroes and federal
soldiers, likewise apparently off duty.
The Sheriff had already given the negro
eight hicks and was in the act of giving
him another when he received this
peremptory order. Prudence being the
| better part of valor in this instance; the
sheriff determined to refrain from the
execution of his duty, until he could see
or hear from Judge Fowle. Judge
Fowle was sent for, who, on reaching
the court house, Immediately decided to
indict all the military officers and pri-
Yates concerned in the interference and
to carry out the laws of North Carolina
if it took all the civil force of the State
to do so. He accordingly issued such
orders, but as there was great danger OF
provoking disturbance by executing
the laws this morning, sent the negro
to jail until tomorrow, when he will
certainly receive the punishment allot-
ted. The soldiers then left the ground
DR.. CUNNING, the "Great Tribula'
tion," prophet, who assumes to be wise
above what is written, has recently de.
livered himself of the following "solid
chunk" of prophetic wisdom: 81 adhere
to the solution have given of the ex.
haustion of the great chronological