The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-21
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Orleans.
The sudden death of General Benton,
collector of internal revenue in New
Orleans, is announced.
A pleasant little raid in Missouri re-
Gently resulted in the untimely end OF
sixty Indians.
Mr.. A. S. Richardson, chief engineer OF
the Virginia Central railroad, died in
Staunton last week.
The mortality among the freedmen in
the vicinity of Greensboro, Ca, is very
great. The children, especially, are
dying fast.
DIR. James Phillips, Professor of Math-
ematics and Natural Philosophy at the
State University, at Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, died suddenly last week.
A man in fredericksburg, Va, was
lately knocked down by lightning, and
cured of rheumatism. He don't recon-
mend the remedy.
Michael Fallow, US. soldier station
ed in Norfolk, has been arrested for
robbing. on the public highway, another
soldier named Lewis Goburt.
Robert c. Wyatt, lately constable in
Norfolk, has been arrested for knocking
down and robbing Mr.. G. A.. Smith, of
EdentOn, North Carolina, of Sl,O0o.
In the Circuit Court Of St. Joseph
county, Missouri, all the causes against
ministers for preaching without having
taken the "iron-clad," have been dis
missed.
A "befuddled" individual went into a
jewelry store in Galveston, bought an
elegantly silver-plated cream jug, put
in some pebble stones, tied down the
cover, fastened the machine to the tail
of "yaller dog" and sent him yelping
down the street.
Among the guests at the grand ball
given at the st. Louis Hotel, was Madam
Ristori and daughter. The latter, who
is as graceful rs she is beautiful, ming
| led in the dances several times during
the evening.
In Columbiacounty, S. g., gentlemen
are serving out corn by the peck, to the
more destitute, to save from starvation
Letters from the South say "we were
approaching general famine. such at
had never been known in this country
A Cairo dispatch gives the details of a
horrible and fatal fight between two
brothers, named Jacob and johnson
Barnard, ut Sarcoxie, Missouri, a few
days ago. An old feud caused the fight
They fought with revolvers, each empty
ing his piece, and then fought with the
butts of their pistols until they fell en-
hausted. One was found to be dead, and
the other nearly SO, a raving maniac.
At Rock Hill, South Carolina, on
Saturday, a woman became mother OF
FIVE pounds of daughter; forty-two
hours after, five and three-quarter
pounds of daughter resulted, "simul-
taneously succeeded" by eight pounds
and four ounces of SOC, all to the de-
light (') of father more than seventy
years old. "All doing we'll" Few have
done better.
A country editor in Texas thus speaks
of his vexations :-"Never have we
been so bothered as at present. We
have lost nearly our whole years sup.
ply of meat-our eye-sight is affected
dunned daily for small debts-nobody
to 20 to the mill for bushel Of meal
with thousand other things to annoy
us. We are willing to sacrifice all this,
and more, to give the public good
paper, and hope 10 meet with just re-
ward"
In Rails county, Missouri, the other
morning, c. c. Mayhall, newspaper
man, hearing a noise in room adjoin,
ing that in which he slept, rose from the
bed, and seizing his revolver, stepped
to the door, where he saw what he con-
ceived to be burglar effecting an en-
trance through the window. He fired,
intlicting severe wound upon his wife,
who had risen some time before with
out awaking him. -
A "Southern Unionist" writes to For
ney: The anomaly is now presented OF
adjudications in the late so-called Con-
federate States which rest upon the
fact only Of secession. In Alabama, for
example, we every day see, in the eccle-
siastical courts, executors, administra-
tors, guardians and trustees re-
lieved from responsibilities resting upon
the receipt of paper currency issued in
aid of the rebellion, and in posi-
tive contradiction of provision of the
Constitution of the United States. We
see the Superior Court of this State
making it the Supreme law, binding in
ferior Courts, in violation of what they
believe right, that the late Confederate
Government was nationally valid, and
sanctioning the insolvencies of trust es-
tates under acts which, under no other
enlightened system of Of jurisprudence
would be for q moment countenanced
We see these decisions in direct conflict
with those of tho United States Courts,
sitting in the same locality, the only
| difference being in the parties litigat-
ing before tho different tribunals. We
call upon Congress to fnterpose in this
unfair condition of affairs, and prevent,
by appropriate legislation, the injustice
which is falling 50 heavily upon poster
ity.
A correspondent writes that the
weather in South Carolina is charming.
He says: ~ have been in South Caro-.
lima for ten days past, and it has seemed
more like May than February. On last
Thursday, while the snow was falling
in the city of New York, in Charleston
it was By far the most comfortable ia
walk on the shady side of the street
This mild and beautiful weather is i'm
parting the freshness of spring to many
of the trees, shrubs and flowers
| The dark dead tinge which the 70.