The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Mrs. General Lee is in very bad health.
Over one hundred negroes in Mem
phis have applied to the Bureau for ra-
tions.
Another company of Brownlow's ma
litia has been sent to West Tennessee,
to insult the people and raid on hen
rOosts. e. LgE% Ed-1E 90
A family, named McCame, were all
dangerously poisoned, the other day, in
Portsmouth, Va, by eating toad stools,
which were taken for mushrooms.
A notorious horse thief and outlaw
was sho. in Monroe county, Miss, u few
days ago, whilst in the act of bridling a
horse which he had stolen from farm
er's stable.
! The Savannah Herald is authentically
informed that the colored Loyal League
of that city has just discovered de-
ficiency of over ore thousand dollars in
the accounts of an officer, who recently
left there.
Sheridan's newly made policemen, in
New Orleans, are charged with black
mailing gambling houses and other in
stitutiOns. They were probably famil-
lar with those places before.
General c. Robinson, one of the citi-
zens of Alabama, most extensively
known ard esteemed as one of the first
gentlemen of the State, died at bis resi-
dence in Lowndes county, on the 29th
nit. His age was 62 years.
The lowest estimate made for the ex-
pense of registration in Arkansas, is
eight hundred and ninety thousand dol
lars (SS9O, ,OOO). On the same basis the
entiIe cost of registration in the South
will be fifteen millions.
A Union man of the original stripe in
Atlanta was approached the other day
and asked to subscribe to the Lincoln
monument: he remarked that he had
already subscribed So likely negroes and
did not feel able at present to subscribe
any more.
: Jas. W. Mclaughlin, architect, is
busiiy engaged in drawing plans for a
Clerks office of records, in Bracken
county, Kentucky. The building is to
bc fire proof, and will almost entirely he
constructed of bricl; and stone.
A fight occurred on Wednesday. on
Main street, in Fredericksburg, Va, be-
tween some United States soldiers and
some colored people. The colored men
(2) whipped and ran off the soldiers 10y;
and then "order reigned in Warsaw"
1t is stated in the Frederick md. Re
publican, that the banks in Frederick
have instituted suit against the corpora
tion for $500, 900, claimed TO have been
paid Ivy them for ransom, when General
Early captured the place during the
late war, in 1864.
The Shenandoah Herald says young
man from Mt Jackson was lodged in
the county Jail last week, by order of
military commander Hall, for accusing
Michael Graham, of Mt. Jackson, one of
the registrars of the county. of not be-
ing gentleman, etc.
Not long since the manager of plan
tation near Guntersville, Ala, found all
the employees in the field with their
pistols strapped on them.- Upon de-
manding the reason why they were
wearing arms, he was informed that
they were directed to do so by the Off
GERS of the "league," some of whom
were mentioned by name.
The other day a man in Baltimore,
having imbibed freely, rode up and
down the streets at furious rate, and
finally ran over boy, injuring him
seriously. He was at last arrested and
committed to Jail. After being taken
into custody by the officer, the accused
remarked with an air of independence,
"that he had been in this country for
four months, and that he hadn't killed
ANYBODY yet
In Marshall county. Alabama, the
"loyal leaGuers' have succeeded in in
weighing intotheir organization num-
bers Of illiterate negroes and white men
by promulgating falsehoods and the
promise of forty acres of confiscated
land. The negroes have been instructed
to go armed at all times and arc taught
TO regard their employers rs their en-
emies and antagonists to the enjoyment
of impartial sntfrage. r.
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