The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-23
SOUTHERN 9 NEWS.
Norfolk is fragrant with flowers.


on q small scale.
Steamboats, are plenty on the Missis
sippi, but freights are scarce.
By an oversight many persons il
Covington have paid no taxes for thre'
years.
Three hundred Montgomery ladies
committed to the flames as many CHG
mons.
A funeral cortege mile long accom-
panied the remains of a Nashville cour
tesan to the grave.
A Radical newspaper, the Erenin!
Republican, takes the place of the Little
Rock, Arkansas, Dispatch.
A Southern editor drew lottery prize
consisting of no less than thirty-eigh'
articles-a pint of bitters containing
that number of ingredients.
The working men of Baltimore have
organized a Workingmen's Political
Union, on the platform of the National
Labor Congress, held there last fall.
On Wednesday evening, Leslie C.
Graves, a member of the City Council
of Lexington, Kentucky, committed si'
icide by shooting himself.
A man in Baltimore was fined $50 for
selling glass of mineral water on Sun
day. The same judge fined woman 81
for keeping house Of ill-fame.
During his speech in Petersburg, Mr.
Wilson said to the negro meeting, u
am one of you," bnt whether he meant
that he was a negro or awhite man, OF
both, is left to conjecture.
A Texas Judge writes that there will
be no court held in his county this
spring, because the Indians have stolen
all the horses, and lawyers and clients
cannot procure conveyance.
W. o. Cruise, an old soldier of the
war of 1912, received severe burns from
the bursting Of q lamp, in Huntsville,
Alabama, last Tuesday, from the effects
of which he died.
Anna Metzger, one of the sisters cap
tured by the Camanches, near San An
tonic, Texas, some months ago, has
been ransomed, and returned safely
home. Her sister was murdered by the
savages, when attempting to escape,
Joseph Walbuhle tried to make love
to Mrs. Kensie, in New Orleans, on the
Sd inst. She. having husband living,
repelled his advances, and the conse'
auence was that two inquests were held
the same day-he shot the woman and
then cut his own throat.
The Norfolk Day Book states that q
lady, who is native Virginian, will
deliver lecture at the Christian Church
on Washington Point, on Thursday
evening. The subject of the lecture
will be "Charity," and the proceeds ar
ising from a small charge for admis'
sion, are to be appropriated jointly to
the destitute OF that section and to the
Church.
A servant girl in Cevington, living in
the family of doctor, filled the pepper
castor with horse-powders, which the
doctor had left lying around loose. The
unsuspecting sawbones is greatly adj
dicted to pepper, and used large quan.
tity of the condition-powder at his next
meal. He is now in fine condition, has
rented stall in a livery stable, and
talks about running for mayor.
The case of General Wool still goes
on in the United States Court at Balti-
more. On Thursday Judge Giles again
ruled that when commander of mill
tary district gives an order for the ar,
rest of a person, and it turns ont to be
unwarranted, he is responsible for the
manner in which the prisoner is treat
ed. He also ruled that the commander
is bound to know what are the accom-
modations in the prison under his
charge.
A lady living on Butte street who had
been married but few weeks. attempt
ed to shuttle off this mortal coil last
evening by taking laudanum. She took
enough to kill three ordinary persons;
and by thus endeavofing to make sure
of the results, took the best possible
way to evade them. The contents OF
three phials were swallowed, and vio-
lent and unromantic nausea produced; q
physician was called in and by energy
and careful attention she was fully re.
stored. Neither the name nor the cause
has been developed.-Norfolk Day Book,
Thursday. .,.r.
A letter from Jefferson county, Ten.
nessee, tells the following story of the
late freshet in that State: "The Holston
river was eleven feet higher than ever
known before, causing great destruc.
ton of property. Twenty-six buildings.
eleven of them residences, went down
the river in one day. One lodged on
McBee's Island. Mr.. McBee visited il
as soon as possible and found child in
bed MP stairs. The child was thought
to be about six months old, and was
nearly starved. Nothing is known OF
its parents, who they are or what be-
came of them -
The Virginia University Ugly Club
have had an election to decide who
should be the recipients Of the honors
annually awarded by the society. Fl.
Hardy Chambers, of Mecklenburg, was
elected President, William w. Scott, Of
Orage, was the "Ugliest Man" and will
receive the boots; F. Hampstead, of Ar
kansas, was chosen as the "Handsomest
Man. and will receive the hat; Mr. G..
w. A. Brantly, of Georgia, was declared
the most Connected man" and will be
presented with the slippers; and Mr..
Frank Wilson, of Augusta, was elect.
ed to be the SMALLEST Man." and will
receive the pyramid Of candy. Merit
was the controlling consideration in
the election, and the contest was very
exciting, particularly for the "Ugliest
Man." .-f
According to the census of 1850, says
the Danville Times, the crop of tobacco
in Pittsylyania county was 7,O53, 1862
pounds. That Of Halifax s,544,532
pounds. From the best information we
ran Gather. we should saw the crop of