The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-17
SOUTHERN Na NEWS.

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b A Ben Bntler club has been organized
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The Georgia negroes favor Thai. Ste
vens for the Presidency.
An immigration society is about to be
formed in Arkansas,r q Ovg
A Masonic temple for the Grand Lodge
Of Texas is being erected at Houston.
A four-armed, four-legged, and two
headed child has been born in 'yicks-
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White people mt the Sonth seem to
have no rights that cOlOred folks ara
bound to respect.
The Houston Telegraph says the re-
ports from the growing cropsare very
favorable and epcoaraging. lfE
THE celebrated Charlie Burrows is
with Haight and Chambers Great Com
bination.
1t is estimated that two hundred thou
sand negroes hayelearned to read in the
South withinlthe last two years.
Ex-Confederate General Joe Johnston
was a heavy loser by the Parkman de-
Alkatiqalqi in the Selma tAla.) National
London mnst be overcrowded. Iu q
certain street one room was found to
to contain a man; his wife, three chill
dren, and fifteen dogs.
| 5,4ynsping niachiae sucked the arse
mic out Of young man in Baltimore
who attempted to get up q funeral. He
didn't want to live single.
;, Several cases have recently occurred
of colored children being atrociously
cowhided by the female teachers of the
freedmsp's schools in Memphis.
1t is strongly limited that some Of
Bro ownlow's militia are to be sent to the
Northwest to fight the Indians, as soon
as the August election is over.
The New Orleans Times remarks face
tiously that the South is now swallow
ing with "scarcely wry face" the pan
acea which the Radicals offer as cure
for all Southern evils.
WHO doesnot desire to see the. large
collection of animals with Haight &
Chambers great show.
Fifteen thousand voters have been
registered in New Orleans. Reports
from the interior of the State indicate
that, thus far, there are many more ne
groes than whites registered.
The Knoxville and Kentucky Rail
road Company will in 4 short time COM
plete their depot at Knoxville, East
Tennessee. The road is tn he pushed
vigorously forward to completion.
4 negro by the name Of. Green Barlow,
living in Lee county, Georgia, few
days since murdered his daughter, u
girl eighteen years of age, for walking
out with Young man of the same color.
Columbus, Ga, it is said, will be the
leading manufacturing city of the South
by next fall; as the most of the cotton
factories burned by Wilson at the close
of the war will be built by. that time.
The citizens of Decatur county, Geor-
gia, have subscribed the full amount,
tSlQ0, 900, necessary. f,r the extension of
the Atlantic and Gulf railroad to Balm
bridge. The work will be prosecuted
without delay.
The Tombigbee Presbytery of Missis-
sippi are abOuJ to establish first class
female college at Meridian. Initiatory
steps are also being taken to establish a
theological seminary for the Southwest
in the same vicinity.
On Monday last three sons of Mr..
Thomas s. Behn, of Beaufort District,
South Carolina, in company with a ne
gro boy, went sailing in Hazard Greek,
when the boat capsized, and the two
oldest white boys were drowned. They
were aged twelve and fourteen years.
The negro and the youngest boy were
saved.
The Freedmen's Bureau officers have
been compelled to take possession of
steamers at Brashear City, Louisiana,
for use in rescuing families from RATS
on which they had taken refuge from
the floods. There is terrible suffering
among the people of that section, from
the destruction of property by inunda-
tion.
The statement that ths grand jury
have indicted the proprietcrs Of certain
newspapers in Richmond is now denied,
and it is stated that no steps to that end
have or will be taken. The grand jury,
after consultation with General SchO-
field, refused to indict the street-car
conductor for the election Of The negro
Scott on Friday last.
Mr.. Patrick Gray mysteriously disap-
peared from Augusta, Georgia, where
he was well-known business man, on
the night Of Saturday week. On the
following morning, his watch and chain,
which had been forcibly separated,
were found on the floor of his bed room,
but his bed had not been occupied. He
was last seen at about midnight, on the
street.
The indications seem to be that there
will be great activity during the COM
iLg summer in the gold-bearing country
nearest Atlanta, and that her mineral
resources will be developed with ener-
gy and very rapidly-thereby giving
profitable employment to the destitute
thousands in those localities, as we'll as
enriching the State BY enhancing the
value of its real estate, and increasing
its working capital,
w. r, Marsh, President of the Bank
of Lexington, N. c., and f. d. Hamp-
ton, one of the Directors, were taken
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