The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-26
SOUTHERN. HEB NEWS.
Atlanta is putting up 100000 opera

SOUiMhNiNEWS' Heb
Atlanta is putting up 100000 oper'
house.
South Carolina rice is to be intro
duced into India = = b '.i So ,.'. -, .,,,-, -
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Civil authority at the South is treate'
lin the most unciyn manner, & 5aa ya, E.
Augusta, Ca, is arranging a bab.
show. Good thing in small family.
Georgia has built more than sevent!
cotton fac tories since the war.
The negroes of Texas will hold
State Convention on the 4th of July, a
Houston.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph ap
proves Of Horace Greeley for next Pres
ident. 80
Colonel Owen declines reelection a
President of the Virginia and Tennesse'
railroad.
p On pleasant Sundays, twelve thou
sand people, out of population of two
hundred and FIVE thousand, go to churct
in st. Louis. .a.HI 1910
A negro, in the act Of stealing cab
bages, was killed by q watchman thu
other night in Augusta, Ga. ' 70
Reports from Kentucky state thai
the wheat is badly Injured by rust, and
in many places utterly ruined.
Virginia papers say that political
drummers have entirely superseded
commercial travellers since the cropt
failed.
q The ,Etheridgo papers in Tennessee
fys Gresley's flag at the head of their
COLUMNS Universal Amnesty; Impair
tial Suffrage"
Z A meeting in favor Of rebuilding the
William and Mary College, was held
in Williamsburg, Virginia, OH the lOtt
inst. ,.lsAal Drtietill'--
I Louisiana Radicals are telling the
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freedmen that they will get none of the
confiscatcaa property unless they regis
ter and vote.
Two colored men are to hold public
discussion in the Capitol at Nashville
on "the great issues of Conservatism
and Radicalism."
The sentences Of Thomas Taylor and
Albert Grant, who were to be hung al
Gallatin, Tennessee, in July, have beer
commuted. ,,..
The Richmond Examiner predicts the
material regeneration of the South
through the instrumentality of hel
crops Immediately after the present
harvest"
Father Ryan, of Knoxville, author Of
the Conquered Banner" has been in
yited to deliver lecture in Charleston
s. c., under the auspices of the Catho
lie Society. -....
They have mail route now from
San Antonio, Texas, to chihuahua
Mexico. They run three coaches, to.
gether with three mules abreast in each
1t takes little over two weeks to make
q trip. 21sS -.a--'. ,-a .f,-
General Griffin has denied Mr.. Flake
editor of the Galveston, Texas, Bulletin,
who has always been a UniOuist-the
privilege-the right-of registering, al,
though Mr.. F. is ready to take the requi'
site oath.
Some Radicals in North Carolina have
determined to use efforts to induce the
colored people to register, "and vote
against convention" The argument
to be employed is, this is the best means
to bring about cOnfiscation.
A man was scalded to death in a swill
vat in Richmond the other day, and
about the same time three little boys
near Fredericksburg, met with singu-
lar accident, by which one was scalded
to death and the other two were Sc
riously injured . sA-+t@ w
, A North Carolina paper says that that
State ought to send s3,OOO,OOO worth OF
blackberries to market. The county OF
Forsyth shipped $4,000 worth of the
fruit last year. The blackberry grows
wild in great abundance throughout
the central and western parts of the
State. .,.
Four brutes, called men, violated an
orphan girl eighteen years of age, in
New Orleans one night last week and
left her for dead, but she revived and
was able to identify the scnundrels.
They are all in Jail awaiting trial
when she is able to appeIr against them.
There is considerable uniformity in
the length of the principal railroad lines
in Virginia. From Norfolk to Lynch
burg is 2O4 miles, from Lynchburg to
Bristol 204 miles, from Richmond to
Covington 204 miles, from Covington to
the Ohio 223 miles, from Alexandria to
Lynchburg 17s miles.
After q speeeli by the President at
Durham, in North Caroliaa, an old gen.
tleman said to him: "Mr. President,
our people would like to cheer you, sir,
but we can't holler with a yoke around
our necks.n The order of General Sick
les had that day been published sus-
pending civil authority in Fayetteville
and FIVE count ties of the State. = q =
& On Sunday morning last an attempt
was made by q robber or robbers to
steal the melodeon from the Sabbath
school room Of the. Cumberland street
(Dr. Hume's) Baptist Church, in Nor.
folk, Virginia. Fortunately, the sex.
ton was awakened by the movement OF
the thieves, and arrived in time to save
the melodeon. The thieves escaped.
E.. A. Pollard has written new work,
which is shortly to be published, en-
titled "Lee and his Lieutenants'-a col
lection of biographies covering the
space and actisn of the late war;. The
work includes some fifty lives in the
space Of about nine hundred pages. He
represents Stonewall Jackson as an am-
bilious man and high-tempered com
batant. ...... .-....-, .........- u