The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.

office. To :
Cows Craze on the burnt district of
Charleston, 8. c.
Georgia talks Of 100000 bales of cot
ton. The ciphers are too many.
The negroes in Richmond are very
anxious to lay up farms, after the Tri-
bane's advice. # IS
Two Union Leagues of North Alabama
have nominated w. II. Smith for Gov
ernor.
A courtin Richmond. Va, has decided
that dog stealing is not theft, according
to the law.
The Southern papers fail to discover
any practical merit in Greeley's gratu-
it0us advice to the South.
Edward A. Pollard, of Richmond, has
commenced a suit for his property in
Washington, sold by confscatiOn. =
Mrs Harry Langdon, known on the
stage as Miss Annie Senter, died at
Nashville last Wednesday.
Jefferson Davis was born in Todd
county, KY, and was sixty years old on
the Sd day of June.
A watermelon "about as big as your
head" made its appearance in Columbus,
Ga, a few days ago. Price "a.
Benjamin F. Flanders, the newly ap-
pointed Governor of louisiana, is q ma
tive of Bristol, N. H.
There will be about 10000 voters
registered in Alabama, about equally
divided between whites and blacks.
John NJ. Washington, mayor of New
bern, N. c., has declined to take the
oath of Office required by Gen. Sickles.
Some friends in Knoxville, Teua.,
have made President johnson present
of n fine horse. 1t has been sent on to
Washington.
A man in Louisville, whose wife died
of cholera, has sued the city for S25, 900,
alleging that the impnrity of the city
caused the disease.
JoRUMs of champagne and pineapple
punch are bestowed upon New Orleans
editors, which accounts for their arti-
cles containing so much spirit.
Uncle Sam is smiling upon John Chi
aaman, and asking him how he would
like a new neighbor at WoOsung, fiat
neck of land at the junction Of the
Whangpoo and Yangtsz rivers.
Tho City Council of Nashville has
made provision for the free education of
all colored children between the ages of
five and fifteen years, Oh precisely the
same footing as white children.
Savannah has the second rank, as q
cotton port, along the whole coast. She
has surpassed Mobile the last Sc ason by
an excess of 5000 bales in receipts, and
has received 100000 bales more than
Charleston.
Among others who have recently left
this country for Liberia under the aus
pices of the American Colonization So
ciety, is an entire colored church. from
Macon, Ca, including the pastor and
deacon. I.
General Pope has written letter in
justification of his action in removing
the civil authorities of Mobile. He
says it was requested by the Union men
before the riot, and, now that it has
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lists and the better class of S0utherners.
WIN. d. Hart & Co., of the Virginia
Land Agency, have received proposals
from the agents of number Of German
capitalists who wish to purchase body
of about 10000 acres of land in Virginia,
for the purpose of establishing o colony
of German vine-grOwers.
One Of the reporters of the New Or
leans Crescent witnessed "a prize fight
the other day between two negro .wo-
men, the result of political quarrel.
The yictress, says the Crescent, proved
to be, as she declared, "a jeff. Davis
Southern nigger, able to whip anJ bob
olition black hussy in New Orleans"
A case of miscegenation was recently
brought to the notice of the Courts ut
CoIinth, Miss, in which the parties,
Mary Martiu (white) and VIM. Cross
(colored), were both fined, and held to
further trial. 1t is alleged by way of
extenuation that Mary-a Catholic per-
haps-only wanted to make little
eross.-Preatice.
Asy person knowing the whereabouts
of A. NJ. Cook, of Augusta county, Ala
bama, will confer favor upon his dis
tressed mother by addressing Mrs.
Emily j. Cook, Montgomery, Alabama.
He was a member of the Fifty y-ntnth
Alabama Regiment, Colonel Hall: was
captured, and has not been heard from
since the close of the war. Any in
formation of his whereabouts, if alive,
will be thankfully received.
The owner of dog in Memphis, was
offered o half interest in five thousand
dollar dog fight if he would allow his
dog to fight another dog in New Orleans,
for FIVE thousand dollars. and it was
stipulated that if this Memphis dog
should be killed in the fight his owner
should receive five thousand dollars,
and if he was not returned. safely after
the fight, ten Thousand dollars put up
to guarantee his return should be for.
feited. The owner, who is q man of
property, spurned the offer.
Rebel shells have not lost all their
terrors. For some time past parties
have been engaged in fishing up the
shot and shell thrown into the river by
the Confederate military authorities on
the evacuatioa of Mobile. These shot
and shell were sold as old iron, or as
lead, as the case might be. Last Thurs
day evening she'll was 6shed up, and
while the parties engaged in procuring
these articles were moving them with a
view of sending them away for sale, the
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