The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.

duct towards her ylrtuous daughter
Registration commenced in Nash
Vile, Tenn, on Saturday, and ont Of
four hundred voters registered only
thirteen were whites.
Mrs. Adelicia Aeklin has presented
the First Presbyterian Church of Nash
Vile with n bell weighing 1900 pounds,
and costing $4,000.
Mrs Stephen w. Routh, daughter OF
General John A. Quitman, fMississlppi'
died in Louisville on Monday night Of
consumption.
In the Seventh Ward of Mobile there
were registered last week 266 whites
and 1924 blacks. The total registra-
tion of the city thus far aggregates
5Sl4.
DIR. ]. Marion Sims, native of Sonth
Carolina, but for over thirty years a
resident of Paris, has sent $1,000 in gold
in aid of the suffering people of his ma
tive State.
We learn from Captain Sharp, that
under instructions from General Scho-
field, all deputy Postmasters who took
the oath, are disfrahchised, aAd ex-
cluded from registratiOn.--1ter. Gas dte'
The New Orleans Picayune describes
recent tournament as running of
lank, raw-boned horses, splashlng
the mud, in the hope of stick
ing pointed pins through tin rings"
At the Circuit Court for the city of
Lynchburg, at the June term recently
ended, his Honor granted divorce to
Joseph T. Hendricks and Virginia Hen
dricks, his former wife, and ALSO gave
liberty to eachto marry again.
A South Carolina negro was struck
by locomotive and thrown fifteen feet
into the air, falling back on the boiler.
When the train was stopped, he merely
complained that the boiler was nncom-
fortably hot, descended and walked OF.
George Wright, an ex-Confederate
soldier, was shot and killed a. Calhoun
Kentucky, on Saturday, by W. F. Lit
tie, an ex-officer of the Federal army.
Wright had charged Little with re-
celving stolen goods. The latter was
arrested after the shooting, hut Snbse-
quently escaped.
Six boxes of fac coal cured tobacco,
raised by j. J. Adcock, of Granville, n.
c., were sold at the Tobacco Exchange
yesterday by Messrs. Todd, Pngh Il Co.,
at prices varying from S35 to Sl24. This
is the highest sale of the season with
one exception. This speaks well fol, our
market. and plauGcIs VIII consult their
interest by sending their tobacco here,
Tor Petersburg cannot be surpassed for
liberality. Petersburg Express, llh.
ALEXANDRIA AFTAIRs.-The marke'
here is quite active, and prices Of grain
are looking up. The reports of the
wheat harvest are generally favorable,
though it is not thought the yield will
be as abundant rs first anticipated.
The growing corn has greatly improved
v,
wheat is coming in very slowly.
The rumUr prevalent on the streets
Yesterday and to-day, to the effect that
there had occurred in this city during
the last two or three days several cases
of, and one death from Asiatic cholera,
is entirely without foundation in fact.
On Wednesday week, James {. Will
son. VIM. Sorrells, Sr., Thomas SOrrells,
l. Sorrells, D. Hendricks, whites, and a
freedman, were struck by lightning
while engaged in harvesting on the
farm of Mr.. Wilson, on North Buffalo.
VIM. Sorrells was killed, Mr. Wilson
and the freedman seriously, and the
Others slightly injured. Mr.. w. and
the freedman, we learn, are improving,
and are now thought to be in a fair way
of recovery. On the same day we were
visited by a storm of rein and hail ac-
companied by heavy wind, which in
jured many fruit and shade trees, blow
ing up some by the roots, and twisting
off the tops and branches of Others.
The lightning struck in several places
in and near the town, but fortunately
no one was injured.-LeriRgtOH Gazette.
The St. Louis Board of Health has had
the hull of an old steamer fitted with
the necessary arrangements for dump
ing boat; and upon one end of it has
been built dead-house, capable of con-
tanning eighty bodies, with tables for
post Rorten examinations, inquests, &c.
This has been done on account Of the
objections of citizens TO the location of
a dead honse in any part OF the city. A
switch is to be built, connecting the
landing where the boat is moored, with
the railroad leading to the city ceme-
terry, so that a car-hearse can be run
direct from the dead house TO the place
of burial.
An USFoRTUNATE SHOOTING CASE
A painful rumor reached Richmond
Tuesday, of a shooting case which oc-
CURED at London Bridge, Princess Anne
county, on Tuesday last. Several YER
sions of the affair are given, hut the
following appears to he pretty general
ly credited, says the Norfolk Journal:
The reg istration of voters had caused
an cssemblage 'at the bridge, and
among the number man named
Charles Sheppard, who, it appears, was
taking drink in company with sever
al colored men, and turning around ask
ed Major .Woodhouse to Join him, TO
which the Major replied, Il am in the
habit of selecting the company with
whom drink
Sheppard, after drinking, called Ma
jer WOodhouse aside, as il was supposed.
for the purpose of sn explanation. AZ
ter a few minutes of conversation,
Sheppard knocked the Major down,
who thereupon drew pistol and shot
Sheppard In the bowels, inflicting a
mortal wound, and, II is reported, killed
him Immediately. r
Both parties are residents of Princess
Ammo. WoodhOuse was major in the
sixteenth infantry, is a cripple aud in
delicate health. In the army he was re-
garded as q brave soldier and "A cOur-