The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-02

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| The South is becoming decidedly
seedy. Vide. agricultural Newton.
Work on the Portsmouth street rail
road will be commenced ON the 18th of
May. u zGH1 IS i3g'H
The new paper mill in Petersburg has
commenced making paper. :.
Gen. John B. Magruder is about toen.
gage in mercantile business in So. Louis.
Two egro'women in louisville have
been fined for fighting for the possession
Of q negro who had married both.
An effort Will be made to secure the
trial of JEFF Davis at the coming term
of court in Richmond, or his release on
bail. J" u'7'- - ~ ~ 'h
Almost the entire business portion of
Benham, Texas, was, destroyed by ire
on the 24th instant, including all the
principal business houses.S ssy
A party of workmen ON the Knox
yille and Kentucky railroad, while ex-
cavating in Anderson county, struck a
rich iron ore bed six feet deep.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
eided to employ mounted Inspectors for
the prevention of smuggling in the dis
trict of Brazos Santiago, Texas.
An attempt has been made to induce
General Grant to authorize the removal
Of Beauregard as President Of the Mis-.
sissippi railroad, but has failed.
General Ord, acting under .instruc-
tions given him while in Washington,
has detailed army officers to act in place
Of the Arkansas State officers removed
by him. a $50 reat. -stt-
By an arrangement recently made,
whereby connection is effected at Up
perville, passengers can travel on alter
nate days between Winchester and Al
exandria in stages.
1t is stated that George W. Bagby is
to become editor of the Orange Erpositor.
If he do, the Exposition will doubtless be-
come one Of the most popular country
papers in Virginia. ..
Lieut.. Floyd W. Num-, formerly of
the Confederate army: was brutally
murdered and robbed Mt Summerville,
Miss, by young man named Fitzgcr-
aid, who has confessed his guilt.
Some colored cavalry at San Antonio,
Texas, mutinied recently, and in put
ting down the mutiny two officers were
wounded, one mortally. The negro who
stirred up the revolt was killed, and
fourteen others held for trial.
". S. Chipley, Medical Superintcn-
teadent of the Eastern Lnnatic Asylum
of Kentucky, has made report to the
Board of Managers, in which he argues
that recent political events which have
wrought SO great change in the con-
dition of the negroes, must result in
large increase of insanity among them.
| A gentleman from Princess Anne in
| forms tho Norfolk Journal that the
prospect for agricultural success was
never fairer. Some of the land has
teen crusted by the wet weather, but
the majority is in fine condition. The
present crop is very promising one,
and the fruit trees are laden with bios
soms-indicative of a fruitful yield.
An attentive correspondent writes us
that he has recently travelled over the
larger portion of Rockbridge and Bote-
tourt counties, and found the wheat
crop looking splendidly-never better.
The farmers are working industriously,
and there is every prospect of pitching
the corn crop almost as early as usual,
Notwithstanding the extreme lateness
of the spring.-Uinehester Times.
At o meeting of whites and blacks
held at Columbus, S. c., Governor Orr
made long speech advising the blacks
to join neither the Radical nor Demo
cratic parties, but wait to join the great
National party not yet formed. Reso-
lutions were adopted in favor of free
schools for the education of all chill
dren, and the revision OF the civil and
criminal code.
In Limestone comfy, Texas, some
days ago, two twin children, brother
and sister, named Dunbar, four years
Old, strayed from their home into the
woods, while playing, and were not
missed until evening. Search was made
and continued till tho evening of the
third day, when they were found, about
two miles from home locked in each
others arms, dead. A wet norther had
come up the night they were lost, and
| i was supposed they died before morn
| ing. .-....-.
| Birdsong-a nominal slave until free
dom, but living apart from his owners
al,d enjoying with his family the fruits
of his labors-is worried by the imposi-
ton Eve quote him) of taxes, from
which he has hitherto been free. He
says: IL paid, sir, si7 Oh my three bags
d cotton; they took that ont, and Eve
b,cu ~ ith4tuH hiti ~ phpuSs put, oht
Ill match them this year-my grand
mother was an Indian, and I'll he an
Indian mot Etaned. .T-.fsgnsfa S[Ga.)
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The Chattanooga .bnerieas Caion says
that East Tennessee has at this time
more corn that is yet to he brought in.o
market, than many have supposed was
produced in the State the past year.
II says that the valleys aud mountain
sides of this mountain region are rs pro-
life Of cereals as was Egypt in the
days Of Josephi and the coming season
will find us with more wheat than ever
before produced i'm Tennessee in any
one single year. A gentleman, just re-
Turned from trip through Jefferson
and Green counties, informs the Csion
that he never saw such growth Of
wheat before as is now in the ground in
that section. The area AZ acres is un-
Ipreccdented, and the alnoIsnt Of ground
preparing for corn pats .Eist years ef
forts far in the shade.