The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Memphis hopes to establish direct
trade with Europe. gW
General Shields is farming in Carroll
county, Missouri. = - =
Several cases of smallpox have ap-
peared in Nashville.
The Memphis Typographical Union
numbers one hundred printers.
Basil Duke is a newspaper solicitor
He was a persuasive" rebel. rn
Brownlow worship is now taught in
tho churches and schools of Tennessee,
Poisoned honey is proving fatal to
the country people of South Carolina.
A new Catholic Convent is to be
built in st. Louis at cost of 81 100000
Commodore Wilkes is in North
Carolina, managing some iron mines.
X. Barnwell Rhett, of South Carroll
ma, is preparing to write war his
tory. ..r .-- .r-rr- n
A bed of superior porcelain clay has
DccH ulSCONcicu III INC Nloihity VI nu-
gusta, Ga.
Mrs, Elice Day, aged abont ninety
two years, died at Culpeper courthouse
on the 9Th instant, after a protracted
illness.
A number of negroes at Selma, Ala
bama, have enlisted to fight against the
Indians i'll the West. They will have a
good time. .sE
A census of Virginia, published in the
Richmond papers, shows $4,000 more
white than colered voters i'll the State.
A quarantine is soon to be established
at all the points on the Georgia coast.
This timely precaution is good hint to
some interior cities.
The Holly Springs Reporter, of Fri
day, says that Mr.. Hill, an emigrant
from South Carolina to Texas, accident
ally killed himself with n rifle while
encamped near that place on Monday.
Brownlow declines meeting his COM
petitor, Etheridge, on the stump, and
declares his intention to send a body of
State troops to all points where the
latter may speak, in order to overawe e
him.
A negro in street car in New Orle-
ans threatened to shoot woman, who
had protested against his insults, "as
quick as he would any d-n white
rebel" The conductor said he did not
dare to put him ont as he was a colored
man.
At fair and strawberry festival held
by the ladies of the First Baptist Church
at Memphis, an editors secretary and
chair were voted to the most popular
editor in the city. They were awarded
to Admiral Semmes, of the Bulletin, he
having received n majority of all the
votes.
The military at Mobile made no effort
whatever to ferret ont and bring to JUS
tce the negroes who outraged a whole
family near that city, q few days ago.
The commander evidently feels that he
is there solely for his own comfort and
the protection of his colOred superiors.
Under Griffin's late order in Texas, it
is found that many of the freedmen are
disqualified to sit as jurors. One clause
of the oath prescribed is that no aid
was ever given to the rebellion-few of
them can say that. One was rejected
fifty cents. wv
EThe Houston Telegraph of the 7th says:
General John B. Hood has been spend
ing few days in this city. He is in
fine health, and if he had all his limbs,
wonld be man of great activity, as he
is man of great sagacity and judg-
ment. We hope that his stay in Texas
will be a pleasant one.
There is lying on the streets Of
Natchez, according to the Democrat, an
immense tooth Of some antediluvian
animal, which had been found in a
bayou in the immediate neighborhood
of that city, aud which measures eight
and half inches lengthwise across the
bottom, and is about five inches long.
The body of General a. Mouton was
recently disintcrrcd at Mansfield, to be
buried with his ancestors. The Mach
itoches Times says: Upon opening the
grave, the body, after its three years of
burial, was found in an extraordinary
state of preservation-even the clothing
the dear old uniform of gray remain
ing intact. He lay there as he had
fallen OH that day of death and glory.