The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-11
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Coffee grows well in Texas.
Forty anchors have been found in sa-
vannah river.
Afine baby show Is in progress in
Townsville, Ga.
They are eating watermelons in New
bern, N. c.
Alabama epicures are luxuriating
upon green corn.
Registration in Richmond commences
on the 18th inst.
The starving Alabamians are COM
PEELED to eat snakes to sustain life.
Ripe peaches are selling in Memphis,
Tenn, at fifty cents apiece.
A rolling mill and nail factory is to
be built near Lynchburg, Va,
':There is consolation in the SOIL"
says a Mobile paper. The crops look
well.
Jay Cooke & Co. have bought 100000
acres of pine lands in Missouri for saw
mills.
st Louis aspires to be the Capital Of
the United States, by her central posi-
ton, &c. ~ .t'
Over lO2, 900 bushels of corn have been
distributed among the poor of fifty
eight countiesi in Georgia.
A great deal Of counterfeit fractional
currency is in circulation in Arkansas,
and it is so we'll executed as to almost
defy detection.
The utmost satisfaction is expressed
by nearly everybody in New Orleans
about the removal of ex- Gov. Wells, ex-
cept by Gov. Wells himself.
Brownlow has declared the registra-
tion of voters in Monroe county, East
Tennessee, to be null and void. Monroe
is Conservative county.
ANorth Carolina paper says the wheat
crop in that State is unprecedentedly
fine, and if no accident happens to it
the yield will be better than for years.
The Richmond Dispatch publishes
tabular statement, showing that there
are 1850 business men in that city, and
that they pay license tax of Se5, ,739 IL.
In speech at Knoxville, Tenn, last
Friday night, Judge Houck told the
negroes that if they never embraced
any other religion but radicalism, it
would take them to heaven.
A meeting was held recently by the
citizens of Iuka, Miss, to provide for
the removal of the Confederate dead
within the corporate limits of Iuka,
and their iHterment in cemetery.
Charles Hill, Sheriff of Union county,
Ala, was shot few days ago, by Will
liam Campbell, while the former was
attempting to serve warrant on him.
Campbell made his escape.
The State Treasurer of Virginia has
funds enough in his hands to pay the
July interest upon the State debt, ac-
cording to the provisions of the law
passed at the late session of the Lcgis-
lature. s,
Hiram Thomas, who killed his wife,
Margaret, three years ago, in Bracken
county, Kentucky, has been sentenced
to be hanged Oh the first Friday in Au-
gust. He is seventy years of age.
The Lynchburg Republican learns that
within the past few days a number of
business houses in that city have sus-
pended operations, by reason Of their
inability to meet their current obliga-
tions. - -...... .. r.s Z.
Judge r. c. Graves, of Lexington,
Kentucky, is experimenting in front
raising. He procured the spawn from
New York State, and has now quite a
quantity of young fish, apparently in
thriving condition.
Total number of, voters registered so
far in the city Of New Orleans, 1924;
of which 1O,442 are white citizens, and
2,554 blacks. In Algiers, up to May y,
2s7 whites and 1874 blacks had been
registered.
Gen. w. A. BloUnt, of Beaufort cOun-
ty, N. c., died at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. L. OBJ. Branch, in Raj.
eigh Tuesday morning. General B.
bore an active part in the war of 1872,
and devoted most Of his life afterwards
to the quiet vocation of farming.
Last Sunday night promising youth
in Memphis drew pistol and fred two
shots at his mother, because she OBJ
jected to him going out. Fortunately
he missea his aim. He then decamp-
ed. The police camped out that night
for his benefit, but he kept out of the
way.
Harry Davis, who killed constable
named Gee, in Robertson county, Tenn,
a year ago, was arrested in South Nash
vile on Wednesday. He had just re-
turned from Texas, whithcr he fed
after the murder, and was to have been
married to lady in Nashville in q day
or two. L. "a sss-. ~ Re
A case is on trial in the District Court
at Richmond 20 recover dividends from
the Richmond and Petersburg railroad,
declared during the war, which were
turned over to the Confederate Govern
ment, together with the stock. which
was forfeited as being the property Of
alien enemies.
An Indian passing up the streets of
Natchez, a few days since, was asked
the relative position of white man, ne
gro and Indian. Giving usual "ugh" "
he said: "'Fore de war, fust cum white
man, den Injin, den dog, den niger;
now cum niger, den dog, den lnjin,
and white man last" HfEg
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