The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.

"Richelieu.r
There are at least ten distinct grades
of society in New Orleans.
Beefsteak is selling at Tampa: Fla,
for nine cents per pound.
The Libby prison has been thrown
open to visitors, by order of Gen. scho-
field. 8y a
The aggregate of real estate sold at
New Orleans last week approximated
1850, 900.
The lumber, turpentine and rosip
trade of Pensacola is worth 81, ,OOO, 900
per annum.
A Methodist Sunday School Conven-
tion is shortly to assemble at Rich
mond, Virginia.
A Norfolk paper has just come to the
conclusion that the "crisis in Virginia
demands action"
Ex-Confederate Postmaster General
Reagan, is practicing law in little
town in Texas.
General T. c. Hindman has returned
from Mexico to his former residence at
Helena, Arkansas.
A negro woman in Missouri, said the
recent earthquake there was only big
case of "ague."
In some parts of Tennessee armies Of
caterpillars are stripping the trees Of
every vestige of foliage.
: The Vicksburg Weekly Republican, the
only Radical paper in Mississippi, has
suspended publication.
The Picayuae says the present straw
berry season has been the finest ever
known in New Orleans.
The Richmond Bazaar closed with
general auction Of all the effects left
on hand. Its success has been great.
The site of the old North Carolina
and Virginia Hotel, in Norfolk, was sold
on Tuesday for $4,000.
An Alabama paper says, "With the
light before us and bayonets behind us
we had better knock under"
A gentleman residing in Fauquier
county, Virginia, has recently fallen
heir to an estate of S5,O0O,OO0 in Ire
land.
People are flowing into Texas from
every portion of the civilized world.
The population now is about l,2OO, 900;
The Right Reverend Bishop Lavialle,
of Kentucky, is hopelessly i'll. Ex-
treme unction has been administered to
him.
A new cotton mill has been recently
built md put in operation, with six
hundred spindles and eight looms, 1T
Guthbtrt, Georgia.
The .teamcr st. Charles ran from New
Orlean, TO Cairo the other day, in three
days and half, the fastest time in six
years.
Fit is estimated that fonr Virginia and
two North Carolina counties have now
on hard stock of tobacco valued at
s12 100000.
The tuscaloosa Obsrrrer says the foun-
dation Of the new University building
has ben laid, and the walls are begin
ming t'irise.
The mayor of Mobile has appointed
numbsr of colored policemen, who are
specially charged to preserve order
about the cOlored churches.
An orphans Home, without respect
to color, has been founded in New Or
leans. A French gentleman has given
10000 toward it.
Ex-Governor II. A. Wise will deliver
the annual address to the graduating
class at the approaching commence
ment Of the University of North Caro-
lima.
&The PAPER mills at Marietta, Georgia,
which we're nearly destroyed by sher-
man during the war, have been rebuilt
and recently put in operation under ia
vorablt auspices.
A Texas exchange thinks that For
ney might work up heavy Southern
outrage tragedy out of the fact that a
negro t,amster was struck by lightning
near Columbia, South Carolina, few
days since.
Granite is now being extensively
shipped from the quarries on the James
river and Kanawha canal, Virginia, t."
the Norih, from Richmond. One hum
dred and fifty tons were sent to wash
ington the other day.
The bsd-room of q Texas editor was
entered by negro, who carried off the
editors boots and trowsers, the pockets
of which contained his scissors and o
quantity of copy intended for his next
issue.
A stranger played trick on monkey
belonging to hand organ man in Gal
weston, but Jocko thinking he had the
best of the joke stole the mans hat and
ran with it up the nearest telegraph
polc, where he sat for some time grin
ming, until all at once the wires began
to operate and Mr.. Monkey got shock
that sent him heels over head down the
pole into the street.
A Northern lady who is teaching
school at Atlanta, Georgia, in letter
sent North gives a painful picture Of
the d d.stitution in that section. She
states that upon the day upon which
the letter was written she had assisted
a number of people who had not tasted
food for two days. She closes the let
ter as follows:
Returning home, 1 found man wait
ing for me; he was very genteel look
ING person, and with a trembling voice
ne told me he was ashamed to tell his
business, he had never been beggar
until now, but he had sick wife and
ak children; two Of the children had
been taken to the hospital, the
others were starving. Tears roll
ed down his checks. Ny heart