The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Whitfield county, georgia, mas reg
istered l147 voters, of whom 200 are
negroes. .-...
The mother of Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay
died in Madison county, Kentucky, re-
Gently, aged 90 years.
T. w. Green has been appointed sher-
iff at Columbia, S. c., by General Sickles,
to succeed Sheriff Dent, whose term has
expired.
The United States District Court at
Norfolk has adjourned. No case of gen
eral interest was decided by the court.
The widow of the Major Dade who
was massacred in the Florida war, with
1l2 of his command, died lately in
Pensacola.
| A white man named Abbott was muir
dered by two negroes on Tensas river,
parish of Concordia, La. on Wednesday
last.
Registration in Concordia parish, La,
on the 18th: Whites, only ninety-six;
negroes, two thousand and seventy
three.
Registration closed in Mobile on We'd
nesday evening, with the following re-
suit: Whites, 2349; blacks, 1885, total,
6215.
Notwithstanding the peremptory or
ders of the military chief of police, the
negroes in Mobile continue to hold
military drill.
A local of the Mobile Times heard a
lively lady say that during the war she
had lost both husbands and sweetheart.
Several cases of cholera have occurred
in the lower part of the parish of Tensas,
La, which proved fatal to n few of the
cololed. population, among whom it is
confined.
The wheat crop of Sumner county,
Tennessee, is estimated by good judges
at 100000 bushels. The home con-
sumption will be about 100000. leaving
surplus of 200, 900 bushels.
The oat harvest in Virginia proves to
be the largest for several years. The
wheat harvest is over and is regarded
the best ever raised in that State.
The editor of the Feliciana Democrat
has had an opportunity of examining
the two classes of worms, the army and
the grass. The first was lively, active
jumping creature, the latter dull, heavy,
curling up opossum fashion.
The Mobile Times informs lis that the
larger portion of the ten thousand dol
lars, subscribed by Northern citizens, to
pay for transportation Of provisions for
the poor of Alabama, was furnished by
citizens of Boston.
The Concordia Intelligencer of the 10th
states on medical authority that cholera
has broken ont on the Black Hawk
plantation, forty miles below Vidalia,
and that twelve cases had already
proved fatal. The type is very malig-
nant, causing death in four hours.
A prominent merchant of Macon, Ca,
has purchased the horse Superior"
owned by Stonewall Jackson at his
death, and ridden by that distinguished
soldier while he was in the service.
The horse reached Macon several days
ago, and attracts not little attention.
On Friday last seven cases of larceny
and four of burglary, all negroes, were
tried before the military mayor of Mo-
bile. The Times says the number of
blacks from the country is immense,
and their only remedy against starva-
tion is thieving.
The Adrocate chronicles the demise of
George Menard, an old negro of Baton
Rouge, who died in abject poperty, al
though he had purchased his freedom
long before the war, at the breaking ont
of which he was the owner of slaves,
wagons, horses and mules to cOnsid-
erable amount.
A North Carolina paper says: Hon.
Thaddeus Stevens, General Farnsworth
and n. B. Judd, all members of the
present Congress, have purchased q
gold mine near Charlotte, in this State.
The Charlotte mint, although in good |
order, still remains closed. DR.. Isaac
NJ. Jones, of Salisbury, has been recently |
appointed assayer. and it is expected |
that assaying will soon be commenced.