The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Galveston has "nasty market house.
A rogue's carnival has been inaugu-
rated in Norfolk.
The Confederate ram Merrimac is to
be hoisted with torpedo.
Mayor Thomas. radical, of st. Louis,
has been nominated for reelection.
The Richmond Times thinks women
will vote in less than ten years.
The Louisiana Legislature has passed
bill to inspect and tax brothels.
The Honduras immigration fever is on
the increase in parts of the South.
The late flood has injured Tennessee
to the amount of two hundred mil
lions.
General Lee advises the South to go
ahead and reconstruct as quickly as
possible.
William d. Branch has been Mayor of
Lynchburg, Va, since 1851.
The wheat crop in the Carolinas is
highly spoken of by the local papers.
There will shortly be billiard match
in Memphis. The prize is gold mount
cd cue.
There have been twenty-seven snow
storms at Lynchburg, Va, tthis lpast
winter.
James Sizer, the oldest citizen of
Richmond, died in that city OIL the 18th,
aged 90.
The Virginia and Tennessee railroad
is now fully repaired
The Baptist Convention of Georgia
will meet in Columbus, on Friday be-
fore the fourth Sunday in April, the goth
prox.
The Spragues are investing eight mil
lions in Augusta. and Augusta is hap
py old girl in consequence.
Danville, Va, is taxed three millions
of dollars on the manufacture of t0bac-
co, but has no representation.
1t is'stated that the prison grounds
at Salisbury, North Carolina, are to
be planted with cotton the present sea-
son. .
Most of the peach bud, in the York
Vile district, South Carolina, were
killed by the severe weather of last
week.
The officers of local steamers have Of
fered to carry supplies gratuitously,
from Memphis, to the sufferers by the
food.
1t is reported that nearly five hun
dred buildings floated past Chattanooga
during tn recent freshet.
A cotton factory is to be built at Pope's
station on the Mississippi and Tennes-
see railroad south of Memphis.
The Tallahassee Florididn says that
the whole Sea Island cotton crop of
that State is probably not less tho" 80"
thousand haloo
The New Orleans Picdydne, while
examining its mouth with strawberries,
exults at the approach of blackberries,
cantelopes and peaches.
A lady of the town of Akin, S. c.,
lately presented her astonished spouse
with four fine male children, averaging
three and a half pounds.
The report of schools in Memphis,
published by the Freedmen's Bureau,
shows an attendance of 2,297 at the col
ored schools, while in the white schools
the number attending did not exceed
1.555.
Colon ell Samuel H. Lockett, of Mari
on, Alabama, has been elected Professor
of Engineering and Commandant of the
State University of Louisiana Qocated
at Alexandria,, with a salary of twenty
FIVE hundred dollars.
The thirty-seven railroads in the De-
partmcnt of Tennessee owed the United
States, on the lst of February last, 3d.
56s, 900, being the principal and inter-
est, unpaid, due for railroad property
of all kinds purchased from the Govern
pent.
There are Chinese laborers now on a
Louisiana plantation. The coolies are
good laborers and sober men. They are
industrious, and perfectly satisfied with
their new country, and any amount of
( labor will be performed by them, pro-
vided the contracts passed are carried
| out to the letter, and particularly that
about the payment Of monthly wages
and rations.
The people Of Montgomery, Alabama,
for a week or two past, have, Southern
like, permitted themselves TO he i'm
posed on by a sharp necromancer, styl-
ing himself Houdin, and claiming to be
the world-renowned magician of that
name. Really, the genuine Houdin died
/ in France ten or twelve years ago. This
| fel low who assumes the name is origin
/ ally from Maine; became n Methodist
preacher many years ago, went West, and
/ preached several years; bat his numer-
Gus amours with the sisters got him
| into difficulties, and after an elOpement
with some mans wife in Minnesota, and
q similar scrape in Kansas, he turned
up as the great prestidigitateur, and
. has been engaged in all sorts Of rascali
ty ever since. His full history was
published in the Memphis papers last
fall, when he was trying to exhibit his
tricks there. He left suddenly, between
| two days.