The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.

A new registration bill has passed the
Maryland Legislature.
! An armlcss man in Richmond eloped
! with married woman.
A man in st. Lonis solved his relig-
ious doubts by blowing his brains out.
Virginia will call Constitutional
Conve ntion. Noses have been counted.
The Rome, Georgia, Courier thinks
the peach crop in that section is in dam
ger.
| The Greenville (Texas) Gladiator says
that the wheat cror in that section is
fine.
There are forty-four divisions Of the
Sons of Temperance in the State OF
Tennessee.
| A Richmond paper says the sooner
Virginia eats her peck of dirt the soon
er she will feel satisfied.
Everybody in Virginia who has debt
due him i. instituting proceedings to
obtain judgment upon it.
Peach trees are in full bloom, and tho
trees are putting on their summer dress
es in the GulfStates.
A negro uamed Adam Page died in
King George county, on the 4th inst,
in the one hundred and twenty-secOnd
year of his age. ...
General Henry L. Benning, of Colum-
bus, Ga, is suggested as suitable man
for the next Governor of that State.
The Texas papers publish startling
accounts of Indian Outrages in Clay,
Webb and Montague counties o. that
State.
In report on the geology of Ala
bama, Professor Tuomey computes that
there are $3.50 square miles Of coal
fields in the State of Alabama alone.
1t is said that there will be Radical
candidate for the Mayoralty of Freder
icksburg, and that every effort will be
made to concentrate the negro vote up
on him.
The Norfolk Day Book says rogue's
carnival has been inaugurated in that
city. 1t records nine cases of robbery
that occurred during Friday, Saturday
and Sun day.
The Mississippi steamer Clermont
struck a log near Memphis, Saturday
night, and immediately sunk. The
crew and passengers, except one, were
saved.
A company has contracted to rebuild
the Pollard and Pensacola railroad,
which was destroyed during the war,
and will proceed to work at once. This
connection will be highly advantageous
to Montgomery.
A fatal collision occurred bstween
two trains last Monday on the railroad
between Montgomery and Mobile, re-
sulting in the death of All engineer
named Scott, and much damage to
| freight. ...... ': !
A freedmen from Kentucky shot Sam
uel Fergus, near Lebanon, Illinois, to
obtain possession of rabbit the boy
had killed. The farmers wanted to
| lynch the negro, but the father OF the
boy insisted that he should he surren-
dered to tho authorities.
The New Orleans Bee estimates the
present population of that city at 27o,-
900 souls. In accounting for this large
increase the Bee says that the war has
driven vast numbers of both white and
colored persons into the city.
A drunken man attempted to drive a
wagon, containing his wife and four
children, across aL.swollen stream IN
Phelps county, No, few days ago,
when the wagon Was upset by the cur
rent and three of the children were
drowned.
The stage and mail from Fort Clarke,
Texas, were captured by Indians on the
11th ult. The driver and passengers
kept fifty assailants at bay until morn
| ing, when q reinforcement OF Indians
appeared and all the passengers were
taken prisoners. Their fate Is unknown.
Three of the most prominent mer-
chants of New York city-on general
tour of observation in the Southern
States-arrived at Fortress Monroe on
9th inst, and spent the afternoon in an
| interview with Mr. Davis. They were
pleasantly received by Mr.. and Mrs:
| Davis. The conversation which ensued
on various commercial subjects, it is
stated, was prolonged for several hours.
General Lee has been the recipient of
a great many gifts of various kinds late
", but his letters of thanks have been
very reticent in regard to the expression
of opinions. The Tribune suggests that
the donors of gifts should write after
this fashion: "Dear General, accept this
coat, and what do you think of the wool
interest I" or "Here is little purse of
greenbacks, and please give us your
views Of the resumption of specie pay
| ments-"
Generals Johnston, Hardee and Nor
gan have been appointed by the citizens
of Selma to visit New Orleans, in the
interest of the New Orleans and Selma
railroad. The length of the proposed
road is 245 miles, and in connection
with the Alabama and Mississippi road.
| it will reduce the time from New York
to New Orleans two days and half.
The farms of T. B. Powers and Stat
ford G. Cook, near Yorktown, are each
occupied, by some five hundred refugee
freedmen. The negro village on the
former is known as "Slab Richmond"
on the latter as "Slab Town" The
owners of the respective properties look
to the Freedmen's Bureau agent for
their rent. About ten days ago Mr..
Cook applied to the agent for his rent,
and the latter applied to the negroes,
who peremptorily refused to pay any
thing, asserting that the land belonged
to them. Thereupon the agent dis
patched small guard Of soldiers from
williamsburg to "slab Town" to
overawe the negroes and COM
pei the payment of the rent.
This guard returned faster than
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