The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The New York board of health have
declared New Orleans an infected port
on account of the cholera prevailing
there.
Louisiana's share Of the Peabody
Southern Educational Fund is to be de-
voted to the preparatory education of
teachers. ..sz -
The trial of Captain Morris Schaff by
court martial, for shooting y. B. shep-
herd, Of Mobile, was commenced there
last week.
A Baptist church and several other
buildings in Frankfort, KY, were
burned on Friday night, causing a loss
of $50, 900.
Mr.. Jas. NJ. Mason, of Virginia, now
in Canada, writes a letter to r. W. Gra-
ham, of Texas, advising against any
emigration of the Southern people to
Jamaica or anywhere else.
Mississippi has certainly voted to hold
a Convention. Returns have been re-
ceived from all the counties but four,
which four cannot alter the result.
The Gadsden (Ala.) Times says that
for the past two months an average of
fifty wagons per week have passed
through that town, filled with dissatis-
fed Georgians and Alabamians seeking
homes in the Western States.
A respectable young man, named
Charles Leland, living at Pamela, Mis-
sissippi, cut his throat, last week with
pocket knife. The wound was Not
mortal, and was sewed up, but he was
determined on death, and cut his throat
again, fatally. 20.
The wife of merchant named T. N.
Butler, at Marion, Crittenden county,
Kentucky, eloped few days ago with
one of her husbands clerks. The fugi-
tives were overhauled at Memphis, but
were 80 bent on living together that
they remained deaf to all pleading, and
extended their flight to Arkansas.
A robbery was committed in the north
ern part of Memphis last Friday after
noon which, for cool effrontery, is de-
cidedly remarkable. Three men enter
ed the grocery store of WIN. Edgar, and
producing pistols, placed Mr.. Edgar,
his wife and two servants Hnder guard
of two of the party. The third villain,
at his leisure, ransacked the store and
other apartments in the house, securing
several hundred dollars in money. A
customer who came in while the rob-
berry was progressing was cody dismiss
ed on some preteXt. When the thieves
departed they locked the doors and es-
capped.
We are gratiied to see that South
Carolina, which since the war has suf-
fered the direst and heaviest stress of
privation and poverty, has recently
developed natural resources of vast
extent and value. 4 dispatch from
Charleston makes the following state
ment:
Immense deposits of valuable phos-
pilates, said to be superior to Peruvian
guano, and of incalculable value, have
been discovered on plantations hitherto
considered of little value, stretching
along the banks of the Ashley river, n
few miles above this city. A company
has been formed, backed by Northern
capitalists, to utilize the deposits,
which consist of animal remains, form
ing a thick substratum for many miles.
The subject excites much talk here.
A gentleman from Arkansas, Lieu
tenant Colonel Martin, of the Confed
crate army, from that State, arrived in
our town on Wednesday night last,
with his wife and young child, and took
lodgings at the hotel of Mrs. Lewis.
We hear that the young wife was near
confinement, and during the night, suf-
fering with great pain, used chloroform,
which she inhaled through handker-
chief, and laying it upon her chin went
10 sleep. Her husband awoke some
time afterward, aud was stricken with
horror to find her dead. DR.. Tompkins,
who resides in the house, was called
up, and the awful fact was verified that
she had, indeed, passed away. The
agony of the husband cannot be de-
suibed. The remains were sent on TO
Lexington, KY, where the mother of
the ill-starred wife resideS.-GGi'Gtin
(TeRR.) EramiHer.