The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-25
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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fsepolics of Nashville are to be nni-
formed.
i Yellow fever has made its appearance
in Pensacola harbor.
| Gen. Pope has appointed B.. F. Conley
Mayor Of Agusts, Ga: II '4-
A gold mine in Lamphin county, Ca,
yields from $500 to 81 900 per day.
j Archbishop Spaulding, Of baltimore,
is pronounced out Of danger. 81
Hunnicut wants $40 a month for max
ing infiammatory speeches among the
Virginia negroes.
A single haul of the seine in Albe-
marie Sound, N. c., captured $1,000 her
rings and 1900 sbad.
Louisville one night thought it saw a
lost pleiad hunting for its way, but it
turned out to be Drummond light.
Ex-Governor Seldom Roane, of Arkan-
sas, died on the 9Th inst. He was col
onel in the Mexican war.
The steamer r. E. Lee got adrift at
Memphis and sunk one boat against
which she struck, and injured several
Others.
A st. Louis reverend is of the opinion
that all the wood on the continent will
be used up within the next century and
half.
Ex-President Burnet, ofTexas, is out
in letter recommending the frank ac-
ceptance of the congressional recon-
struction plan.
The Legislature of Virginia has pass
ed law levying tax of three cents on
one hundred dollars for the payment of
interest on the State debt.
A youth in Florida town had his
face slapped by school teacher. Youth
produced a revolver and compelled his
principal to fall on his knees and beg
pardon for the offence.
A letter from Nashville says three car
loads of ammunition arrived on the 18th
instant, directed to Governor Brownlow'
A large number of muskets having the
same destination, have reached Louis
vile.
Two officers of the 9Th United States
artillery, stationed at Fortress Monroe,
had an alteration on Thursday, in
which blows were exchanged, and in
the struggle the shOulderstraps OF one
were torn off his coat.
The Louisiana papers describe the
ravages Of the flood in that State, espe-
cially in the vicinity Of Lake Prori-
dence and Tensas Parish, as fearful.
Families have been driven from their
homes, and provisions are almost unat-
tainable, as the crops are ruined.
Mr.. A. NJ. Gwin, brother of ex-senator
w. NJ. Gwin, was drowned lately while
crossing the Mississippi in dugout
with n favorite servant. Goorso, at least,
Meiiner has been heard from since they
started. He lived in lssaquena, Miss.
A too affectionate wife, in Cresco'
Iowa, becoming jealous of her husband,
some ten days ago, came up behind him
while he was writing, placed her hand
on his forehead, pulled his head back,
and, instead of the kiss he had prepared
his lips to receive, poured cup Of sui
phuric acid in his face. ..r..
In Gibson county, Tennessee, last
week, freedman named Bob. smith
was murdered by Kentuckian named
Waters. who went to Trenton, in that
county, for the purpose. He charged
that during the war, Smith had taken
soldiers to his (Walters) house and in
cited them to ravish his wife. Walters
was arrested, but afterward made his
escape. ar rE'Hf
EMr. Charles Kane, stage-manager OF
the American Theatre, at Baltimore,
was accidentally shot few evenings
since by ball from Derringer pistol,
in the hands of Mr.. Charles King, the
doorkeeper, The ball penetrated the
leo. between the knee and thigh, but,
fortunately, although painful; the
wound is by no means considered dan
gerous. -...r.-.r r.....
Southern correspondence and ex-
changes unite in des cribing the famine
at the South as terrible. In middle
Georgia, the last supply of corn will be
exhausted in about six weeks. People
have walked twenty miles for a peck OF
Corn meal. Deaths have already oc-
lcurred from actual starvation. The
same condition of affairs Is said, on the
most reliable authority, to exist in other
parts of the State, in Alabama, Mi'sis-
sippi and South Carolina. -g
Passing along the road few days ago,
we saw a solitary negro man planting
corn in the field, and white man sit
ting OH the fence looking at him. Now
that fellow, we recken, didn't hear the
thunder and is not walked up yet. He
mnst have found some high spot which
the waters didu't reach during the late
deluge. why didn't the man get off the
fence and go and carry row alongside
the negro, and Thus double the crop'-
Danrille Register. .,.,
The Selma (Alabama) Messenger, OF
the 18th gives the following account OF
THE robbery of the First National Bank,
ofshat place, of $3.50, ,Oo0-mention of
which has already been made in our
dispatches: "The robbery was effected
about Q o'clock p. NJ. the thief enter
ing at rear door and carrying OIL the
immense prize, while the President OF
the Bank was ut theifront desk transact
ing some business. The funds stolen
we're lying on the table, in two pack
ages, near the safe, and were about to
he sent to New York whom gobbled mp
by the bold thief" Att o'clock next
morning, no clue had been gained Of the
thief
Az INCIDENT WITH PRETTY MORAL.
IA scar-worn ex-rebel soldier who
drove a team to lumber wagon, heav-
;ly loaded, last Thursday, had the mis-