The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.

| seahS VI
! New Orleans talks of issuing city
notes as currency.
A resident of Richmond beat his wife
and threw her down well
The University of Virginia is troubled
with debt of $4,000.
The negroes of Georgetown are learn
| ing their duties in view OF election day.
There is no money now in the Ten
nessee State Treasury.
The first shad of the season were sold
on Monday in Wilmington, n. c.. for
SO per pair.
The weather in Macon, Ga, at last &c
counts, was 'as balmy as maiden's
breath"
ARidical editor is trying TO make out
The Lynchburg tobacco factories are
beginning operations and all will soon
be at work.
In New Orleans last week George
Washington was in limbo for robbing
4 hen-roost.
The mud in the streets Of Louisville,
according to paper in that city, is not
quite four feet deep.
Georgetown, Ky. has had mad dog
and mad hog.
Fresh herrings, the first of the
season, were in the Norfolk market on
Monday, and sold at forty-fye cents
per dozen.
A bill to take the sense of the people
on the proposition to hold a convention
is pending in the Virginia Legislature.
A Lexington (Ky.) paper syas that
town has population of "nine thou.
sand persons with eleven hundred
souls
4 Southern paper says that cir cuses,
negro shows, street fiddlers and organ
grinders with monkeys are invariable
Indications of reconstruction.
The House of Commons of North Car
olina on Wednesday last, by 4 very large
vote. abolished imprisonment for debt
in that State.
! James VI. Beck has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the
Seventh Congressional District of Ken
lucky.
Ronalds is great skater in Louis
vile, Ky. He has no legs, aud uses
three skates. lie sits upon one and uses
the other two with his hands.
1t will surprise some people to learn
that the Federal military still occupy
the executive mansion Ut Raleigh, to
the exclusion OF the Governor of the
State.
Cattle in Texas are said to be in e1-
cellent order. Fine beeves are selling
from fourteen to fifteen dollars each. for
specie. Sheep are selling at one dollar
and O half per head, and pork at two
and half and five cents per pound.
In this country multitudcs of small
/ insects, which look like tleas, are OBJ
scrvcd OH the snow, which they work
| themselves in, and after il melts are
seen washed together in piles as big rs
your fist. What are they !-frcdericks-
| burg Ncrs.
The Raleigh Sentinel says that the
rnnor that Colonel Tew, of the I'd
NorthCarolina Infantry, reported, killed
during the war, is alive and n prisoner
for life under all assumed name at Dry
Tortugas, has assumed sufficient inn
portance to induce official inquiry into
the case.
A contemplate scamp, under prom
Use of marriage, swindled n poor widow
in Norfolk out of six weeks board, and
about 500 in money and jewelry. The
guests were all assembled, but the bride
groom failed to appear, and left his vie
TEN without a dollar.
The Virginia Senate on Wednesday
voted down by large majority the res
olution introduced by Mr.. Lee, Of
Orange, in favor of the appointment of
commissioners to Washington to watch
over the interests Of the State gener-
ally.
The most extensive preparations have
been made for working the important
fisheries in the waters Of the Albemarlc
and Currituck Sounds and the con-
trbuting streams; and if the season
proves propitious We may confidently
expect as large yield this spring as
of any former year. Heavy amounts
have been spent by the North Carolina
fisherman in providing seincs, boats,
&c, and the "gill net" men particularly
muster very numerous this season. 1t
will not be a great many days before
shad from those waters will begin tO
come to this market, and we understand
that arrangements have been made that
will enable the dealers to send the bulk
of them to this market iE ice.