The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-25
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Many young men are leaving Virginia
for Missouri.
Southern papers prate of the perfume
of the orange and peach blossoms.
The sick Radical newspapers at the
South are fed Oh Congressional Cruel.
Ministers can now preach in Missouri
without taking the "iron-clad" oath.
The farmers of Roanoke county, Va,
have organized an agricultural society,"
Planters in Texas are industriously
putting in the crops of cotton and corn
A steamboat race is to come off on the
Mississippi. A "terrible steamboat dis
aster" may be looked for.
A barrel of Southern -four will make
twenty pounds more bread than a bar
rel of Illinois -four.
At convention of railroad men held
at Memphis few days since, the fare
from New York to New Orleans was
fixed at $50.
A revival is going on among the col
ored people of Charleston, S. c., and
sixty of both sexes were publicly
immersed last Sunday.
The tailors in st. Louis are trying to
prevent women from learning to sew.
Those tailors should make the "goose''
their patron saint.
The average attendance at the Bap-
tist Sunday schools of Richmond during
the past month is 1,457 children, and
207 teachers.
The damage done in the town of Bris-
tol, Va, by the late freshet, is estimated
at five thousand dollars.
A male college with the name of the
Iuka Collegiate Institute is to be estab-
lished at Iuka, Mississippi.
The Lynchburg (Va.) Republican states
that upwards oftwenty firms WILSON be
engaged in the manufacture of chewing
tobacco in that city.
A large meeting was held at Selma,
Alabama, on Monday, at which resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted urging
acceptance of the Congressional terms
of reconstruction.
A young man named +. Whiting was
kicked in the breast by horse at a cir
Gus in Portsmouth, Virginia, on Monday
night, and died from its effects.
The crew of the United States frigate
Lancaster has been paid off at Norfolk,
and nearly three hundred thousand dol
lars has been put in circulation in con-
sequence.
Pensacola is doing business OF
S3,6OO,OO0 per annum in lumber, rosin
and turpentine, and railroad is about
to be extended into the interior, which
promises large increase.
A dispatch from Little Rock says that
the Governor has vetoed the bill loan
ing 81 900 per mile to aid in building
railroads. 1t will probably be passed
over the veto.
The merchants of Staunton, Va, are
purchasing no goods for the spring trade.
In view of hard times and contingencies,
the people Of the Valley are determined
to rely on homespun.
The Virginia Legislature has passed
law prohibiting the selling or giving
away OF liquor at any locality near q
place where polls are held, and its pro-
visions are very stringent.
Under the laws of Virginia, it will
now cost the commonwealth fifty dol
lars to punish thief for stealing fifty
cents worth of old iron, the penalty of
stripes having been abolished and work
in the chain gang having been substi-
tuted.
The fortieth regiment (negro) is max
ing considerable trouble in Richmond.
Belligerent demonstrations toward the
police are of daily occurrence. The ne
cessity of avoiding q collision must be
very CALLING to the latter.
On the 18th instant, Mr. James w.
Armington shot and killed, in the vi
cinity of Bristersburg, Virginia, gray
eagle, measuring six feet nine inches
from tip to tip of it's wings, and its
main talon was two inches in length.
There is a grim humor in the fate of
some of the Southern military gentle
men. DR.. Stout, for instance, at one time
Chief Medical Director of General Joe
Johnston's army, has been secured as
Superintendent of Tennessee Orphan
Asylum.