The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The Texas stay law is pronounced un-
constitutional.
The radical papers in the South are
supported to a considerable extent by
freedmen.
Two little girls were recently shipped
through Lynchburg as express freights.
A white man in Nashville was fined
$50 for thrusting himself into negro
bail.
Senator Wade has been dining, drink
ing and joking with rebels and rebel
esses' in Tennessee.
Some of the ladies Of Staunton, last
week, sent box of "goOd things" to
President Davis as Christmas gilt.
The submarine cable between Florida
and Cuba will he ready for the public
in March. The maximum soundings
give 6i5 fathoms.
A bill is under way IN the Virginia
Legislature to extend the limits of the
citv of Richmond, TO take in about
10000 persons now residing i'll the SUI
burbs.
In Mcclellan county Texas, prices
range from 81 to Sl2a acre for land,
according to quality, situation or i'm
provement.
There was snow to the depth of one
inch at Augusta, Georgia, Saturday
evening. Thee was also heavy snow
at Atlanta and good sleighing.
A telegram from Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, asserts that the municipal cleo
ton held there has been pronounced il
legal and therefore of no effect
The barn of DR.. Cox, of Scott county,
Va, was destroyed by fire few days
ago. Several horses, and large guam
tity of forage, were destroyed. 1t is
supposed to have been the work of an
incendiary.
Alexander H. II. Stuart, Col. T. S.
Flournoy, Major W. T. Sutherlin, e1-
Governor Letcher and others, have been
suggested as men "whO would make
good governors of Virginia"
The effect of advertising in the Nicks-
burg Times is thus illustrated: "A lady
advertised in the Times last week for a
stray COW. and the COW came home next
day, paved down the cow-pen fence,
beloved till the milkmaid came, and
then kept off her own calf
Mrs. W. J. Lee started sewing and
embroidery school recently at Natchez,
Miss, and after getting things under
way and pocketing snug sum rs adj
vance pay from her pupils, she turned
up missing few days since, leaving
hotel and other bills unpaid.
The Appeal says: Memphis, for its
population, can get up more sensation
items than any city in America. We
have them here daily, from the runaway
to the blood spilling, hcart-rcnding,
clap-trap, stab and thunder story. Ii
then goes on to recite some swindllng
operations performed OH strangers there
on Friday.
There are now thirteen cotton facto-
ries in operation in Tennessee, repre-
senting nearly million Of dollars, and
giving employment to over six hundred
operatives. There are also in the State
several flourishing factories for the
manufacture of steam engines, cotton
presses and agricultural implements.
At the late session of the Mobile, Ala,
Conference, at Enterprise, tho staff of
the venerable Bishop Soule was formal
ly presented to Bishop Weightman, his
successor in Office. The cane is formed
of the wood of the tea plant, brought by
of California gold, presented by a mis-
sionary from California.
Houston, Texas, which had popula-
latiom of 5000 in 1850, now contains
80, 900 inhabitants. The Telegraph of
that city says: Our city is perfectly
filled with strangers from all the four
quarters of the globe, and our hotels
and restaurants are filled with them.
We are at loss to know where they all
come from. But the best of ii Is, they
have all mostly got money, and are
buying up the vacant lots and blocks
around the city, with the intention Of
building on them.
New Orleans can lay claim to the
youngest authOrcss in America. \ lit
tie girl, not eleven years old, has been
keeping diary for some time past, and
it was recently sent to New York to be
read by some friends, for their own
amusement. They were so well pleased
with its contents, that its publication
was advised. 1t will be volume of
over two hundred pages, aud bears the
title "Under the Stones"
We learn from an exchange of the ar
rest of Mr.. McLindsey, formerly 4 MEM
Der of the Legislature of this State, and
Mr.. Joseph Baxter, both of Currituck
county, which took place on Christmas
day, near the court house in that coun.
ty, for being engaged in the capture and
robbiDg of vessel during the late war,
when they were not employed in the
| Confederate service. A man named
Moore was arrested some time since on
the same charge, and is now confined in
Jail in Elizabeth city, where the prison
ers Just arrested are also to be sent
UiimiRgtoH Journal.
In the body Of a man weighing l5I
pounds, there are about 2 l-2 pounds Of
mineral matter; consisting Of phos-
,b,fa of limo Z nounds 13 ounccs car