The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-21
SOUTHERN NEWS.

A Texan Sam Patch is amusing Hous-
ton by jumping into the bayou from a
height Of 80 feet.
"Chest Nuts billed and Roar" is the
sign on a negro traders shop at Fort
Smith, Arkansas.
Durah County, Texas, has produced a
first class cave, with ice cold water.
lime formations, etc.
The First Baptist Church in Richmond
has purchased an organ which cost
$500.
A negro who fished up torpedo in
Stone River, s. c., was blown to frag-
ments by its explosion.
The battle fields about Richmond,
having been ploughed with grape, are
now sown with grain.
Alex. Bell, for quarter of century
q prominent merchant of Norfolk, Va,
died on Sunday.
The Alabama and Tennessee River
Railroad has reduced its rate Of passen-
ger fare to five cents per mile.
Trade in Little Rock is said to be mar
rowed down to ladies shopping and
twenty-five cents drink for gentle
men.
In North Carolina the wheat crop is
unusually promising. but there are
unfayorable reports about the tobacco
crop.
A lot of North Carolina tobacco,
weighing one hundred and eighty
pounds was sold in Lynchburg, Va, for
$l70 per hundred.
The New Orleans Picayune thinks the
greatest living excavator is General
Sheridan, who kept "boring Wells" till
he reached Flanders.
On Sunday the newly erected resi-
dence of w. r. Drewry, near Norfolk,
Va, was destroyed by fire, with all his
furniture; loss $500; insurance S3,OOO.
A railroad convention is in session
in Louisville, having in view reduc-
tion of rates, and establishing quick
time and accurate connection. Twenty
roads are represented.
Con. Leary, a railroad laborer, was
murdered at Fort Pickering, Memphis,
On Thursday night. The body was
robbed of coat, hat, boots, two watches
and about SlS in money.
Jesse Peacock, under the influence of
depression, caused by poor health and
financial troubles, cut his throat, in
Montgomery, Alabama, on Wednesday.
He was not dead at last accounts.
The ladies of Petersburg held their
annual celebration in honor of the Con-
federate dead on Saturday last, and the
graves of all the Confederate soldiers
buried near that city were decorated
with flowers.
In Louisville, on Saturday, Thomas
Clark was killed by the caving in of a
pit in which he was laying brick. After
some hours of hard work his body was
recovered. 1t was found standing
erect, with the arms extended over his
head.
A divorce suit was recently tried in
Phelps county, Missouri, in which the
plaintiff was Judge, who sat on his
own case, aud upon the pleading enter
ed decree dissolving the bonds of mat
between himself and wife, who
agreed to the arrangement.
Three Texas lawyers, who have
emerged from the Confederate army,
having nothing else to do, spent week
in vain endeavors to construe Attorney
General Stanberry's opinion of the mil
itary bill. At last one of them, the fat
test of the trio, gave it up, and was
heard to exclaim: at was intended to
be muddle."
The steamer Nyansa sunk in the Ala
bama river, eighteen miles above Mobile,
on Friday evening. The boat was val
ued at 5000, and was not insured.
Her cargo consisted of supplies for the
poor people of the interior, among
which were two hundred sacks of corn.
The cargo was worth $4,000, and par
italy insured.
The quantity Of corn received in Rich
mond by the Virginia Central railroad
from January to May 81, 1867, inclu-
sive, was 5,226, ,94 lbs; of wheat, s4,-
351 lbs, and of tobacco, 2,146,410 lbs.
The receipt of this road for transpol ia
ton for the month Of May are 20 per
cent. greater than for the corresponding
month last year.
The Savannah Republican announces
that the work of clearing away the OBJ
in the harbor is going on so
rapidly that by September the river
channel will be entirely open. During
the war the river was so filled up that
vessels Of heavy draft have been COM
PEELED since to shift part of their car
goes to lighters. The dredging party
have now made a channel fifty feet
wide with depth in the centre with
average tides of from nineteen to twen-
ty-two feet. 1t is intended to increase
the width to one hundred and twenty
i've feet.
A letter, dated Atlanta, Georgia, from
the Rev. H. c. HornaGy, states
Farmers come-to me begging for aid,
aging that unless they can get few
bushels Of corn they will be obliged to
their crops and sink into help
less despair. The poor widows and or
plans are in great distress. Last even
ing an intelligent Christian woman told
ne that her family, all daughters, had
been two days without food, and that
hey had all become i'll from fasting.
There are thousands of women and
children to-day in Her situation. Whole
families have not bushel of corn, no
money, no credit, nothing"
On the ID inst, q man engaged in a
confidential capacity with the firm of
James TAFT 4 Co., bankers Of the city of
Mobile, Alabama, suddenly left that
,lace, and, as it is alleged by the firm,
ook with him $4,000 worth of Mobile |
md Ohio Railroad bonds, Nos. 207, 20s,
"a, "a, 2Ol, 900, l23, III, l2s, l29, l40,
3s, 122, Is, 132, 130, besides several