The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-21
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Norfolk has whistling rats.

j Hanging, in Montana, is styled "climb
ing the pine limb" 90
Wife beaters in Memphis are let OF
with fine of Sl5. ~
The debt of Atlanta, Ga, is SIG 70
each inhabitant.
The area of Presidio, the largest coun
ty in Texas, is equal to four States lik
Massachusetts,.
A correspondent says there is no
more than grain enough in Georgia t.
last until the end of March.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer urges
the Southern people to plant less cotton
and more grain.
Two colored men were hanged by q
mob, near Danville, KY, last week, or
suspicion of being horse thieves.
A man in Napoleon, Ark, said h'
would drink q gallon of rum in one day
or die. He did both.
A man in Yicksburg who assumed tc
burlesque the Freedmen's Bureau, wa:
arrested for peddling swarthy India
rnbber doll babies.
A venerable Mississippi planter, ruin
ed by the late war, hung himself on ac'
count of having failed to retrieve his
fortune.
One of the largest owners of real
estate in Mobile has deducted one-third
of the amount due from his tenants or
notes given the past year.
A party of Louisianians, who came ts
Lynchburg, Virginia. for laborers, hav'
gone home without securing single
freedman.
The Louisville Journal says: "Nevel
buy goods of those who don't advertise
They sell so little that they have to sell
dear"
More than ever is it now necessary
that every Southern boy should learn
trade-should take off his coat, roll uI
his sleeves, and go at something
Southern paper.
A New Orleans paper suggests the
formation of league between all the
cities OH the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
from New Orleans to Dubuque and Pitts
burg, for the reclamation Of trade.
A Galveston Don Juan succeeded il
captivating the heart of lady, and
having an eye to business, not only
made love to her affections bat also tc
her gold and diamonds.
The Holly Springs (Miss.) Reporter
knows several girls in Marshall county
who were raised in the lap of luxury
with fine carriages to ride in and money
by the thousands to spend, before the
war, who can now chop wood, drive
two-horse wagon, 60 to market, and dc
all the housework. They can go in the
kitchen, too, and prepare dinner equal
to o French cook. And then call on
them in the parlor, they will treat you
to such music rs would make the hours
listen with wonder and admiration
These girls have cheerfully eonformeo
to the change in their pecuniary cir
cumstances. The Reporter thinks they
are worthy of being the wives OF the
greatest and best men IN, the land, anC
SO think we.
The yicksburg Herald, of the 9th inst.
furnishes additional details of the
frightfnl tornado which swept across
belt of country, on the first inst, about
seventy-tive miles north of Vicksburg
Its course was about southwest by
northeast, varying toward the west
At Island 81 in the Mississippi river, ii
made a pathway through the timber
about four hundred yards wide. AL
the buildings on the plantation of Mrs
E. R. Nelson, on the Mississippi shore
were prostrated. A heavy pair of tim
ber wheels were blown a distance Of
sixty yards. A wagon, with pair Of
mules attached, was carried in an oppo.
site direction to the course of the wind
some Ulucty lctt, ONtllul ucu aiiu ohiaoh
ed, and the mules lying partially nnder
the wagon. Mrs. Nelson was fatally in
jured by falling timbers, and two of heI
children badly injured. In Louisiana
every plantation in the neighborhood OF
Milliken's Bend was more or less dam
aged. The residence of DR.. Dancy was
blown down, as were also his new gin
house and quarters. Most of the quar-.
tiers on the adjoining places were also
demolished. The Catholic Church at
Milliken's Bend, not quite completed,
was leveled to the ground. 1t is said
several negroes were killed. The resi-
dence of Mrs. Knight, in the northern
part of Jackson, Miss, was blown down
and the lady badly bruised.
THE loyal shouters have forgotten the
brave boys in blue. They have no of,
fees for them. They have no votes to