The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-10
SOUTHERN. NEWS.

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Richmond boasts of its efficient po
lice force. sraf.
Newbern supplies all the North Car
-olina slippers" with sruff.
A tobacco factory 10 among the neV
enterprises in Staunton.J
Times are 30 dull in Bowling Green
KY, that hens lay last years eggs.
Brownlow wrote to Washington tba
he wanted "first class" weapons,
A Virginia paper speaks of Senate
Wilson as Congressional crocodile!
Tie attempt to organize . kid-gloy
Republican party in Virginia has com
to grief.
Mr.. T. Sandford, for many years on
of the editors of the Mobile Register, d'e'
on the 30th ult. ,4.,.sv,g
The Harrisonburg post-office has beei
made by the General Post-Office Depart
ment, money Crder office.
The people Of the South seem to b
acting on the conviction that the hrs
thing for them to do is to "get up"
The franklin (La.) Bdnaer says tha
the negroes of that parish complain BIT
terly of the "Yankee tax" as it is called
of five per cent. on their wages.
There is a report, by way Of Angusta
Georgia, that two United States soldier
have been hung in Edgefeld District
South Carolina, by posse of citizens
Things are loose in some parts o
Georgia. The other day several mel
were found hanging to trees within
short distance of public road, and mad
been hanging there for several days.
q, The Memorial procession with flow
Iers, which had been agreed upon al
Newbern, N. c., by the ladies on the n
instant, was forbidden by the military
authorities, and did not take place. 80
The Shenandoah Halley says that sew
eral cases of.a new disease, bearing
some resemblance to hydrophobia, have
occurred among the cattle, hogs ans
dogs in the vicinity ofNew Market.
An old gentleman named Alexander
whose posterity in all number 255, and
who never missed going to the polls
for sixty years and voting the Demo
cratic ticket, is still living and settled
in Kentucky.
Four hundred and fortyfour hogshead'
of tobacco arrived at New Orleans OF
Wednesday last from st. Louis and Cal
ro. This is the largest cargo received
there since the war.
A Charleston dispatch says that Sen
ator Wilson proposes to wind mp hi'
Southern campaign by visit to Ken
lucky and Tennessee. In his second
speech in Charleston, he said that III
would favor confiscation in the event ol
freedmen being oppressed by planters
for voting the Republican, ticket.
The Presby terian Church, in the pleas.
ant town of Monticello, Fla, was des.
troyed by fire on last Sunday night
The building was very neat house Of
worship, had been erected number q
years, but was in Il fine state Of prescr
walton. The fire, was, doubtless, tht
work of an incendiary. All the church
furniture, including valuable melc-
deon, was destroyed with the bnilding
Accounts from Macon, Ga, state TIM
Governor Jenkins brought to Georgia
himself, the subpoena of the United
States Supreme Court in the Georgis
case, and bad it served on General Poft
when they were stopping at the saras
hotel in Atlanta, last week. Genera
Pope replied that he wonld obey thu
order of the court. n
Along the road between this place
and Monroe, Union county, we saw sew.
eral white girls in the fields ploughing
In one instance we saw two girls aboui
sixteen years cid managing plow with
two oxen attached-one held the ploS.
handles and the other drove the oxen.
Such conduct on the part of females
ought to put shame to the scores oi
men who are idling away their time do
ing nothing, and who seem to consider
it a disgrace to pull off their coats and
90 to hard work.-ChdrloHe (N. c.
Democrat. ga
A boy named Fitzgerald, seventeen
years old, has been arrested in Lexing.
ton, Mississippi, charged with five
murders, 1t seems he killed negroin
De Soto County, white man in Ten.
nessee, freedman on his fathers pre-
misses since the surrender, and assassin
ated Mr.. John W. Shilcutt on the 26th
of February last, at the residence OF
Colonel Richard Cooper, in Mississippi
His crimes eliminated in the murder OF
Mr.. Num-, of Summerville, on the eth
A special dispatch to the New York
Herald dated May 4th says: "On last
Saturday night colored ball was given
at Paris, Tennessee. at which about fif:
teen females were present. During the
dancing party Of about ten slits
men, employees of the Memphis and
Louisville Railroad, made raid on the
house, drove away the male negroes,
turned out the lights and ravished
nearly every female present. One OF
the women was so badly hurt that shs
will die. All but two of the scoun.
drels have been arrested and are in Jail.
Much destitution prevails in Iredell
county, n. C. The Statesrile 4,aerieaR
says: 1--WE have good reason to bslieve
that there is much destitution among
soldiers widows and orphans in Ire,lell
county, but we think that, owing to the
abundance of grain and meat in the
county, these wants might be abun-
dainty relieved by citizens of the conn.
ty, if they would only seek those in
want, and relieve them out of their
abundant stores of provisions. These
widows and orphans are in n worse
condition than during the war, when