The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.

SUI fEhN NEWS.
Tobacco is rapidly coming to market
in Virginia.
Richmond has inst been greatly en-
larged. Boston wishes to be.
The Mayor of Norfolk yearns to insti-
tute chain-gang.
A negro woman in Virginia killed her
father by throwing skillet at his head.
The reports from the wheat crop
throughout Virginia continue favora-
BILE.
every dear are eggs" laments q
Southern paper-"as for chickens, 1t re-
quires a Cresus to just smell of them
The negro population of Nelson coun-
ty, Virginia, has decreased 1850 in six
years, being loss of nearly one-third.
The Richmond Times thinks the Yir-
ginia Legislature may have been called
together in the wrong time of the
moon"
The New Orleans Times says there ap-
pears to be in that city at the present
time a decided predisposition towards
suicide.
De Bow discusses the crops cf the
country. He doesn't think that the
South will yield much. We don't Ls
lieve she will yield an inch.-LOnisritie
Journal.
A man in Campbell county, Va, late
ly tried to whip his step-daughter with
a chair, whereupon she broke his head
with skillet.
One of the newspaper fraternity in
Selma, Ala, is charged by a cotempo-
rary with having made way with the
grizzly bear at the circus, for the sake
of an item.
There is regular hegira of Virginia
freedmen. They are mostly bound for
Texas and Louisiana. One drove of
fifty eight left Lynchburg last Wednes-
day.
LIS. Mellen, President of the Cahaba
Coal Company, has been offered by Gov.
Patton the appointment as commission
er from Alabama to the Paris Exposi-
tion.
In three papers before us are record
ed five attempts at rape by negroes up
on white girls. 1t is time our Ameri-
can citizens of African scent were
taught that liberty involves response
bilities as we'll as privileges.
Five babies were born in the little
hamlet of Pocahontas, Ark, during the
week before last. According to the
best of our recollection that's almost a
baby to each house in the corporation.
Haydn's beautiful oratorio of the
"Seven Last Words Of the Saviour on
the Cross" was performed in Washing
ton, d. c., last Sunday night, by the
choir of st. Matthew'S Church.
A young man from Connecticut,
named /. II. Gilbert, passed Sunday
night in house of ill-fame in st. Louis,
and when he walked up found himself
minus coat, watch and eleven hun
dred dollars. Rather costly sport.
The ladies of two respectable families
of Portsmouth, Virginia, got into row
about valentine, the other day, and
had to settle the affair. before the Mayor
next morning.
Laura Keene gave her farewell per-
formance at Mobile on Friday night
The theatre was crowded. Her play OF
Extremes" gave offence to some of her
patrons because of its political senti-
ments, which were considered inimical
to the South.
All the wit of the world, it seems, is
not monopslized by Irishmen. as the
following, from the San Antonio, Texas,
Express, referring to the obsequies Of
General Johnston al Galveston, will
show. 1t says: If General Johnston
was alive he would tell the fools to let
his ashes alone.
The Firemen's Charitable Association
of New Orleans have published their
annual report, from which it appears
that the Association numbers 999 ac-
tive and 3Sl exempt members; the num-
Der of widows is lS2; half orphans, 324;
whole orphans, 81. The entire cash re-
ceipts for the year have been S34, ,04l 60.
the expenditures have been $685. 1874 IL.
The Des Arc (Ark.) Crescent heads 4
pungent political editorial with the
words Of the old song "What are the
wild waves sayingr The quotation is
beautifully appropriate, but there isn't
enough of it. "'Tis the voice of the
Great Creator speaks in that mighty
tone"
The Mississippi House last Friday ap-
propriated thousand dollars to the
Ladies' Vicksburg Confederate Gene
terry Association for the better protec-
ton of the graves of Confederates in
that city and vicinity. That il right.
The lost cause has no national govern
ment to spend hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars in the burial Of its dead.
The Columbus, Georgia, ladies. baye
in full blast an institution for the ben
eft of Mrs. JEFF. Davis, which they des-
ignate by the euphonic title "TombOla."
Many curious anecdotes are reported
in connection with this name. One
merchant, asked to subscribe to the
Tombola, replied, "Tom whor Anoth-
er gravely answered that he always re-
fused on principle TO countenanee lot
teries, horse-racing, and all such things.
Three ladies began at once to explain
the matter, and the good man bought a
ticket to get rid Of the chatter Of three
tongues.
The two vessels, the Harpswell and
Ma,curv which left New York some