The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Beaver are injecting the streams In
the vicinity of Natchez, Miss. (.
The Lower House of the Missouri Leg
islature has passed an eight-hour law.
The Nashville Adrocate of the l4th il
draped in mourning for the death O
Bishop SOule.
General Bushrod johnson, ex-confed
crate, is on visit to his relatives il
Cambridge city, Indiana.
The Rev. J. r. Bowman is called II
the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian
Church in HarrisOnburg, Virginia.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
burn the male academy at Somerville
Tenn, one night last week.
The District of Columbia is to be
supplied with pure water brought from
the Potomac at Great Falls. .
Rev. DR.. John c. McCabe has beer
nominated to the presidency of the
Maryland Agricultural College.i
The Marshall Statue has been perma.
nently located on its pedestal at the
base of the Washington equestrian mon
ument, in Richmond, Va.
The Mobile Times favors calling con-
vention to reorganize the State Govern
ment under the military bill.
The Maryland Senate, by a vote OF
seventeen to one, passed bill appro.
priating 100000 for the relief of the
suffering at the South.
The Petersburg Express publishes the
proceedings in Congress on the passage
of the military bill of the veto, under
the caption, Funeral of the Nation"
The homestead of Sam. Houston, in
Houston, Texas, which he built himself
some twenty-five years ago, has been
demolished.
The climate of Western Texas is very
mild. In that region there were but
three days last month in which fires
were necessary for warmth. '.
The cotton factories burned at Col
umbus, Ca, by Wilson on his raid are
being rebuilt. Three of them will prob
ably be in operation by next fall.
The Petersburg (Va.) Inder saws the
late freshets have driven large num-
bers of bears from the Dismal Swamp
aud that barn yards dre in consequence
suffering considerably.
A smooth-faced negro man appeared
upon the streets of Natchez the Other
day in full female costume, with the
usual waterfall appendage. He was
recognized, arrested and fined.
Captain NJ. w. Clusky, of the Mem
phis -4ralanche, is lying in New Orleans
dangerously ill from the effect of surgi'
cal operations on his old wounds.
Governor Jenkins estimates the num-
Der of destitute people in Georgia al
60 900 whites, and half as many blacks
The destitute in South Carolina are
supposed to be even more numerous.
The Memphis and Little Rock rail
road is being pushed through as rapidly
as possible. 1t will be prolonged to
connection with Fremonts Ell Pasc
southwest Missouri branch of the Pa
cific) road.
The merchants of Memphis complain
that the Memphis and Charleston rail.
road discriminates in its freight tariff
against them, giving preference to
through freight from st. Louis, Louis
vile, &c.
Captain Ashton c. Hopkins, we'll
known river man for many years, ant
for more than two years in the service
of the Confederate Government, com
mitted suicide at st. Louis in fit o.
temporary alteration last Tuesday.
St. Louis has sensation in the per
son of a mysterious young gentleman
with plenty Of money, who wandered
at random all through the city fol
some days, and then suddenly disap
peared with an equally mysterious young
lady.
On the 5th inst, fire occurred a
Beaufort, s. c., destroying the hardware
store of J. G. Thompson & Co., th'
Lincoln House, the newspaper Office o
the Nep South, the dwelling of Mr.. Pal
liter, and Hubbard's daguerrean gal
lery. Total loss go, 200, and insurance
only $1,000.
In the United States Circuit and Dis
trict Court at Memphis last Tuesday
Judge Trigg presiding, nolle prosequ
was entered in about seventy treason
cases, pursuant to instructions from the
Attorney General of the United States
A Confederate soldier from North Car
olina, who deserted the army in 1861
and has since been hiding in the noun
tains of Virginia, came into Lynchburi
on the 9th, and surrendered to one o
the Federal officers Of tie garrison whom
he met in the suburbs.
R.W. Loughert, Of the Marshal (Tex
ss) RepabIcan, who issued the frs
paper in that city moro than twenty
years ago, is about to publish pape
in Jefferson called the Times. He will
own and edit both papers. r.a.
The Ranger says: "Here in Texas
for the last twenty years, We hav'
known good Southern-born men, by th'
sweat of the brows, make more corr
and cotton to the hand than those plant
ers who worked negroes, and live mucl
better than many large Shareholders. j
is all nonsense to say that white mel
cannet cultivate the soil of the South
Capt. Dan. s. Kinney, who has beer
lying ut Memphis slowly convalescins
from his severe injuries at the explo
sian of the David White, reached Nash
vile on Thursday last. He is still
quite feeble, and his person plainl!
shows the marks of scalding, though i
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