The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-28
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Mr.. Daniel D. Peasants, a well known
citizen of Richmond, Va, died last
week.
Hon. Henry A. Wise is named for the
presidency of the James River and Ka-
nawha Canal Company.
The Taylor Hotel, in Winchester, Vir-
ginia, has changed hands. Major VIM.
w. Goldsborough takes charge of the
establishment.
A cotton factory company has been
established in Claiborne parish, La,
with cash capital already subscribed
of forty thousand dollars.
st. Louis is just now intensely agi-
tated over the coming municipal NOM
nations. There seems to be split in
both parties.
A gold mine has been discovered in
Marion county, Ky. Lots twenty-four
feet square are held at twenty thousand
dollars each. No sales reported.
A letter dated Houston, Texas, 4th
instant, says the season thus far has
been remarkably favorable for planting.
Corn in some places is above the ground.
In the libel suit of Madame Cora
James VS.. Missouri Democrat, $4,000
damages, the jury on Saturday returned
verdict awarding 81, 900 damages.
A dispatch from Louisville states that
great excitement has been caused there
by finding the bodies of several negroes
packed in dry goods cox, floating in a
pond.
The last census of Montgomery, Ala
bama. shows population of 13,O6l, of
which white males, 1910, white females,
26l4, colored males 3,lSl, colored fe-
males, 4,355.
The election held in Newbern, N. c.,
resulted in a unanimous vote for Major
John Hughes, the Southern candidate
for the State Senate. The negroes
voted.
The Tennessee National Bank, Geo.
R. Ratler President, has been placed in
the hands of a receiver. Individual
depositors are safe, but it is understood
that the State of Tennessee loses heavily.
The editor of tbe Rockingham Register
says that wheat. fields all along both
sides of the Valley are looking splendid
ly. Already there is great promise,
without misfortune, of an uncommon
harvest of the staff of life.
About three thousand bushels of
Government corn for the destitute, and
large amount sent by relief associa-
tions to the South. has been destroyed
or seriously damaged'by the high water
at the Tuscumbia (Ala.) landing. A
large quantity of bacon was submerged,
! but none lost.
The New Orleans Picdy"ne of the 18th
announces. the arrival, in that city, of
the philosopher of the Tribune, and e1-
presses the hope that he will have an
opportunity of seeing all classes of the
people and becoming we'll acquainted
with their characters and opinions.
| A boy named James f. Cloud, of
Winnsboro, South Carolina, was killed
by Tightening, in school, on the 18th.
He was struck while walking, with
slate in hand, across the room. The
teacher was stunned and scorched, and
had one of her earrings melted.2
The Lynchburg Necs says that the
bad roads continue to prevent planters
from bringing their tobacco to market,
and the receipts are unusually light for
the season. Nearly all that is brought
comes by the railroads. Prices there are
said to have been a shade better during
the week than they have previously
been.
We regret to hear, says the Lynchburg
News, that in some portions of Russell
county, Va, the graziers are losing
large numbers of cattle owing to the
scarcity of food and the severity and
duration of the winter. Great fears are
entertained that the losses of cattle in
that. section will be very serious in
deed.
At Charlotte, n. c., on Wednesday
last, while some workmen were engaged
in tearing down one of the old hospital
buildings, negro let his axe fall from
the tsp of the building and it struck a
Mr.. Jones, who was on the ground be-
low, on the head, the edge of tn: ..-Ign rs.
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teTing the Mr mr.: Jones' i, lies ST. in very criti
cal situation.
The Beverly House at Vanceburg,
Kentucky, was burned OH the 18th inst.
Mrs. Sarepta Carr, widow lady of
vanceburg, was falsely informed that
one of her children had perished in the
flames, which so affected her that she
almost instantly dropped dead.
Speaking of court day at Culpepper
Court House last Monday, the Observer
says: Mud, snow and whisky prevailed
to large extent. We have been res
ident of this place for nearly sixteen
years, and we do not recollect ever on
any court day to have seen so much
drunkenness in the streets as last Mon
day presented, or our Populaee more
disposed to be what istechnically is called
fussy. -..|.
In an alteration between E. d. Ken
nedy, an attorney, and John Wyatt,
Clerk of the Work-house, in the United
States Courtroom, in Louisville, on
Saturday, Wyatt drew revolver, but
was arrested by the Marshal before he
could use it. The Judge sentenced the
offender to forty-eight hours imprison-
ment, and fine Of twenty-five dollars
for carrying weapons within the pre-
cincts of the Court.
At meeting of the Board of Trade
at Louisville on Saturday a committee
of three was appointed to confer with
committee from the General Council
on the subject of granting the right of
way to the Louisville Bridge Company