The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Coniab county, Mississippi, has sent q
denntation to Honduras to secure lands.
Huobes Ferguson, one of the oldest
citizens of Louisville, died on Saturday.
There is Polish colony in Virginia.
The government reminds them strongly
of home. ..
George W. Shields, surgeon in the
limited States army, died of yellow fever
ut New Orleans on Saturday.
| The house agents in St. Louis have
been fined for renting rooms for "social
evir purposes.
Flour, to be delivered in two weeks,
wSs sold in Staunton, Va, day or two
since, for seven dollars per barrel. This
looks like eating"
1.-THE Court House at Greensboro, Choe-
taw county, Miss, was destroyed by hire
last week. The fire was supposed to
be the work of an incendiary.
Berry Amos, well-known sporting
man, was shot aud mOrtally wounded
in Richmond, on Saturday, by a man
named Moses Levy.
The Southern freedmen manifest great
eagerness to get homesteads. Some CT
the poor whites would be glad to get
bed -steads.-Ey.
The Northwestern railroad, from Nash
vile to Paducah is completed, and
trains will commence running on the
Odd. The road shortens the line of trav-
ell between Nashville and Memphis nine
ty-one miles.
Charles Tracy attempted to kill Mil.
ME Kassell, his mistress, in st. Louis,
on Friday night, with pen-knife. He
cut an ugly cash in her neck, but 1t was
found not to be dangerous.
The work of laying the telegraph
cable between Key West, Florida, and
the coast of Cuba, was commenced on
the 4th inst. On the morning of the
9TH, the cable parted, and mp to Friday
the lost ends had not been recovered.
Miss Margaret J. Hutchinson, who
will be remembered by thousands OF
Confederate soldiers confined during
the war in the hospitals and prisons OF
Louisville, as q ministering angel, died
in that city on Friday. Peace to bel
ashes.
General Beauregard has organized ut
New Orleans the electrical Brake Com
pany of America" of which he is Presi'
dent, and Colonel Blanton Duncan, Of
Delaware, superintendent. 1t is claim
ed that railway train running "a mile:
an hour can be stopped by electricity
between so and 100 yards.
Ell. C.. johnson, Esq., a well known
merchant of Rome, Ga, and son of 8
former Governor Of South Carolina
committed suicide in room over his
store last Friday by shooting himself
with q Colts revolver. He had been
partially insane for some time. No par
ticular cause is known for the rash act
The term of office of the Alderman Of
Oklahoma, Miss, expiring August lst, the
Mayor wrote to General Ord to know il
he would order an election or appoint
General Ord replied, July u, 1867, that
he "did not interfere with elections
purely municipal" Such elections "cau
be held as provided by the laws of the
State of Mississippi"
On account of apprehensions of the
yellow fever becoming epidemic at New
Orleans, it has been ordered from Gen
eral Grants headquarters that officers
on duty in Louisiana and Texas, but
who are now absent from their posts on
leave of absence, may, upon application
to the Adjutant General of the army,
have their furloughs extended until the
18th of October.
1t will be remembered that a few
days ago the fact was announced that
the civil process of the United States
Circuit Court had been interfered with
by the commandant of the post at Will
mington, North Carolina. Marshal
Go0dloe reports that no reply had been
received to his communication to Gen
eral Sickles, inquiring whether this &c
ton was Endorsed by him; but, in the
meanwhile, the Wilmington Post re
ports that the commandant there has
received the written approval of General
Sickles.
: Thursday afternoon, at Glendale
KY, DR.. William Hughes had con
troversy with one George Smith con
corning a certain debt. Smith made
use of violent words, whereupor
Hughes took Smith by the collar, tell.
ing him that he must not use sucl
language. Saturday morning three
sons of Smith came into Glendale. met
Hughes on horseback, and all fred up
on him without warning. Six bullets
entered Hughes body, the wounds prov
ing fatal.
At the suggestion of Governor Worth
General Sickles has, by Geographic or
der, suspended Paragraph , Of Genera
Order No. 81, requiring the revision o
Jury lists before the trial of any causes
by the courts of the State, in its appli
cation to the present term of the Su
preme and County Courts for North Car
Olinia, and the iuries for this term ar,
to be impanelled as heretofore. This il
done on Governor WOrth's representa-
ton of the impossiblity of revising the
jury lists, as directed, for use at thin
term, and the necessity which would
arise of dispensing with the sittings Of
the courts entirely for several months
to the great detriment of the State and
all concerned.
From the Stratford Canada, Herald.
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