The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-23
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Drinking saloons in Houston are
called Banks"
Louisville proposes to have big
bridge.
A Nashville reporter was mistaken
for burglar the other night. &
Fresh green peas were in the market
at Tallahassee, Florida, on New Years
Day. .'f-..'..s '"'
The education Of the negroes by ma
tive white teachers is advocated by the
Norfolk Day Book. -.-a ........-
The Lynchburg people are to have a
charity ball for the benefit Of the Sons
of Temperance and the poor.
A negro bureau man having left q
Southern city newspaper man notices
tho event under the caption Of "Leaf by
Leaf the Roses Fall" r.
In Lexington, on Tuesday, Robert
Figgett was shot in the hand by stu
dent of Washington College. The
wound is painful but not serious.
DR.. Paul Gregory, who has made an
an examination of the lands in Fairfax
county, bordering on the Potomac,
thinks the indications are al favorable
in that regisn for coal oil.
The dwelling house Of Mr.. Alexander
Glen, in Powelps Fort, shenandoah
county, was entirely consumed by fire
few days ago, together with nearly all
his household furniture. ...s AL
The work of leveling the fortifica-
tions around Mobile has been going on
for eight months. The eembaDkments Of
the first line have been leveled and tho
ditch filed up. ST.. yg- sat 4. gy
Anegro named Scrap shot and killed
another negro named Willis. on the
plantation of Mrs. Haywood, five miles
from Weldon, one day last week. Scrap
did not think the gun was loaded ana
snapped it at Willis to frighten him.
The residence Of General Forrest, at
Memphis, was entered by robbers Tues
day night, who carried off two gold
watches, q pocket-book containing two
hundred dollars, his parole and other
valuable articles.
The Lynchburs Republican is so pop
ular that even the negroes steal copies
from the delivery boxes i'll the Office.
Tom Martin, 80 full-grown buck ne
gro," has been caught at it and sent on
for Indictment for larceny.
Four hundred and thirty-nine 500
shares in tho Atlantic and \. c railroad
were sold at auction, in Newbern, on
Wednesday, at prices ranging from
SI1 S7t to Sl3 l2i. One Carteret county
bond of $500, with $50 interest due
thereon, was put up, but was with
drawn, Sl40 only being offered for 1T.
The annual report of the Chief of Po-
lice of Mobile exhibits 5,1l5 arrests du-
ring the year 1866. OF this number,
3,l3s offenders were white, and 1850
colored residents. The fines imposed
by the Mayor for the year amount to
S3O,5G so, out of which the sum OF
s22, COZ 10 was collected and paid over
to the city Treasury.
"Aunt Milly,"a colored woman for
merly belonging to Capt. James NJ. Har-
ris, residing near Rockfsh Gap, in Mel
son county, Va, died at the residence
of this gentleman, on the 7th inst, in
tho one hundred and thirty-sixth year
of her age. She was born in 1871, in the
beginning of the reign of George II.
She was o cotomporary of Pope, swift,
and Bolingbroke-though probably she
never heard Of them. - Charlottesville
Chronicle.
Tho Nashville Banner of Monday says:
"David Ruin and J. Handrich, two fleet
footed Germans, arc to run q foot-race
from this place to Murfrocsboro', o dis
tance of thirty miles, next week, and
will start Mt twelve o'clock Sunday
night. The point of starting has not
vet been determined on, but 81 900 q side
has been deposited on the result i'll the
First National Bank"
The Treasurer of the late Southern
Relief Fair, at st. Louis, publishes n
statement, from which it appears that
the total receipts Of the grand fair
amounted to sl36,757 &C; expenses to
slO,6i3 SO. Balance to be credited to
the charity of sl36,295 %. VI this,
S124,743 63 was paid tothe Distributing
Committee, the remainder being applied
to the relief of applicants, or sent in
goods to the South.
The New Orleans correspondent of
q Galveston paper gives some particu-
lars of an interview he had with the
rebel General Hood. He writes 'Feel-
ling admiration for the hero, We said {:
General Hood, tell me about the battle
of Nashville; have heard you came
very near gaining that battle; now was
iti Sir, answered the hero, I came just
ns near as could be, not to have done it.
i If the campaign was to go
over again, would do just as
II did then. l censure no one;
criticize no Confederate officer. / cen
sneak of the enemy; l can criticise
them: but i never censure our officers
or soldiers. l often pray Eve think he
said every mighty that our country may
become united, great and glorious. If
our Northern brethren would only be
magnanimous; if they could act nobly
and generously, wo would have great
and glorious country! l can but hope
for the best" - .r.l.t..-
Jacob slevis, q candidate for Congress
from Alabama, puts forth funny plat
form:
You have rite to no the prinsipuls
that will govern my kongresshunul kar-
reer. am not the pyrson to kensole or
equiverkait. My prinsipuls are those
of the American Egul, which, whar the
karkus is, oilers gethurd together. In
relashun to the niggur. I'exsept the sit
uation. Slavery is ded, and SO will the
J niggurs be befor long. l am in favur OF
a general amnesty to all the 10000 dol
Ter men ,seing they had nothing to do with
the bringin on the, war, or fitin in ii
when it was brot. Boath OF these was
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