The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Body-snatching is frequent in Rich
mond.
Venison is unusually plenty in South
ern States this winter.
In Atlanta, Georgia, there is a popu-
lation of 2O,225 over twelve years OF
age. . .s,.
The small pox has taken possession
of the Salem Is. CO. Female Academy,
Population of yicksburg on the lst OF
MAY last s,O67; of Natchez a,431; OF
Jackson 3,456.
Three boats, the Sunfower, the Stell,
and the Lee, were sunk in Trinity river,
Texas, last week.
A new paper. to be called the Daily
Standard, John F. Burns, editor, is about
to be started at Selma, Alabama.
The cultivation of olives is spoken OF
in South Carolina as an experiment
worth trying OH large scale.
Weekly shipments of copper from the
Ducktown mines pass through Chatta-
nooga en- route for New York.
The military bridge over the Tennes-
see river at Chattanooga was sold at
auction on the 18th. Captain Slayton,
the lessee, became the purchaser, at
81 $50.
Gov. Patton, during his late visit to
New York, secured an extension Of the
Alabama State debt on highly satisfac-
tory terms.
For the six months ending December
3lst, there were shipped from Pensaco-
Ia. Florida, to Spanish ports 2,6Oo,OOO
feet of lumber, worth $4,000.
While the white male population OF
Virginia is greater than it was before
the war, the black population has de-
creased 10000.
An old maid at Chattanooga refused
to have her picture taken after she took
peep into the machine and saw that
bodies appeared in it upside down.
The people of Clarksville, Tennessee,
are raising the money by Voluntary con-
tribution to purchase q steam fire ell
gine.
James Lauderdaly, of Washington
county, Texas, and soldier under Jack
son at New Orleans, died recently at the
age of Sc.
ALynchburg negro, who followed the
Congressional excursionists as far as
Bristol, left them in disgust, and re,
ports that he only made ten cents out OF
the whole party.
The Charleston Courier announces the
death of Hon. Arthur p. Hayne, former,
" United States Senator from South
Carolina, and aid-de-camp to General
Jackson at the battle of New Orleans.
New Orleans merchants offered Gener-
al Price n large tract of Texas land,
which he declined to accept. He also
refused several lucrative commercial
agencies abroad.
To show how "Yankes notions" are
spreading among the negroes-an old
darkey is reported to be accnmulating
fortune in Virginia by the sale of a
magic lotion which, he asserts, will in
fallibly straighten kinky hair.
Two soldiers, belonging to the Six
teenth Regulars, were shot in a row
with some citizens of Memphis, on the
9th inst. One of the soldiers, John
Duffy, of Company G, was mortally
wounded; the other slightly.
Those beautiful poems, the Conquer
ed Banner and "The Sword of Robert
E. Lee" were written by Father Ryan,
a Catholic priest of Tennessee. He is
now lecturing in the South to raise
money for charitable purposes.
The large PLANTERS Warehouse" of
John j. Grant d Co., erected at cost
of S15O,O00, was destroyed by fire at
Columbus, Ga, last week. 1t contain
ed 5000 bales of cotton, of which only
twenty were saved. Loss shout SlOO, 900.
The Mississippi papers take leave OF
General 7. j. Wood, late commander OF
the department, with many expressions
of regret and many compliments paid
to his official action while discharging
among them delicate and difficult
duty.
Savannah is about cutting a canal OF
eight miles along the coast, by which
four hundred miles of inland navigation
will he opened to steamers of four feet
draft, to run from Savannah to Jupiter
Inlet, Fla
Two pack-peddlers entered the house
of Mr.. John Lerch, in Memphis, one day
last week, spread their packs, and when
the family gathered around, opened q
shawl so saturated with chlorofOrm Is
to throw the whole family into a state
of insensibility. The peddlsrs then
robbed the house of money and valua-
bles to the amount of $3.50, and made
good their escape.
Mrs. A.. F. Whistenhaunt, of Alabama,
visited Mobile to see her mother. The
boat reached the wharf in the night
The lady was heard singing TO her lit
tie children in her state-roon about
two hours before day on last Monday
morning, and at daylight the little ones
were in the cabin crying for their moth.
er, when it was discovered that she had
mysteriously disappeared. Having
been subject to slight fits Of derange.
ment it is supposed that she drowned
herself in the river.
Wild beasts are uncommonly fierce in
the United States the present winter.