The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.

A rattle in Mobile for q baby yielded
S25.
The "glut" of tobacco in Lynchburg
continues.
Land in Georgia recently sold at fifty
cents an acre.
The wheat crop in Tennessee is ex-
cellent. ... r.. -i...-
A man in Louisville is lecturing OH
water. A poor place for such ware.
Two roguish boys picked the pocket
of a Galveston policeman on the 18th
ultim0. ,-. . .. - t.r % -.
The young men Of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, are getting up reading
room.
Great preparations are making at Mo-
bile for the spring races over the Mag
nolia track.
Some of the people in Lynchburg
have decidedto to camp out to avoid the
high rents. -
The best tender Of assistance to the
destitute of the South is legal tender.
There is a restaurant attached to the
train on the Wilmington and Weldon
railroad.
Some of the Raleigh merchants keep
their stores open on Sunday.
A negro boy in Liberty, Miss, in or
der to avoid q threatened whipping,
killed his father.
A Memphis paper publishes an ac-
count of steamboat disaster under the
head of ''Fluvicide." n
A Young lady in Norfolk walked into
. store and cowhided q clerk who had
been saying naughty things about her.
Congressman Barksdale will short
" assume editorial control of the Jack
son (MississippD Clarion.
A Nashville paper believes that by
proper management sufficient means
can be rsised ina single day to relieve
the South.
The Bolivar, Tennessee, Male Acad-
emy is reported in q more fiOurishing
condition than at any time since 1860.
The city of Petersburg, Va, has built
two dredging scows, and called one
Gen. Grant and the other Gen. Lee.
.Springhas set IN at Macon, Gai, the
buds beginningto open, and the ther-
mometer ranging between GO and 20 de-
grees.
General d. H. Hill is writing for q
Presbyterian paper in North Carolina on
the ''CrucifiIiOn of Christ"
The Chickahominy bridge over the
York river, Va, has been completed,
and workmen are at work on the bridge
across the Pamunkey. M. NJ
According to the official census of
Alabamss, taken last year, the popala-
ton of that State is about $4,000 less
thsnit was IN l66OSS "a naR
The medical students in ndisecting the
corpse Of pauper' at the New York
Medical College lately found that she
had died Of trichine spirals. =
A church in Baltimore has the motto
upon the outer walls: "To the poo the
gospel is preached. - EOne$ morning
these words We're found painted under
it: "NOt here, though I3iEAH'
A Radical Convention was held in
Frankfort, KY. on Tuesday. Col. Sid
ney NJ. Barnes, Colonel Of a Federal
regiment during the war, was nomi-
mated for Governor, and FIVE other
soldiers for important Offices. saois 3a2 =,
Recruiting for the colored regiments
of the regular army is brisk in Nash
vile. More than two hundred recruits
hays been sent forward within q few
months. ralI 4a5sls s..bs-i Is s,It-,. s.l.Igs
There. is huge excitement in fash
ionable coioreda life in New Orleans,
oooasioned by the discovery that o fst
but ftail darkness Of that town haa
five living husbands. - :, 80 <, !, s4oj
The San Antonio Ledger says that Aps
at chisksas ars selling ct 3 . dozen,
and, tslkeVs ras ~ q dozen; venison
hams, 5 . dozen; sweet potstoes ri IS
cents to ~ pef bnShtf; pork, ~ hnAs IS
& hpndfe1, ed heef q splendid qualify