The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.

ument, 140 feet high.
Pollard, the historick and honorable
spells logic without k.
Sckles is making war on the bar
rooms. He has made them suffer before
this.
The last but one of Washington,
third cousins died in Virginia recently
The Nashville Conservatives have
nominated Bailie Peyton for Congress
The young men of Portsmouth art
about to establish "Young Mems Ait
Society"
In Petersburg, for the quarter ending
June 3Oth, there were 2,675 barrels o.
flour inspected.
! A Richmond paper significantly asks
il the South is to be beaten for Mr.
Stanbery's opinion.
In Shottsville, Kentucky, on Satur
day night, A. Miner was killed, and an
other man fatally injured.
Horace Greeley was hung recently in
Charleston, S. C. He was a respectable
negro, not Tribune editor.
A tobacco leaf, grown OH the planta.
tion of Mr.. Jones, in Pittsylvania coun'
ty, Va, measured thirty-six inches in
length.
At dinner given by General Sheri'
dan, on the 4th, lat New Orleans, the
Presidents health was proposed and
drank in silence.
1t is stated that the Rev. N. ID. Hoge,
of Richmond. has been called to the
pastorship of the Presbyterian Church
ut Lexington.
Elias Polk, (colored) for many years
the body servant of President Polk,
is spoken of as q conservative can
di date for the Tennessee legislature.
General Schofeld has given orders
which will lead to the preliminaries
necessary to the establishment of q
quarantine for the benefit of Norfolk
and Old Point.
The high price of s225 per hundred
weight was paid in Danville for lot OF
leaf tobacco, on Monday. Messrs.
VIM. C. Crumpton & Sons were the
purchasers.
Ayoung man named Orrison, while
harvesting near Waterford, in LoudOun
county, on Saturday last, fell from the
effects of the heat and died ina short
time thereafter.
No less than three separate attempts
were made to fire the Macon House in
Portsmouth, on Friday night, and
twice the flames under Rev. K. II. Nc
Kim's apartment were extinguished.
An incendiary set fire to large frame
house in Portsmouth, last Saturday
morning, and fur adjoining houses
were consumed before the flames were
arrested. Loss about $4,000. Insurance
$500.
A Mississippi freedman writes to For,
ney that he hears the Press is to be dis
continued, which forms an ample text
for disquisition upon the God-forsaker
state of that country when such an inn
pious thought can be allowed.
On Saturday night last, serious dis
turbance took place at a negro dance
house, near Fort Whipple, about sever
miles from Alexandria, in which ne
pro man was instantly killed by a squad
of United States soldiers, ordered Il
suppress the riot.
The proprietors of the daily papers O
Petersburg, in order to give their EN-
ployees the opportunity of observing
Sunday as a day of rest, will hereafter
put Mondays papers to press on Satur'
day night, and circulate them among
city subscribers on Monday morning.
Z. j. Westmoreland, British Consu,
at Brunswick, Georgia, was killed al
that place by Captain Martin, on the
5th instant. The deceased had only
been married four hours. Martin was
arrested and taken to Savannah. Great
mystery exists regarding the affair.
Clark Mills, the celebrated sculptor
the designer and moulder of the eques'
trian statue of General jackson, al
Washington, was here last week. 1t is
stated that he designs making a similar
statue of General Lee, and was here for
the purpose of making preliminary ar
rangements to that end.-LeriRgtoR Ga.
zette.
E. b. Harris, Governor Brownlow's
Commissioner of Registration, for Cheat
ham county, Tennessee, in a quarrel in
Ashland on Monday, killed man NAM
ed Brinkley. S. w. Martin was also
concerned in the homicide, and both fled
to Nashville, where they were arrested
in the Governors Office on Monday.
The Bazaar lately held in Norfolk for
the benefit of the Washington and Lee
Association realized net profit of 81 $40
Is. This timely henefsction will prove
of incalculable Importance to the beue-
ficiaries, as the Society has Row under
charge twenty mine widows and seven.
ty-six children, and applications are
constantly making for assistance.
New Orleans was much excited over
rumors that General Sheridan had re-
moved many members of the City Coun-
ell. tits pretty we'll established that an
order had been prepared, but the Gener.
al changed his mind, and decided to
wait the legislation of Congress. Gov
ernor Flanders was to leave on Saturday
night for Washington.
About u o'clock Tuesday night, Sc.
we're lightning storm passed over the
village of Orange Court House, during
which q bolt struck store belonging
to Mr.. Benjamin Rose, which was fred,
and in n few minutes was q mass OF
lurid flames. This store, and another
adjoining, also belonging to Mr.. Rose,
with their entire contents, were con-
sumed. The fire spread thence to the
store of Messrs. Robertson & Cullen,
and to the dWAlIinO of Mr. Georoa p