The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-03
SOUTHERN NEWS

Richmond is becoming moral.

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Richmond is becoming moral.
Hides are selling for more in Texas
than in Boston. b5GzItGGJaa
st. Louis IL accused Of an hermaph-
rodite policeman. = ~ va -
The widow of Bishop Polk isteaching
school in Tennessee.
The colored stevedores in rRiehmOnd,
Va, have strnck for s2a day.
A Georgia paper says the lenten sea-
son is likely tn last all the year in that
State. -s... ....r
Hon 4. II. Stevens, of Georgia, is re-
ported in unusually feeble health.
Ex-Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans,
has gone to Canada with his family.
The street-car welfare in Mobile has
been settled by running cars for colored
persons. .........
Gilbert Bogart, collector of customs
of the port Of Washington. \. C., died
last week.
Several fatal cases of Asiatic cholera
are reported in the parish Of Point Cou-
pee, La.
Gen. Pope, of Atlanta, is now able to
swallow his breakfast before the srri-
val of Observation-Disclosures.
A Texas paper speaks of an improve
merit in trade and an increase in the
~s..1aA II INK
The Richmond police are used to quGll
riots arising from the sat ttempts of ne
groes to ride in the horse-cars.
The encouragement of Catfishtown, on
the Mississippi river, was caused by a
temporary crevasse in the clouds. 8,
General Howard has authorized the
issue of two thousand rations daily to
the Louisiana sufferers by the flood.
Jas. Magee, formerly proprietor Of the
Swan Hotel at Wilmington, Del, died
recently on his farm near Lynchburg,
Va. .s..7' ia r...- E.'''D
Gen. Stedman, collector of Internal
Revenue at New Orleans, has ordered
all the distillerics in his district to quit
| work.
A circus performer in Houston broke
three of his ribs while bearing stone
weighing six hundred pounds on his
breast.
The suffering in the South is repre-
sented by letters from that section to
ue still intense, and it must increase
until harvest time,
Nearly half of the business part fthe
town Of Crittenden, Grant county, ky.,
was destroyed by fire on Monday night
last.
On Sunday, fifty young ladies received
the rite of confirmation in the Catholic
Cathedral at Richmond, Va. Bishop
McGill officiated.
A Mississippi paper says there is not
enterprise enough In some of the towns
of that State, to roll q wheelbc ROW
down hill on a plank road.
Rev. DR.. J. I. Wheat, formerly pro.
fessor of rhetoric at Chapel Hill, n. C.,
has accepted call from the Episcopal
Church at Oxford, Miss.
A New Orleans paper hopes that char
ity which is twice blessed will flow in
in a tide and cover the waste places
of Louisiana that were desolated by the
deluge. ''
The colored citizens Of Baltimore
have presented Mrs. Henry Winter
with portrait of her deceased hus.
band, painted by an artist of their own
race.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has returned to
her husband aftera visit to Washing
ton. The state prisoner is reported in
good health and hoping for speedy re-
lease. sE as
Senator Wilson addressed crowd at
the African Church, in Raleigh, North
Carolina, on Monday night. Two ne
groes followed him, making Conserva-
tive speeches.
1t is reported that Fayetteville, North
Carolina, is to have q garrison of United
States soldiers located there. This is
Gen. Sickles' district, and is.snpposea
to be by his ORDERS, I'D.
The Richmond Street Railroad Co.
owns six carr. By advice Of General
Scho6eld, two will be set apart for
ladies, and ifoar viii he ron for the ac.
commodation Of blacks aud whites, ir-
respective 66 color aF1FF 81
The st. Louis Board of Health expect
to spend sieS, S,ooo dpringo the ensuing
year exclusive Of street cleaning), i'm
order to keep the city in bealthful
oonoit'%ens a%ls u 9IEzEIW . 2
During the earthquake in Missouri,
the other. day, an engineer on. the Mis-
so6ri Ri<er railroad turned down ste.m
and jumped from the train, thinking
the engine was bursting
Hes sSsstsmohy e coiorsd leopi. III
s.isatisss both parties 'wsre waite
has jsst bces admitted in the Manieipal
Court at Richmond, Va. 1t is the fir,t
ips$svee Of f;theykmd, nader urv Ian,
jaF pissed y ths FssissistrFs 1'l'i