The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-30
SOUTHERN NEWS.

SOUTHERN NEWS.
Slight frost in Lynchburg Thursday
morning.
Milk is twenty cents quart in New
Orleans.
In portions of the South people eat
only once in two days.
Natchez is gazing at an immense tooth
of some &ntedeluvian animal.
Atlanta is spoken Of as "young Chi
csgo dropped down in Georgia
Since the negroes became free the
mortality among their young is con-
stantly increasing.
The submarine telegraph wire from
Southern Florida TO the Island of Cuba
is nearly laid.
In Houston white men worth 5000
and over are considered as equals in q
negro debating society.
The immense Democratic majority
in Kentucky shows how men will vote
when the military power is removed.
The negroes in New Orleans are rath-
er demonstrative. At every alarm Of
fire they rush through the streets arm
ed with clubs and muskets.
1t is not little remarkable that
Charleston, the head and front of the
whole secession movement, is to-day a
pattern of morality, peace and quiet
ness.
st. Louis has divorce ease wherein
it appears that Baptist Clergyman en-
ticed away the wife of physician. The
latter lodged complaint before the
young Mems Christian Association"
Brownlow does not deny that he at
one time pledged himself to support
the Southern Confederacy at as early
an opportunity as he could do without
disgracing himself in the eyes of both
parties"
A bottle of whisky was resurrected in
Winchester, a few days since, by some
workmen who were tearing down an
old building, upon which (bottle) was
written with diamond this inscription:
Bottle of whisky; buried in 1921"
The fer Y boat Portsmouth was sunk
while lying at Cowley's wharf, in Ports
mouth, Wednesday. 1t appears that
her guards caught on the piles at high
tide, and when the water commenced to
fall sue careened until her air ports
were submerged, when she filed with
water very quickly. s. =
Joseph Johnson, a negro, was con-
victed in the Circuit Court of Abe
marie, Va, on Thursday, of attempting
to outrage the person Of a young lady
of that county, and sentenced to only
two years confinement in the peniten-
tiary. This is certainly very mild
punishment for this, the most lienious
Of offences.
The Episcopal Convention of North
Carolina, which recently met at Will
mington, adopted resolutions favoring
strenuous cxertions for the intellectual
training of the freedmen, admit ing
colorcd men to the ministry in the
church as spiritual teachers and pastors
of their own race. r'''
A gentleman from Pittsylvania in
forms us that many Of the planters are
setting out their tobacco and that a.
great deal has been planted this week.
One gentleman alone has planted l50,-
600 hills: and Others nearly an equal
number. We are told of three large
planters who will cultivate this season
2,5OO, 900 plants.-LyRctbnrg Ne-rs.
In Louisville, on Saturday evening,
four men were killed by the caving in
of pit, near the river A boy had got
into the pit, and the others lost their
lives in endeavoring to save him. The
names of IKE killed were James Ander-
son, Thomas McCauley, Dick Smith and
Alexander G. While.
A citizen of Portsmouth left that |
place -suspiciously, ON the Annamessic
boat On Wednesday night. 1t seems in
the morning he went among his many
friends and borrowed small sums of
money and a gold watch, valued at |
$3.50, with the intention, az he said, of
going to frolic. His many creditors
and friends await his return with anx- !
ious hearts. --. .-..
The police officers inform us that they |
have little or no trouble with colored |
people who have long been residents of
this place, rs they are generally orderly !
and well-behaved, but the arrests of
colored persons are mostly Of those who |
have lately come to town to secure o \
living with the least possible work and |
in many Instances by stealth.-Staanton
y JiRdiorfor.
The President has suspended William
+. Whitaker, Assistant Treasurer at
New Orleans, and appointed j. c. Wal !
ton to the place. This is the first re-
moval under the Tenure Of Office Act,
which requires evidence of fraud or
malfeasance, before the President can |
act, and then he has to report his action |
to the Senate within twenty days after I
the commencement Of the next session.