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

An Oil well mas Deen SUNK III ot. Siau
county, Ala, to the depth Of nine hun
dred feet, and oil is procured in great
abundance.
Six new counties have been created
in Alabama, and are named Baine,
Bullock, Clay, Cleburne, Crenshaw and
Lee.
Twenty-Five farms were sold in Ala
bama few days since for 81 per acre.
Failure ofcrops caused creditors to force
sales.
Gen. Basil Dukes History of Nor
gan's Cavalry" will be published this
month in q volume ofabout five hundred
pages.
One of the editors of the Jackson,
(Miss.) Clarion announces History OF
General Humphreys Confederate Brig
ade," from its organization to its dis
abandonment.
A planter in Alabama, few days
siuce, sold his estate of six hundred
acres for 5000. Before the war he own
ed three hundred and fifty slaves and
forty horses.
IL is stated that member of the
Tennessee Legislature, who is not salts
fed with his pay, has added n tritle to
his income by becoming waiter In
Nashville restaurant.
Firewood in Newbern, \. G., is ez-
travagantly high, and it has been sug-
gested to the city authorities Of that
place, that they purchase wood for
distribution among the poor of the city.
Mr.. Jack Heath was attacked n few
evenings since, near Kinston, n. c., by
two negroes. He killed one of the ne
rroes and wounded the other severely,
hut lost his life in defending himself.
He was n citizen of LenOir county.
Spectators are travelling tronghout
the South, buying up all the railroad
iron which was damaged during the
war. Large quantities are shipped
North, where the old rusty rails, twisted
into every conceivable shape, are re-
rolled and sent back to re-quip the
Southern railroads.
General Jos. Wheeler has been elected
Professor of Natural Science in the
State Seminary of Louisiana. The in
stitution is represented as in flourish
ing condition., over one hundred and
fifty students having already entered.
Admiral Semmes was honored with a
grand public reception at Galveston, and
lectured TO an enthusiastic audience,
who applauded him to the echo. The
Houstan Journal SAYS thar Semmcs had
warm and cordial reception at that
place.
The negroes of DR.. o. B. Early, of
Memphis, returned to him last week,
and claimed and received their former
situations. Lurcd off by Burau agents,
they stated that they had been told they
must work for three dollars a month,
which left them the alternative either
to steal, starve or go back to their
master.
A literary society in Galveston has
invited Horace Greeley to come down
and lecture before the society. A Texas
paper says on the matter: "We can
assure Greeley that he would be well
treated, and that he would find the
Texas people more mild-mannered than
he now thinks they are"
A late Arkansas paper says: Large
streams of emigrants continue to pour
through our country on their winding
way to Texas. While on our way to
Little Rock we met no less than an hun
drcd wagons loaded with emigrants to
Texas. They are mostly from East Ten
nessee, Alabama and Missouri. They
are leaving Brownlow's and Fletcher's
dominiOns fast"
John Smith, second Quintus Curtius,
citizen of Memphis, desirous of ameli-
Grating the condition of the streets of
his native city, is reported to have
plunged headlong into the mud, leaving
only the soles of his boots exposed,
with the touching inscription in chalk,
"Who will care for mother now."