The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Memphis has new city currency.
Ex-Governor Isham G. Harris is in
; search of home.
People are leaving New Orleans on
account of the oppressive heat.
A black brute in st Louis chopped OF
one of his wife's thumbs with an axe.
An East Tennessee Hoosier wants to
make Shelby county in that State ter
ritory.
They have beautiful young lady in
Memphis seven feet high.
A great discovery of antique jewelry
has been made in an Indian mound in
Tennessee.
A white man in Richmond went to a
negro ball and stole all the over gar
ments Of the ladies.
Several mad dogs have appeared In
Memphis during the last few days, and
have bitten a number of children.
Mr.. Weinburg, q gentleman who had
reached the remarkable age of lOl years,
died in Alexandria, on Monday.
Self abasement: Maryland Radicals
petitioning Congress to place the State
under the operation of the Military Bill
enacted for the government Of the
South.
The City Council of Nashville has
passed resolution instructing the
Board of Education to procure school
houses, and mature plan for the free
education of colored children.
DR.. T. Hays Shields, well-known
citizen of Winchester, by invitation of
the negroes, addressed them last We'd
uesday night at the African Church,
his subject being "The duty and desti-
nv of the cOlored race of America"
Ten boys confined in the st. Louis
House of Refuge, took leave of that in
stitution, without bidding good bye to
the officers, on Thursday night. They
had been confined for various crimes,
and were an unusually bad lot.
The Norfolk papers protest against
the throwing of slops and dishwater
from high windows on the public pave
ment of that city. A "local" complains
of having had his new spring suit
doused all over with q N amalgam of
coffee grounds, suds and the debris OF
breakfast.
The intermediate celebration of the
Jefferson Society of the University of
Virginia will take place on Friday
evening, April 18th. Mr.. John Y. Bas-
sci, of West Virginia, will read the Dec
laration of Independence, and Mr..
Frank ID. Moore, of Richmond, will de-
liver the Grafton.
Silver has been discovered in paying
quantities OH the Cumberland river,
four miles above Smithland. A gentle
man from Louisville is now working
the mine, and says he considers himself
millionaire from present indications.
Rich specimens have been shown in
Cairo.
We learn that the Dismal Swamp
canal is suffering considerably 10y the
heavy floods. Breaks have been made
in the embankment in several places,
the road along the bank has been sub
merged two and three feet, which pre-
vents the running of the stage to Eliza
beth city, and stops n great deal of other
travel to and from North Carolina
Norfolk Journal.
Kingston, Mississippi, records the most
horrible of recent murders. The victim
was widow lady, the mother of seven
children, and the murderer tenant of
hers, who, having been threatened with
crept up behind her as she was sitting
at the window and blew ont her brains
with u gun. His footprints betrayed
him and he has been arrested.
A few days since number of Dun
kards, a strange religious sect, quite
numerous in South Western Virginia,
broke up their old homes in Franklin
county, and emigrated to Indiana. The
Roanoke Times says they were influ-
enced not so much by the hope of find
ing better and finer country, as by the
fear that Virginia might again with
draw from the Union. The Dunkards,
be it known, are almost, to man. most
devoted Unionists.
Our farmers complain that they can
not and have not been able TO plOw
furrow during the month of March. The
earth is full of water, and nothing can
be done were it not to rain again for q
week. We have -h~l sut TWO days
a1..s.us %e.n. weather FOR almost an age, and
these were immet,istely followed by
sleet, snow and rain. The prospect for
good weather is not now very promising,
but is to be hoped it will turn out more
favorable for farmers and gardeners
Fredericksburg Ne,rs.
The ram Merrimac has been blown
up second time, and with almost as
terrific crash as on the night of the
memorable tenth of May. Day before
Yesterday being very clear and beauti-
full for such an operation, Mr.. d. A.
Underdown, the wrecker of the remains
of the Merrimac, applied the torpedoes
which had been prepared for the pur-
pose, and the great body of iron armor
was thrown ont of its bed into the river
and torn into hundreds of fragments.
The explosion was distinctly. seen by
persons in Portsmouth.-NortoK Jour
nal.
We learn that white swans are to be
found on the Lower Potomac at this
time by the thousands. A gentleman
living near the river told US that he had,
on more than one occasion, risen during
the night and fired into them to scatter
the flock in order that he might 60 to
sleep, they having kept up such jab-
bering as wholly to prevent repose.
Two swans were shot high up the Poto-
mac creek few days ago and brought
to this market, where they were sold at
| q dollar aniece whan younp and TEN