The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Unelr cOntTaClS.
New Orleans drinks three thousand
kegs of lager daily.
The wires are up on the Florida side
for the Cuba telegraph.
General n. B. Forrest is one of the
judges at a Mississippi tournament"
A nomination to the United States
Senate is what's the matter with Gener-
al Longstreet.
The Eureka cotton mills, at Houston,
Texas, turn out about one thousand
yards daily.
"Let us endure" says the Richmond
JTMg, "salvation through suffering
seems universal law"
Memphis registers seven times rs ma
nv black as white voters. 1t is Rad
ical way that obtains extensively.
The newly appointed Governor of
Louisiana finds no money in the State
Treasury, with which to pay himself.
Mr.. +. w. Lemosy, of Norfolk county,
Va, has sold $500 wort tn of strawberries
from quarter of an acre of ground.
Flake, of Galveston, calls Stevens and
Wilson the two wings of the Radical
party. No wonder it doesn't soar high
in popular estimation.
The colored people of Charlottesville,
Va, have purchased lot for Sl,5OO,
upon which they propose to erect n
church.
The huge boilers lately belonging to
the Merrimac have at last all been safe
ly landed upon the Norfolk navy-yard
wharf.
A Norfolk paper states that an enter
prising gentleman of that city is about
to establish n telegraph line between
Norfolk and the North Carolina coast.
An official in Orange county, Va,
puts the number of colored voters in
that county at -45. Orange has rather
tisn since the war.
Swinton represents Lee rs reticent on
political matters, with Il mortal horror
of appearing i'll the papers, and deeply
engroesod in tho affairs or his colleSe.
A man in Wytheville, Va, gave his
consent to the marriage of his daughter
with a Radical for the consideration
that he (the RadicaD would ave his
property from coniiscatiOn.
4 few days since, Mr.. Isaac Lichstcn-
tein, of Summit, Mississippi, was called
to the gate of his house by a negro,
who shot him through the breast, kill
ing him instantly.
The Louisville Board of Trade have
prepared memorial to Congress, pray
ing for the removal of the tax on cotton,
and setting forth its injustice and in
furious influence upon commercial at
fairs.
In the Republican State Convention
ut New Orleans, on Saturday, resolu-
ton was tabled asking Congress to ap-
propriate $4,000, 900 for the peaceablc
possession of Cuba, or take it by force
of arms.
Gov. .Brownlow has placed General
Joseph A. Cooper in command of the
Tennessee militia, and says that the
term of service of the forces will de-
pend on the conduct of the people of
the State.
Minister Campbell has been ordered
back to his late winter quarters at New
Orleans, and travel southwark i'll search
of the Juarez Government, which will
be as easy to find as the end of a rain
bow.
Three little boys, named Sullivan,
Dickens and Cox, fell into a tub of boil
ing swill at a distillery in Falmouth,
Stafford county, Va, on Monday week.
and wero so badly scalded as to cause
the death of Sullivan. The other two
are in precarious condition.
A correspondent of the Charlottes-
Vile Chronicle says that ut the recent
Baptist Association held in Lynchburg,
one of the clergymen, q man of superior
talents and ability, walked fifty miles
in order to be present, and he preached
in one of the churches on Tuesday morn
ing.
A tournament came Off near Harris
onburg, Va, on Monday week, which
was participated in by the colored peo-
pie alone. A great man. of those pres
ent were under the influence Of mean
whisky, and conducted themselves in q
very lawless and disorderly manner.
In the United States Court at Louis
vile on Saturday, forty-one suits
against Colonel Grader, brought TO re-
cover assessments levied upon citizens
during the war, were dismissed. The
money was collected to remunerate
Union men for rebel depredations.
A large number of the Norfolk mer-
chants have agreed to close their places
of business. from AMI after the 18th day
oil JUut W tut VI CtPttiAiDOAt
1867, ar half-past six o'clock P. NJ, for
the purpose of giving employees, clerks,
&c, time for recreation and amuse-
ment.
Frank Ames and James NJ. Coffey
fought duel. at New Orleans, a few
days ago. Coffey received two flesh
wounds, but his pistol did not work
we'll, and, as he and his antagonist got
almost within reach Of each other, not
being able to discharge it, he hurled it
at Ames' head, iafiicting an ugly cut.
The seconds then iDterfered, the wounds
were dressed, and the whole party ad-
iourned to an adjacent bar-room.
The Norfolk Journal says the survey
of. the Dismal Swamp canal, preparato-
nv to al enlargement in beth width and
depth, has Just been completed, with
the exception Of the feeder, and the
process of excavation will probably
commence in about week. 1t has been
surrnised that Lake Drummond. as its
source, will not be sufficient to supply
the canal after il has been enlarged, and
ye understand that an estimate Is about
to be made TO ascertain its capacity.