The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-13
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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The dogs keep New Orleans awake all
night.
In Atlanta, Ga, new Hour sells for
Sc so per barrel.
A negro man died in Shelbvville last
Sunday night aged ll2 years.
There is much sickness i'll Norfolk,
Va, among the children, and many
deaths.
/ Several negro women have registered
in Norfolk, Va, in male attire.
The fire-cracker nuisance was sup
pressed in st. Louis Oh the Fourth.
A negro and n white man have been
arrested in st. Louis for brutal ontrages
on little girl.
Alexander II. Stephens believes Thad-
deus will succeed in cOnGscating, and
tells his friends so.
Jacksonville, Florida, is now riOting
in watermelons ut ten cents, and
peaches by the cartload.
The First National and Merchants
National Banks of Petersburg, Va,
have been consolidated.
Fireworks were prohibited by the
Chief of the Metropolitan Police III
Memphis OH the fourth OF July.
The report that the First Nations!
Bank of Vicksburg, Mississippi, had
suspended, is a failure.
In the first two districts Of Nansc-
mond county, 373 whites and 5O7 colorcd
men have been registered.
Firsr-clas farm hands are getting -
per day in Augusta, says the Valley JT-
0iuidn, and are in demand at that.
Flakes Galveston Bulletin protests
against the idea that Texans are bar
barianS, and that they scalp strangers
Bishop Johns, of Virginia, confirmed
forty-nine persons in the Episcopal
churches at Norfolk last Sunday.
DR.. Tallcy, OF Columbia, and General
A. c. Haskell, of Abbeville, have been
elected Professors in the South Carolina
University.
The Natchez Courier, under the press
uro of the times, has suspended its daily
issue. 1t will be continued as Il weekly.
Father Ryan will spend the summer
at the Lookout Mountain House, near
Chattanooga, and will hold regular re-
ligious services there.
Reconstruction in Selma has insisted
upon a "loyal" grave-disgcr, and the
incumbent of thir y years has been
ousted from his cheerful position.
In Nashville, Mary Brown has rccov-
cred $500 from DR.. Winston, for kill
ing her husband by giving him an over
dose of morphine. She claimed s'o,Ovo.
Indictments have been found against
Maynard and Whitaker, the New Or
leans defaulters. Government has real
lied fifty per cent. of tr losses tr"" the
assets.
The Sheriff of Tishimingo county,
Mississippi, says there are 1900 persons
i'm that county who have failed to pay
taxes, and if they do not come Ia time,
he will put them to work on the roads.
A telegram from Houston, Texas, an
nounces the deccasr OF Robert j. Breck
inridge, pl,ysiciau of that place, of ap-
oplexy. He was nephew Of the ID. ID.
of the same name, and cousin ot the
cx-Vicc President.
The Nashville gazette announces the
first water-m melons of the season, which
arrived Wednesday, the 81 of July.
Also, Horace Maynard, Barbour Lewis,
john Eaton, Sam. Arnell, JO. Cooper,
ard several other green things.
BY resolution of the City Council of
Atlanta, the ordinance prohibiting the
burning of rockets, crackers and fire
works within the limits of the city, was
suspended on the Fourth of July. The
same ordinance was suspended there
about three years ago.
On Tuesday a man named John Snyder,
whose home is near Richmond, Va,
after pulling off his boots and coat, put
"A loaded Mississippi linc to his head,
pulled the trigger, and blew his brains
far and wide.
A silver mine, two miles above Smith
land, Kentucky, on the Cumberland,
Yields three hundred and twenty ounces
to the ton, and is increasing rapidly,
there being seventy-three per cent. of
lead. The owners. from Louisville, be-
lieve it among the richest prospects III
the Union.
In his speech here Tuesday night,
Rev. Lewis Lindsay, colorcd, urged the
colorcd people to send 4 colorcd man to
the Constitutional Convention from
this county. He said that as to his
begging an education, that was all non
sense: that anybody who could carry a
pair of saddle-bags from here to Rich
nond would make good representa-
tive.-ChdrloucsriUe Chronicle.