The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.

flOElu2 DcdtS an PicfiouS 'oeooA 80
its orange crop.
A negro in Tallahassee, Fla, shot his
brother dead.
A Louisville paper styles miscegena-
tion "pepperboxically mixed"
A row at horse-race in Texas result
ed in three murders in fifteen minutes.
An agricultural paper says that Gen.
Washington's camp mule was eighty
three years of age.
The food in. Portsmouth is said to
have been great beyond the memory Of
the oldest inhabitant.
Maryland meditates a monument to
Francis S. Key, author of the "Star
Spangled Banner"
In Missouri the laws allow married
women to make wills fof their own.
They have them ready made here.
1t seems that the roll of Robert
Tomb's slaves will be called at 4 Geor-
gia ballot-box instead of at Bunker
Hill.
A correspondent says that nothing
ever happens at Pensacola and when 1t
does half the town is somewhere else at
| tho time.
The hotels at White Sulphur Springs,
Va, a famous watering place before the
war, are to be reopened the coming sea-
son.
Ristori had her trunks seized by al
Nashville manager for having refused
to fulfil her engagement in that city.
The Nicolson pavement is being laid
down in New Orleans. General Beau
regard is putting down two squares at
his own expense.
By order Of Gen. Sheridan, the head
quarters of the district of Florida have
been fixed at San Augustine.
Beverley Tucker, who is prescribed in
the United States, recently travelled
from San Louis POtosi to the city of
Mexico, and was robbed FIVE times.
The Charleston Nees estimates the
number of freedmen-farm!h !hands-wh
have left South Carolina for Mississippi,
Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and Florida
at 25,000.
A German Count is under arrest in
Louisville, KY, for marrying three wo-
men there, two in Baltimore, and an
entire brigade of ladies in New York.
The papers say he had "wife on the
BRAIN"
Smithland, KY, is completely inun-
dated, and great suffering exists among
the people. Some of the houses have
been washed away, and many families
have taken refuge in the courthouse.
Buildings are now in the course of
erection in Baltimore, the cost Of which
will amount to S6,0O0,O00. There never
was more enterprise exhibited in this
direction in Baltimore than now.
A number of discharged Irish labor
ers, some of whom had been in the
rebel and some in the Union army,
fought their battle over again in Mis-
sissfppi recently. Several were badly
hurt, but no one was killed.
The st. Joseph Herald reports scenes
of extraordinary distress in that city.
A lady of the Relief committee lately
discovered, while on an examining tour,
several families without food or fuel.
! In another street six families were with
out fuel and but sparsely supplied with
provisions.
A plantation in Wilcox county, Ala,
containing from fifteen hundred to two
thousand acres, which before the war
produced from eight thousand to ten
thousand bushels of corn, and from three
| hundred and fifty to five hundred bales
| of cotton, was rented the other day for
one hundred and thirty dollars year.
Advic4s from North Alabama state
that the inhabitants living distance
from the railroad are dying of starva-
ton. and unless relief reaches them, the
whole range of counties in the Sand
Mountain region will be depopulated.
The recent floods, destroyed a large
amount of -four sent by the Relief Asso-
citation to the sufferers.
A suit was recently brought before
Judge Duvall, in the United States
Court at Austin, Texas, to recover the
value of a note given for ssme negroes
in 1864. The defense alleged tnat the
nff A.
| tion proclamation was issued, was ille-
gal, and that there was no considera-
| tion. The Jury held that the decease of
slavery must be dated at the military
occupation of the State by the Federal
troops. The case will go to Washing
! ton.
At Memphis there is graveyard of
twenty-five acres with twenty-five
thousand graves. There are also cen
eteries of the saline kind from Colum-
bus, KY, to Helena, Ark, all along the
Mississippi. At Fort Donelson, a grave
yard of twenty acres, with thirty-ive
hundred buried there. At Nashville, a
graveyard Of sixty-two acres, with
eighteen thousand graves. At Stone
river, graveyard of sixteen acres,
with almost five thousand graves. At
Chattanooga, one of seventy-five acres,
with twelve thousand dead. At Knox
vile, one of four acres, with three
thousand dead.
An Italian in Mobile was put in his
coffin while in q trance, as he was sup
posed to be dead. Upon arriving at the
graveyard the friends of the deceased
found that the coffin had been partially
broken open, apparently by force exer-
cised within. They at once held con-
sultation, which resulted in the opening
of the coffin, when the apparently dead
man was found to present the most un- !
mistakable signs of life. Although there
was evidently life, there was no con-
sciousness. The whole strength Of the
almost buried man had been thoroughly !
exhausted by hisefforts to make his con-
dition known to his friends, and his
consciousness deserted him simultane-
ously with the bursting of the lid by