The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-22
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Indiancla (Texas) Times, died of yellow
fever recently.
Mayor Thomas, of st. Louis, has been
fined three dollars and costs for assault
ing colored woman.
A shark nine feet long has been seen
swimming about in Baltimore harbor
for several days.
They are making rum in Louisiana
out Of sweet potatoes. Seven barrels
of potatoes yield a barrel of rum.
1t is recorded as singular fact that
not single mulatto child was born in
Berkeley county, Va, last year.
One of the largest rice mills ever
built in Louisiana has been put up at
Point la Hache.
At Occoquan, Prince William county,
Va, Mrs. Julia Hammill is appointed
postmistress, vice W. r. Seleemen, re-
signed.
Governor Worth, of North Carolina,
has issued an address to the people of
that State, advising them to register
under the reconstruction laws.
The caterpillar, or army worm, is re-
ported as having made its appearance
on several of the sea islands, between
Charleston and Savannah.
Henry Decker, of Memphis, Tenn, is
reputed to be the smallest man IL the
United States. He is 10 years of age,
81 inches il height, and weighs just 40
pounds.
The Savannah (Ga.) .fdrertiser says
to compositors seeking work: 'Do not
come to Savannah for Sit" All the
job offices there are reducing their force,
and in the newspaper offices there are
about as many snbs as regulars.
The army worm in Alabama has met
with repulse. The hot weather did it.
A lady died in Louisville KY, few
days ago, from the effects of bees
sting. -
The rice crop Of Louisiana promises
to be unusually large this year, all ac-
counts agreeing that the season has
been very favorable thus far.
The largest 1866 income reported in
the New Orleans district, is that of
Thomas P. May, s63,37l; P. r. Beaure-
gard reports s5,742.
1t is stated that in Alabama 10000
acres of sweet potatoes have been plant
ed.
The citizens of Forsythe, Georgia,
have recently held largely attended
meeting for the purpose of considering
the subject of the education of the col
ored citizens. The whole tone of their
resolutions was of the best character,
aud there was no opposition to their
passage.
AT Lovettsville, Virginia, few days
since, colored man aged one hundred
and eight years, was registered. Twelve
Others beyond seventy years of age
were registered there; and, at Hillsboro,
Isaac Camp, aged ninety years, came
forward and registered.
Within the past eight or nine months,
in Milledgevil!c and vicinage, Georgia,
there has been no less than eight pairs
of twins born. On the l1th ult., Mrs.
Sallie Royal, of Dooley county, gave
birth to three daughters. All of them
are living and doing well. Mr.. and
Mrs. Royal have been married two years
and have four daughters, not one of
whom can walk alone.
+. w. Patterson, a prominent mer
chant of Buffalo, absconded with the
proceeds of eleven car loads of Texas
cotton.
The talk about rebuilding the LIndel
Hotel in st. Louis is reviving. The
"solid men" are moving in the matter.
One fourth of the citizens of Nash
vile are said to he ont of the city "rus-
ticating.'
The Arkansas papers very generally
complain of shameful remssness on the
part of mail contractors tO do their
duty.
The dead bod.y of man was recently
rooted up by hogs in the neighborhood
Of Madison, Ark, supposed to be that Of
II Mr.. Barbour, who disappeared some
time ago.
A Richmond paper says that leading
politician and manufacturer of Rhode
Island has written to prominent citi-
zen of Virginia that his attention has
been called to the water-power of Rich
mond, and the tenor of his letter indi-
Gates that he is inclined to make an in
vestment.
Eight hundred United States regu-
lars, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel
Townsend, arrived at Memphis recently
and took up quarters at the navy yard.
A negro woman in Nashville recently
gave birth to child white all over, but
with pink eyes like white rabbit.
Both parents are black. The grand
mother of the child had indications of
the Albino.
The negro Sumner, who commanded
one of Brownlow's sweet scented COM
panies, marched his company into
Franklin the other day with guns half
cooked. General Duncan complained of
the matter to Cooper. who promised to
look after it.
The Madison, Fla, Messenger says
that last week Ned Wright, negro, was
whipping his wife, when another negro
interfered in her behalf; the woman
whipper fired at but missed him, the
ball striking and killing his own two
children, boy of six and girl of
eleven ..r ~ rs r a
ACCIDENT TO A LION TAMER.-Batty,
the lion tanner, had n narrow escape two
evenings back at the theatre of the
Porte St. Martin, were he appears with
his animals in the representation of the
''Biche au Bois.r One of the honesses
had produced four young ones during
the day, and the lions in the same cage
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