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

An Indian pony in Texas may be
bought for quart of whisky.
A Virgiain paper records the mar
riage of Massachusetts, white soldier
to colored woman.
A proposition is on foot to build a
new custom house and postoffice in
Newbern, n. c.
Ex-Governor Fayette McMullin is
spoken of as candidate for Governor
of Virginia.
North Carolina paid in the large sum
of SIG internal revenue tax Oh watches.
Georgia buries the past and paid her 81.
Rev. Wm. A. Smith, late of the Vir-
ginia Conference, has become pastor of
the Centenary NJ. +. Church South, in
st. Louis.
The Mayor of Charlotte, n. s., an
nounces that the small pox has entirely
disappeared from that city.
About 100 negroes from Salisbury,
North Carolina, passed through Wash
ington OH Tuesday afternoon, on their
way to Arkansas, where they are en-
gagged to work on cotton plantations.
The quantity of cotton in port at Nor
folk now for shipment to Europe and to
Northern ports, is stated by the Journal
at II 900 bales. More than thousand
bales arrived there on Saturday through
the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal,
anu on Sunday about as much more.
AS the brig Suwanee was leaving
Norfolk oil Sunday for the West Indies,
a seaman named George Anderson re-
fused to do duty, and an alteration en-
sued between him and the mate, in
which the latter was severely cut and
the former terribly beaten. The mutt
neer was returned to Norfolk and car
ried to the hospital.
The negroes of Chattanooga, when
they heard of the passage of the
amendment to the Tenn essee franchise
law which confers upon them the right
to vote, celebrated the event by torch
light procession and loud huzzas for
BrOwnlow.
A Newbern paper states that within
n radius of thirty miles Of that city,
during the last twelve months, there
have been perpetrated not fewer than
one hundred cases of rape, murder,
arson and burglary, to say nothing OF
the hundreds of cases Of minor offences
against the law.
We learn from the Alexandria Journal
that DIR. Paul Gregory, who has been en-
gagged in sinking an oil well on the farm
of Capt. John Powell, in Fairfax coun-
ty, Virginia, after boring four weeks,
was successful in striking oil on Satur-
day, with every prospect that the well
will prove productive one.
THE WHEAT.-Our country friends
tell us that the wheat from which the
snow has disappeared sufficiently to al
low it to be seen, has a very healthy
and flourishing appearance. The blades
are broad and thick. with that dark
green color, which the farmer so de-
lights to see ut this season, and which
is regarded as n sure indication Of Wig
Orous growth in the future.-Lynchburg
.Ne9s. .s --
John Palmer, tried recently in Geor-
gia for the killing of Lazenby. Con-
federate enrolling officer, in March,
1865. was acquitted on the proof that
the latter was attempting to arrest the
accused in q county to which his au-
thority did not extend.
The business part of the town of Shu-
buta, q new and thriving village Of
about 500 inhabitants, in Mississippi,
and situated about 95 miles from Mobile,
on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, was
destroyed by fire on the 24th.
1t is a common opinion that broken
bones in horses will not mite. The
Caaada Fdrmer pronounces this as q
mistake, and says, reunion will take
place in them as readily as in human
being, but the difficulty arises from the
impossibility of keeping our four footed
patients in the state Of quietude neces.
sary for the complete reunion Of frac-
tured bones.