The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Tom King, the pugilist, died Of yell
low fever, in New Orleans on Sunday.
st. Louis has now four medical schools
and will soon have four medical jour-
nails. -'s
A New Orleans firm offers to supply
likely young coolies at $50 head.
The thermometer stood at 10 in the
shade in Indianola, Texas, last week.
Crop reports from the sea islands
grow more unfavorable daily. The
caterpillars are creating sad havoc.
Two negro men have been arrested in
Danville, charged with committing rape
on Judy Stevens, colored. In
Heavy rains visited Memphis Satur-
day night, which, if general, will do
much good to the late crops in that Sec
tion.
A child was sliding down the bannis-
tiers to the stairs at the Southern Hotel,
at st. Louis. Friday, when he fell to the
floor and was killed.
The Petersburg Inder has specimen
of iron ore, found in great quantities on
the farm of Mr.. B. II. Bransford, of Ches-
terfield county.
The friends ofBishop Johns, of Virgin
ia, will be panied to hear that h s grand
son, Henry Peyton, a youth of fifteen
years, died last week in Norfolk from
lockjaw.
The rivalry between Norfolk and Pc
tersburg for the cotton trade of North
Carolina has sprung up lately with
increased animation. The cotton year
begins the first of September.
The Rev. John w. Beckwith, of New
Orleans, has accepted the position of
Bishop rendered him by the Episcopal
Convention of Georgia. He will enter
upon his duties in the spring.
The Danville News calls upon the ed
itors aud proprietors of newspapers in
Virginia to meet in convention at Rich
mond about the middle of October next
to confer with one another tor the joint
benefit of all.
A letter from Dry Tortugas says the
number of prisoners there is forty-five,
mostly deserters. The conspirators are
all well. Arnold is the clerk. Mudd
and Spangler are becoming skilled car
peuters.
There are in Virginia and West Vir-
ginia Sl5 Baptists churches, with 49,
322 members, beside over 5000 anti
mission Baptists. On the 1st inst.
new Baptist church, numbering 300
members, was publicly recognized at
Arlington Heights.
Near Grenada, Miss, few days ago,
wolves made an attack upon negro
man, and q regular battle ensued. The
negro made heroic defence with hick-
ory stick, and succeeded in killing one
of them and putting the Others to
flight.
General Pore has issued AZ order for
au election in Alabama by the first OF
October Oh the question of holding a
convention and for the election of dele
gates to the same, and forty election
districts. Mobile, Montgomery and
Dallas have five delegates each.
A private letter received in Califor-
mia, Missouri, last week, from former
resident of that place now living in
Northern Texas, says the negroes in
that part of the State have quit work
and gone into camp, all well armed,
and assert that they intend to take the
law into their own hands.
The Methodist church in Farmville
was entered a few nights since and
robbed Of a hymn book, bible, and other
church property. One Daniel Forrest,
a colored man, was arrested for the
theft, bat afterwards released without
punishment. He offered the pulpit col
lections of hymns for ten cents.
The iron PROV of the iron-clad Vir-
ginia (the Merrimac) has been recov-
cred by Captain Underwood's party,
and was gotten up by Captain David E.
Carson, after a labor of several days.
1t is the intention of Captain Under
wood to have this relic of the first
American iron-clad photographed, and
it will doubtless excite much attention.
The Tennessee negroes who left Nash
Vile a short time since at the instance
of the Conservatives, had meeting at
Columbus, Saturday, at which resolu-
tions were passed demanding the en-
franchisement of the whites and the
right of the negroes to hold office.
There was q demonstration of the Rad
ical negroes to mob the imported ora
tors.
A curious accident happened in Alex
dria, Wednesday, by which Mr.. William
johnson, residing on Pitt, between
Queen and OrnOco streets, was seriously
injured. While Mr.. J. was feeding a
fayorite dog, the animal in playful
mood. Jumped on his master, one of his |
paws scraping over his pocket, and
striking the hammer of pistol therein, !
causing it to explode, the ball from
which passed in and through the arm of
Mr.. j., inficting a severe wound,
The Secretary Of the Treasury has re- |
ceived q dispatch from Special Agent
Bell, at Galveston, stating that the yell
low fever there is fatal beyond pre-
cedent. Out Of 26 officers connected
with the tom-house, only three are
fit for duty. The others are either sick |
or dead. The Department has issued
instructions for the removal of the Gus
tom-house to point further down the
island, outside the city limits, said to
be free from the epidemic.
"a. NJ. Crane, editor of the Winches-
ter Journal, and HenryV. Willis, two
of the registering officers of Frederick
county, were on Friday last arrested by
Captain G.. R. Chandler, President of
the Board of Registration for that coun- |
ty bv order of Gen, Schofeld for refus- |