The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-16
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Louisville is dissatisfied with it's ne,
census. o.. EtE5l{tGlffi E
Jack Hamilton requested the pardo
of $50 Confederates.
A Virginia paper publishes an obitu
airy notice of horse. HhG4
In Louisville man was shot down a
his own door and riddled with bullets
Everything about a new paper il
Memphis is to be as black as the hinge
of Erebus. . .-...a.-t .....t Z
In some portions Of the Southern
States the negroes are strong enough Il
be sent to Congress. ~ (
The corner stone of the new Jewisf
temple at Louisville, will be laid on tht
oath inst.
The Harnden, Adams, and Southern
Express offices in Lynehburg, Va, sre
to be consolidated.
The editor of the Savannah Republican
still lies in Chatham county Jail. His
editorials are also dated there.
During the war Gen. Forrest had
twenty-eight horses killed outright nm
der him without counting those wound
ed.
Owens and King, under sentence OF
death at Franklin, KY, broke Jail and
ran half a mile before they were reap
tured.
All distilleries in and about Nashville
have been stopped by Government au-
thorities for alleged infringement of the
revenue law.
A Georgia niger orator says down
South they are going to mix the ra.es
like rum and molasses. That's whit
makes the Yankee preachers take 1t .
kindly.
The underwriters of Atlanta offer a
reward of $1,000 for the arrest ard
conviction of any incendiary wlo
shall set fire to any property within tie
limits of that city.
Two men in Nashville bought hadi,
and have been running it in COMPANY.
Last Tueskay they found five hundrd
dollars in greenbacks slowed away ul-
der the seat.
The stockholders of the Memphis ad
Little Rock Railroad Company haze
unanimously ratified the sale OF tint
road to the Memphis, El Paso and h-
ific Railroad Company.
The mechanics of West Point, Ms
sissippi, have formed an association Or
the establishment of uniform prices Or
their work, and providing for the relief
of worthy fellow-members, who my
become helpless by any misfortune lot
their own fault
The Newman (Georgia) Herald sys
that two widows and their familicsln
Cowen county, occupying the sane
house, were reduced to such destitutDn
as to compel an allowance of only thee
mouthfuls of corn bread at each mol.
In consequence, one person has perised
from starvation.
w. R. Hopkins, q merchant of Savn-
nah, got into an alteration, witt a
drunken mulatto cotton agent, naped
Alexander Hardce, and in attempting
to shoot the latter with pistol, killed
n
Gardner, who happened to be in rage.
He is in Jail on charge OF murder.
A young fellow at Galveston, Tens,
having besn caught rehearsing a hb-
leau vivant from Shakspearc's Vaus
and Adonis, politely requests the Bile
tin "to suppress the incident, ds its iub-
lication will be unpleasant to the lays
husband, who is q respectable ncr-
chant" OF course the gallant editor
complies.
An act was passed at the lastlsessin of
the Tennessee Legislature which en-
frachises such aliens as have resided in
the United States one year and in Ten
nessee six months, provided they hall
have previously declared their nten-
ton to become citizens Of the United
States and have not participated i the
late rebellion.
The Southside railroad bridge over
James river at Robertson's mill. six
miles below Lynchburg, was partially
destroyed by fire on Saturday moning,
the 9th inst. 1t will require sveral
days to repair it. The bridge which
preceded this was, burned by oher Of
Gen. Lomax the night following Gen.
Lees surrender.
Not long since Governor Throtlmor-
ton issued a request to the Chif JUS
tees of the frontier counties of Texas
that they report the number killed in
their respective coanties by Idians.
since that time the Chief Justics have
reported for five counties, that ; per
sons have been killed, IL take. cap
tives, and $l57,s75 worth of pDperty
destroyed.
A New Orleans correspondent of the
Charleston Courier attributes he de-
struction of levees on the Mississippi
to the depredations of the "clg:tish.'
He says: "The clay-fsh is a Dirt dig
ger. Innumerable as the whit ants,
they live like troglodytes, in dark cav
erns, along the sides of every'tream,
pool, lagoon, or river, in the hnks of
which they scoop out their habihtions."
The Holly Springs Reporter sa,s: One
of the horse-thievss convicted at the
late term of the Hernando coirt, and
sentenced to the penitentiary, ias pub
lished q letter in the Peoples lress, im-
plicating several men by the name of
Hurst, who reside in Tennessee, as being
the head of band of these cItlawed
horse-thieves. He says that tley steal
horses from Tennessee to sell il Missis-
sippi, and return with stolen horses
from Mississippi to sell in tennessee.
A Richmond correspondent of the
Tribune writes that "all the eforts to
elicit from the Freedmen al! express