The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Charleston wants a theatre.

Charleston wants theatre.
OYSTERS are scarce in Richmond.
The Oldest Methodist preacher il
Georgia has gone to rest.
The Macon city Treasury is dreadfully
short of funds.
Southern editors drank largely of egg
nog OH New Years day.
The tenderest flowers in Louisiana are
still in full bloom.
A Mobile editor is writing "History
of the Confederate Navy"
An inhuman mother in Macon placed
her newborn infant on railroad
track.
A negro woman in Austin, mother OF
ten children, sues a white man FOL
breach of promise.
A negro in Mississippi was lynched last
week by some of his own color fol
stealing watch.
The largest diamond in America,
worth $40, 900 in gold, is now on exhibi-
ton in New Orleans.
No Congressional Committee has as
yet been appointed to Investigate" the
case of the four negroes who perished
in the late fire Mt Vickburg.
To relieve herself of the care of a
small child servant girl in Memphis
administered to it dose Of laudanum
and sent the innocent one to its slumber
eternal.
At Natchcz, Mississippi, the freedmen
have bought a church property for &c.
900, paying $4,000 down, and the rest
they agree to pay in ten months.
While the Radicals are busy disposing
of the political destiny of the South,
the people of that section are quietly
and industriously at work mending
their broken fortunes.
A Kentucky editor donned a portion
of his wife's wardrobe and attended
a masquerade ball, where he succeeded
in creating a sensation among the sus-
ceptible bipeds of the male persuasion
Ex-Governor Holden, of N. c., who
was n rebel as long as he thought it
safe to be one, now advocates reducing
his State to a Territory as a punish
ment for doing what he advocated. at
is vile bird" &c.
Advices from Louisiana show that the
freedmen and their former masters are
gradually coming together again, the
latter being preferred by the former to
strangers. Contracts this year will be
made for portions of the crop rather
than monthly wages.
We regret to announce the death OF
Mr.. A. Judson Crane, an old and well
known member of the Richmond bar
lie was thoroughly educated aid tai
entcd gentleman, and was justly distin'
cuishcd rs a scholar and speaker of un-
usual ability. As a political orator he
ranked dcservedly high, and as Grim
inal advocate his position was leading
one for many years before his death.
From the Macon (GaJ Telegraph
KENTUCKY LIBERALITY.-Our State
is incurring vast debt of gratitude to
the State of Kentucky. Blessed almost
beyond measure in its crops and pro-
duce, that State has opened its hand
and is pouring bcnefactinns into the
lap of our poverty-stricken people; the
prayers made by our people on the late
fast day, in response to the invitation
of Governor jenkins, is being answered,
and the failure in parts of our State OF
the corn crop, and measurably of our
cotton crop. is being supplied by the
libcrality of the noble-hoarted people
of Kentucky.
Col. Sidney p. Cunningham, of Ken
lucky, formerly Of General Morgan s
command, is now in our city acting as
agent for the Kentucky Baptist South
ern Relief Association, in conjunction
with Rev. H. c. Hornady, and also as
agent for the Relief Association OF
Bourbon county, Ky. His object is to
ascertain the most destitute regions OF
Georgia and report them, and also to
aid in distributing the provisions when
sent. Col Cunningham will endeavor
to collect all the information he can re
garding the real state Os destitution in
Georgia and points where the greatest
destitution prevails, and will proceed
at once on visit to his Exccllency,
Governor jenkins.
He tells MS that 100000 have been
raised in Kentucky for the relief of des-
titute Georgians, Alabamians and Caro-
linians, and that as much more can be
easily raised.
He thinks the destitution in the South
by March will be greater than the Ken
tuckians have ever been led to believe,
which we doubt not.
Therefore, we bespeak for the agent
of the Kentucky Relief Societies all the
aid and information our people can be-
stow, and we solicit for Col. Cunning
ham the kindness and attention which
his charitable mission merits. We have
before us Kentucky papers announcing
Col. Cunningham's appointment to the
agencies he holds. .ss.2 'aa......