The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Texas lost by the war in round num-
bers S250,00O.0O0.
There are $3.50 square miles of coal
fields in Alabama.
A young man in Norfolk was fined five
dollars for throwing brick at lady's
waterfall.
W. W. Gates, of the West Tennessee
Uhig, is the oldest living editor in that
State.
The editor of Mobile paper COM
plains of several bad spells in his paper
during a spell of sickness.
General John A. Wagener, of Charles
ton, S. c., has been appointed Commits
sioner of Emigration for the State.
Cotton is at 4 stand in Griffin, Ca,
holders refusing twenty-four cents,
which is all that buyers will pay.
The receipts of the port of Galveston,
Texas, in one week recently amounted
TO So, ,557 in gold. New Orleans rcceiY-
ed only So. 900 the same week.
The cane planting in Louisiana is
very backward this year. Many began
planting in February who formerly be-
gan a month earlier. Cause, the me-
groes are extending their Christmas
Ii olidays.
An ex-Baptist preacher and an ex-shoe
merchant defalcated and absquatulated
from Memphis with $4,000 worth of
goods, leaving behind them large
number of victims.
At Waco, Texas, the other day, nran
named Gray attempted to shoot a Mr.
Parker. who got be hind another man, a
Mr.. Hood, and the latter received the
discharge. which killed him instantly.
A negro cut the throat of Mrs. Vim
cent, with razor, at Opelika, Alabama,
last week, and was pursued by the citi-
zens of the neighborhood. When over
taken and summoned to surrender, he
defied his pursuers and was shot.
A Memphis paper says the reason so
many marriages occur Immediately at
ter great war, is that bachelors become
so accustomed to strife that they learn
to like it, and after the return OF peace
they enlist in matrimony as the next
thing to war.
Mygatt's cotton press, i'll Nicksburg,
was burned, on the 25th ultimo, with
Odd Fellows Hall and some adjoining
property. There were some old shells
in the cotton press building, and sever
al persons were injured by the eXplo-
sion.
Col. Alexander G.. Taliaferr0 has sold
five hundred and seyenty-fve acres OF
his land near Rapid Ann Station, Nir-
rinia, without improvement, for fifty
five dollars per acre. Mr.. James Alex
andcr, of Pennsylvania, purchaser.
The Nashville Press and Times says
that reputable school girls in that city
have habit of begging aims of ithose
whom they meet on their way home
from school, telling tales of distress and
suffering. The money obtained Is spent
in purchasing confectionery.
The Rio Grande Courier off the llth
SAYS that an officer of colOred troops,
named J. J. Chambers, recently arrested
n hotel clerk in Victoria, Texas, and
tied him up by the thumbs, for not
taking care of some game cocks whlch
he had left at the hotel. The rntfianly
scoundrel escaped without punishment
foTthis act.
A prominent citizen of Henrico, in-
formed the Richmond Times that the
Yankee burial parties, in searching for
the bodies of their soldiers that lie bur-
led in Virginia, have frequently, on dis
intering a body and finding it to be that
of Confederate instead of q loyal
man. left the bones to bleach in the sun
unburied.
The .Adrocate says there is goose in
st. Helena Parish, Louisiana, that has
cackled and tramped and laid there fol
twenty-five years, and gives syivacious
promise of surviving as many more
There is goose in this city that has
cackled and tramped as long, but he is
nearly laid out.
The Mobile Tribune says that the an
gel with his right foot upon the sea and
his left foot npon the land is Judge Bus
teed; with one foot supported by For
news Chronicle aud the other by the
Mobile Times. The Tribunes apocalyp'
tic knowledge is, of course, derived from
the pictoramic peripatetic, and his ex-
plosionJ;a ;are not quite so biblical rs
Baldwins.
A little, thin, wrinkled, dried up o!d
man of sixty, has just been made the
victim of misplaced love and confidence
at Memphis. Having furnished young
lady oftalent, beauty, sixteen, ,.&c., &c.
with costly wedding trosseau,l having
obtained his license, set the day. pro-
cured the cake and grOomsmen, he was
politely informed that she had got all
She could ont of him, and he had better
take himself off the premises.
There are Chinese laborers now on a
Louisiana plantation. The Natchito,
ches Times of the 9th says: We are in
formed by Mr.. Arthur Chaler that the
coolies working on his plantation are
good laborers and sober men. They
are industrious and perfectly satisfied
with their new country, and any
amount of labor will be performed by
them, provided the contracts passed
are carried out to to the letter, and par
ticularly that about the payment oI
monthly wages and rations.
With reference to the special dispatch
from New Orleans to the New York
Herald, dated 18th, concerning an alleg'
ed rebellion in Bowie county, Texas
the Jefferson, Texas, Commercial BGlieti5
of the 18th, says that the statements are
not merely mistakes or misreprcsenta,
tions; they are bald-headed lies, every
one of them. There has been no riot, oil
rahalIiop or armed mob or the least