The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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SOUTHERN NEWS.
Memphis is revelins in. a sea OF
mud"
Atlanta has ll,OOO whites and 5000
negroes.
Norfolk is peaceful and happy with
just 700 dogs.
Ex-Governor Lubbock is now an auc-
tioneer in Houston, Texas.
New Orleans is in the high tide of
fsocial and fashionable life.
The farmers in the vicinity of Norfolk
have commenced plOwing.
The editor of the Louisville (Miss.)
Bulletin lives and prints his paper IN
Jail.
The Virginia papers teen with no
tices of robberies by negroes.
The present wheat crop of Virginia is
the most promising since lo6O.
The health of jeff. Davis is much bet
ter than ii has been for six months past.
Murders and homicidcs are remarka-
bly, frequent in Florida.
Columbus, Miss, wants dancing
master right bad.
The principal business i'll Natchez at
present appears to be the selling OF
mules ut auction.
The freedmen in and around AlexaD-
dria have had their government rations
cut off.
Washington College is unable, in its
impoverished condition, to pay General
Lee decent salary.
The sum of SCI 600 and 10000 bushels
of corn have been contributed to the
Southern Relief Commission.
There are in Rockingham Co., Va, over
% Sunday Schools in operation. The
statistics show 322 teachers, and 3,Ol6
scholars.
1t is proposed to extend the city linn
its of Richmond, Va. Those living ont
side the corporation are holding oppo-
sition meetings.
Lccman, Darr & Co, of Montgomery,
Alabama, have prepared three bales
of Alabama cotton for the Paris Exposl.
tiOS.
The Southern papers complain bitter
ly of the quantity of telegraphic news
furnished them by the New York Asso-
ciated Press.
There were in the splendid galleries
of the hall of the House of Representa-
tives at the Tennessee capital the other
day l53 negroes and Z whites.
Hon. C. p. Gage, State Senator from
Mobile, and Hon. David Clopton, Of Ma
con. are suggested as candidates for the
Governorship of Alabama.
The Daily Rio Grande Courier, pub
lished at Brownsville, Texas, costs So
per annum. The Salt Lake iclegrdph'
Utah, only costs SIC per annum.
Burr, of the Macon Journal aud Nee
sepqer. is n little hard on subscribers.
The terms announced for his weekly are
"S3, 900 year in advance-probably lie
still takes Confederate currency.
One Greenapple, Of Alexandria, Va,
keeps for his amusement pet bear
The municipal authorities have ordered
the quadruped to be abated as NUS
ance.
Lucius Quintius Curtius Lamar, for
merly of Georgia, has been elected Pro-
fessor of Governmental Science and
Law in the State University at Jackson,
Miss.
1t 10 said that Simon Cameron begun
life as jour printer. The Mobile Time'
understands by this that he went to the
case AZ soon as he was old enough to
know how to steal sorts and duplicate
his proof 3 z d 'fh ~ 4
The Lynchburg (ya.) Ners states that
several of the tobacco factories in that
citv have commenced operations, and
Others will do so in . few days.
The Tarboro' IN. c. Southerner says
slO0, 600 has been subscribed towards
building the railroad from Tarboro' to
Wilmington, on the Roanoke ..
"A duel was recently fought at West
Point, Ca, in which man named Ba-
ker was woufIded Mt the first FIRE, by j.
w. Anstell, late of Mobile. MI. Harms,
the second of Mr.. A., was wounded at
the second fire.
Several creditors Of a Virginia estate
lately lost their entire claims. Being
too penurious to take newspaper, the
estate was administered upon and the
reports andited before they heard the
news. fi SO
A young man in Savannah, Ca, play
fully pointed o revolver at his sweet
heart the other. day and pulled the
tripper. To his horror the pistOliwas
charged, and the discharge resulted In
a bad fright and . shattered earring
Th. New Orleans Times says that DIR.
A. Courier, of lbervile parish, raised
last tear silk of the best quality. A
dozen of the eocoons have been sent TO
the Paris Exposition; also, number of
skeins of sewing silk-sonie pure white.
Others dyed Of . glossy black. The
silk of which they were made Was rals-
ed from eggs which had been in the
doctors possession for forty years.
The editor of the bohemian Sers has
found among the pine woods of Arkan-
sas = baby, t~o years old, whiehweighs
one hundred and twenty-five ponnds,
walks gracefully, and out-squaiis all
/ creation. The father Of this little one
weighs one hundred and forty, and the
4 mnfRer In n fIumpy little lady of one