The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The child-whipping mania has reach

Murdersrs are priced, as low as $25t
by the South Carolina authorities.
Two more deaths by cholera were 70
ported in Louisville on Saturday.
The particular "trouble" in New Or
leans just now is the military dictator
ship.
The Texas negroes are delighted to get
on juries, and offer to serve by the year
for nothing.
The Times says the burnt district In
Vicksburs is being rebuilt, and fine iron
front stores are going up in other parts
of the city. ...
The driver of street car was fined
five dollars in Nashville the other day
for ejecting colored "cuss" from bis
car. r- .... .a
BrownIow has disfranchised, by pro-
clamation, Giles county, making the
thirteenth county disfranchised since
the eighteenth of April.
The Lynchburg Trginian having run
short of paper, comes out on the old
yellow &c. S. A." the company having
some of the old stock still on hand.
The Memphis and Charleston railroad
has adopted the eight hour system at
their work shops. The pay of the en-
ployees has been reduced twenty per
cent.
The draw of the great bridge over the
Tennessee, at Johnsonville, was placed
in position on Thursday. The trains of
the Nashville and Northwestern Rail-
road will be passing over it in about a
week.
A gang of horse thieves have been
discovered in the neighborhood OF
Uniontown, Alabama, and six of them
were arrested last week. One turned
States evidence, another confessed his
guilt, and they were all put in Jail ex-
cept the witness.
The Memphis Aralanche says: One
of our most respectable families has just
been broken up Jy discoveries of the
infidelities of the husband and father.
He has left for parts unknown. The
wronged wife is an applicant for divorce,
and four children are left fatherless.
A new inlet at the mouth of Cape
Fear river, North Carolina, has just
been brought into use. 1t was at one
time too shallow for any but vessels of
the lightest draugbt, but has now
twelve feet of water at the bar. 1t is
about mile and a half southwest of
the old bar.
A train on the Nashville and Chatta-
nooga Railroad struck an OK on Thurs
day night, between Chattanooga and
Bridgeport, and was thrown from the
track. The cars were badly damaged,
all the trucks being smashed, but for
tunately no person was seriously in
jured. ........-.. ....-.
The colored citizens of Mobile have
petitioned General Swayne for protec-
tiou under the Civil Rights Law. which
they claim is denied by the civil au-
thorities. They claim Offices under the
city government, and intimate that they
can fill half the places in the Police De-
partment without damage to the city
interest.
Admiral Wilkes, of the United States
Navy, has fifteen hundred acres of land
at High Shoals, North Carolina, carries
on extensive iron works, employs one
hundred and fifty laborers, and has es-
tablished a school for freedmen, OF
which his wife and daughters are the
teachers. They have one hundred and
fifty pupils.
A company of Brownlow's cut-throat
horse thieves has been sent tc Dresden,
Tennessee, where Mr.. Etheridge re-
sides. This is the sort of assurance the
old boy of birthstone has of being cleo
ted. Dresden is quiet little place and
no disturbance has ever been reported
there, and this is cOwsrdly attempt to
intimidate Mr.. Etheriage.
The unbridled insolence of the black
population of New Orleans may be in
ferred from an incident that occurred in
that city last Sunday. A brutal, fero-
cious looking negro forced his way into
car and took seat in white lady's
lap. A gentleman next to her knocked
4 ha hn tad
for fight, and the car was quickly
cleared. The police interfered and
stopped the proceedings of the violent
negroes.
ONE GENERAL-so-called-Cooper
Commander-in-chief of Brownlow's civ
ilian chicken thieves, threatened in o
speech at Edgefeld, Tuesday night,
that if the "rebel sheets" of Nashville
did not change their tone, he would do
it for them. Just 80. That's Radical
ism of the birthstone brand. The Ban
ner invites him to begin on it. They
are safe, at least in day time. Such Q
scallawag as Cooper might hire a negro
on credit to burn barn, or shoot in
at a window, but he is certain to keep
his own carcass cut of harms way.
His threats are all "sonnd and fury, sig.
nifying nothing" and his courage is
Fallstaff's by day, and the hole assassin's
by night. .
The Wilmington, Journal says: "a
negro woman residing in the vicinity of
Riverside, about FIVE miles above this
city, left her family on Tuesday to 60
into the woods for the purpose of pick
ing blackberries. She remained absent
80 long that fears were excited for her
safety, and some of her family instituted
a search for her. She was finally found
lying by q bush where she had been
picking blackberries perfectly dead, and
by her side a monster rattlesnake was
found coiled. The snake was killed
and the body of the unfortunate woman
examined. /. was found to contain the
marks of the fangs of the snake in sew
eral places, and was much swollen,
showing plainly that the snake had
attacked and bitten her to death"
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the world are running low, astonish-