The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-08
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Six people sitting under o portico in
Charleston, 8. c., were struck by light
ming. 81 .4AG Des
A New Orleans horse railroad COM
pany has been condemned to pay S25,-
900 for killing a boy.
The Missouri radicals are arl angling
for the nomination of Missourian for
Vice President in 1863.
The first watermelon of the season
made its appearance in Newbern, N. c.,
on Wednesday last.
Two frightful deaths from hydro
phobia took place in New Orleans last
week. The victims were children. -t-.
The Augusta papers are jocularly ag-
itating the proposition to hold a "baby
show" and "baby picnic" in that city.
A man named Owens, of Lexington,
Kentucky, was shot and dangerously
wounded in Louisville, by the dealer of
faro bank at which hehad lost money.
The State Comptroller of Tennessee
refuses to pay the members Of the Court
of Impeachmentt the rate of wages they
claim, and the matter will be referred
to the Legislature.
@Colored emigration is expected in
Arkansas the present year, Nearly two
hundred from Georgia will locate on
government land, under the homestead
law, next autumn.
Engineers have commenced survey
of The Little Rock and Fort Smith rail
road, from the former city to Fort
Smith, and hope to complete the relo-
cation during the coming summer.
The Savannah Republican has been
informed that the Government contem
plates ordering to Savannah, this sum
mer, corps or typographical engineers
for the purpose OF making q survey of
the whole river. a-t ~ 90 '-
1t is announced. that Polish gentle
man is now on an inspection tour in
Texas, designing to Select the most
favorable locality for farming, prepara-
tory to an extensive immigration OF his
cOuntrymen.
A discreet lawyer estimates that there
are about fifteen hundred business
houses in Memphis, and that at least
several hundred of the same win sooner
or later avail themselves OF the benefits
of the Bankrupt Acts.
A resident of Dewitt county, Texas,
gives the st. Louis Republican q gloomy
account of the times in that section of
the State. He says that. stock cattle
are selling at 50 per head, cotton, gin
ned and baled at the gin lO cents, and
that land is at a nominal price.
The Memphis appeal states that the
city of Evansville, Indiana, recently
shipped boat load of negro paupers to
Hickman, Ky. The poor negroes were
promptly reshipped, without meal of
victuals, back. These freedmen got
over into Indiana during the war.
A fire at Norfolk, Va, on Monday
morning, consumed a four-story build
ing, corner of Commerce and Little
Water streets, occupied by colored peo-
pie. 1t belonged to the estate of the
late c. Hall, as did also two other ad-
joining buildings which were much
damaged; insured.
The Mobile Tribune reports on the au-
thority of gentleman who had recent
ly travelled extensively throughout
South and West Alabama, and portions
of Mississippi, that the crop prospects
are very encouraging. He says there
has been much larger quantities of corn
planted than usual in those localities
and that the stands are good.
Last week a man was being tried be-
fore Judge Mitchell in Washington, N.
c., for the crime of horse stealing, the
jury had just retired to find their ver-
dict, when an auction bell was heard an
nouncing the sale Of some bank proper
ty; every body being interested imme-
diately left the courtroom, and the
prisoner walked out with the crowd and
left for parts unknown.
The Madison (Florida) Messenger
states that Mr. Manly, of Terry coun-
ty, was killed by bear one day last
week. He had shot and wounded the
animal, aud approached to finish him
with q revolver, when the bear sprang
upon him, caught his head in his mouth
and crushed the skull. When found,
Mr.. Manly and the bear lay dead side
by side.
The Memphis appeal of Thursday
contains this mysterious paragraph
sit is understood that a lawyer, who
mysteriously disappeared between ten
and fifteen years ago from this county,
and whose disappearance was signalized
by the equally mysterious disappear
ance of So, 1000 worth of county scrip, !
distracted from the county clerks office |
at Raleigh, has been seen in West Ten
ncssee."
A Radical negro ON "a cbicken-steal-
ing excursion was shot few nights
since near Lynchburg, while in the act
Of abducting venerable fowl from y
limb. He ran short distance and fell;
his wife came for him in a few hours
and removed him to his house near by, |
where he soon afterwards expired. Sic
semper. That will do very well for an
other "rebel outrage on q colored 10y
alist."
GROWING TURNIPs WITH CoRN.--Mr. |
parpes of WastmoreIand Oneida cnnD- \