The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.

A Nashville fireman is heir to Sl5O,CV
The Charleston negro laborers are on
''strike."
A new magazine in Louisville is called
Twelve Times Year"
The people of Atlanta say they bid
adieu to the cesspool of politics.
The Sarcastic Bowie Knife" is the
savage name of a new Texas hebdo-
madal.
The Mississippi river has been short
ened eighteen miles-by cutoff.
The New Orleans people have been in
dulging in the novel sensation of snow
balling.
The editor of the Louisville miss. }
Bulletin lives and prints his paper in the
Jail.
A widow lady, formerly of high social
position, attempted to commit suicide
in Richmond.
Twenty-Five farms have been sold in
one section of Alabama for the low price
of one dollar per acre.
Georgia has provided for the educa-
tion of her INDECENT and manned soldiers.
Texas needs o great railroad man for
each one of its great trunk routes-so o
Galveston paper says.
The people of Georgia are gathering
ice four inches thick. 1t is very rare
that ice forms so thick SO far South.
The city railroad cars in Charleston,
S. c., are run on Sunday by especial re-
quest of the preachers Of that city.
A letter in the Savannah Ne,cs, from
an agent Of tho Havana telegraph line,
who is now in South Florida, says that
part of the country is destined be-
fore many years to TEEN with the richest
West India products-tobacco and sugar
of the finest qualities, and tropical
fruits of every description.
The Sumter correspondent Of the
Charleston Courier says that there is at
this time an extensive exodus of the
colored population of that District.
Large numbers of them are encamped
near Maysville, this place, and perhaps
other points along the line of rail.
road. They are bound for the land of
flowers, and il is understood are moving
under Government supervision and with
Government assistance, having the
promise of oftransportationan and six months
rations.
Davis McCue, Of Davis county, Mis-
souri,, who emigrated there when a
young man from Nicholas county, Vir-
ginia, contributed platoon Of soldiers
to Prices army, in the persons Of twelve
sons. All escaped the casualties Of war
but two. 1t is probable there was no
other instance Of so many representa-
tives from one family in either army.
Mr.. McCue had nineteen children.
The Texas editors propose to hold a
convention. The Houston Telegraph
says "cotton is rising, money is getting
plentier, business is improving, i'm
mense preparations arc being made for
planting, white immigration is flowing
into the State, plenty Of negroes are be-
ing brought into the rich bottom plan
tations, the New Orleans railroad will
soon be built, the Central railroad will
soon be extended, and, upon the whole,
the future Of fTexas is bright and prom
ising." Under such prospects the edit
ors should feel cheerful.
Senator Wade said to Mississippi
Judge, resident of Oxford, we believe,
that he had wholly misconceived the
spirit and purposes of the So,th. He
had deemed us animated by fixed, ir-
remediabls hostility to northern people,
and by his apprehension Of Southern
sentiment his course in the Senate had
been shaped. He had seen and heard
enough during his sojourn in these
States to satisfy him that he had been
misled, and that his subsequent conduct
would show that he had the manliness
to confess an error. Such is the sub
stance of his remarks as recited to us.-
Memphis Bxlletin. .