The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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, Memphis has religious revival.
Atlanta has . population Of p 600.
Panthers make occasional raids into
Corpus Christi. l--T giaE
Louisville is going to manufacture
. glycerine on large scale.
A man in Covington killed himself by
, lifting barrel of flour. r -s.
The male academy at Hernado, Miss,
was destroyed by; fire few days since.
The merchants of Columbia are be-
ginning to take South Carolina money
at par.
A fire at Savannah, Ca, destroyed
between 500 and 600 bales of cotton.
The negroes in the South protest
against being led to the polls by Radi-
Gals, like so many cattle.
A monster in Richmond broke the leg
of his wife and then attempted TO starve
her to death.
Robberies are of nightly occurrence
in Chattanooga regular band seems
to infest the city.
A man named Morris Kane was stab
bed in an affiray 1t "ball' in Memphis
and lies in q critical condition.
The preliminary work has begun at
i 1Hurdsboro, Mas, for the erection of
cotton and wool factory there.
The connecting railroad between
fredericksburg and Petersburg, Va,
was completed on the 18th inst.
A company of Brownlow's home
guards is being raised in Jonesboro,
Tennessee; and is to be stationed at
Bristol.
The capital employed by the mer
chants and manufacturers of Richmond
1 assessed with o class.tax,, is S2,3l2,S75.
Millions of grasshoppers have appear
ed in Kerr county, Texas, and are de-
stroying the vegetation. t+I .l
In Sumter District, South Carolina, a
clergyman declares that 300 people at
least are living on cOrn-husks alone.
The Columbia, (Tenn.) Herald says it
is q fixed fact that Brownlow will not
die until the Tennessee school fund is
exhausted.
A young Scotchman named Martin
Cameron committed suicide in Mem
by drowning himself in cistern.
Three hundred and ffty-eight appli-
cations have been made by Virginia
soldiers for artificial limbs, and mp
wards of three hundred granted.
The Mayor of Mobile has appointed
a number of colored policemen who are
specially charged to preserve order
about the colored churches.
Gen. Braxton Bragg is again proposed
as 4 candidate for President OF the Mo-
bile and Ohio railroad-for which posi-
tion he was defeated last year.
The Texas Gladiator, referring to the
terrible mortality among stock OF that
section during the last cold snap, says
the buzzards are three days behind with
the eyes.
Another crevasse occurred on Friday,
at West Baton Rouge. The extent of
the damage is not yet reported The
greater part of Louisiana is overfiowed,
and there is much suffering III cOpse-
quence.
An old citizen of Athens, Georgia, aged
eighty years, familiarly known as uncle
Tommy Moore, died last Saturday. He
was the oldest member of the Masonic
Fraternity in Georgia.
The Staunton Lyceum, of Virginia,
decided the other night by avote of l3
to u that the revolution Of 1776 was a
mistake. There, now, it is settled-rev-
olutionary soldiers, please take notice.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad
rapidly approaches completion. The
hands are now at work between Blue
Mountain and jacksonville, and the
track will soon be laid to the latter
place.
Mr.. Coker, a worthy Baptist preacher
of Wood county, Texas, met with a
sudden death quite recently. He was
driving in wagon when his horse be-
came frightened and ran away, tearing
the wagon all to pieces and killing him
instantly.
An accident occurred on the Memphis
and Ohio railroad, Wednesday, near
Russellville. A baggage car jumped
from the track and one passenger coach
followed. The cars were badly smash
ed M. 4 news-boy was badly bruised,
but fortunately no one was killed.
An enterprising thief in Lynchbnrg
has been depredating upon hen-roosts
and other roosts for some time past
in the gpise of hog. A few nights ago
he was detected, threw of his dirty
tblanRet, and went off on good biped
time. The ''hog" is requested in the
news to call and get his blanket.
Norris Mosely, a boy of fourteen,
shot and killed his, playmate, Arthur
Reeves, aged thirteen, son Of Judge
Reeves Of the Circuit Court, at somer-
vile, West Tennessee, last Saturday.
Yonne Mbsely was bound ever in the
ann Of two Thousand dollars last Mon
day for trial The only witness was
smaller boy of twelve, named James
! Bell. %
A few nights ago six Soldiers in
Lynchburg got very drunk, kicked up
Q row at an eating house, at which they
had ordered supper, for which they re-
fused to pay, and afterward resisted the
police on the streets. Five of them
were finally captured and put in Jail
till next msrning, when they were
turned over to the military.
| President johnson has accepted an
invitation from the citizens Of Raleigh,
North Carolina, to be present at that
place, about the middle Of May, at the
laying OF, the cornerstone Of a monu-
fment in memory Of the Presidents
father He will be accompanied by Mr.
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