The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-25
SOUTHERN NEWS.

l br0WnlOW says no biceps Win u qulct
conscience. Then his conscience has q
s dirty bedfellow.
Kentucky has school fund of 81 400
3 go, and had 2O4.4s1 scholars in her
schools last year
: The efforts to rise fares on the st.
Z Louis street cars, from FIVE to six cents,
has failed.
In some parishes in Louisiana many
, freedmen are dying of cholera. Fatal
cases have occurred at Vicksburg.
r L. H. Tyson, a tailor, committed sui
: eide in Louisville on Saturday. Cause,
pecuniary embarrassment.
: The wheat harvest is over in Missouri,
!, the whole crop being considerably
above the average and the quality su-
perior.
A New Orleans editor tells of count
ing one hundred and seventy-three alli-
ga tors in a sail of six miles along a
bayou.
The engineer of the Dismal Swamp
Canal, estimates, after careful sur
vey, that it will cost over half a mil
lion of dollars to repair it.
William Scruggs, a storekeeper at
Goodlettsville, fourteen miles from
Nashville, Tennessee, was shot in his
store on Saturday night.
General Schofeld has called upon the
Recorder of the Hastings Court at Rich
mond, for an explanation of the pro-
ceedings in his Court.
The freedmen along the Yazoo are suf-
fering from a surfeit of catfish, which
has given them the cholera as punish
ment for gluttony.
Six thousand voters have been reg
istered under the State law in Nash
vile, only sixteen hundred of whom are
whites.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph says
if Congress will add Mexico to the Fifth
Military District, and let Sheridan re-
construct it, it would do good thing.
Since the Honorable William Kelley
left unpaid hotel and cab bills in New
Orleans amounting to $30205, some of
the Southern papers speak of him as the
Dishonorable Kelley.
One of Brownlow's militia, OH being
arrested for murder in broad daylight,
boasted that he had killed eighteen
men. He was allowed to escape that
night, as the campaign is not yet clos
ed.
The bridge across the Mississippi at
st. Louis will be the finest in the world,
and will cost S. 600, 900. The work will
commence Immediately, and will be
completed in three years.
The New York Express complains that
General Sickles drives out in Charles
ton with four black horses, and four
silver-mounted harnesses, and says:
':This is the monarchal style now COM
ing into fashion"
The Statcsville (N. c. imericdn says
that Messrs. Wilson and Hunt, con-
tractors on the Western n. c. rallraod,
beyond Morganton, expect soon to re-
cefve three hundred Chinese Coolies, to
be employed in building the road
through the moutains.
A young man named Womble, lately
pardoned out of the penitentiary by
Governor Peirpoint, was arrested near
Reams's Station last weeF with horse
in possession which he had just stolen |
from Mr.. Robert Moody, near Weldon,
NC.
The President of the st. Louis Board
of water commissioners sold, Thursday, |
at public auction, Sl,OOO,OO0 in one lot
of Water Works bonds. They were six
per cents, interest and principal paya-
bic in gold, and were purchased by the
State Bank of Missouri at eSi !
The county court of Norfolk has sent
the presiding justice and the attorney
for the Commonwealth to wait upon
General Schofeld and confer with him
as to the best remedy to arrest highway
robbery and other high handed negro
OutraBeS IN the county.
The list ofjuIors for the July term of
the Martin County Court North Carolina,
was challenged by one of the lawyers
for not being in conformity with
General Sickles' code. The whole
Jury list was abolished in consequence,
a,d the Court adjourned over to next
tTm.
The Nashville Banner has it from the
most undoubted authority that Gen.
Gao. II. Thomas expresses himself
in strong disapprobation of the ex-
tr militia system set on foot by
Bpwnlow, as tending to foment discord,
beset strife and needless blOodshed, and
keep the country in constant turmoil
ant excitement.
lie Committee appointed to the Ed
uctional Convention, at Lynchburg,
to ,epert on the most judicious plan
of administering the Peabody fund for
educational purposes, consider it would
bcthe wisest and most effective dis
potion of the fund, to employ it in pre-
paing primary teachers for the perform
ane of their functions. Would it not
beNiser to see, first, if teachers already
prpared can not be found
Ir. Robert o. Grayson, formerly of
Al<andria, on Sunday morning last,
she in Stevensburg Culpepper county,
Va, "a young man named Brown, ,l!sOn of
MrM. L. Brown, with double-barrel
ed bot gun, loaded with buck shot and
bab. Mr.. Brown received seventeen
wdnds, but was alive at last accounts.
Tb cause Of the shooting was alleged
imroper familiarity between Mr..
Brwn and Mr.. Crsyson's wife.
here were seven deaths from cholera
onEridsy in Memphis. The disease is
stsdily increasing, though so far it has
no assumed an epidemic form. Its
rasges are confined almost exclusively
toiegroes. 1t is reported that cholera
ha appeared at Greenwood, on the .