The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.

SVOi ,NEUNS.
| New Orleans has made a poisoned
sausage law.
Money in Memphis is worth sixty pc
cent. ayear. s
Nashville in three months bad bui
one fire.
Areverend is going to vindicate Vir
ginia in book.
DR.. Reed, of Baltimore, pooh-poohi
the trichina theory.
Gold and silver are plentier in the in
terror OF Texas than greenbacks.
Mayor Heath has appointed two ne,
groes1as policemen in New Orleans.
Hayes, editor of the Savannah Repub
licdn, has been released from prison.
The pilots on the Mississippi now
make more money than the steamboats,
. Forty-four postoffices in South. Caro-,
lima areeppducted by women.
Reclsit Notion has placed the credit Of
Alabamsspn the highest footing,
The most unrepentant rebel in the
South isA patriot compared to Parson
BrowIllou. ...s = l. r..r..
/ A ten1perance convention for the State
of Maripd is called to meet in Balti,
rnore~ tes1 7~r ny .E $50. H TO-.
MarriSse seems to be an epidemic
with edltors at the South inst now,
SynlTaf ,begets love. ,l.
Jame5 Ferguson, of Benham, Texas,
wishin&sto commit suicide, recently
went Htp graveyard and cut his
4 Itiis Estimated that the registry in
South q ckolina, when completed, will
goo white to 10000 colored
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SotqH1s; BIZ lfiI sod ......# .a.
AEaShille paper publishes accounts
of crime under the head of journal OF
Civiliz3 On Observation-Disclosures Broth
ers." : ly!a. ta.a..ao. ~ .f.
At ths present, low prices of green
peas ip5 Norfolk, the farmer is barely
compenE tied for the money he expends
in theiESultivation. ...st 81. -
Lemta G. Bowden has been appoint
ed by Lief Justice Chase Register of
ptey for the first district of Vir-
ginia. &bs .a, -. r. b.
A pl{ter in Leon county, Texas, has
been fa Bed by the military to support
the fsknes of some negroes that were
killed en his place. g...
An!oH darkey in West Tennessee says
the taxsof fifteen dollars bale on cot
ton is nothing, but two dollars gallon
on whisky il awful.
7 The Mobile Times accounts for the re-
moval iof Mayor Withers by the fact
that the office is paying one. To the
vietors:belong the spoils.
= Orat q Kelley 8 sudden departure from
Georgia is accoanted for by the rumor
that dsneral Pope "deemed his utter
ances productive of much harm"
L The,president has offered to give a
plot of ground in Greenville, Tennes-
see, tAshe negroes of that town as a
site fofs school and church. aiaE,r, g
A st{slwberry festival at Natchez net
ted ths managers over three hundred
dollsrit last week, and they did not
have Sny straw berries at that. Pretty
fan. o..
Martin Dugapne, aged six years, and
Mary tyan, only four years old, were
bitteusby mad dogs, and died of hydro
phobi& in New Orleans, last week.
J A.gSsrd in charge of two prisoners,
undsfk kyfpg some punishment at Lynch
burg, irginia, one day last week, de-
serted 3kfth the prisoners, leaving his
gun an accousrements.
Gsl1fal Gillem, one of the negro bu-
reaa bntry, reports from Mississippi
that hsre is very little change in the
marri&te relations of the freedmen"
They M con tinue to ''take up together"
as bsizs sthe war. aa n..
A Radical organ advises that Congress
Alabama Legislature to call
q pew6opnty Dixie" How long be-
fore II Radical organs will be for pre-
scriSi1f how Southern parents shall
name heir children'
MsjSt w. H. Kerr, formerly of the
United States army, but who resigned
long before the late war, but subse-
quentE entered the Confederate service,
died pScentIy in Virginia. He partici-
patedIin the battle of New Orleans.
1t isbelieved in Charleston that the
PRINCIPAL causes Of the failure of Frazier,
& Co., vas the fact that they
had come to the relief Of an old friend
and merchant who had assisted them in
their embarrassment several years ago.
Tho Houston Journal states that the
bridesover the bayou gave way, on the
10th INST, under the pressure of about
two hundred head of beef cattle. The
crashNsss terrible and the scene fight
full, ithodgh' the damage to the beeves
was digit, sq12 RislI 90 or
A New Orleans judge recently passed
sentesse Of death upon Q negro for
rape xep the person of q white wo-
man. subiect to "the approval Of the
Comtpsnding General of the District"
GenefpI Sheridan returned it with the
endorsement that he believes the SEN
tence, Al ould be executed, but did not
zee Wy his approval was required.
III Black Crook has been reproduced
in many Western theatres. and seems
to bs travelling South. When it gets
ipto4he Territories, the military, such
as sl1nridan and Sickles, will doubtless
yeou]re it to be called the CoIored Crook,
Iest ne unwashed children of the bu-
rea,f accogchmentta take offense at such
a dspsal word as black.
tn National Repabliean, a Mobile
new 3paper, published an article on
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