The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-06
SOUTHERN 9 NEWS.

A new Jewish Synagogue was dedi
Gated in Richmond, Va, last week.
General John B. Gordon, of Georgia
was in Lynchburg, Va, on Thursday.
A severe hail storm passed over por
tions of Charlotte county, Va, on Tues
day afternoon.
From all parts of Rockbridge county
Va, accounts of the wheat crop ar
most glowing.
A party of Swiss laborers has arrived
in Lynchburg, Va, and more are com
ing.
There is not a single house of any
size now being built in Fredericks
burg, Va.
Two hundred hands were discharged
from the Gosport Navy Yard on Wednes
day.
A woman was observed few days
since, in the streets of Raleigh, suffer.
ing from mania-potu.
James Fl. Osborn, formerly of Alex.
andria, Va, has Just been elected mayor
Of Rockingham, n. c.
The Rockingham Register now records
the births as we'll as marriages and
deaths in the range of its circulation.
The Norfolk Journal advocates the
adoption of the practice of closing the
stores there at an earlier hour than
heretofore.
The United States District Court as
sembled at Norfolk, Va, on Saturday
morning, Judge Underwood presiding.
A farmer in Norfolk county has sold
5000; quarts of strawberries from an
acre of land, for which he got an aver
age of fifty cents quart.
The city council of St. Louis has
passed an ordinance prohibiting any
person from keeping more than two
cows within the city limits.
General Ord has directed the Arkan-
sas State Treasurer to pay no more
money for the printing of the Journal
of the rebel Legislature of that State.
Collector Crane, of the Fifth North
Carolina District, during one week
seized twenty distilleries engaged in
the illicit mandatory of whisky and
apple brandy.
The funded debt of Norfolk amounts
to 81 16O5, PAL, on which there is back in
terest due amounting to S1O1 ,6O0.3S. In
addition to these sums, the city owes
s64, 4,47012.
The people of the Piedmont section
of Virginia are now extensively employ
ed in wool growing and raising sheep.
Their hocks have improved and multi
piled. ..
The Mayor of Augusta, Ca, an
nounces in his message that there is
Just ten dollars in the Treasury with
which to pay floating debt of Sl12, 600.
General Schofeld, commanding in
Virginia. wants more officers to assist
in the performance ofthe laborious du-
ties required by the Reconstruction law.
The Richmond ladies on Friday deco
rated the graves of the Confederate
dead The stores were closed. There
were about 10000 persons il attendance
at Hollywood Cemetery.
The Lexington Gazette learns that a
young lady connectediwith the Baptist
Sunday School at Natural Bridge, men,
orized and repeated, on Sunday last,
l450 verses from the Bible.
A shooting affray took place in Dan
vile last Wednesday, between Mcssrs.
J. H. Holland and John L. Ewdards on
the other. Nobody hit
Seven miles from White Bluffs Sta
tion, on the Northwestern Railroad, in
Dickinson county, Tenn, some work
men struck oil in digging well. The
yield is about twelve barrels per day.
saWm. Fl. Lyons, an employe of the
Gosport navy-yard, charged with hav-
ing smuggled several thousand cigars,
by the Spanish steamship Ocean Bird,
has been held for trial under $1,000
bonds.
A mass meeting of Republicans was
held at Leesburg, Va, on Friday, when
General Farnsworth, of Illinois, and j.
NJ. LangstOn, the colored lawyer of the
Supreme Court, were the principal
speakers.
There are now in the warehouses ut |
Columbia, S. c., over 5000 bales of cot
ton, more than half of which belongs to
planters, At an average of twenty
cents per pound, this cotton is worth
in the neighborhood Of $500
)00.
All of the railroads terminating at
as we'll as the connecting
roads throughout the State, have agreed
to transport at half-fare, all ministerial
delegates to the Baptist General Associ-
alton which meets in that city on Thurs
lay, the 9th of June,
The sIgumont IN the impeachment
rial of Judge Frazier having been con-
,luded, the Tennessee Senate rendered
, verdict finding him guilty Of the
charges preferred. The verdict removes
him from Office, and disqualifies him
rom holding any Office hereafter,
A political meeting at Knoxville, on
was addressed by Messrs.
stokes and Etheridge. During the
Meeting several disturbances occurred
,et Seen whites and negroes. Several
militia companies have Been sworn in
1t Knoxville TO keep order during the
election.
Judge Clarke, of Huntsville, Arkan-
,as, committed saieide recently BY cut
ing bis throat In an ambulance, while
,eing conveyed from Little Rock to his ,
ZONE, for trial upon q charge of de-
rauding widows and orphans of Fed {
RAJ soldiers out of pensions, ete., col {
ecped by him from the United States
Government. ii
Hiram Christian, formerly Provost {