The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-09

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/ A Southern paper speaks of Thad.
Stevens n "The Old Man Malignant"
Thefe ii colored theological school
with thirty scholars, in Augusta, Ga.
Thekced people of Charlestorare in
ssis'As siss. ripe and luscious ''''T'S''
/ Misso6st owes debt of over thirty
|milliShsJ hid is not able to pay interest
1'i i's
,Efnmber of children have been bit
ten " mad dogs in Memphis. during the
psst feyfdays. -
Neyprleausdispatshes reporfanother
crevasse at DnckPoint, Madison Parish,
Louisiana. -
A man in Louisville insulted another
mars daughter and then sought the life
of the father IN duel.
The National Democratic Convention,
10 meet in Louisville,' has been post
poned until tbs. 4th of July.
San Antonio; Texas, has ceded to the
United States the ground near the city
used as q burial place for the military.
At the recent, election for Mayor Of
Paris, West Tennessee, James Guthrie,
received bnt one vote and was elected.
A Mississippi paper says that emigra-
tion passes through that State to Texas
mainly on account of the lack ofbread-
stuffs. ~
jackson Cox, of Sullivan county, Ten
nessee, on the 18th ultimo. blew in his
gun to sec if it was loaded, and got a
hole through his head.
An ungaliant editor of Texas paper
says the most whimsical old maids tenn
per is not to be compared to the freaks
of the weather clerk in that region
lately.
The lumber, turpentine and rosin
trade Of Pensacola, Florida, is worth
81, 500, 900 per annum, and a new rail-
way connection promises to increase the
amount. =.
The Mobile Register thinks that Gen.
Beauregard's letterdoes not entitle him
to add to the reputation of soldier and
patriot that Of statesman and political
philosopher.
The trial of Judge Fred. Tate, Of Tsxs
as, for tie killing, some time since, at
New Orleans of J. j. Bryant, the noted
faro o-dealer, has resulted in his acquittal.
1t is stated in London journal, that
Mr.. Rodriguez, of New Orleans, has in
vented a,-street railway carriage that
turns right angle, and which has
greatly interested the French Emperor.
The orange trees in Louisiana are
|tmsing raffof blossoms; every branch
and twig is crowded to its utmost ca
pacity. If no accident happens by way
of frost or drought, the orange trees
next fa1rwiu groan under the weight of
their golden frmt.
The Worcester (Md.) Shield says that
hundreds of cords of wood have been
aoated off by fhe food on tire Pocomoke
river and lost; thousands of bushels of
grain damaged in the granaries, and
hundreds of cattle, hogs, sheep, &c,
drowned on the seaside and beach in
this comfy, by the same unfortunate
deluge. -
A company, with s3,O0O,O 900, is pro
posing to organize II coffee plantation
in Florida. There are to be ten settle
ments of 1000 people each, which are to
come from the North, and also the
money. The profits are to be 81 100000
a wear. Gardens and house rent are
free, ana at the end of ten years each
family. is to have 40 acres of land.
Nothing is said about clothes. The
head men live there. q
"Ramie" is a new Southern staple
from Java. 1t will grow in the south
ern, half of Georgia, will yield five
crops a year of go pounds each; twen-
ty-four hours after being cut it is laid
ont in long bands, of pure white floss,
ready to spin. 1t is planted like sugar
cane, once planted always planted,
grows twenty feet high, sells for twice
the price of cotton and is stronger and
finer, win be exhibited at Paris and
astonish the world if only half is true.
The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion says: We
learn from o gentleman who arrived
here last night from vicksburg, that a
negro settlement opposite that city,
known as Desoto, had been overfowed.
Every effort vas made by citizens of
yicksburg to reach the unfortunate in
habitants, but despite every assistance
rendered, some eighty are known to
have perished in the waters. The houses
and shanties have been swept away, and
the entire population of the settlement
left homeless and destitute. :
At the late term of the District Court
in Colorado county, Texas, q white man,
named ". H. De Warren, for horse
stealing, was sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for twelve years, and Thornton
Miller, freedman, for the like offence,
was sentenced to FIVE years in the Peni-
tentiary. Even this can hardly be the
equality before the law that Sumner
and Phillips and their followers claim
for the freedman. Anyhow, we trust
that the New York Tribune and Forney's
Press will make note Of it. I
Some time during last winter, the