The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

MTS. ndfTltG Dt6CutE DtOWt Is III lON'
with the climate of Florida.
1t is proposed to light the city of Co
lumbus, Miss, with gas.
A new hotel, to be styled the Girart
House, is to be erected in Mobile
A thief in Memphis was placartled
and paraded through the streets. d
Telegraphic communication with Ha
vana will be opened by the first of June
The wheat crop bids fair to be excel
lent in Middle Tennessee.
Timbalier Bay light house, Louisiana,
has been destroyed by heavy storm.
During the past season, 10000 bales
of cotton have been received at Nor.
folk.
Charleston, s. c., is happy over the
erection of grain elevator, the first in
the South.
The orange trees of Louisiana are full
of blossoms and the crop Of fruit prom
ises to be large.
Judge Jesse Glawson, of Clinton, Ca,
was stabbed and killed by DR.. James
Barron, last Tuesday. .tF. =,
The steamship Marmion, sailed from
New Orleans on Tuesday, for Brazil,
with three hundred emigrants.
Large quantities of North Carolina
timber are reaching Norfolk, via Alber-
marie canal, to be towed to New York.
1t is reported that Major J. H. Gee,
former commandment of the rebel prison
at Salisbury, died recently in Mobile.
Hon. David F. Caldwell, Judge of the
Superior Courts in North Carolina, died
in Salisbury last week from n stroke OF
paralysis.
The records of Tunica county, Missis-
sippi, stolen during the war by Federal
soldiers, have been ordered by General
Thomas to he returned.
A collection was taken up in a Sab
bath school in Winchester, last Sunday,
for the relief of the Southern sufferers.
Over $40 were contributed.
1t was rumored on the streets of
Lynchburg, on Friday, that duel was
in contemplation between two citizens
of that city. The papers give no par
ticulars.
Over 100000 North Carolina shad
have been shipped to the northern mar
kets via the Albemarle and Chesapeake
canal during the present fishing season.
The Florence; S. c., Gazette says that
upwards of $500 writs were issued in
the district last week 1t characterizes
the action as cruel.
Norfolk is said, by the Tirginian, to
be infested with several independent
gangs of thieves, burglars, kidnappers,
and scoundrels in general, both white
and black. ..
On Monday night the police captured
about forty "pretty waiter girls" em-
ployed in various beer saloons in st.
Louis. They were afterward released
on bail.
The Lexington Gazette says the wheat
crop in Rockbridge county, Va, is look
ing unusually fine. The farmers are
actively at work preparing their land
for oats and corn.
Colonel Geo. e. Robertson, one of the
most respectable, valuable and esteemed
citizens of Augusta county, Va, died at
his residence, near New Hope, on the
Sd inst.
Governor Pierpoint, of Virginia, re-
fused to settle his gas bill, the other
day, unless tho company would allow
him him five per cent. discount. The
gas was Immediately shnt off from his
mansion.
Colonel Charles Farnsworth was
drowned at Savannah, Georgia, OH Mon
day evening, together with q man
named Wilder, who was with him in a
sailboat. Colonel Farnsw orth was born
in Hartford, Connecticut.
A recent census of Florida shows the
population to be 140, ,424, of which there
we're whites 77,747, and colored 62,677;
whites over colored, 5000; with males
over colored males, 1926. In six coun-
ties out of thirty-seven the cOlored ele-
ment preponderates.
The Raleigh Sentinel reports that two
freedwomen, named Mary and Becky
Collins, mother and daughter, burned
to death child of four years, nephew
of one and grandson Of the other, be-
cause, as they alleged, the child's moth
er had come back, and made him dew
il. The horrible crime occurred in
Louisburg, North Carolina.
The town of Napoleon, Arkansas, is
situated on n tongue of land at the
junction of tho Arkansas and Mississip-
pi rivers. Last year the river cut deep
ly into this point, and now large por-
ton of the town has disappeared. The
water tue OtuCE udy Woo oiA'OOu icct
deep in the streets, and the chances are
that another season will see steamers
running over the site.
Mrs. Jennie Scott and Miss Ester
found pockct-book in st. Louis, some
time ago, and returned it to Madame
Callahan, who claimed to be the owner.
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returned, and Mrs. Callahan, claiming
that there was 81, 900 in it at the time it
was lost, caused the arrest of the find
ers. They were ultimately discharged;
and Mrs. Scott obtained verdict of
8, 900 for false Imprisonment.
Louisville has caught the spirit of
Northern enterprise, and is rapidly in
creasing in population, wealth and
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