The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-30
SOUTHERN NEWS.


SOUTHERN NEWS.
A woman was arrested in Kentucky
for stealing q fatboat.
Richmond is going to have a nam
moth cotton factory.
There were thirtys6ine unnatural
deaths in New Orleans last month.
A Missouri lady was recently deliver,
ed of four healthy boys at one birth.
The starving people down South
would find more relief from corn than
letters.
An Irish colony of two thousand per-
SONS purpose settling in Virginia.
All the Southern States are repre-
sented at q memorial bazaar in Rich
mond.
Little Tommy Mccall twas accident
ally boiled to death in a soap, vat y
Louisville. ass 800 si;l6.z =
An.v.nan.r Il. ,--.rIestonr owned by
.ol..eu men denounces Northern adven-
turers.
Both branches Of the Virginia Legis-
lsture have passed bill imposinga q tax
on oysters.
Panthers continue to make ther raids
upon Corpus Christi in spite Of the
march of Improvement.
In St. Louis they are vigorously us
ing the steam-6re engines to cleanse
the dirty alleys.
Wade Hampton furnished the funds
to the blacks for the purchase of the
Columbia South Carolinian.
Brevet Major Joseph s. York, of the
Fifteenth Regiment United States In
fantry, died at Mobile last week.
General Rosseau has been prevented
by illness from proceeding to his COM
mand in Washington Territory.
Several duels are in prospect in New
Orleans, the challenging parties feeling
insulted at being asked if they had
registered"
A letter writer says st. Augustine,
Fla, with q good publishing-house,
would be the very elysium of litera-
ture.
A mammoth hawk, measuring four
feet from tip to tip, was killed with a
rifle at distance of $50 yards, by Mr..
J. j. Wade, Of Lynchbnrg, on Tuesday
last.
Nj. H. Rives Pollard is announced to
lecture in Lynchburg soon on "The
Chivalry of the South" as illustrated
in the late war.
The thieves about Norfolk are grow
ing very desperate. They have taken
to robbing the poor-house and prowling
about the grave-yards.
a Memphis negress has been using the
leisure moments allowed her by 1.-The
Bureau in poisoning three of her cotem-
poraries. .t.
The Richmond Whig having become q
Radical organ, the Richmond Enquirer
bids it adieu, and counsels firmness,
dignity and law abiding conduct to its
readers.
The starving negroes ofAtlanta made
q request, which was ordered to be sent
to his Honor the Mayor of Boston, for Q
supply of provisions to be sent ssSs4pe-
cial donation to them.
A Southern paper thinks sumnsr, Ste
vens & Co. ought to give the people Q
national church and prescribe how every
man shall pray and what he shall be-
lieve.
Brownlow's own ward, in Knoxville,
stronghold of Radicalism, has gone
against him in the election of Con-
seryatiye alderman. He will decide the
votes to be null and void.
c.. w. Trowers, wheelsman of the
steamer Thomas A. Morgan, was acci-
mentally drowned on Tuesday, between
Yorktown and Norfolk, Va.
A blacksmith shop, at Sandy Hook,
near Lynchbnrg, was blown to pieces,
and two men, working in it, badly in
iured, by the explosion of keg of pow
der which hsd been carelessly left there.
A heavy freight gorge exists at Bris-
tol, there being now ITO car loads OF
freight for points west, which the East
Tennessee and Virginia railroad have
suffered to accumulate there.
The late disastrous foods in Louisi.
ana, it is reported, will cause the Gov,
ernment to lose from eight to ten mil.
lions of dollars by the diminished re-
ceipts from taxes in that State.
Two more of the old lots, part of the
site of the Atlantic Hotel, Norfolk, have
been sold for S17 800. Thus FAR s27, 500
have been realized from the sale, and
there is yet one lotunsold.
Some burglars stole $4,000 worth Of
iewelry from . store in New Orleana
In taking off their plunder they dropped
q thousand dollars worth of diamonds
on the floor, but did not think them
worth picking up. lEt.EE. %
The United Fire Company Of Norfolk
paid their promised visit to Petersburg
ON Thursday, and was received in grand
style by the Fire Department aud citi.
Gems generally of that city. The Peters.
burg papers contain long accounts OF
the celebration which took place, and
represent the "ceremonies," in the way
of procession, trial Of engines, &C., al
being magnificent beyond precedent.
"a correspondent of the Petersburg
Express states that on Monday last
at Weldon, N. c., while very worthy
mulatto mau named Hilliard Dempsey
was from home, his house took fire and
was burned with everything in it. Hi,
wife had gone off short distance tr
work, leaving her infant, only a few
months old, in the house. The wind
was very high at the time, and the
house being Of an inflammable nature.
the fire burned 30 rapidly that the
mother was unable to rescue her child,
and il was consumed with the house;