The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.

New Orleans is insufferably hot.
Texas is being scientifically explored
Base Ball .clubs are becoming tn
great rage in the South.
The Wheat crop of Middle Tennessee
is promising:
Negroes are not required to pay poll
tax in Tennessee.
Twenty-Five thousand strangers visit
ed Florida last winter.
Jealousy impelled Richmond lady
to morphine herself to death.
The Southern Baptist Convention
meets in Memphis the 9Th Of May.
John Bell, of Tennessee, is alive ant
well, living in'stewart county, Tennes
see.
A patriarch in Arkansas, lO4 year,
old, can shoot rifle with unfailing ac
curacy.
In Baltimore the tax is s1.4O on each
one hundred dollars of assessable prop
erty.
Annie Durham, a seamstress in St
Louis, cut her throat last week, be-
cause she "could not earn an honest liv'
ing"
A general convention Of the Methodist
Protestant Church will be held In
Montgomery, Ala, on the first Tuesday
ofMay.
Lee g. Gordon's mill, made familiar III
reports of the battle of Chickamauga,
was destroyed by fire last Thursday
night. .H.a...t-s
A Baltimore clergyman says that he
would much rather see the cars run on
Sunday than have politics introduced in
the church.
The robbers around Atlanta have be-
come so numerous and daring that the
country people have ceased to trade
with the town.
The planters of Georgia are putting
in fair proportion of corn, and seem
determined to make their own bread
this year.
Cooper's Well, formerly noted
Southern watering place near Vicks-
burg, Miss, has been re-opened to Wis
itors.
Choice wheat sold at So 45 per bushel
in st. Louis, on the 9th instant. This
is higher than the price in the half
famine year of 1854.
"A dispatch from Nashville says: Many
citizens of Newton County, Georgia,
forty miles from Atlanta, are almost on
the point of starvation. p l.i
A man named Ingram, believed to be
an accomplice in the recent murder OF
General Baily, in Vernon county, has
been hung by the citizens, under SEN
tence by Judge Lynch.
Scott 81 Miller's drug store, in st.
Louis, was burned on Friday night.
The loss is about $4,000. A dry goods
store and billiard saloon in Leaven-
worth, Kansas, were burned the same
night, involving loss of SGO,0OO.
A negro delegation from Memphis,
composed of twelve ex-soldieIs of the
Federal army, form a feature of the
Conservative Convention at Nashville
1t is believed that Emerson Etheridge
will be nominated for Governor.
At recent meeting of the Nashville
Presbytery held at Murfreesboro, the
question of the new relation to the
freedmen came up, and after a lengthy
discussion it was decided that they (the
freedmen) needed the same Gospel they
always did, and more of it.
A plantation in Wilcox county, Ala
bama, containing from fifteen hundred
to two thousand acres, which before
the war produced from eight thousand
to ten thousand bushels of corn, and
from three hundred and fifty to five
hundred bales of cotton, was rented the
other day for one hundred and thirty
dollars year.
In the case of the Peterhoff, captured
while attempting to enter the Rio
Grande, during the war, the Supreme
Court ordered the release of the vessel
and all of her cargo except contraband
goods, on the ground that that river
was as much Mexican as American, and
that blockade of neutral waters could
not be maintained.
The Clarksvilie Chronicle says: A
specimen of quartz, containing a rich
vein of lead and gold, so the mineralo.
gists pronounce, brought from point
three miles this side of Smithland, can
be seen at the house of Rexinger g. Co.
The people farther up the Cumberland
had better not find any gold mines, if
they do not wish to be slandered for
outrages upon Union men, and have
Brownlow's militia to take possession.
A murderer is to be tried at Savan-
nah. Georgia, under the following cir
cumstances, according to the Republican
of that city: Another murder occurred
about ten miles from the city on Sun
day night, about eight o'clock, in which
the victim was colored man, who, with
the murderer, was residing on the plan,
tation of Captain John F. Tucker, II
appears that the deceased, Cain Cum
mings, conceived a great passion for the
wife Of one July Green. He made
known his love for her, and by steady
application of his suit, succeeded in in
ducing her todessrt with him unknown
to her husband. They left the planta.
tion together, Cummings leaving his
wife behind. As soon as Green became
convinced Of the intention of his faith.
less wife, he succeeded in inducing the
wife of Cummings to live with him
They lived together about fourteen days
when Cummings, after passing his
scapdalous and unlawful honeymoon
returned. Upon finding that hi:
wife had taken up with Green, he be.
came greatly incensed, and challenged
Green to mortal combat. Green re-
f,soJ In accept. when 4Cummipos left