The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-22
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Tennessee has thirteen cotton fac
tories T91T8d T6d EIlBlilIW
L6uIsyflie,e Ksnttcks. has forty miles
of city railway. I saJ r..
= A cotton mill in Richmond turns out
5000 yards of cloth daily. -T
Soft crabs are selling in Norfolk at
one dollar per dozen. 2IZ ,doJ3I1
2 There is a prospect Of a large emigra-
tion from New Hampshire to South Car
olina. e
Memphis las ''Temple of Virtue"
but it is tenanted by the very worst of
Characters. 1I yifIIF .|ErEA
III The. Polanders in Spottsylyania, Vir-
ginia, are making that poor land bios
som like the rose. ,r, r5 ,.f -.
Hon. William A. Graham, of North
Carolina, has been pardoned by the
President, -r,ryr-n --rr
Cakes eight feet high are to be baked
in Baton Rougefor thegreattilting bar
becue there. i. ..s-
A guerrilla was tried, lynched and bu-
ried in about thirty minutes, in Taylor
county Ky, recently,
Ia subsciPtion is on foot in Kentucky
to purchase home for the family of J.
c. Breckinridge. ggSJg
Mr.. John Tyler, Jr., will lecture in
.Alexandria soon on ''The Two Civiliza-
tions-Plymouth Rock and jamestown"
The late Baptist convention at Mem
,phisI subscribed S., 900 to rebuild the
Baptist church at Hampton, Va.
The yalueof real estate In Fredericks-
burg, as it appears by the assessors
books, amounts to 81 ,2o2, 1888.
A Government survey of Galveston
bay has recently been made, with view
to discovery, and remove the obstrue-
tions of the inner channel. ,. ...
The improper relations existing be-
tween Mr.. Dulaney, of Louisville, Ken
lucky, and beautiful quadroon, so ex-
asperated Mrs. Dulaney that she fell
dead.
.' A reporter for one of the st. Louis
papers received lot of burglars tools
from an unknown correspondent and
expressed great Indignation on being
arrested by detective.
A daughter Of Mr.. James w. Ford, of
Fredericksburg, had her eyes seriously
affected last Monday evening by watch
ing too iRtensely the vivid flashing of
lightning.
The steamship Melita, the seventh of
the Virginia and Liverpool line, left
Norfolk on Wednesday with a full ear
co. Fhe Delaware will he the next
steamer in.
Its expected that the work of demol-
ishing the ruins of the Lindell Hotel
viii be completed in another week.
The impression seems to be that the
ground will be occupied by a block of
stores
A teamster named Frank Sheridan,
from Alexandria, Virginia, attached to
the United States burial corps, and
under command of Major Camp, was
killed in drunken row near Harrison
burg last Tuesday. O. ...''-
The. free mulattoes' children are put
ting themselves forward in Louisiana,
and especially in New Orleans, as the
rightful guides md leaders of the black
population in the new order of things,
to the exclusion even Of the radical
whites. -.
A st. Louis lover last Thursday, hav-
ing been refused the hand of his sweet
heart, threw her mother Oh the floor
and gave her a sound thrashing, and
then took her big brother into an adj
joining stable and beat him badly with
q strap.
1t is said that Judge Marvin, of Flor
ida, Senator elect, has been permitted
by the Postmaster General to frank all
his mail matter, which is an attempt to
determine the rights of the Southern
States, and of those who claim to repre-
sent them, in advance of the action of
Congress or the Courts.
A Washington telegram says that
Secretary Welles has never decided that
sailors and marines, honorably dis
charged from the service, are eptitled to
the same bounty as those who served
their full terms Of enlistment. The re-
port that the Secretary had SO decided
was telegraphed few days ago.
Fully enc thousand of the United
States troops sent into Texas to pre-
serve order, after the surrender of Cen
eral Lee, received their discharges and
concluded to remain. The Galveston
Ners has never known one of them to
have been prescribed or molested for
his pOlitical sentiments, or iOr having
served in the Union army.
The Gonzales Miss. Inquirer publish
es an order from Lieutenant S. c. Plum
mer, Asst. Sub. CON-, notifying the
civil authorities that. they must not in
terfere with or arrest Q freedman nam
ed Sampson HUFF, on the charge of steal
nr mule, until evidence is furnished
1.-THE Bureau that he really did steal the
mule, as evidence has been brought by
him to show that he did not. aL
On Sunday, May 18th, thirty-seven
freedmen of both sexes were baptised
by immersion Mt Bowler's Landing, in
Essex county, Virginia. There were
about forty boats in the river at the