The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.

1t is proposed to held an editorial
convention at Galveston, Texas, about
Christmas.
The Clarksville (Texas) Standard says
that, as a general thing, planters are
holding their cotton for better prices.
The Homestead for Governor Wise
movement is about to succeed in Vir,
ginia among the foreign-born citizens
Basil Duke has formed copartner'
ship with q Mr.. Richards, in Louisville
to pursue the practice of law.
Louisiana and Florida are now begin
ming to compete successfully with Cuba
and the West India Islands in raising
oranges for the Northern markets.
There is tailor in New Orleans
named Stitch, shoemaker named Kick
dentist named Gumpert, a tinsmith
named Lock, and oarpet-bag clergy
man named Satchell.
The Abingdon, Virginia, salt works
have Just been leased for five years by
Nashville. company, at an annual rent
of $31 200, the lessees to pay S45,OOO
taxes now due.
The cutting of telegraph wires at
Nashville last week was due to plot
to release Shepherd, the Russellviiie
bank robber, on his way, under arrest,
from Louisville to Russellville. The
conspirators blundered and their scheme
fell through.
A Memphis paper. in chronioling an
accident to a railroad conductor, says
that he was knocked off the train by his
head coming in contact with the bridge,
his thigh broken, throat badly cut, and
smashed up generally. He was taken
to Columbia, and is in q fair way to
recover.
At Talledega (Alabama) court re-
Gently a negro jury was enpanneled'
There were about fifteen negroes tried
for various offences, each one Of whom,
on his trial, demanded white jury,
and every one of them was acquitted
except one, and his punishment was
light. The colored jurors sat in their
box from Monday morning until Satur-
day night, without having single case
submitted to them.
Four murders are reported as having
been committed in Kentucky last week.
On Wednesday night William Johnson,
a resident of Jessamine county, while
on his way home, was shot dead by a
concealed assassin. On Thursday night
Miss Hill, a young school teacher at
Bryantsville, was shot and instantly
killed by n young man named Grimes,
suitor whom she had rejected. On the
same night two horse thieves, confined
in Jail at Nicholasville, were taken from
Jail by Regulators" and hanged. One
of them had served term in the peni-
tentiary for previous offences.
GEN. RoBT. L. LEE.-We were in
formed yesterday that the Knickerbock-
or Life Insurance Company. of New
York, have transmitted o communica.
ton to General Lee, rendering to him
the position of supervisor of Agencies"
of that institution in the Southern
States. The salary proposed to be paid
is $4,000 per annum.
In this connection we may state that
there has recently been considerable
talk on Change" about the expedien-
CIV of electing General Lee to the Presi-
dency of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road Company. The advocates of the
idea argue that his election to that po-
sition would secure the immediate real
ization of the funds required to COM
plete the road to the Ohio river.-Rich-
mond Wig.
The Harrisonville Neu Era says: "Cot-
ton picking is going ahead briskly. Our
farmers are expecting fair yields of
cotton this season. Cotton is coming
in freely. Freedmen in our parish are
behaving we'll and working better than
heretofore. Throughout Iberville crops
of all kinds are remarkably good. The
corn crop is tho largest ever made in
our parish; the cotton and canes yield
we'll, and all in all, we have cause for
thankfulness."
The West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter
says: "The demand for seed cane con-
tinues at good prices. DR.. T. P. Vaughn
sold twenty acres, in the field, for
$4,000, and John Hill, Esq, sold num-
Der of acres, also in the field, at prices
we did not learn. This cane is intended
for replanting on other plantations in
the parish. We have repeatedly re-
ferred to the excellence and size of the
cane this season, and, in one instance,
the yield; but it is uncommon in this
State tor one acre of seed cane to plant
eight, and even eight and quarter
acres have been planted from one lot.
An old and experienced manager told us
Yesterday that he had never seen it
grow so long and thick within his ex-
perience. With the strides now making
in this branch of agriculture, and with
settled labor, in five years more lit
tie West Baton Rouge will be on the
same high road to prosperity that exist
ed before the war"
Mixed Stock in Pasture.
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