The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.

General Jim Steedman has resigned
the eollectorship of New Orleans.
The fig and banana trees in Florida
have been injured by frest.
All. Stephens has given readings for
charitable purposes in Savannah.
Fifteen thousand tourists and invalids
visited Florida last season.
An infant daughter of General Jshn
Echols died in Staunton, Va, on the
30th ult.
Leatheryille, Tennessee, is to have q
complete wool factory.
The young men of Stockville, Missis-
sippi, are giving concerts to raise meney
to lay plank walks along the streets of
that town.
Large quantities of iron are being
shipped from the iron works in the
neighborhood of Woodstock, Va.
The residence of E. B. Borden, of
Goldsboro, North Carolina, was acci-
dentally destroyed by fire last week.
Loss $4,000.
A young man at Goldsboro, North
Carolina, had his eye put out last week
by his gun lock flying off while hunt
ing.
There was another incendiary fire in
Lyncbburg, Virginia, on Friday. The
residence of Mr.. George S. Duiguid was
totally destroyed.
Captain Wieting, of the ship Gauss,
who recently arrived in Charleston,
South Carolina, with load of emi-
grants, died in that city on Wednes-
day last.
The estate on James river, in James
City county, Virginia, called James
town Island" containing 1891 acres, 4O3
acres of it open land of great fertility,
has been sold for $4,000.
carpet-bagger in North Carolina
has sold tract of poor land worth less
than $4,000 to the loil State govern
ment for 100000. A penitentiary is to
be built Oh the land.
The Collegiaa is the title of very
readable paper just started at Lexing-
ton, Virginia, by the literary societies
of Washington College, with S. q. Am
mea and C.. K. Breckenridge as editors.
Newbern, North Carolina, is excited
over report that the belle of the town
is to be married shortly to a gentleman
from abroad, who is worth a cool hun
dred thousand.
A negro named Baker, sentenced to
be hung on the 1lth of December, for
the murder of Mr.. James Bannister, in
Henry county, Virginia, has been re-
spited by Governor" Wells for four
weeks.
In Harnett county, North Carolina,
last week, two negroes went to the
house of Mr.. Hatcher, who was alb
sent, and cursed and beat his wife.
Her son came to the rescue and killed
one Of the negroes.
Five horse thieves were recently cap
tured in Obion county, Tennessee, and
lodged in Jail. 1t is said they belong
to an organized band who are operating
in Kentucky, West Tennessee, and
North Mississippi.
Mrs. James Dupree, of Pitt county,
North Carolina, was burned to death
on the 2lst ultlmo, by her clothes TAX
ing fire. She was an estlmable lady,
and the unfortunate accident by which
she lost her life is much regretted.
A negro scoundrel named Charles Har-
ris has been arrested and lodged in Jail
for committing a rape upon the person
of Miss Shepperson, highly respecta-
BILE young lady of Henrico county, VIZ
ginia.
On Tuesday of last week, the COlum-
bia and Augusta railroad opened up
their line from Columbia, S. c., to with
in seven miles of the city of Augusta,
Ga. This makes a cut off and saving
of some seven hours in the travel by
that line between Selma and Washing
ton City.
Alexander Willis, (coloredD the fed
eral soldier who was to have been
hanged in Raleigh, N. c., Friday, for
the murder of Alexander Selby, has had
his sentence commuted by Governor
Holden to Imprisonment for life in the
State penitentiary. In the eyes of loyal
Governors color far surpasses charity in
coy erinp sins