The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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THE. Richmond Dispatch says part
rngesIare very numerous in the vicinity
Of that city.
The only child of Stonewall Jackson
giFes promise Of great intelligence and
beauty. .
Stea1 heaters are being used in the
cab of the New York and New Haven
and other railroads.
a aboard of Real Estate Agents" has
beeb organized by gentlemen in that
business in Louisville. .-.;
TSxas claims to be, "land of milk
and honey because you can get cows
there for $40 dozen.
It said that there are scorns enough
within three miles of jefferson, Texas,
to fatten three thousand hogs.
The cotton factories in Texas are rep
resented to be in prosperous condition,
their btock selling at from 200 to 20l5
Fper cent.
Three blocks of fine East Tennessee
|marbl4 intended for the Washington
national monument, passed through
ELynchburg on Friday.
The late Elan Alexander, of Macon,
Ca, left S40,0 900 cash to be devoted to
the endowment of free school for the
benefit Of the poor children of his city.
In Chattanooga, on Thursday, James
Eberhart and John C. Davis, soldiers,
assaulted III. L. Robinson, when the lat
ter shot Eberhart, killing him instantly.
Our Norfolk contemporaries give &C
counts ofthe great abundance of wild
ducks in the waters down that way, and
say the like of them was never known
before.
John Coleman, negro, has been sem
fenced to eighteen years in the peni-
tentiary by the Prince George County
Court, Va, for the murder of his wife.
The Rockingham Register says: "It is
now reduced to an absolute certainty
that the Orange, Alexandria & Manas-
sas railroad will be completed to Harri-
sonburg within the next three or four
weeks
1t would appear that apples are some
what rare in Texas, the La Grange
Democrat reporting the arrival and sale
of several wagon loads in that place at
a dollar a dozen. Other Texas papers
are boasting of their second crop of fall
vegetables, now in market.
A railroad convention is to meet at
Lynchburg, Virginia, about the middle
of this week. to settle the question of
consolidating the Norfolk e. Peters
burg, Southside & Virginia, and Ten
nessee railroads,
The swift steamship Carroll, in charge
of her popular commander, Captain
Hudgins, arrived hero early yesterday
merning, from Baltimore. making tho
run from wharf tg wharf in
forty eight hours, whichis the quick
est voyage yet made.-Gheriesfon Se'rs,
NoU. Ia. -
Cattle over year Sid, which have
not been marked or branded, are every
body's property ir Texas, and, like
Cain, may be killed by any one who
meets them. The San Antonio Express
says that in that city the market is
stocked with hides from the country,
taken from cattle without brand.
A youth about seventeen years old,
protesting to be a nephew of Count Bis
marck, has been visiting New Orleans.
The papers say he appeared to be flush
with money, attended the theatres
every night, and lived well. According
TO his own account, he was swindled in
New York, where some fellow gave him
Confederate money in exchange for
Prnssian gold. He stated that he was
to travel short time yet and then re-
turn to Prussia to finish his education.
He went from New Orleans to Havana;
and, it is said, he left the former city in
such hurry that he forgot to pay his
board bill.