The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Henry A. Wise is writing his autobi,
biography.
Texas raises four crops of figs in one
season.
The peach trees are in blossom at Tai.
lahassee, Florida.
Three thousand mechanics and labor
ers are idle in Louisville.
There are only two billiard saloons in
Montgomery, Alabama.
Wild turkeys and partridges are
very plentiful in Fairfax county, Vir,
ginia.
"A Hebrew Sunday School is about to
be established in Petersburg, Virginia.
The colered people of New Orleans
have had the nerve to revive their or
gan, the Tribune, after suspension of
six months.
Horse stealing is a capital crime in
Virginia, and man convicted of it is to
be hanged at Chesterfield next month.
The forthcoming report of the auditor
of Kentucky will show decrease in the
number of hogs for 1868, compared with
1867, of $4,000.
Hon.. John Slidell, it is said, will en-
deayor to regain his confiscated proper
ty in New Orleans by an appeal to the
courts there.
Two thousand letters containing no.
tices to creditors of petitioners for
bankruptcy, were mailed at Jackson,
Miss, last week.
The county court of Nansemond, Va,
has ordered a vote on the question of
two hundred thousand dol
lars to the Norfolk and Great Western
railroad.
The Republican tickets for Congress
men and Electors in South Carolina
bore "the strange device" of an eagle
soaring in the clouds with carpet-bag
in its talons.
The Winchester Times boasts of the
of the numerous woolen and
cotton factories of Frederick county,
Virginia, (which run day and night,
turning out clsth, etc as good as can
be purchased at distance, and much
cheaper"
On the 18th inst, man named Cas-
teel, living near Des Arc, Arkansas, was
taken from his home and hung. He was
charged with being unable to distin-
yuish his own hogs from his neigh
BORIS.
"Judge" Kellogg, the new Radical
Senator from Louisiana, has loft New
Orleans for Washington, carrying with
him great quantity of cigars, which a
local paper very broadly hints are mot
to exert powerful intiu-
snce on the fortunes of Kellogg, through
the palate of the President elect.
A travelling dentist visited Browns
Vile, Tennessee, q few days ago, and
offered to put in Il full set of false teeth
IUr o., cIu W ue paiu mncn Inc OIu SET
was extracted. A number of persons
accepted the offer, paid the SO, and had
their old stumps drawn out. When the
gums healed and they called for the
new set, the dentist was non est.
The party of disguised men who hung
Smith, near Huntsville,
Alabama, few nights since, affected
friendship for him, received his conf
dence, and then asked him if there was
any one in the neighborhood he would
hang. He named two men and accom-
panied the maskers for the purpose of
hanging them, when he was himself
hung.
Southwestern Virginia, it is contend
ed, can be made great wine country.
1t is stated that DIR, Mayo, of Botetourt
county, Virginia, has published high
ly interesting paper in relation to the
Valley of Virginia as q wine-growing
region. He contends that it has all the
requisites fer the profitable and success
full culture of grapes. Application has
been made to the Virginia and Tennes.
see Air Line for transportation to New
York of sixty thousand pounds of grapes
grown by one firm in their vineyard,
near Salem, Roanoke county.