The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Charleston, South Carolina, is to have
o new evening paper.

Charleston, South Carolina, is to have
new evening paper.
The foreigners of Virginia are to pre-
sent Gov. Wise with bedstead-
Three Kukluxes were arrested the
other night in Huntsville, Ala.
Miss Charlotte Thompson is playing
to crowded houses in Atlanta, Ga.
More than ore seventh of the State of
Mississippi is advertised for sale under
execution.
Convicts in the Richmond, Va, peai-
tentiary drink, each, 1892 worth of milk
q year.
1t is estimated that by the recent New
Orleans in1ndation, small property
owners there lost SoOO,OOO.
Vanderbilt is about starting line of
steamships between New Orleans and
Galveston, in opposition to the Morgan
line.
Mrs. Polk, widow of the late Bishop
Polk, is about to open a school in New
Orleans, in which she will be assisted
by her daughter.
The Trustees of William and Mary
College, Virginia, have received this
year from England, $1,000, the proceeds
Of legacy left in 17l2 by an English
lady.
Gen. Stoneman has determined not to
extend the operations of the Virginia
stay law beyond the lst of January-the
date fixed for its termination by the late
Legislature.
A brick church, on 4 high hill eleven
miles from Nashville, was literally
blown away last Sunday by whirlN
wind. Many of the bricks were carried
half mile, and but four feet of the
walls remain standing.
Two colored men were caught in Bal
timore ON Tuesday night while in the
act of robbing grave. They were
drawing up the coffin when they were
arrested.
Thos. Jefferson, the niger magistrate
of Port Hudson. La, got on his official
dignity the other day and refused to
obey q court summons, and was locked
up for contempt of court in default OF
$500 bail.
About two weeks ago a son of Mr..
Lancaster, editor of Navasota (TeXas)
Ranger, was taken at night from his
fathers house and hanged by band of
nine men, disguised and fully armed.
Mr.. Lancaster has been obliged to Sc
crete himself on one or more occasions
from the fury of the Loyal Leaguers,
the paper, meanwhile, being conducted
by his wife.
Professor Brooks made balloon as
cension last week at Memphis. A small
dog, belonging to little boy, was sus-
pended from a parachute below tho car.
At an elevation of 1000 feet tho dog was
detached, the parachute collapsed, and
all that was left of the pet canine after
he struck the earth were few shreds of
dog-skin.
Mrs. William Duke, of Macon county,
Ala, hung herself recently on account
of discord with her husband. They
were married last year, at the ages re-
spectfully of eighteen and sixteen. The
unfortunate woman suspended herself
from one of the joists in the house, and
when she was cut down her little baby
lay TRANQUILITY sleeping in cradle at her
feet.
At the University of Virginia there
are 500 students. At Washington Col
lege, over which Gen. Lee presidRs,
there are nearly 400, and the Virginia
Military institute over $50. Emory and
Henry, in Washington county, opened
its fail session with nearly 300. Hamp-
den Sidn0y has nearly or quite 100.
Randolph Macon at the latest accounts
had about IS, and daily accessious were
being made. Richmond College has
largely over 100.