The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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sdlall farms instead Of large plantations
A large number of arpet-baggers have
LEFT New Orleans in disgust. Urg
Stealing geraniums from front yards
listhe last phase Of thieving in Charles
ton, S. c..
Large numbers of Georgians and Ala
bamians are emigrating to Arkansas.
Gen. Whitfield, formerlyidelegate in
Congress. from Kansas, is residing in
Galveston, Texas. ~ ..s.
Geo. R. Scott has been appointed
Jadge of the Third Judicial District OF
Texas, vice carpet-bagger Sabin.
Samuel S. Law, son of Judge Law, OF
Savannah, was recently assassinated by
negroes near Savannah, Ga.
Willie Gabard, boy, shot and killed
q negro near Sselbyville, Tenn, who
cursed his father.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
city was never more quiet and orderly
than on election day. Places of busi.
nose were generally closed.
A boy of seventeen, in New Orleans,
forged $500 draft, and gave the money
TO lerette, with whom he had been
living for year.
H. C. Eastwood, formerly postmaster
at Sneedville, Dixon county, Tenn, has
been arrested for robbing the mails.
Chancellor Shackelford, of Tennessee,
has been commissioned by Brownlow a
Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennes-
see.
George E. Speck, editor of the Morris
town EAST Tennessee) Gazette, was way
laid and badly beaten by several men
recently.
Old Jacob Barker, aged ninety, of New
Orleans, voted for Seymour and Blair.
1t was the fifteenth vote for President he
has cast.
Tho demand for seed cane in Louisa-
ma indicates a disposition on the part
of the planters to put more land in cane
next year than they did this.
A lady of Memphis has offered to pre-
sent a bridal bonnet. to any young lady
who will bestow her hand upon the edi-
tor of the Canton (Miss.) Mail.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company, have, it is said, just negotia-
ted loan for S, 100000, to buy up small
tributary companies.
The San Antonio Texas, Press (Rad.)
says the killing of carpet-hagGer G. W.
Smith in Jefferson recently, was not to
be lamented, that he was "a very bad
egg"
Tive ladies were locked up in a
Charleston s. C. cemetery by the uncon.
scious sexton, on All Saints Day, and
were terribly frightened when released. +.
The negroes of Charleston S. c., were
with difficulty restrained last Friday
from breaking open the guard-house and
hanging Walsh, the murderer of Dick
son.
DR.. Perl has established beef.pack-
ing establishment in Houston and Kings
bury aud Nash have done the same near
Gonzale, and McManus and Schrimcr in
San Antonio, Texas.
According to the Columbus Georgia.
sm, a postollicc clerk at that place
deems it to be his "richt aud duty, in
times like the present, to open and eX-
anime the correspondence of parties
who in his Judgment are disloyal."
The editor OF the Norfolk Tryinidn
has discovered a new use for snmac. He
says that the blossoms and tender leaves
of the sumac when dried and added to
ones smoking tobacco gives it an exqui-
site flavor, which the Grand Turk never
enjoyed in his perfumed Lakatea.
The Charleston s. G. Mercury pub
fishes from the Custom house record of
that port, a history of the slave trade
from 1904 to 1908, when the traffic was
prohibited. The whole number entered
there was 35,776.. OF these 1869 were
brought in English ships; 679 by
Freuchmen, and 5l63 in New England
vessels. The Rhode Islanders were
most deeply engaged in this piracy.
A man who gave his name as II. A.
Gilbert, and his calling as special agent
of the Internal Revenue Department,
arrived in Columbus, Georgia, one day
last week, and proceeded to notify thir-
teen wholesale and eleven retail liquor
dealers that they had violated certain
section of the revenue laws, and that he
must proceed against them unless they
compromised by paying 500 each. A
telegram to Washington developed the
fact that ne such man was in the en-
pley of the department, and he is now
Eliminating in Jail over his iasco.
From information received from the
principal tobacco growing regions Of
Virginia and North Carolina, it is ap-
parent that the cultivation of tobacco
is so rapidly declining that it will prob
ably be wholly discontinued because OF
its unprofitableness. Some planters in
Pittsylvania and Halifax counties, Fir-
ginia, and Caswell, North Carolina,
who, last season planted immense crops
of this staple, have realized enormous
losses on their crops, and will plant no
more hereafter until it shall become less
ruinous to do so.
In rickety old twO-story building
on St. Charles street, st. Louis, used
alike for Office and dwelling, lived for
many years old Isaac Walker. Wife.
less, and with one foot in the grave
any morning for the past ten years be
could have been seen in his den of al
Office, on the first floor, arranging pa
pers, asserting keys, and counting
money. He spoke with no one save or
business; friendship he bad none; none!
was his sole passion and aim. A stern
lI.jl,rd ba raa commonlv call.d cold