The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.

General Rousseau has bought plan
tation in Louisiana. -.
Nine prisoners escaped from the He
lena, Ark, Jail on Wednesday.
Charlottesville, Va, has Planchette
which will make beautiful pastry.
Shooting dogs in the street is the
fashionable sport in Norfolk, Va, at pres
ent. T rr
Peach blossoms are seen in every por-
ton of Florida. F-
A st. Louis tobacconist has paid $40, :
900 in taxes since the war. -r-
The hog cholera is prevailing in Am
herst county, Va, and numbers Of hogs
are dying from lbs effects.
Belle Boyd has gone to Austin, Tex
as, to help push an immigration scheme
through the Convention.
A lady in Winchester, Virginia, still
preserves pair of boots once worn by
Lord Fairfax, and Mr.. E. Massey, of
Clarke, has his snuff-box of silver and
pearl.
One of the niger pages of the Alaba-
ma Senate, social led, has been stealing,
and, lamenchely to relate, niger Sem
ator has offered a resolution for his ex-
pulsion. - E--r --a
Arrangements have been made to
transport sugar and molasses from New
Orleans to Richmond by the Richmond
and Danville Railroad at rates to cem-
pete with the sea route.
The KuKlux were out in force near
Mckenzie, Tenn, few nights ago, and
thrashed a white man who shocked the
propriety of the community by too
much familiarity with "lady Of color"
A colored sol2ier, named Lewis
Thompson, was instantly killed at the
camp near Raleigh, N. c., last week, by
a fellow soldier. The murderer was ar
rested and will be tried by court. mar
tial.
Mrs. Osborne, Of Charleston, S. c.,
while laboring under temporary insani-
ty, poured several gallons of coal oil on
the floor of her room and set fire to it.
Her clothing caught, and she was fatal
ly burned.
Mr.. j. p. Nelson, living near New
bern, N. c., has dozen eggs, the first
lay of pullet, weighing two pounds,
and the average measurement being
seven and a-half inches in circumfer-
ence "endways" and six inches around.
Miss Pinsy w. Forsythe, the fair ed
itress of the Liberty, Mississippi, Adro-
cate, will not attend the Mississippi
Press Convention. She thinks lady
may. face and discharge the great duties
of life without becoming staring stock
for the curious.
BY the strict letter of the Alabama
X. X. law, the Cowbellions and Strikers,
if they parade ,,.t in masks on New-Years ri,
eve, may no uiiNoO~~- --- --'
stripped of their disguise, and tried,
fined, and imprisoned. So may all the
masquers in a ballroom. Women and
all may be stripped.
Governors of the States drained by
the Tennessee River will probably, at
an early day, issue proclamations invit-
ing the people to grand convention to
be held at Chattanooga, at a speclhc
date, to take action in relation 10 the
work of improving the Tennessee XIV
er.
Minton Hairston, colored woman,
some time since convicted as an accesso-
ry to the murder of her husband, in
Stokes csunty, n. c., and sentenced to
be hanged, has been respited and the
day of her execution postponed to Fri
day, July 16, 1869. 1t is a singular tea-
ture in the law of North Carolina that
this prisoner has been respited that she
may appear as witness on trial Tor
murder of her accomplices in the crime
of numbering her husband. Another ac-
complice had been executed for the
crime.