The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Crystal Springs, Miss, has shipped
3l10 bales of cotton this season.
A nugget of gold weighing two hun
dred and ninety pennyweights waI
found in White county, Georgia, recent
ly.
A man was arrested in Portsmouth
Va, last week, for stealing an iron rail
ing from around a grave.
Diptheria is prevailing to consider
able extent in Richmond, Va, but bal
net as yet become epidemic.
The citizens of Richmond, Texas, have
formed themselves into patrol to pro
tect the town from lawless characters
1t is currently reported in Virgins
that General Custis Lee, son of the old
General, is soon to lead to the altar 8
daughter of General w. C.. Wickham.
A fatal type of fever is prevailing in
the counties of Sumter, Hale and Green
Alabama, which battles the skill of the
physicians, A great many deaths have
occurred.
There are now thirty. seven prisoners
in the Newbern, N. c., Jail. In all this
number there is not one white man who
was born on Southern soil.
A somnambulist walked out of the sec.
ond story window of his hotel in Mem.
phis few nights ago. He received on
ly few slight bruises.
John Evans attempted suicide at He
lena, Ark, on Monday of last week, by
stabbing himself in the region of the
heart, but only succeeded in making a
painful wound.
A fresh invoice of Yankee school
"marms" from "Bosting," arrived at
Cuthbert, Ca, a few days ago. The
people of that place may look out fol
squalls from saddle-colored babies short
ly.
Henry Leatherwood, a negro who
committed foul outrage upon the per.
son of a lady living in the northern
part of Greene county, Ala, recently,
was captured few days ago and hung
to tree.
The negro planters of st. Mary's par
ish, La, are generally laying in a good
supply of seed cane for next year. They
will commence on their crop for 1869 in
good spirits and with good prospects.
A few days since, in Wilmington, N.
c., a child of Mr.. Isaac Northrop died,
or at least was supposed to be dead, and
a short time after the supposed corpse
was washed and laid out it revived, and
the child is now doing well.
Considerable excitement exists in and
around Ashville, n. c., arising from the
riot that occurred on election day, and
up to last Thursday reports were rife OF
threats to burn the town and general
attack upon the white people by the ne
groes.
Two old ladies committed suicide in
Sullivan county, Tennessee, lately. The
first, a widow, named Cresswell, hung
herself with a hank of thread. Mrs
Crcsswell was about seventy years o.
aye. The second was Mrs. Maum, who
lived near Blountville. She hung her
self with rope. She was also seventy
years of age.
The Charleston Courier of the l4tt
inst, states that Oh the previous day
lady who was passing down Went
worth street, met on her way two color
ed girls who rudely pushed against her
and when demonstrated with, was told
by them that she should have taken the
outside, and ought to have known bet
ter since the election was over. A trl
vial matter, but an exemplitication o.
the old proverb-"Coming events cast
their shadows before"
A Kentucky farmer recommends thai
wool-raisers pasture their sheep with
cattle as an effectual preventive ofrava
ges by dogs. He has followed the prac
tice for many years, and has never LOST
a single member of his focks by dogs oil
wolves, while his neighbors have beel
constant sufferers. The sheep, when at
tackled by dogs, run directly to the cat
tie for protection, and the latter soor
rid the field of their canine prosecutors
Some forty five or fifty years ago 1
trader was travelling in the direction o.
San Antonio, Texas, and was near the
Nueces, just below the preside Cross
ing" He was attacked by Indians. He
made a stand on the top of a small hill
and buried from fifty to hundred
thousand dollars. The party eventual
ly escaped, but could not carry of the
money. Search has been made for il
time and again, but never dollar ha:
been found. The story has been recent
ly revived, and party from San Anto,
nio are now searching for the treasure
At a meeting held in Nashville OF
Thursday night speeches were made by
number of prominent Tennessee Re
publicans. Secretary Fletcher and
few others came out squarely for impar'
tial suffrage, and advocated the early
enfrauchisement of the rebels, while l.
A. Hamilton and one or two others in
sisted en- their perpetual disfranchise'
ment. A dispatch to the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: "The meeting has this
significance: Hitherto the friends o.
white enfranchisement have been back
ward in publicly expressing their sen
timeuts, but now, backed by leading
Republican journals of the North, the!
are beginning to express their minds
pretty freely. The movement will like
ly result in a split in the party in Ten
nessee, as the proscriptive faction ar
fierce and uncompromising in their hos
tility to extending the franchise"
MICHAEL REILLY.
WHOLESALE GROCER,
AND DEALER IN