The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

A large brewery has just been started
at Waco, Texas.
A Norfolk, Va, girl, aged II years,
has just become mother.
A good many of the Cuban refugees
have found their way to Savannah.
Savannah is sending immense guam
titles of lumber to England every day.
New potatoes have made their appear
ance in the market at Columbus, Ga.
Grasshoppers have made their appear
ance in Bastrop and Bell counties,
Texas.
A man in Lynchburg, Va, the other
night ate forty raw eggs and drank a
quart of whisky and-still lives.
Pork is selling in Colin county, Texas,
at five cents pound and corn at thirty
cents bushel.
Timothy O'Callahan shot and killed
his son-in. law, Charles Clark, in Amelia
county, Virginia, last week.
A Memphis jury, having found a man
guilty of numbering a citizen who is
alive and well, are deliberating whether
to resciRd their verdict, or let the con-
victed man kill the citizen.
r. H. Breckinridge, for the killing of
DR.. Burton, at Meridian, Miss, has been
found guilty of manslaughter, and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for nine
years.
In Grunly county, Tenn, last Satur-
day, a man named Blair was shot and
killed by a man named Barnes. An old
grudge is said to have been the cause of
the difficulty.
The Winchester (Va.) Times says that
several children in that place have late
ly been bitten by rats. Last Sunday a
negro child had its head nearly half
eaten off by arat.
Arailroad meeting was held in San
Antonio, Texas, on the 4th inst, to raise
and donations to assist in
the extension of the Colorado railroad
to that city.
A Mississippi editor apologies for
typographical error of the preceding
day, which made him refer with pleas
ure to the "everfowing soakers of Maj.
hospitable bsard.' cover
40 in haa hot ha
A correspondent of the Lynchburg,
(Va.) Republican suggests that, to the
usual inscriptions upon tombstones, the
name of the physician who attended
the deceased in his last illness be added.
A man in Danyille, Va, went down a
we'll to clean it out, few days ago,
when pile ofrocks caved in and buried
him. The rocks were over him to the
depth of twenty feet, and he remained
in this situation for seven hours; but |
was finally rescued, though badly
bruised.
The negro Harris, who was nonina-
ted for Lieutenant Governor of Virgin
ia by the Radical convention at Peters !
burg, Va, last week, has a white wo-
man for a wife. She was a "Yankee
school marin" from New Jersey. They
were married since the war.
The first official act of Secretary Cox,
of the Interior Department, was the re-
moval of Mr.. Charles H. Mcknight, of
Va, who was employed in
the Secretary's office under Mr.. Brown
ing. Mr.. Mcknight had served in the
army, where he lost an
arm.
An affray took place in Sabine county,
Texas, last week, in which Willie Qua
ries, son of DR.. J. w. Quaries, was in
stantly killed by two brothers named
Noble. 1t was the second meeting be-
tween the parties, and young Quaries |
one of his assailants before he
was killed.
A handbill is posted about Richmond,
Va, declaring that the nominations re-
Gently made at Petersburg " are of such
a character as to make it impossible to
make the Radical party successful in
the State" and calling another Radical
to be held in Richmond on |
the 18th of April.
The Greensborough IN. c. Patriot
says that Bob Mederwell, notorious
colored thief, was sent to Jail Sunday
for the fiftieth time, for theft. That
evening a white "school marm" called |
at the Jail to see him and whisper |
90 words of consolation" when she kissed
him through the bars The disgusted
jailer would not allow further init
macy.
The Decatur, (Ala.) Republican says.
Mr.. E. P. Jennings, of Moulton, owns a
COW with three calves, the triplets born
the same day, and all of the masculine
gender. Mr.. Jennings will contract to
furnish Lawrence county with beef
while his prolific cow persists in carry
ing on a Wholesale bull calf business.
If any man has female bovine, or even
a woke of oxen, able to see the three
calf-cow and one better, let him speak.
The late Texas State convention
framed a new county out of part of
aud Wilson couHties, and
called it "Cibolo;" and the tax collectors
of both counties are enforcing the col
lection of taxes from the citizens. The
people, however, have their remedy; for
Judge Hardin Hart, of the Seventh Ju-
dicial district radical and military ap-
has decided that the conven-
ton could not lay out new counties, ss
that body had no legislative functions.
The Way il Works
A prominent gentleman of this city
tells us he had just negotiated with re-
sponsible parties in New York for the !