The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-12

SOUTHERN NEWS.

, Macon, Ca, is to have q new court
house.
The Mayor of Selma, Ala, receives
salary of $3.50.
The North Carolina Legislature mad
no quorum on the 5th.
License on a two-horse dray in Macon
Ga, is S75 per year.
Large droves of mules are daily pass
ing through Atlanta, Ga. p.
A lot of fifty-one bales of cotton was
sold at 25i cents per pound recently.
r. NJ. Robertson has been elected
President of the New Orleans and Sell
ma railroad.
A. j. White has been elected Presi-
dent of the Macon (Ga.) and Western
railroad.
A convention of sheriffs and ordina-
ries is to be held at Atlanta, Ca, on the
18th inst.
1t is estimated that to supply Knox
Vile, Tenn, with water-works would
cost 100000.
A negro woman was drowned in Otter
creek, Bedford county, Virginia, on Sat
urday last.
Three negroes over ninety years OF
age each died on plantation near
Talledega, Ca, on the 5th.
The lessees of the Louisiana peniten-
tiary have instituted suit for S67, 600
against the State Treasurer.
A negro was taken before one of the
Augusta freedmen's courts, charged
with stealing two biscuits"
Over 1900 warrants of arrest have been
issued against parties concerned in the
Ogachee, Ca, troubles.
Mr.. Hobart, of Decatur, Ala, had a
son very dangerously wounded by the
accidental discharge of gun.
Thirty-three deeds were admitted to
record in the clerks office of Alexan-
dria, Va. during December.
The widow of the late John Richard
son, of Lynchburg, Va, died Sunday
night. She vas about eighty years old,
A German named Rixer was garroted,
his money and a silver watch taken
from him at Galveston, Texas, on the
ID inst.
Wallace Cumming has been elected
President of the Board of Directors of
the Augusta and Savannah railroad.
On the 9th a man was arrested at st.
Joseph, Missouri, charged with an as
sault with intent to kill, some time ago,
at Lima, Ohio.
The Pueblo (Colorado) merchants
have agreed hereafter to close their bus
mess houses from Saturday night till
Monday morning.
The close of navigation on the Chesa
peake and Ohio canal has, of course,
ended the coal trade for the present
winter at Alexandria, Va.
Two more respectable young gentle
men were arrested in Norfolk, yesterday,
being charged with completely in the
late express robbery in Virginia.
The number Of claims held by citi-
zens of Tennessee against the United
States, which were incurred by the re-
bellion, amount to S6,4O3, ,3656l.
A tremendous" hog, standing three
feet six inches in hight, eight feet six
inches long, and weighing 1900 pounds,
was lately shipped to New York from
Columbus county, Va.
Ben White, all engineer on the East
Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, was
seriouly wounded by a man named |
Long, near Sweetwater, Tennessee, one
night last week.
A fatal shooting affair occurred as
Gallatin, Tennessee, Saturday, in which
o young man named Al. Brown shot
Thomas Belcher, from the effects of
which he died next day.
A boy by the name of Kenchelo was
knocked dowL by negro at Alcxan-
dria, Virginia, and would have been
robbed of some vlauables he had with |
him had it not been for the timely ap-
pearance of some citizens.
A case for damage was brought in
one of the Memphis courts, where
the party bringing the action recovered
$3.50. The damage claimed was fer
standing up in the theatre after having
paid for a seat.