The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Ala, has given out. -..'
The Montgomery (Ala.) mule marke
has been full all winter.
Wilmington, N. c., boasts of thirty
two prisoners in her jail.
The best beef retails at ten cents pc
Iound in Athens, Ala.
Twenty seven marriage licenses wer'
issued in Nashville last week.
Annapolis, Md, was visited with
three-inch snow last week.
Alexandria, Va, had ten fires ant
twenty false alarms during the pas
year.
Stealing horses is an every day oc
currence around Lexington, Mississippi
At Lynchburg, Va, 672O hogshead'
of tobacco were inspected for the yea
1868.
From August 1st to December 3lst
10,117 bales of cotton were shipped from
Albany, Ga.
Camden (Ark.) papers are very exul'
tant over bright business prospects foi
that section in the future.
The City Council of Richmond, Va,
voted $1,000 for the relief of its poor last
week.
Complaint is made in Montgomery
Ala, of the extortions of their gas com
pany. It's but light tax.
Mr.. VIM. Rankin, of Columbus, Ga.
was severely stabbed i'll six places by a
negro, q few days since.
The city of Edgefeld, Tennessee
elected a conservative or citizens tick
ct over a Radical one on Saturday last
A fire occurred at Hannibal, Missouri.
on Monday, destroying the tailoring es'
tablishment of John A. Lennon.
The police of Columbia, Tennessee,
made 525 arrests during the year 1868,
of which number 495 were found guilty.
The steamship Herman Livingston
sailed from Savannah on the 3lst ult.
for New York, with 1449 bales of cotton.
Real estate transfers of upward OF
$50, 900 in value were made in Nashville
for the week ending on Saturday last.
VIM. Greaner, resident Of Rich
mond, Va, for fifty-three years, died
December 30. He was the owner OF
Castle Thunder"
Mrs. Raphael Semmes acknowledge
the receipt Of two tons of coal for the
orphan asylums of Mobile, in card in
the papers of that city.
In a shooting affray at Camden, Ar
kansas, on Christmas day, u man by
the name of Holten was shot and dan
gerously wounded by a Mr.. Ed. Levy.
One hundred and eighteen thousand
four hundred and ninety-four bales OF
cotton were received at Mobile from the
lst of September to January /.
The case of J. NJ. Perkins, alias the
Alphabet, was postponed in Atlanta,
Ca, on the 1st to the 18th. 1t will be
rem embered Perkins is the forger who
was arrested about the first OF last
week.
The labor question is again agitating
the Georgia people, the negroes refus-
ing TO make contracts for the present
year in the hope that something may
turn up by which they can live without
work.
Mrs. Mary Gatie Overall, formerly of
Columbus, Ca, proposes to commence
the publication at Crystal Springs,
Miss, in February next, of the Memorial
Record, weekly journal, to be devoted
to the memories and traditions of the
Confederacy.
A fatal affray occurred on Christmas
night near Missouri City, Clay county,
Mo-, between two brothers named Tur-
ner and two men by the name of Mouk-
ers and Bannister, in which Monkers
was killed on the spot, and Bannister
supposed to be mOrtally wounded.
A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier. Journal writes from Lexington,
Va, that General Lee declined an offer
from a New York insurance company Of
SIC, 1000 year to act as general agent
in the South, through no want Of re.
spect for the company, which is under
stood to be eminently respectable, but
because General Lee feels that his place
is here; that his mission is the educa-
tion of the youth of the South, and that
the splendid prizes of worldly wealth
should not allure him from his sphere
of duty" #sf
A negro girl has been astonishing the
people of Vicksburg, Mississippi, by her
performances on the piano. She is
eitgheen years old, and as black as the
ace of spades, does not know single
note of music, and cannot spell the
simplest word. She was house SER
want, and as such was permitted to play
upon the piano. She can play any piece,
however difficult it may be, after hear
ing it played; and her accuracy and
delicacy of touch is really something
very remarkable. For the past two
years she has been employed as field
hand, aRd has had no opportunity of
playing or listening to others play.
A MAYSVILLE TRAGEDY.