The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.

ida.
An unsuccessful attempt was made,
on Saturday night last, to rob the First
National Bank of Norfolk, Virginia.
The Lexington Statesman learns that a
subscription has been starte d in Madison
county to buy and present to Mrs. John
c. Breckinridge residence.
Sales of hemp in Lexington, Kentuc-
ky, are easily effected at $40 per hun
dred. Hemp seed has advanced consid-
erably, and now commands s. per
bushel.
A North Carolina boy took the honor
Of the family in his own hands, and
shot the seducer of his mother as he was
coming out of church last week, Sun
day.
Colonel Hodgson, editor of the Mont
gomery, Ala, Mail, has been imprison-
ed by order of Judge Smith of the Cir
cult, for refusing to serve as a juror,
pleading his exemption as an attorney.
The Daily Press of Augusta, Ga, ere
spectfully suggests" to its Southern ex-
changes, that "the task of ridiculing
and abusing Mrs. Lincoln be left to the
Northern press"
At the recent deluge in New Orleans,
several gentlemen on their way to a
dinner party were caught by the flood,
and to save their polish, took off boots
and socks and waded to the doors of the
hospitable mansion.
There is no connected railway travel
between the North and Virginia at the
present time. Stages in Washington
take people across the Long Bridge, and
drop them beside dilapidated railroads
with cheap and primitive cars.
A thief who stole horse and two
bags of bacon in Mississippi, county,
Missouri, was arrested at Columbus,
Kentucky, on last Saturday, and taken
back over the river, and on his way to
trial was shot and killed by some of the
outraged citizens.
The Elizabethtown Telegraph under
stands that on Saturday, the 9th of
February, the vote will again be sub
mitted to the people of Larue county,
in the matter of taking stock to the
amount of S250,000 in the proposed
and Tennessee railroad.
At Hnlsboro, Missouri, February Is,
one hundred and fifty armed men broke
into the Jail, took two men charged with
murder therefrom, and hung them to a
tree half mile from town. Their names
were Quick and James.
The body of Harold, one CT the assas-
conspirators, has been taken up
by permission of the President. His
funeral was held Monday afternoon,
and the remains deposited in the Con
gressional burying ground. AzterOt's
bedy was taken up Tuesday.
According to correspondent of the
Memphis Post, three tourists, two of
them from Ohio, have been exploring q
cave in Lookout Mountain, near Chat
tanooga. They claim to have seen
enough to convince them that it is not
less wonderful than the Mammoth Cave.
The immense Maxwell House, in Nash
vile, which, in its unfinished condition,
was used as a military hospital during
the war, is nearly ready for occupation.
It's cost approaches 100000, and it is
one of the largest hotels in the country.
The lot on which it is built was bought,
in 1880, for eleven dollars.
Rev. Henry A. Wise, jun, whose death
has been announced, was rector of an
Episcopal church in Philadelphia before
the war. He was the last surviving
son of the old Governor, his brother,
Jennings Wise, editor of the Richmond
Enquirer, having been killed at the bat
tie of Roanoke Island.
Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor,
is deserted, being without a garrison.
Its dilapidated condition shows that it
will soon become one of the things Of
the past. The chain of earth works and
batteries extending along the entire
front of the island facing the city and
James Island remain undisturbed.
The atlanta Georgia. IntelligeHcer
concludes report of Hon. Dunlap
Scott's speech in the House against the
resolution referring the question of ne
gro eligibility to Office to the Supreme
Court, as follows: ga most singular Incl
dent occurred while Mr.. Scott was speak
ing under the resolution passed yester
day. He was limited to fifteen min
utos. Ten minutes after he commenced
the clock in the hall stopped, stood still
thirty minutes, and started again just
as the speaker was closing, without the
aid of human hands"
The Edgeield (South Carolina) 4drer-
tiser, in describing the funeral of Gov
ernor Pickens, says: "One most touch
ing feature in this impressive funeral
was the grief and lamentation of the
crowd of former slaves, who focked to
pay the tribute of respect to him who
had been the kiHdest and best of masters.
And prominent among these, standing
in one of the upper corners of the church,
with his white head reverently bowed,
was '0ld Harper his body servant,
whose love and fsithfulness to his mas
tnr, through fifty long years, had never
known change or shadow Of turning"
CORDIAL RECEPTION OF SoUTHERNERs
AT THE NoRTH.-The Augusta Sentinel is
confident that the present cotton crop
of Georgia will yield from $50, 900, 900 to
$40, ,OOO, 900 in gold. The Philadelphia
Ledger very frankly and truly says: "It
is a knowledge of this fact that prompts
the cordial welcome at the hands of our
merchants that Southern buyers are
now receiving. They are able to be cash
buyers, and that is just what the trade
in the seaboard cities most want" As
baltimore, however, just as cordially
received the Southerners before they had
A. this yalnahle cotton cron ne siuce