The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Macon, Ga, wants o street railroad.
General Forrest is in Selma, Ala, a
present.
Americus, Ga, has installed the new
Board of Councilmen.
A store-keeper was fined S. in Balti
more for selling goods on Sunday.
Two hundred bales of cotton wer'
sold at Selma, Ala, on the 11th. at q
cents.
Nancy johnson, the mistress of
house of ill-fane, was shot and BILLED
on Saturday week at Columbus, Ga.
For an example to its readers, North
Carolina paper announces that the
Speaker of the North Carolina House oi
Representatives "has been sober all the
session."
The Montgomery, Alabama Adrer'
tiser sends ont supplement to its week
ly of the 18th, entitled "Pacifc Guano
Company"
C. T. Cushman, who aecidontly shot
himself on Saturday afternoon, died
Sunday morning about nine o'clock at
his residence, upper end Of Randolph
street, Columbus, Georgia.
For some time past large number OF
families have been passing over the
West Point and Mobile road on their
way to Texas. They are generally from
the upper part ofGeorgia.
The colored folks of Fort Gaines,
Georgia, last week, took one OF their
number, who had been caught stealing,
and tied him across barrel, hitting
him about one hundred and fifty lashes.
One of the men who murdered Mr.
Searcy, near Griffin, Georgia, some
weeks ago, has been arrested in Mont
gomery, and will be returned at once to
the authorities of Spaulding county. He
is mulattto.
Clayton, Governor of Arkansas, is
from Kansas; Henry Page, Treasurer, is
from Massachusetts,; j. NJ. Lewis, Com
missioner of immigration, is from Wis
consin; Pan Rice, Senator, is from New
York, later of Kentucky; Mcdonald is
from Kansas.
Captain Days company of artillery,
from Richmond, and armed as infantry,
was ordered to Wise's farm yesterday
morning by Colonel Mallory, of Genera
Stoneman's staff, more as a police force
than anything else; all being perfectly
quiet in that locality.
Some low-down person entered the
premises of Mrs. Frederick, near the
Jail, at Columbus, Ga, one night last
week, and took a small mattress which
belonged to an old, helpless and palsied
lady, who is dependent on the charity
of the church and citizens.
Several more mad dogs have been
killed in the town of Huntsville, Ala,
and neighborhood within the last few
days, and also several hogs. The police
shoot all dogs found at large in the
streets not muzzled. Thus far no per-
son has been bit.
The cotton factory in Macon, Geor-
gia, cost 100000; its capital is $780,
900; its average dividends have been
10 per cent, and last year l6 per cent;
it clears about $4,000 every year; it's
capacity is 5000 yards of cloth per day,
consuming 1000 pounds of raw cotton,
to an average of Sl2 900 per
month fer cotton; it has l25 operatives
at from Sl5 to S35 per month, house rent
free.
We are informed that the celebrated
estate, Dungerness, the gem of Cumber-
land Island, in view of Fernandina, was
purchased by Senator Sprague, of Rhode
Island, on his late visit to this State.
The estate of Dungerness comprises 6OO0
acres; the mansion will be fixed up for
a winter residence, and the land re-
served for gardens, parks, drives and
grounds. Senator Sprague has
also purchased on the same Island fine
plantation of 5000 acres, which will be
devoted to the cultivation of ramie, an
article now in great demand both in
England and this country. We under
stand that the above lands are of a
good quality, with q valuable growth
of live-oak. The price paid for it is $40
an acre.-FiOridd Union.
On Sunday afternoon week an atfray
occurred at Bailey's Mill, about four
miles frem Macon, Georgia, en- the Co
lumbia road, which resulted in the kill
ing instantly of one negro, and, proba-
bly,, the mortal wounding of another.
The affray was brought about in a dis
pute between Mr.. Alfred Hoy and two
negro blacksmiths, named Aaron and
Dick, in regard to some money matters.
Mr.. Hoy and Aaron first got into the
dispute, and after quarreling awhile,
Aaron went off and got Dick and re-
turned to where Mr.. Hoy was. He told
them to keep away and not to lay their
hands upoa him or he would kill tn EN-.
Aaron, however, walked up as if he in
tended to lay his hand on Hoy, when
he was shot dead with revolver; and
as Dick sprang forward, Hoy shot him
also through the head.
Don Piatt describes some of the ridic-
ulous scenes in Washington on New
Years day. He says: 81 saw an om-
nibus filled with young men, dashing
through the mud and backing up be-
fore the doors of public men. And l