The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-02
WHEE1NG w. VA TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1862
SOUTHERN NEWS.

An extensive vein of copper ore ha
been discovered in Caswell county
INC.
] Houston, Texas, is manufacturing DO
logna sausages.
Dillon, Radical Chief of Police unde
Blodgett, at Augusta, Georgia, wh'
killed Red some time ago, has been &C
quilted.
The Eagle aud Phoenix Manufacture
ing Company of Colunbas, Georgia
will declare dividend Of $40 to $t2
share on or before March 1st-
From the 1st to the 2lst of January
inclusive, there were 4145 mules
brought to Atlanta, Georgia. Prices
ranged from Sll5 to Se2O per head,
Wholesale.
Colonel Chafliu, the Virginia Lillipu'
tian, is on exhibition at Greensboro, N
C. The Colonel is 43 years old, q
inches high, and only weighs % pounds
In Dallas county, Alabama, last week,
4l52 acres Of valuable land, as good as
any in the county, were sold by
the sheriff at 81 80, So 25, 50, s. and
$40 so per acre.
Three different attempts to assaSsinate
Dr. H. E. Hortridge, of Houston, Texas,
were made last week by firing through
the windows of his residence at night.
One thousand dollars reward has been
offered by the City Council of Newburn
IN. c. for the person who attempted to
assassinate the Mayor.
An entire square at Madison, Missis-
sippi, was burned on Saturday night
week. The Mercury Office was among
the buildings destroyed. Loss esti-
mated at 100000.
There will probably be more cotton
planted in Southwestern Georgia this
year than has ever been before since
freedom. Early, Calhoun and Clay
county farmers have "cotton on the
BRAIN"
A drunken woman in tho Jail at Ma
con, Ga, the other day attempted to
commit suicide by drinking bottle of
castor oil, but the sands OF life failed to
run out, and she was tried for loose con-
duct by the Mayor the next morning.
The Georgia State Treasurer has been
called on to account for the large sum
set down as having been paid for post
age. The sum is alleged to be no
less than seventeen thousand dollars !!
The bill to consolidate the Atlantic &
North Carolina Railroad Company and
the North Carolina Railroad Company,
after long discussion, passed its second
reading in the North Carolina House on
Wednesday.
The newly discovered gold mine in
Forsyth county, n c., has been tested,
and the company having charge of it
are satisfied that it will pay, and have
sent to New York for machinery, intend
ing to go to work in earnest.
Mr.. H. H. Tate, of Greensboro, N. c.,
has imported n Chester hog which
weighs 1000 pounds, is three feet high
and nine feet long. He was imported
for the purpose of stock raising.
Whitethorn's Block was burned Mon.
day night week in Columbia, Tenn. A
young lady named Miss Kate Mclean,
while endeavsring to make her escape,
IN an adjoining yard, fell into a cistern
and was drowned before she could be
rescued.
A little child of George Smith, of Kan
sas City, Mo-, apparently breathed its
last, after lying i'll for some time. The
body was prepared for burial, and had
lain in the coffin several hours, when, to
the astonishment of all, life again rean-
imated the little form. The child is
still in critical condition, and is not
expected to recover.
Board of Survey has been formed
in New Orleans for the purpose of in
vestigatiDg and reporting upon alleged
discrepancies between invoices Of a GER
tain amount Of leather (for which Cen
eral Tompkins is responsibility shipped
from New Orleans, Louisiana, to In
diauola, Texas-and the amount re-
ceved. The Board will fix the resSon-
sibilty.
The sugar crop Of Louisiana for last
year is estimated at l25,000 hogsheads
of sugar and 100000 barrels of melasses,
worth atscurrent prices over $50, 900, 900
Next year it is said that 25O,00O hogs.
heads of sugar will be produced, be-
cause the planters generally in Louis
lana are retaining large portion of
their cane fer seed. In some instances
the entire crop of plantations has been
reserved for this purpose.
The grand jury of the United States
Court for the Western District of Texas
has adopted a report condemning the
action of the Convention in refusing to
make State Constitution, and for its
outrageous treatment of the minority of
the delegates, who represent the views
and interests of a vast majority of the
people on the question of dividing the
State at present. The jury asks Con-
gress not to ratify the revolutionary
action of the Convention.
Mrs. Lincoln's Claims TO n Pension
Mrs. Lincoln did nothing while she