The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.

General Toombs is recovering fren
his late dangerous illness.
Virginia State bonds have risen con
siderably in the past few weeks.
Colonel A. W. Putnam, a prominent
citizen of Nashville, died in that city on
Wednesday.
Governor" Wells, of Virginia, on
Friday, pardoned three more peniten-
tiary birds.
The colored Roman Catholics have
built themselves a church in Charleston,
s. C.
The sum of 1920, 900 has been paid out
up to this time, for interest on the Vir-
ginia State debt.
The agent of the Virginia State Agri-
cultural Society has received over $1,000
in Richmond from private individuals.
The body of white male infant with
its skull crushed, was found in Nash
vile, on Wednesday, neatly inclosed in
a small box.
Greensboro, Ala, is to be connected
with Europe and the rest of the outside
world by telegraph. 1t will be fin
ished by March next.
st. Joseph, Missouri, is raising money
by subscription to build charity hos
pital. John Corby heads the list with
s4l, 900.
A boy named O'Keiff, in Atlanta, had
his arm and leg horribly mangled by two
ferocious dogs on Saturday.
Reuben Buchanan, a negro, was in
stantly killed at Atlanta on Saturday by
being run over by the cars.
DR.. C. T. Cushman, of Columbus, Ga,
who accidentally shot himself on Sat
urday, died on Sunday morning.
A dozen four-penny nails and piece
of crude gold weighing two penny
weights were found in the paunch OF
heifer slaughtered at Nashville the 9TH
er day.
A paper in North Carolina announces,
for the consolation of mankind, that
the Speaker of the reconstructed House
of the Legislature thereof has been sober
for all this session.
The baby prince of Greece is immense
ly popular there, because an old tradi-
tion declares that a prince born upon
Greek soil, and named Constance, shall
restore the ancient glory of Athens.
The Augusta, Georgia, Chronicle and
Sen tinel says that Governor Bullock's
message willfully and maliciously mis-
the condition of affairs in
Georgia and is base calumny upon
that people.
Captain William Perry, an old Red
river captain and worthy citizen, was
killed at his residence in Jefferson, Tex
as, by soldiers, who claim that it was
done through mistake.
Some fifteen persons have been placed
in the military prison at Jefferson, Texas,
by the military authorities. No cause
for the arrests is known.
A thief in New Orleans the other day,
in picking lady's pocket of few dol
lars in greenbacks, dropped accidentally
in her pocket a diamond ring, valued at
between one hundred and fifty and two
hundred dollars.
Major n. A. Sturdivant, Common
wealth's Attorney for Richmond, Va,
has been removed by General Stoneman
and q carpet Dagger named Bundy ap-
pointed to succeed him.
There is n crazy woman on the streets
of Helena, Ark, apparently not more
than 2l CT % years of age, who gives her
name as Mary Taylor. She is known to
be the daughter of a respectable citizen
in Mississippi.
A Mr.. Smith, of Kentucky, is exhibit
ing a mammoth OK in Helena, Arkansas.
The animal measures 1871 feet in length,
IL feet inches round the girth, l6i
hands high, and weighs 4545 pounds.
The Nashville Banner says the militia
will cost an immense deal of money, and
will result in complete and stupid
failure, and will ultimately prove the
most egregious sham yet practieed upon
the loyal credulity Of the country by
the most extraordinarily successful po-
litical cheat and demagogue the age has
produced.
Captain James and W. j. Duke were
killed and yeung brother was badly
beaten in Caldwell parish, Louisiana,
on the 9th inst, by an old man named
Cain and his son. The Dukes had Wis
tied Gains house for the purpose of ST.
lencing certain scandalsus rumors in
regard to their sister which had been
circulated by the younger Cain.
A resolution has been introduced in
the North Carolina House of Represen-
tatives by Mr.. Geo. z. French, member
from Wilmington, proposing to annex
the counties of Norfolk, Princess Anne,
Nansemond, and Isle of Wight, Va,
to that State. Congress is to be petit
toned at an early day that the question
be submitted to the people of these
counties, who are represented as anx-
ions for the change.