The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-11
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Peach trees in full bloom beautify
Florida.
John C. Breckirridge arrived in Bal
timore on Saturday, and is staying
with his brother.in-law, Rev. DR.. Bull
lock.
The remains of Mrs. Surratt have been
delivered to Annie Surratt and her
brother Isaac, by order of the President.
There are eight daily and eight week
IL journals published in New Orleans.
They are published in German, French,
Spanish and English.
There are in Albemarle county, Va,
about IL, 900 white people and $4,000 ne
groes, with sixty churches for the white
people and three for the negroes, TO all
of which there are fifty preachers, TWEEN
ty-five of them Baptists.
The rations issued TO prisoners in the
Savannah, Ca, Jail have been reduced.
Idle negroes were committing paltry
depredations for the purpose of getting
in Jail, where they knew they would be
well fed.
Col. Hodgson, editor of the MontgOm-
cry (Ala.) Mail, has been fined $50 and
ordered to be imprisoned five days by
reconstructed judge for contempt of
court in declining to serve as aJuror on
the ground that he was pr-cticing
attorney.
General Robert +. Lee has been elect
ed President of the Bible Society, of
Rockbridge county, Virginia, and has
issued short address TO the citizens of
that county, in behalf of the Society,
which Is to supply every family in the
county with copy Of the Bible.
1t is rumored that it is the intention |
of these who have the ElizGbethtown,
Lexington and Big Sandy railroad in
charge to offer the Presidency Of it to
John C.. Breckenridge. 1t is thought |
his influence woulG secure large sub
soriptiOns to the stock of the company. !
The largest man on record was Miles
Darden, q native of North Carolina, who
was born in that State in 1893, and who
died in Tennessee in 1857. He was sew
en- feet and six inches high, and in lS45
weighed 81 pounds. At his death he
weighed little over 1000 pounds.
Fayette county, KY, is still filled with
thieves of the most expert kind, and
farmers cannot too carefully guard their
valuables. Mr.. James II. Porter, resid-
ing on the old Frankfort road about five
miles from the city, had his smoke house
broken open ON Wednesday night and
fourteen fine hams distracted thercfrom.
No clue TO the perpetrators of the viii
lainy.
Two young men, students of Wash
ington College, Lexington, Virginia, got
on spree" a few days ago, paraded
the streets with pistols, and behaved in
a very disorderly manner. A colored
man snatched pistol from one of them,
when he was fired upon, and slightly
wounded. Upon being informed of
what they had done, they decamped,
and the next day they we're expelled
from the college.
The fact that the Governor of South
Carolina is an Ohioau gives an addi-
tional interest to the following extract
from Columbia, S'uth Carolina, letter
in the New York Times: Pursuant to
time honored custom, Governor Scott
gave an entertainment early in Janua.
ry-a Soires ddRSdnte-which was very
fully attended. The crowd consisted
mainly Of the attaches of the General
Government, officer, of the military gar
rison, rpet-baggers, the party friends
of the Governor, aad three residents of
the city The elite of the city was not
there; and those Of the place who were
there had never been at a Governors
entertainment under the old regime
Another unexpected feature marked
this party-there were no negroes here.
Although the Governor had ventured
to extend his recognition to mulatto
or quadreon girl when travelling upon
the cars, he had not the courage 10 in
vite his colored friends to his entertain
ment: This fact was significant. 1t
raised an cutlery of indi snation, partly
by the negroes themselves, but chiefly
by ONCE seekers, who are keenly alive
TO every opportunity of demonstrating
their championship of the colored race
Prominent among these volunteer
champions of negro equality is Hon
f. II. Moses, Jr., Candidate for neyt
Governor) present Speaker of the
House of RepresentativeS-Oft the class
of politicians known here as sealawags.
Moses agitated this exclusion of the
negroes from the Governors drawing
rooms, and won large favor among his
sable friends. Aud so decided among
the regroes, and those who needed ne
gro votes, was The sensation against
His ExcelIency, that that official was
compelled by the pressure TO take
decided step TO counterfeit the preju-
dice against him. This step was TO
establish a sort of levee-an evening
once a week upon which the Governors
rooms are open to all colors and both
sexes-every Thursday evening"