The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-06
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Savannah, Georgia, has street rail
road.
A clover field is very rare thing IN
North Carolina.
Brownlow pardoned three hundred
conyicts last year, and is still at it.
Baltimore has population of 352, ,136,
of whom 49, ,373 are oolored.
Mr.. John Sloat, of Winchester. died
last Sunday, aged over eighty years.
The st. Louis merchants have formed
Protective Freight Union"
Four hundred thousand dollars worth
of cotton was recently sold in one day
at Savannah. - #..
AsThe city authorities of Mobile are
discussing the propriety Of having
twenty-five velocipedes for each fire
company in the city.
A Georgia paper says that many OF
the farmers in that State have now
slowed away in their money boxes large
sums, the proceeds of last years crops.
A life size wax figure of New Or
leans belle has been set up in the New
Orleans Museum without her knowledge
or appreciation.
Kentucky has cause for cengratula-
ton. She has been State seventy ty-siX
years, and has never lost a cent by de-
falcation on the part of any official.
DIR. Mcbride has been found guilty of
dealing faro, in Kentucky, and fined
$500. In default of payment he was
sent to the workhouse to work out the
fine at so cents day.
In Jackson county, Florida, the court
had to adjourn five different times on
account of the black jury going sound
asleep and snoring almost as loud as a
thunder storm.
Colonel Forney, who is making tour
through the Southern States, speaks sp-
provingly of the temperance and sobrie-
ty of the people of North Carolina. He
says he has not seen a drunken man
since he entered the State.
Three privates, named Myron II
Strong, Harmon Springsteen and Ste
phen Madden, belonging to the 25th in
fantry, stationed at Memphis, were
branded with the letter d and discharg-
d.from the service, a few days since, for
desertion.
Mr.. Felix Cunningham, who lives in
Amherst, Virginia, was waylaid by rob
bers one day last week, within three
miles of Lynchburg, knocked senseless
from his horse with q club, and robbed
of seventy dollars and some goods he
had purchased.
The Lynchburg Republican says that
opium eating prevails in that communi-
ty to much greater extent than most
people free from the habit suppose. 1t
is also believed to be INDUCED in by
many ladies, witch is surely most pit
liable and unfortunate.
A young man, while being married,
was shot down by the brother of his
bride, on Thursday evening, in the town
of Cornersville, Giles county, Tennessee.
He fell into the arms of the girl, who,
assisted by friends, conveyed hin to a
bed, where the marriage ceremony was
finished at her request. In few mo-
ments the newly made husband ex-
pired. The murderer escaped.
The Fairfax county Ne'rs is to be re-
vived and republished. Messrs. j. Rus
sell Reading, d. w. Whiting, and NJ.
D. Baker are the parties connected with
the proposed undertaking. The paper
will be rs it was before the war week
ly, and will be issued at Fairfax Court
House every Saturday morning. The
first number, it is expected, will be
printed next Saturday.-IlerdRdrid Ga
zette.
The suit instituted in New Orleans
against tho Ponchartrain Railroad, for
100000 damages claimed for the benefit
of the children of the late George F.
Knight and wife, killed-the wife while
getting her children on the cars, when
in motion, and the husband in an at
tempt to rescue her-has resulted in a
verdict of $4,000 for each of the three
little orphans.
A dispatch from Memphis says: A
train from Madison, Arkansas, brought
in large number of refugees from Crit
tenden county, fleeing fren party OF
negroes who represented themselves as
the militia. They banged planter
named Gibson this morning, and com
mitted every species of vandalism. Sum
day night planter named Cullen, who
had been at Little Rock and ssld his
cotton, while camping six miles above
the city, was murdered by a negro, who,
after robbing him, took a wagon aud
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