The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.

There are at present 55,716 bales OF
cotton in Memphis, Tenn.
The base ball fever has just made its
appearance at Summit, Miss.
The Peak family Of Swiss bell ringers
are at Charleston, s. c.
! A labor union has been formed in At
l4nts, Ga.
A woman cowhided her husbands
paramour in Nashville Thursday.
An organized band Of highwaymeD,
it is said, are infesting Maury county,
Tenn.
John A. Douglass was tried at Hunts
Vile, Ala, on the 18th for the murder
of John W.. Weaver in 1865, and acquit-
red.
Huntsville, Ala, is experiencing a
mad dog excitement. Several mad dogs
have been killed there in the last few
dsys.
Wheat looks, in the vicinity of Tus-
kegee, Alabama, very promising. There
was but little sown Farmers, without
experiment, have decided that this is a
very poor wheat country. Cotton is the
idea.
The Yicksburg Herald says pantbeTs,
wild cats and foxes are becoming plen
tiful in that county. The county is
thinly settled. and the many packs of
dogs which used to chase them before
the war have disappeared and gone.
The Knoxville, Tennessee, Press and
Herald says: "A'few days since DR..
Mcdonald, President of the Cumberland
University, Lebanon, received letter
from q Southern gentleman, anuoanc-
ing the gift to the University Of TWEEN.
ty thousand dollar library, containing
many rare and valuable works"
The following has been adopted by
the Mobile Common Council: THAT the
granting of license for the game of keno
by the city authorities is An outrage
upon the character and moral sense of
the community, and that the Mayor be
instructed to have all parties engaged
in carrying on such game arrested, and
the parties concerned in it fined and
punished.
A Charleston, s. c., exchange says
"Phere are more country merchants and
strangers generally in the city than
there have been at any one time since
the close of the war. The wholesale
houses seem to be crowded, and the
tapping and hammsring late at night,
together with the bright lights in the
stores, give old Charleston almost an
ante bellum look.
The New Orleans Picaywno announces
the death, at hospital in that city,
without friend or relative at his bed
side and utterly penniless, of S. H.
Goetzel, widely known during the war
as the head of the leading publishing
house of the COnfederacy. He engaged
in business after the war at New Or
leans, but failed, and since then has
been IN great destitutiOn.
A saloon-keeper in Houston has a
close carriage stationed in front of his
place, in which he slows inebriates who
are too feeble to get home, They sleep
sweetly, imagining that they are driv-
ing 10 their domiciles, and wake In the
morning right on hand to further pat.
ronize the establishment of the shrewd
dealer in fusel-oil
The Vicksburg Times says: Mint ju-
leps and gin cock tails were drank in
Natchez in the year lSOS. A copy of the
Gazette of that year is on our table,
which indirectly refers to the fact. We
thought that the old Virginian, who put
grass in his liquor and was finally buried
in Mississippi, over whose grave there
sprung up by spontaneous vegetation a
copious growth of mint, came to Missis-
sippi at a subsequent period. Mint ju-
leps were certainly known sixty-One
years ago"
A man by the name of Adolph Hoer-
man has sued the city of st. Louis for
$4,000. Tie says that on or before the
28th of last month the city was digging,
grading aud otherwise repairing Ar
senal street, between Eighth street and
Carondelet avenue, and in so doing Gre
ated an embaukmeDt, thereby failing 10
keep the street in such a condition as TO
prevent accident and injury to passers
by. In passing this embankment he fell
and broke his jaw. Suit is therefore
brought for damages.
None of the Kuklux horrors hereto
fore concocted ever equalled in intensi-
ty and cruelty and utter wantonness
the outrage perpetrated by persons
clothed in blue uniforms on Monday
last, on the person aud family of David
Abornatby, Esq, who lives three miles
east of Pulaski, Tenn. Mr.. Abornathy
is a very old man-feeble in health aud
a cripple in one arm-living, as he has
ever done, q quiet, retired lIfe-with no
family except two unmarried daugh-
ters, who assist the old gentleman as
best they can in making an honest liv-
ing. His house was entered by party
of men dressed in blue uniform, and he
tied by the neck and dragged about un-
til forced to give up few shillings
which he and his daughters had earned,
1t is thought the old man will hardly
recover from his injuries.
A Stray Angel.
Rather practical people, those who