The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.

w. Sa Kee, a young Chinese gentle
man, is lecturing in Richmond, Va.
Gold in paying quantities has been
discovered near Newman, GA. =
A number of immigrants from Ger
many have arrived in Edgefeld, S. c.
The military post at Memphis has
been discontinued and the troops or
dered to Atlanta, Ga. #
Almost every other family in New Or
leans, just now, have children down
with the whooping cough or measles.
Leroy Cotton has been convicted at
Galveston, Texas, Of numbering Major
Loehmen, in January last.
General Early declines the compli-
mentary dinner which was rendered him
by his friends in Linchburg.
Colored sentinels, black as the ace of
spades, once again do duty at army
headquarters in New Orleans.
Since the organization of the Mem
phis police force, in 1868, eight of its
members have been murdered.
Two twin sisters, aged 10, recently
eloped together from Nashville with a
pair of beardless youths, and were safely
married in Cincinnati.
While planting largely in cotton, the
corn and provision crops are by 70
means neglected by the planters of
Georgia.
Ano her mad dog has been killed in
Baton Rouge, La. A hog bitten by a
rabid dog some two weeks since has ex-
hibited all the symptoms of rabies.
Lo-Ring (Chinese, by the name) has
opened school for instruction at Nam
moth Hall, Knoxville, Tenn, where
plain, bareback and hurdle riding on
the velocipede will be taught.
A bill introduced in the Louisiana
Legislature by noted wag was pushed
through "for the fun of the thing" al
lowing the exclusive right of the "fa-
ther" of the bill to play keno in the State
of Louisiana.
Two noted counterfeiters, Joe Brad
ford aud Benedict, after sharp fight in
which twenty shots were fired, were ar
rested near Coldwater, Mississippi, on
Thursday. During the fight Bradford
received two severe wounds.
4 negro was found hung about three
quarters of mile from Tupelo, MiSss-
sippi, on Sunday. The Spectator says it
was Judge Lynchs work, but feels
warranted in declaring that the people
The Pensacola, Florida, OJsGrer tells
of a remarkable dog, owned by gen
tleman residing near that city, which
has been trained to catch wild turkeys.
He has become quite an adept in the
art, and rarely fails to secure prize in
the share of q fat gobbler or hen.
The New Orleans papers are profound
ly in love with Mrs. Scott Siddons. In
RosaliGd she charmed them. The he.
publican says: with eyes like ga.
zelle's, with foot like a fawn's, with
winsome voice and magnetic manner,
she seemed precisely the person to pic
mic in the forest Of Ardennes, and there
to fascinate, tantalize, tease and bewil
der the singular society fate had gath
cred in that greenwood"
4 disgusted traveller in Texas says
that among other things that State has
"tho bcs5 womy and the meaHest men,
more sickness and less health, more corn
bread and less corn, more negroes and
less labor, more pretty ladies with little
feet and no calves to match, than any
State in the Union"
The Edgefeld, South Carolina, Adrcr-
tscr don't want any more African ne.
grocs imported irto that State, nor
coolies ner Chinese. "Give US" it says,
English, Irish, Scotch, German, French,
in fact any Europeans, but mono other
ii we can possibly avoid it, either from
Africa or Asia. We have enough of the
inferior type already, God knows"
On Monday evening, about o'clock,
as section boss on the East Tennessee
and Virginia railroad was walking
along the track near MOrristOwn, Tenn,
he found a chair" firmly fixed on the
track, with the evident design of throw
ing the upward bound freight train,
nearly due, Oft the track. Of course the
obstruction was Immediately removed.
The feeling among the employees of the
road in relation to the late dastardly
attempts to throw the trains off the
track is now at fever heat, and woe be-
tide the first rascal caUght at any such
tieudish endeavor.
On Sunday last, in Crawford county,
Georgia, negro named Green Hunni-
cutt shot and killed another negro
named Ned Jones, merely because he
(Ned) refused to go to church. Green
had threatened to do as much, if Ned
was not more strict in his attention at
church, and, according to the testimony
taken at the Corners inquest, it is pre-
sumed that he committed the murder
because Ned did not heed his pious in
Structions. Green is still at large, and
the negroes in the neighborhood swear
that they will burn him if they catch
him.
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The sudinns and the Quukers.