The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.

A company IS Delug ORGANIZED III LIZ
. Kalb county, Mo-, to bore for oil.
Ninety-six per cent. of tin has been
realized from the tin mine in Madison
county, Mo.
A couple of the colored officials of the
North Carolina House of Representa-
tives engaged in a fisticuff in the capi.
tol the other day.
Mules are bringing high prices at
Eatonton, Ca, but the demand is about
supplied.
General Robert W. Raymond died in
Raleigh, n. c., Monday week, Ofdropsy
of the heart.
r. F. Leonard, of st. Joseph, NO., on
a wager, walked one hundred miles in
twenty-four hours and fifty.four min
utes, the best time on record.
Charles Bickford and James Quick,
charged with murder, were taken from
Jail in HillsborO, Jefferson county, No,
by crowd of disguised men and hung.
The body of Joe Copeland, who was
taken from the Murfreesboro, Tenn,
Jail few weeks ago by unknown men,
was found in the river near that place
Thursday.
Silas G. Dunn was shot and killed in
Murfreesboro, Tenn, last week, by Pc
liceman R. w. January, while attempt
ing to quell drunken riot.
A. j. Lamorce, arrested for robbing
the United States mail at Huntsville,
Mo-, was on Monday committed to Jail
in default of $4,000 bail.
A man in Staunton, Va, has brass
button, which was cut from an old
fashioned swallow-tailed blue coat worn
by Thomas Jefferson in the days of his
political glory.
A company has been organized at
Lexington, Mo-, whose intention is to
build abranch railroad from that place
to the Missouri Pacific. The necessary
amount of money has been subscribed.
The prospect for good wheat crop
in East Tennessee is fine. The weather
during the winter has been of such
mild character that wheat has not been
frozen out, as is so often the case,
caused by frequent freezes and thaws.
Mr.. Abelard Johns, 4 citizen of Rose
Hill, Wilkinson county, Miss, while
with his back to the fire in his
house on the Sd inst, was attacked with
an apopletic fit and fell back into the
fire, and was thus burned to death.
The project of extending the Nash
Vile and Decatur Railroad, which has
been completed several years, to Mont
gomery, Ala, is now actively canvassed.
1t will be very important line when
finished.
According to correspondent of the
Memphis Post, three tourists, two of
them from Ohio, have been exploring a
cave in Lookout Mountain, near Chat
tanoOga. They claim to have soon
enough to convince them that it is not
less wonderful than the Mammoth
Cave.
A negro in Shelbyville, Tenn, at the
point Of the pistol, attempted to force
the daughter of white Radical to ac-
him to the woods to see the
"fun,' rs he called it, q few days ago,
but was frightened off. Negro equality
has lost several supporters in that
neighborheod.
Reports from the plantations all over
Middle and Southwestern Georgia rep
resent the most extraordinary activity
everywhere prevailing. Every hand
they can obtain is being employed, and
paid the most liberal wages. Every
acre will be planted which can be prop.
erly tended.
Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor,
is deserted, being without a garrison
Its dilapidated condition shows that it
will soon become one of the things of
the past The chain of earthw orks and
batteries extending along the entire
front of the island facing the city and
James Island remain undsturbed.
Mobile has a Burdell murder sensa-
ion of its own. Jack Burdell and Will
lam Sims, both negroes, while floating
lown the Alabama river in a fatboat
IN Thursday night, got into an alterca-
ion about a woman. Sims knocked !
Burdeli down, and drawing large |
knife deliberately severed his head from |
MS body aud then pitched the latter
nto the river. Several negroes on a
raft heard the fight and
gave information about it to the author
ties when they reached Mobile. Fri
lay afternoon the attention of an officer
was attracted to a party of negroes
armed with axes and knives, who were
in hot pursuit Of a negro. The officer
Joined in the chase, and soon succeeded |
in overhauling the runaway, whoproved
TO be the murderer Of Burdell. The ne
yroes seemed bent upon lynching Sims
on the spot, and it was only through
the influence of the policeman that his
life was saved. The murderer IS now
confined in the city guardhouse, and
his case was to be Investigated By the
Mayor.
The panorama known as the MiltOnian
Tableaux has turned upin Columbus,
A reporter Of paper there
attended the exhibition and describes
he spirit in which it was received By
he audience. He says: "An old lady
the Miltonians a humbug
because Satan was the handsomest man
n the crowd, and had no cloven foot to |
Indicate his damned nature. Then
eet's as much human a. mine is said |
be. The profound observation of gay |
-oung cuss, Of twenty-five, after crit !
cal inspection of the walls of the new
jerusalem was, that the paintings must !
,e mighty thin and worn, for be could |