The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Seventy-two cotton and woolen mills
are being erected in Georgia. s
Items about land buyers from the
North fill all the Southern papers.
A hen in Maury county, Tenn, lays
bottle-shaped eggs.
Velocipedes are excluded from the
park in Savannah, Ga, by order OF the
City Council.
A negro burglar was shot and killed
in Norferk, Va, Wednesday night week,
while in the act Of entering store.
Gen. Stoneman thinks that if negro
is fit to be Governor of Virginia he is fit
to be policeman.
Col. Dice robbed Joseph Wilson Of
S27OO near Warrenburgh, Mo-, last
week. Dice was thrown intothe coun-
ty Jail by the sheriff.
An Atlanta velocipedist has challeDg-
ed Macon amateur for race for Sl5O
aside. The challenge was accepted,
and the race will come of shortly.
Gabriel Turner, native of Kentucky
and one of the pioneers Of Missouri,
died in Marion county, Mo-, on the 21st
ult., aged "a years.
The spring busines in Charleston, 8.
c., is the best that has been known
since the war. The hotels are filled
with strangers and the merchants have
all they can do to fill their orders.
The postmaster at Hampton, Va, has
been displaced, and Mrs. Bainbridge,
mother-in-law to Major General Rey-
nolds, United States army, has been ap-
pointed to fill the place.
The Irish Aid Emigrant Society of
Virginia, chartered by tho Legislature,
is to be organized, and savings bank
and a newspaper devoted to the in
terests of the Irish race in the South are
to be established in Richmond.
The little village of Newburg, Gas
conade county, Mo-, was thrown into o
fever of excitement few days ago, on
the occasion of its belle, Miss Mary
Lamb, giving birth to an heir. The
ballad, MARY had little lamb" is all
the rage in that village just now.
Mrs. P. H. Gibbs, of stephensvtile,
Erath county, Texas, has brought suit
against the Christian AdrOCate, Calves
ton, for $4,000 for libel. The suit is
based on alleged charges or insinua-
tions in the columns of the Adrocate
that Mrs. Gibbs had poisoned her hus
band.
Last week Thomas Newton, lad,
committed suicide near Ashland, Tenn,
by jumping from the top of bluff into
the Cumberland river, because his
parents had forbidden his sweetheart,
young miss of the neighborhood, to visit
the house. His body has not yet been
recovered.
Information Is wanted of Peter II.
Hale, who was a clerk in the Treasury
in 1860, and mysteriously
disappeared just before the opening of
the war. He is supposed to have gone
into the Confederate service. His wife,
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, Northfield, Wash
inton county, Vermont, will be thank
full for any tidings of him. Southern
exchanges please notice.
Allnsinn was made n few doy agU 10
the fact that a negro woman ia Lime.
stone county, Alabama, had given birth
to twins, one white and the other black.
correspondent gives the following ac-
count ola similar freak of nature: "In
Morgan county, Alabama, in 1948, a Mrs.
d. gave birth to triplets, two of them
being white and the other black. The
two former were male and female, the
latter male. The mother Of these
children was one fourth Indian, but had
a white husband. The mother and her
three children are now living and NOV
ing in respectable society near Indian
ola. Texas"