The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.

| Atlanta Is 10 nave tne W ute 1a"h'
Ex-General Cullen A. Battle, of Ala
has "scaDawaged."
Galveston, Texas, is having Germai
Opera. --.-.... ....-.
The Mobile theatre has been clese'
for want of patronage. .t--~y
A thief in Meridian, while unde
guard and handouffed, stole two can
dies which were in the room where b
was confined!
| A fire in Corinth, en- Monday Of las
week, destroyed property to the amoun
of $4,000. -rrr.- ...rr----r. -.
A three-year old son of Mr.. Isaac e
Cook, of Hayworth, Ala, was severel.
bitten by vicious dog few days ago
The old practice of throwing vial
filled with vitriol in the faces of personI
is being revived in Galveston.
They have new Lost Cause in Col
umbus, Gevrgia,-the temperance cause
An attempt is to be made tol!revive 1T
A line of ofsteaners and sailing vessels
10 soon to be established between New
York and Apalachicola, Fla.
A gentleman named Richard Craze
fell into coal pit in Chesterfield coun'
ty, Virginia, two hundred feet deep, a
few nights ago, and was killed.
Lands in the vicinity of Columbus,
Georgia, have increased at least so pei
cent. from the low price at which they
ranged just after the close ofthe war.
Lieutenant James Armstrong, former
lyof the C. S. Navy, and well known
asl Lieutenant Armstrong, of the Gala
bama," under Admiral Semmes, is now a
resident of Halifax, Canada, and has as
sumed British citizenship. Mr.. Arm
strong is a native Georgian, a son OF
General Armstrong, late deceased, of
Macon. ..s .a.
A lunar rainbow of exceeding bril-
liancv was witnessed at Macon, Ga, on
Thursday night week. The arch ex-
tended from either horizon--the pris-
matte rays exhibited in the centre of
the bow. The rare phenomenon occur
red about ~ o'clock--duration about 7
minutes.
Chancellor W. w. Mason one of the
most distinguished men of Alabama,
died at his residence in Tuskegee on
Thursday night. For many years be-
fore and during the war, and perhaps
since, he held the position of Chan
State.
A Mr.. James A. Benton, of Hatche-
chubbee, Ala, has grown new sugar
cane which he calls "Honey Stalk" 1t
grows something similar Co the Chinese
cane, but the molasses made from it is
vastly superior, and the quantity of
stalks produced on an acre much great
er. The seed and fodder are fine feed
for stock.
The Jacksonville FlOridian of the 10th
instant says: at is gratifying to know
that, Notwithstanding the late cold
snap which extended through all of
East Florida, and nipped the crop of
oranges then on the trees, the buds for
the coming crop were not injured, and
we may count on another large crop
this year
Mr.. Lee Irby, son of Colonel II. J.
Irby, prominent citizen of Eufala, Al
ALBANIA, was shot in the face and neck,
on the Both instant, with double-bar
rel gun charged with birdshet, by man
named Martin Prime. lrby is supposed
to be mortally wounded. Prime was
arrested and confined in the guard
house to await an examination. The
shooting occurred whilst the parties
were disputing about some transactions
in corn.
Major c. II. Locher, proprietor of the
James River Cement Works, above Bal
cOny Falls, some time ago discovered
that the water which poured from the
sides of the tunnel was a sure and
speedy cure for chronic dysentery. Ag-
gravated cases of twelve months stand
ing were effectually cured by its use.
1t is a sweet cool water, aud its effects
are rapid.
The Clubhouse of Benjamin Adams,
about three miles from Milledgeville,
Ga, was burned on Thursday of last
week. A negro man formerly in the
employ of Mr.. Adams is suspected of
being the inccndiary. The tracks found
about the place are the grounds for the
Luckily the cotton had
been removed. Three other gin-houses
have been burned in the same neighbor-
hood within the last twelve months.
Some two weeks ago two respectable
white men'of Mcintosh county, Geor-
gia, were set upon by aparty ofnegroes,
arrested and taken to Darien, where
they were committed to Jail on the tes-
timony of the negroes that they had
shot at aud wounded small colored
boy, while on hunting excursion. The
parties protested their innocence, and
would have had an immediate examin-
alton, but it became necessary to lock
them up to save them from the fury of
the blacks. These gentlemen, we learn,
are still in prison. They declare their
innocence in the crime alleged against
them, and that they can satisfactorily
establish an alibi; but, although citi-
zens have offered to 60 on their bonds
for appearance, they are afraid to avail
themselves of bail, as the negroes have
threatened to kill them if they ever
come out of Jail.
scrapiug Apple Trees.
4 farmer residing in the western part
of Massachusetts, had, many years since,
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