New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-09
Later from Texas.

Later from Texas.
BY the arrival of the steamship Charles Nor
gan, from Indianola and Galveston, we are
placed in possession of dates from the latter
place up to the 9Th inst We shall doubtless OBJ
| tain fuller news to-day from other sections of
the State.
The Richmond (Fort Bend) Recorder reports
that worms are beginning to appear among the
cotton in portions of that county As yet how
ever no considerable damage has been DONE
Gov Pease has issued proclamation offering
reward of three hundred dollars for the ap.
prehension of Forest, who recently murdered
Mr. Holt, in Washington county
BEREAVEMENT AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Sunday afternoon, the 21st uIt an Irishman of
the name Of Daugherty, who had been lodged in
jan In Galveston, to prevent his doing injury t,
himself or others, he being apparently deranged,
made an attempt to destroy himself by cutting
ms throat. He was removed from the jai' to the
City Hospital, after the severe wound he had in
ficted on his throat had been attended to by
surgeon. His recovery is extremely doubtful.
A man by the name of White was committed
70 jail in Harris county for horse stealing. 1t
seems that he stole The horse in this county,
went over to New Braunfels and sold him; after
which he cut up some cantcos, and took rooms
In the lookup, which, being made known to Con-
stable johnson, he Immediately rendered him the
inequalities of the town. which were accepted on
| condition that his peculiar fancy as respects
lodgings, be gratfed.
The trial of Messrs r. H. Bass and B. F
| Means, as accessories to the murder of Mr.. John
Duncan, in Gonzales by 7. S. Netherly, termi-
mated last Saturday evening, and both were
bound over in the sum of $4,000 each, to ap-
| pear at the next term of the District Court.
Tho tria1 IF Nv yV;1l;op, Hawaii .h,.rs,d
| with the same offense, came up last Monday,
! and a bond of $1,000 was required for his ap.
pearance.
| man by the name Of Sock Davis was shot at
| the Houston House corner, on Saturday evening
I'D inst, by Joseph Bates Bates was lodged
in Jail Immediately after the occurrence, and
on Tuesday last was tried before an examining
| court, and committed.
| An ARRAY occurred in the streets of our vii
age on Sunday evening, I'd inst, between
Charles II Peabody, Albert Western and Miles
| Husbands, which resulted in the death of Mr..
Peabody, from pstol-shot in the hands of Mr..
Western Western and Husbands were imme-
diately arrested and have been recognized to
| appear at the next term of the District Court,
when the matter will, no doubt, undergo judi
cial investigation, until which time we forbear
comment or an expression of our opinion, less
we might do injustice to some of the parties
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senger.
Col. c. G. Mills shot mans horse from under
| him, with @ double harrelled gun, some three
weeks since, in Harrison county. We have not
learned the particulars, but understand that he
was held under bond of $4,000 for his appear
ance before the District Court, for an assault
with intent to kill Tyler Telegraph.
| MADISON CoUNTY.-The Central Texan of
the 22d ult. says:
We learn from Antonio Rivers that James
Wiseman was killed at jacksonville on Monday
evening last, by man named NASH. Nash, it
seems, kept grocery, and young Wiseman, for
he was but youth of some sixteen summers
called at his shop about shutdown to request his
two uncles, who were there, to accompany him
to supper Being invited to participate in
drink by some of the party, he unavoidably
split some bitters upon the counter, for which
trifing offense Nash drew his knife and inflicted
wound in the region Of the heart, which pro-
| duced death almost instantaneously. Nash was
Immediately arrested, and while under strict
guard, on Tuesday night, was shot by some one
lin the dark) in the back with nine buckshot,
Que of which passed entirely through the body
AT last accounts he was still alive, though his
physician was Of opinion that he could live but
short time.
CHEROKEE CoUNTY.-We regret to learn that
one of the workmen attached to Reynolds New
York Circus was killed recently at Jacksonville,
Cherokee county, by Desperate of that place
| 1t is represented to have been most cold
| booded, unprovoked murder. The rufian made
| his escape. The citizens of jacksonville and
The proprietors of the circus together offer 5000
reward for bis arrest. The unfortunate man
murdered was q citizen of Grayson county, and
leaves an interesting but now disconsolate family
to mourn his untimely death. Trinity Adyo-
| cate.
| CALHOUN County Lavaca Register, of
the 10th ultimo, has the following account of a
most revolving case of killing, which lately took
place in that places
fatal rencounter took place in our streets
on last Monday, between Conrad Frillman and
VIM. Wlngate, or as he is commonly known,
Shawnee Bill,s which terminated in the death
of the latter. 1t seems that some days before
a difficulty occurred between them during a
drunken brawl, which resulted in an unfriendly
feeling towards each other On Monday,
"Shawnee Bill" met Frillman on the street,
and broke two water melons over his head, at
| tended with some abusive language Frllman
went Immediately and armed himself with a
double barrelled pistol and two knives, and
went in pursuit of him. He met him on the
street, near where the difficulty occurred about
! q half an hour before, and ordered him to pre-
pare himself, as he intended to kill him, and
thereupon drew his pistol, and shot him in the
head, severing his jugular and killing him in
| simultaneously.
| The deceased left wife and several helpless
children. He was an old Texan, having lived
IN Texas twenty-seven years, and mingled in
the bloody battle of San Jacinto, and nearly all
the trying scenes of Texas in her infancy.
| Frillman is in the hands of the officers await,
Il inc his ey amin atinn ~" 3'N