New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-29
Mississippi Intelligence.

We learn from the Wilkinson Gazette, that on the
evening of the 18th, boy named William Best, aged
years, son OF Mr.. Francis Best, was cruelty MUIR
dered IN Woodville by negro named Stephen. After
his arrest the negro confessed that he enticed bis
victim into an unoccupied building, and after knock
ing him down with brick choked him to death. He
committed the dreadful deed to prevent the boy
telling something on him. On the following night
the bells were rung and crowd collected at the Jail
with the intention Of taking out the murderer and
burning him alive, but this was prevented through
the exerons of the Sheriff and some of the citizens,
among whom was Mr.. Best himself.
The Gazette has the following paragraph:
Spring is with US again the evidences of its advent
are visible in the blossoms and The leaves are
unfolding into summer happiness, and soon shall
be in the heat and dust of the year. An abundant
fruit crop may be expected the following season, as
comparatively but little injury, if any at ALL was
done the fruit trees by the late light rosts in this
section.
correspondent of the Natchez Free Trader says
that during the recent storm hail stone measuring
% inches by II, fell near the residence OF W. H.
Forbes, Esq, in Natchez.
The election for Judge of the First Judicial District
resulted in the choice of Cassidy by over two hundred
majority.
On the morning Of the 10th, a man who registered
his address as j. c. Barney, Louisville, Miss, was
found dead in his bed at the Planters Hotel in
Pamela. He had been drinking immoderately, and
the jury of inquest rendered verdict that his death
was caused by intemperance.
The Pamela Star of Wednesday says:
1t has raned every day or night for ten days past
The rivers and creeks have all overowed their banks
and the ground is so wet to put stop to all plant
ing operations.
From the Carrollton Democrat, Of Friday last, we
extract the following:
The Yazoo is nearly as high as in 1858, and still
swelling. There seems to be no doubt but that we
will have another overflow.
We learn from gentleman direct from the river
counties that the levees from high up the river in
Bolivar county, have broken in many places, doing
great damage and destruction to property and that
the river is within few inches of its highest height
OF last summer.
The water, in its resistless course, swept every
thing before it, cattle. horses and animals OF all
descriptions were drowned, wherever they happened
to be in its track.
The recent storm which swept over Kosciusko I'm.
rooted the Jail in that place, and did some other
triing damage. The Chronicle says that in the lower
part of the county it ragged with much greater VIC.
lence. AT Mrs. Mallett's about seven miles south Of
that place, almost the entire fencing of her farm was
swept away-the rails, in some instances being car.
rled from fifty to one hundred yards. The residence
OF Mr.. Rice Adams, in the same neighborhood was
blown down, wounding himself wife and daughter,
and so completely burying them in the ruins that
they had to await the assistance of their neighbors
to be released 1t has heard of several others in that
portion of the country who had their houses and
fences blown down, and their farms made complete
wreck by the falling of timber There is no calcu.
lating the amount of damage farmers have sustained
by the wind and the rain that followed it. The roads
were so completely encountered with fallen timber as
to demand the attention of the hands to make them
passable.