New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-02
Texas Intelligence,
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tb " exenangss All inform US that the planting Of
isFed Az ~ :. = elIRer rapidly progressing or Gin.
- ~ - regards corn and yeeetabIea in
SONG mstances We learn that corn u aIreadv -
ali tha week We presume It will be up n
H. ~ Iowsr and western counties. In the west
middle and easa gensTaily been too dry while in
me ground has been ID remarkahlg goad c, nGs
aon, ahd has broken up earlier and dssner ia !
aood c rnu sne prospects highly favorable fcr
Gov. Houston has pardonsa NJ. ~.
VINO was convicted Of the murder ~ Way ai. III
neaoy, ana sentenced to the penitentiaSv Ia III
ysars. me evidence Of the crime was altorether
on me list Mt. ). Il. Parks, from Georgia. who
mad established sheep rancho near san Antonio
committed suicide in the City Hotel. Layaea Nv
cutting ms throat with razor while latorinq npaer
the eaects o. strong drink. The Indianola Courser
says: s'Ve' =
Ine az! was deliberate, as it appeared from The
signs his room that he had cut s throat i, sss
raj places and held his hat TO catch the bl,nd t
1t was fnli Attention was attracted ~ I'D 49,
by blood ooziag through the floor and ceiling M
me room peiow. he was found lying upon DE bed
sun breathing, though he died soon after Tbass
who formed acquaintance with M Payhs A hass
were fayorably impressed By his gentIemanlv bsa,.
ing and until his last visit he was NOT Laas, =.
drink Intoxicating liquors. : ~
letter Of the 18th from Williamson county ~
the Galveston News gixes the following particulars
Of the murder Of two men by Indians in he recer,
bloody foray upon the northwestern frontier
| Ihave just returned home from the burial ii ia
Of my neighborss who were killed last Saturday bv
Indians, on the head Of this creek-the North Sayy
Gabriel, in Burnett county, about seventeen mile.
| above here. The names Of the two victims Are IN
S. Skaggs and Mr.. Vanhook. The first IiUtimatei,
knew, for he has lived by, me for the last sevei
years, and better neighbor never had. I'll,
| other man only knew from character. The,
have both left widows with large families Of chi
| dren.
| The Indians, eleven in number, came out Of III
cedars and drove out lot of horses in daylight
about 10 o'clock in the forenoon-and drove ther
through the cedar brake, where two men wer
| making rails. They heard them coming and lai
in some cedar tops until the Indians passed, an
they declare that one of them was white mar
and from the description given of him by them, W
are fully satisfied that we know the man. or rattle
fiend in human shape.
Mr.. Skaggs was out stock-hunting unarmet
when, it appears, they discovered him, and b
made for a cedar thieket. One, mounted on
large powerful stallion that they had stolen the da
before from Parson Ainsworth, followed him il
and it appears that Skaggs mare had run under
large cedar limb with him, and broke his CHRISTIAN
loose and CRIPPLED him, from the bruises saw q
his limbs, and consequently disabled him SO tina
he could not get away; and at the same time hi
pursuer was immersed close to him, and, as appear
ances indicate, up to him. and Judging from the
wound, we suppose he shot him with holste
pistol, loaded with large ball and two slugs a:
part of the muscle of his left arm was shot awav
the balls entering the side opposite the left breast
That Of itself was enough to cause immediate death
but he also stabbed him in the back to make sure
work, and no doubt left fully satisfied that dead
men tell no tales.h
We then suppose that Mr.. yanhook, who was
likewise out stock-huntng, had heard the shooting
and noise, and probably started over to see what
it was, and got within few hundred yards of
where MIR. Skaggs was killed. little thinking of the
danger that beset his path, when he was likewise
killed. He was shot with seven arrows, some OF
them left sticking in his body, and doubt not but
his death was likewise instantaneous. They took
Mr.. Skaggs' boots and Mr.. Vanhook's Shoes and
did not scalp either, which gives us further proof
that they were part of the Indians that we have
been feeding on on our Texas Reserve for the last
five years. The bodies were not found till Monday
forenoon, when they were brought down to Mrs
Skaggs' house. 1t was sorrowful sight, assure
YOU to see two widows, one with tenand the other
with five children, mourning over the remains Of
those who but short time before, made their
homes happy.
A HoRRlBLE AFFAIR." Woman Murders her
Brotfer.-In recent number of the Lockport IN.
W Journal we find the following account Of d
shocking tragedy:
Last week respectable tradeswoman with two
she had murdered her brother in her own house,
and that she wished to be taken into custody.
The police went to the house and found the dead
body of her brother, whose name was Rasel, lying
in one of the rooms with his throat cut
The woman said that the man, after losing from
drunkenness several situations as clerk to advo-
Gates, had been reduced to the necessity of accept
ing the position Of railway porter but that she had
kindly allowed him to live with her gratis, on the
condition Of his giving solemn promise that he
would abstain from drink for the future. This
promise he had not kept, and the night before he
had returned home so drunk that he had fallen
asleep on the floor
Irritated at his shameful conduct, she cut his
throat. The police thinking the woman insane,
had her examined by medical men, but no indica-
ton of lunaey could be discovered. 1t turned out
that she had committed the murder in the presence
Of her two children, aged ten and twelve, and that
before giving herself into custody she had made
her will.