New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-21
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NIississippi Intelligence.

] From the Grenada Rural Gentleman of Saturday
last we extract the following
We have not seen much of the growing crop,
| but we know since LIST of April we have had need
/ have seen has the peculiar rusty appearance that
/ any planter would expect to find after so cold
weather. We have heard of complaint of dying
out. The first planting Of cotton has withstood
the unfayorable season better than the middle
planting, and the worst is not yet If cold nights
continue short while longer, lice will attack all
the early planting, and then we will hear quite a
1 different tune set
| rell, were all injured by gun.shot from Joseph
| Guy, of Tuscahoma on Saturday last. Mr.. Guy
| had put powder iii one barrel of his gun, and
when on his mule and about to leave, his gun, as
| he supposed, was handed him by q friend and he
shot 1t OFF friend hallocd to him, saying, you'd
better shoot us p and knowing the other barrel OF
| his gun was unioaded he, laughingly, said he
would, and presented his gun and pulled the
trigger, and to his utter astonishnent it fred and
wounded his three friends. Upon examination it
was found that Mr.. Terrell and Mr.. Guys guns
were exactly alike, and that Terrell's gun, which
was loaded with shot, had been given to Guy in
take more than Mr.. Guy.
The Pamela Star of Thursday last has the fol-
lowing
On Sunday last, Mr.. Dozer rode up to the
house Of Mr.. Joseph N. Shearer, near tie north
east of Tallahatchie county and inquired Of
Shearer's wife where her husband was. She re-
piled that she did not know-that he had gone out
Somewhere. As Dozier left the house he saw
Shearer behind brush heap and Immediately
shot him with sixteen buckshot. At last accounts
Mr.. $. was still alive, but is not expected to re-
cover. Dozier made his escape. The difficulty
occasioned by the fact that Shearer had eloped
with Dozier's daughter and had obtained license
and married her in this county. The couple had
just returned home, when the dreadful deed was
perpetrated.
MI, M, VIZ.
The crops both of corn and cotton are very fine
50 far as we can learn. The farmers are carefully
nursing their corn having made SO little last year
There is more land in cultivation this year than
last, and consequently there will be correspond
ingy large yield. The scarcity Of last years crop
of corn has taught the farmers to make more bread
and less cotton.
We have had an uninterrupted week Of good
weather, varied by very refreshing rain, though
not as much as was desired. The nights and morn.
ings are cool and pleasant.
The Memphis Avalanche gives the following &C.
count Of a dreadful affair:
We yesterday learned the particulars of a most
unfortunate affair, which occurred on Saturday
last about ten miles northeast of fernando, in
DeSoto county, Miss. VIM. Nesbitt, a planter,
who Is said to have resided in this city formerly
wished to see his son, who had recently engaged
in business, to take gentleman favorite Of Mes
bits, into partnership. The young man objected
in strong terms, and a quarrel ensued. During the
quarrel, the young man stepped into the doorway
of the store, remarking that he would deliberate
on what his father proposed till the next morning.
At this, the old gentleman. enraged that his SON
would not obey him, seized billet of wood, and
striking the young man on the head, felled him to
the floor. and afterwards dealt him three or four
additional blows, fracturing his skull and horribly
mangling him. Nesbitt was Immediately arrested
and confined in Jail to await the issue OF his sons
wounds. After lingering two or three days, the
young man died. Eesbtt is wealthy planter,
and he has hitherto been universally esteemed.