New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-17
NUMBER ia.
Louisiana Intelligence.

we learn from the Franklin Sun that an affray
occurred in Winnsboro on the 4th instant between
Mr.. James Sims and Henry IT, Earle. Mayor of
that town, in which the latter stabbed the former
with knife, ihiicting wound which proved fatal
in few moments. Earle was examined before a
magistrate next morning and discharged.
The Caddo Gazette Of the 7th has the following
The weather ia stiIl the same old thing-hot, dry
and dusty. It has made several neipient efforts 70
rain since our last bat has always out worst
ed We shall say nothing this week about s short
crops'' and hard timcs''-these are settled facts
and our wailings can DO no good; but there IL one
consolation, when things come to the worst, they
must mend
Tie river still continues to decline between here
and the falls, and navigation is now almost alto
gether suspended. Old Red twines along like a
lazy reptile these hot days and it viii take tre-
mendous fall of rain to bring it to good boating
order.
The Catahoula Independent Of Wednesday last
says:
We have received some cotton boIls, well ma
tured and in readiness for picking. They are from
the plantation Of Mrs. Markham, near town, and
we learn that pretty fair picking will be done on
the place in two weeks, should the present dry
weather continne-
The Concordia Intelligencer Of Friday says:
The dry weather has got to be almost intoler-
able but the weather wise tell us there is no hope
till another lunar change. The crops are still with
bowed heads Significantly pleading for the rains of
heaven, and the thermometer ranges day and
light from 90 to 100 degs. The sun rises and sets
without rays, but blood red, in smoky horizon.
The Ayoyelles Organ of the 7th says:
The crops were vastly benefited by the rain
which VIC mentioned in our last issue, and hopes
are now generally entertained of even a tolcrable
fair weld OF corn--douole probably what it would
have been had the drought continued four or five
days longer
The st. Joseph Gazette Of the l4th says:
The heat Of the last few days has been most OPP
pressive: the thermometer standing at QUE hundred
with but slight variation. The rain, the COOL re-
freshing rain, will it never come
The corn is languishiDg, and while most Of oul
planters will make enough for home consumption
the erop will fall short of an averge yield. C0ttoT
is doing finely. A friend has laid on our table
several bolls fully natured and opened, and before
the expiration OF two weeks picking will have very
generally commenced throughout the parish.
| The Bayou Sara Ledger gives the following
account of singular phenomenon, which has peer
known to occur in other places:
On Thursday evening last, about half-past 81,
| O'Clock our citizens were somewhat startled by
| yery strange phenomenon IL was a hot wine
| which seemed to come from the river, and was 81
! hot on the bank of the river that those who stool
there had to put their hats their faces. As nea
| a description as we can give, it seemed as if VI
| were close to building on fire, say about St, ,iar
off, and the wind from the fire blowing directly ii
| our face. 1t lasted about ten minutes.
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