Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-21
TEXAS INTELLIGENCE.

A large planter on the Brazos in
forms US that he expects to make $50
bales of cotton from 450 acres. He
thinks he will make 5000 bushels of
corn from $50 acres, or about 40 bush
els to the acre. He works now about
60 hands, though he commenced with
so hands, yet the so now, under the
policy of Gen. Kiddoo, do far more
work than the so under Gen. Gregg
RVS rule.-Galveston News
HoRRIBLE.-We find the following
in that staunch radical paper, the New
York Evening Post, which is entirely
too mild in its version. The idea
that the ruffians simply ''took him out
of bed is absurd They stuck red
hot pitch forks into him and held him
up, and hoisted him out. Nor did
they stop at hacking off his fingers and
toes, but proceeded to form the same
| operation on his nose and ears, first,
however, roughening the edges of
their knifes to make the operation as
painful as possible. Nor did they
merely ''thrOw him on the fire" They
tied his feet behind his head and hung
on by the chain used in cooking, with
the intention, it is presumed, of trying
to make him 'boil over" Whether
they succeeded or not, it is not known,
for when the commander of the post
ordered out the militia for their arrest,
it was found that the victim and vic
timizers, the house, log fire, house
keeper, as well as the masks, fingers
and toes, and crisp had all vanished
into thin air, leaving, however, it was
imagined by some, slight smell OF
birthstone, which was all that was de
teeted:
ga STARTLING SToRY.-A fendish
outrage was perpetrated on the I'd
inst, upon discharged Federal sol
der, living near Galveston, Texas
Three ruffians, wearing masks, entered
his house, took him out of bed, and
with knifes, hacked off his fingers and
toes; then built log fire in the fire
place and threw him on it, and hold
ing him there till insensible, His
housekeeper found him burnt to 6
crisp. No clue to the murderers has
been obtained. Ibid
The local of the Telegraph says q
thief entered a boarding house in
Houston lately, stole the pants of nine
teen boarders, whilst the owners were
asleep, took them out into the yard,
where he examined them, and found
an aggregate of seven dollars and q
half for his pains.
The Telegraph says: Accounts
from different parts of the State repre-
sent the prospects of the cotton crop
as on the whole much more favorable
than they were some time since. Some
sanguine persons think there will be
nearly full crop-taking the crops
before the war as a standard. A worm,
said to be worm that follows over
flows, has committed great ravages on
the newly planted fields on the Trinity
The wheat crops are good. Corn
crops are also made and are good
The breadth of land planted in corn
is disproportionately small in certain
| uISlTICIS.
Yesterday evening planter from
Oyster Creek informed us that the cot
ton worm has positively made its ap.
pearance on the plantations in that vi
cinity.
SOUTHERN RAILRoAD.-We find the
following paragraph in the Chicago
NTimes ''The Southern railroad, to
connect Cincinnati with the whole
South, is silently progressing in the
way of subscriptions, and, no doubt
the 100000 asked for will soon be
subscribed 1t is reliably stated that,
that as soon as the above sum is raised
ten eminent merchants of Cincinnati
will subscribe $50, 900 each, making
the whole ramount from that city
81, 500, 0O0."