New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-14
AEissIsslppl Intelligence.

| THE WEATHER-We have had great variety of
weather during the past two weeks. Asa general
thing it changes about three times in twenty-fOur
hours. We have had the most balmy and lovely
| spring weather cold weather, hot weather, wet
| dry weather and mixed weather. The wind has
blown harder the hail fell thicker and faster, and
! the thunder r0ared louder than we ever saw or
heard before. Hurricanes have passed over the
| county in every direction, doing immense damage
! to fences and crops, and in some places blowing
| down houses. Our planting friends look blue and
swear they are ruined. Their crops are g smartly
in the grass and the ground is 50 wet they can
not work them Brandon Republican.
We learn from the Grenada Gazette that the
killing Of Lieut. Blandin, of the reedmen's bureau
in that place, was deliberate, premedtated and
! foul murder The assassin slipped up behind him
in the dark and shot him three times. The citizens
OF Grenada held meeting, denounced the act, and
| pledged themselves to assist the authorities in
| bringing the assassin to justice.-[Gbid.
DON'T BELIEVE 1.-THE Brandon Republican
says:
There is young lady in this place whose lips
resemble peach blossoms so much that she has to
keep veil over her face to keep the bees out Of
her mouth.
Duff Green, of Vicksburg has been appointed
United States marshal for the State Of Missis-
sippi.
ENORMOUS STRAwBERRY.-Mr Stafford has laid
upon our table this week strawberry grown in
his garden, measuring four inches in circumference
auu HUI ana quarter Ill uldUleLeTs IL our eA-
changes know of anything in the strawberry line
that can beat this, we should like to hear of it.
Liberty Herald
We were visited with the heaviest storm of
wind and rain on the night of the Sth that has
passed over our town for many years past
Fences were blown down and washed away, trees
torn up by the roots, and for awhile it appeared
that even houses would be unable to withstand the
violence of the gale. Fortunately it was of shert
duration, and did not extend much beyond the
limits of town, or we fear that great amount of
damage would have been done.-[Ibid.
A gentleman who has lately Travelled through
the State says that he sees greater indications of
prosperity and more promise of an abundant crop in
this vicinity than in any other portion of the State
through which he has travelled He says the freed.
men, as a general thing, are conducting them.
selves better here, and making greater exertions
for an honorable livelihood than in any other por-
tons of the State.-[Summit Commercial.
The Columbus Sentinel of the Sth says that
rain continues to fall with no indications of a
dry spell" The same paper believes that not
over million bales Of cotton will be raised this
| year in all the South.
During the war, 224 soldiers died and were in
tered at Canton.
HEAVY RAMON Tuesday night last we were
| visited by one of the heaviest rains which ever
falls. Considerable wind attended it. We have
heard of no damage from the wind, but the dam
age to plowed lands must be great from the i'm
mense flow Of water which fell for hours.
Liberty Advocate.
Judge Nelson has been elected mayor OF
Liberty.
1t is proposed to erect at Liberty a monument
TO the Confederate dead of Amite county,