The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-31
SOUTHERN ITEMS.


The McCuloch opera troupe Is TO be in Mobile
this week.
The Bossier Banner says the cows in that Sec
ton are giving hitter, sweet milk.
The Caddo Gazette says the lice are ini1-ipg the
cotton, but it hears nothing OF the cotton worm
in that vicinity.
Red River Is rising, and the back water still
threatens the crop upon considerable portion OF
our slluvial lands.-l Avoyelles YLlager. 23d.
An agricultural cub has been organized in
0uacbits. We hope the example will be followed
in all the parishes.
II is estimated that during the past winter not
less than ten thousand tourists from the North and
Europe visited Florida.
John Walker, in Memphis, snatched s23 from an
old negro, and while making his escape was fired
at receiving sixteen wounds. He was arrested.
The Yazoo Democrat lever before heard such
glorious accounts Of the crops from both the hills
and the swamps.
The Aberdeen Examiner, of hte date, an.
nounces the death of Prof. U. O. Bunpass one OF
the most estimable men in the State.
Every house in Goliad, Texas, was more or less
damaged by a recent hail storm. Chunks OF Ice
weighing two and three pounds descended and
broke through the roofs of houses.
The Savannah papers OF Tuesday announced
the arrival of quite a number Of German imml-
grants, of the better class, by the steamship Her
man Livingston.
| Bremen at Galveston on the 18th, with one hun
| dred and two German emigrants, who have come
| 10 seek new homes in Texas.
The Ouachita Telegraph says il is now well
settled that the proposed telegraph line from
| Monroe TO Camden will be built-and that
-'p The Young Southern prims donna. Miss Isabel
McCuoch, and the operate troupe which accom-
panies her. under the leadership of Signors Tor
fisni and Susni, will visit Montgomery in few
| days.
The Shreveport Southwestern Of the 27th says
! Thes corn crop looks well, and the seasons are
| favorable to the cotton. If we escape the cater
piller there is every prospect Of fine crop in
The river has continued to rise the whole of the
| past week, and is still rising slowly. Ii is now
within three feet of this springs highest notch.
| The reports from above have it falling as low
down as Campte.-[ Alexandra Democrat, 2Ith.
Miss Kate Gruper, lovely young lacy of Madi-
| son. Ind. visiting her uncle in Memphis, recently
| committed suicide by Jumping from the Buf mo
| the river. She left note stating that she was
A flock of goats near twelve hundred strong
| passed through Sherman. Texas, recently, travel
ing northward. A drove Of over i've hundred
| COWS and yearpgs passed through the same town
shortly after.
One house in this city yesterday shipped nine
| hundred barrels Of canebrake corn TO Mobile.
Last year every dollar IN this section was being
| sent West for corn; now We have surplus, and
il is as low here as in St. Louis.
The Caddo Gazette says MIR. J. IL. Ehrling,
Swede, and resident Of Shreveport, proposes to
| bring over TO this country two or three hundred
wedes, principally farm laborers. He will en-
gage to furnish parties with laborers at from %
10 81 per month.
| The Jackson Parish Flag says the grape culture
has been introduced in that parish with fattering
success Grapes grew in jackson in profusion
and spontaneously long years ago. The flag also
notices the increased attention paid to sugar cane
The fruit crop is promising, as Is also the mast.
During the late hail storm at San Antonio, one
hail stone descended weighing five pounds and a
half. Every house in town was more or less dam
aged. The residence of Col. Charles Anderson
and the negro church we're entirely destroyed.
The orchards corn and gardens were ruined.
The Indianoa Bulletin says considerable cotton
is coming down, though there is a falling OF in the
number of teams coming TO town, Wool Is coming
down freely; also some hides. The appearance
| of the business streets is active, the merchants
selling goods briskly.
The body of a Miss Lumden, who disappeared
about the Path of April, was recently discovered
under log pile in the woods not far from the
house of Reuben d. Herndon, living not far from
Verdiersville, Orange county. Va. Herndon Is
charged with seduciDg and numbering the young
lady, and has been arrested. He Is Baptist
| preacher.
| Jail In Jefferson, Texas, recently, upon warrant
sworn out by Geo. c. Shadburn, the new superin
tendent of police, charging him with stealing
| about three thousand dollars In gold from the
| Texas Express Company. BE was found In pos
| session of large amount OF gold coin.
| Gen. John W. Gordon expired on the 10Th
| after protracted illness, at the residence OF his
| daughter Mrs. Sorell, 10 Vineville, near Macon
Georgia. Gen. Gordon was born IN HancocS
county and was well known for many years as
wealthy planter both in Georgia and Texas. Hi
age was seventy.two.
Accounts from every quarter Of this perish
speak glowiDgly as TO the splendid appearance OF
the various growing crops. The alarm about the
caterpillar has in great measure subsidized, anC
we sincerely hope there will be no further cause
TO revive that alarm.-LBato Rouge Comet, 18th
The two convicts who made their escape from
| the Penitentiary last week broke into a house oil
| the Amite river, and were pursued by the owne
| and one of them shot and captured. His tale was
however so plausible and pitiable, that his cspto
released him. They claimed to be from Texas
and to be hungry and pennies, po,.. .d,0c...
| The Houston Telegraph learns that Mr..
! Springfield shot and killed Mr.. Clinton Fort
| lawyer of Belleviile, at Hampstead, recently. |
| seems the parties had difficulty concerning som
. | money matters, in which Mr.. Fort accused Mr.
, | Springfield of stealing five thousand dollars. MI
Springfield met Mr.. Fort and discharged bot
barrels of a shot gun and deringer at him, Kill
n | ing him instantly.
! We learn that the caterpilsrs are increasing
i | slowly in numbers and have made their appear
ance in several parts OF the parish. As yet, the
! | have done little or no damage TO the cotton bu
n II is feared by many that the entire crop VIII D
: DESTROYED. although the prospects for a larg
? weld were never more hatterlng at this season
]. the year Some planters, however, are still hope
full and think nothing serious will result from tn
n depredations of these unwelcome visitors.
!. | Mansfield Times, sd.
Willis N Hawkins, a dashing young 1elol
: claiming TO be a son Of Judge Hawkins, Of Mast
. vile, arrived in Memphis the other day In con
pany with two young ladies from Mississippi, I
! | one of whom he had engaged to be married. .
. the strength Of pretended deposit OF $1,000 In "a
! hands of dry goods firm, he run up bill OF $40
and soon after disappeared from the city, leavin
3 the young ladies behind him. The deposit
!. $1,000 proved TO be printed paper. The youn
ladies returned to their homes.
They have had an excitement up in Claiborr
4 parish. Meadows, a negro radical. was killed Q
!. the 9th by unknown parties. and the negroes
!, several parishes were reported arming with Il
v intention of taking and sackng the town
3 Homer. The whites we're greatly excited, an
. proceeded to arm in defense of the town. II
\ editor of the Claiborne Advocate was sick at Il
" time but, after praying awhile, armed himse
e and was placed on picket with an unioaded pisf