The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-02
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
xTArkansas wheat is light.

q Arkansas wheat is light.
Com, lately dropping, is now fine in Alabama.
Johnny Thompson IN performing in Shreveport.
There is to be a regatta at Point Clear on the
4th inst.
The editor of the Sparta (La.) Times has a pea
poo three feel long.
a train of five hundred emigrants passed through
Hampstead, Texas, on the 7th inst.
Tie 0peousas Journal has a radish measuring
Is inches in length, and l6 in circumference.
Bright and still Frightening il the crop report
OF the 0pelousss Courier Of tae 9Th ult.
Texas crops have been finely refreshed by re-
cent rains.
A railroad has been surveyed from Brenham to
Austin under the direci Of the Texas Central,
which company proposes 10 build IL.
Mules, hogs and neat cattle are dying rapidly on
Big Creek, in Franklin Parish. The diseaseis said
TO be charbon.
Fevers, dengue and minor complaints prevail
in West Baton ROuge parish but shrimp fishing
is fine, as we learn from the Sugar Planter.
a Charleston paper complains that poor devils
of ex.Tebs are cheated out the enjoyment OF fruit,
it gets such high prices in New York.
Ample preparations, as we learn from the Ga.
zette, are made and making for the regatta to
come of at Bay ST. Louis on the 18th and l4th Of
July.
been issuing each seven papers week, have,
by mutual arrangement, reduced the number to
six.
The Louisiana baptist State convention will be
held with the Baptist Church. in Shreveport com
mencing on Friday, July Sd, 1868. at ii O'Clock
A. M
1be Pine Bluff vindicator relates: F" The wife Of
]. II. Evans, of our city, Is one Of the heirs OF
fortune of SIS, 1000 000 lately bequesthed by re.
lative who died in England" p
Al Vicksburg, Friday night, a poor woman with
two children, while h1rriedly attempting to get
on board the steamer Ruth, fell overheard and
was drowned. The motherless children left on the
steamer alone in their great sorrow.
Gen. Malone has contracted for sufficient
ofn ne ~ iron N
Virginia and Tennessee railroads, and the delivery
Of the same will commence about the last Of July
or the first Of August. o.
The Macon (Ga,) Telegraph ia Informed that
beautiful located lot, on College street, Macon.
has been purchased for 5000, upon witch reli-
| dence is to be Immediately erected for Bishop
Beckwith. 80
The Monitor is the name Of a new paper in
| Denton, Texas edited By Tom. r Burnett. and
1 published by Chas. K. Geers. The editor appears
| TO be sharp wag. He says they have " the
right quality Of dirp' about Denton for fruit rails
/ ing. =
| at Duvals Bluff, Ark. recently, and there the
| husband got beastly drunk. While sleeping of
| his debauch, the wife " went through" his pock-
eis. secured the sum Of two dollars, and returned
| 10 her friends.
| The Vermilionville Advertiser Of the 27th ult.
| gives most glowing account of the crops in the
charming parish of Lafayette. 1t says every
thing is smiling 70 in the future and there Is
golden hue that tinges and delights the prospects
| afar."
| We learn from the Vicksburg Times Of the
shooting o: an old citizen, Mr.. Lawrence Genella,
| Cf the above named city. The cause OF this sad
| affair was Mr.. Genells refusing 70 drink with
/ Conan The affair created intense excitement on
| the streets.
The Empire Parish says 1t Is safe in stating,
barring accidents, that the yield of cane and rice,
in Plsquemines parish, will be much above tbs
| average Of the last few years. large crop OF
| sweet potatoes fs promised. The health of the
| parish is unusually good.
| In Fort Valley, Ca, Newton Barber was called
to the gate Of tie house where be was stopping,
| and shOt by some one riding mule. The
| next day the tracks Of The mule were followed 70
the home of young man named Muckley, who
was a suitor fOr.the hand Of young lady whose
preference was for Barber. Muckley was arrested.
The Austin GGzette, OF the 18TH instant says
"On last Wednesday, two young girls. Miss
| Griffin and MissiCostey, about eleven and twelve
years Of age, were bathing in the Colorado river
some six seven miles below Austin, when, be
| coming alarmed by approaching footsteps, they
hastily got into deep water, and most sad to re
| late, both were drowned"
The Waco (Texas) Register Of the Gath ult.
says: Harvesting ia now about over throughout
| this section. The weather was very favorable
during the harrest days, but we have 10 announces
| what we have suspected, that the crop OF wheat
is exceedingly short. This is attributed to various
csuses-sUch az drought last fall. the grasshop
pers rust, - foul" and " short heads" and deteri
The Baton Rouge Advocate says: Saturday
evening FIVE prisoners, Heron Jackson, Willii
Buchanan, jacob Bates, Alex. simmons and Ed
moud Shields, arrested In East Feliciana ant
charged with the murder Of Timothy Murphy
were brought down from Clinton under guard AM
| placed in Jail. They were all negroes, but asser
that two white men are implicated IN the mar
| der.
The Baton Rouge Advocate, Of the 29th ult.
| says SUNDAY, Assistant Marshal Wies wa
called upon BY an officer Of Commissioner Shan
| non, who requested the pleasure Of his cOmpan
7 | on trip 10 New Orleans, 10 answer to a charg
made against him Of striking a negro woman
whilst ia the discharge Of bis duty keeping peac
IN the market Of this city. On this charge he ha
already been tried before the District Court, not
In session, and plead guilty, but expressed no dis
inclination 10 accompany ShannOn's oficer. Bu
q the general commanding the post. beng awar
) that there existed no impediment to the admin
tration Of justice by the civil courts IN this cit
I and that Wies had been tried already on the sam
5 charge refused to allow him TO be carried ava,
4 and Commissioner Shannon's officer departed
0 ! be came, withoutany prisoner