The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-20
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

Several cases Of cholera are reported in Vicks-
burg.
Corn was suffering for rain in Madison parish
on the 18th. Cotton was beautiful.
Tie Tensas parish Gazette says it has no news.
except that one Of their newly elected white
officer has proved his faith by his works By marry
ing colOred lady.
Near Girard, Alabama, last week a little girl
was bitten by a snake. Her sister sucked the
blood from the wound, and applied spirits of tur.
pentine and the child survived.
The Caddo Gazette Gays corn will be sold on
upper Req Bysss st tfy cents & per !R9qe7AelV Hhe
ward tleir 81 ylus market and the anticipated
supply being greater than the demand, low prices
will rule.
MIR. Smith, stage agent, informs us that the
leyee lately built at the mouth of Red River has
caved in, and the surrounding country inundated
to such an extent that 1t is feared there will
be some interruption in the mails from that
point.-[ Natchitoches Times. 18th.
The Vicksburg Herald of the 18th says: A
foul murder was peTpetrated on Sampson Wolf,
during Tuesday night, at his grist mill below the
city. The deceased was found in his bed, with
the skull fractured. The deed is supposed to
have been committed by negroes, who supposed
g was in possession of money"
The Mansfield Times, of the 18th, says Last
Sunday this sectiOn was visited with heavy rains,
the coed effects of which are already perceptble
on The growing crops. We regret to learn, how
ever, that the rain was not general throughout
ing the corn on some of the plantations"
The Mansfield Times says "We regret exceed
ingly that the small number Of Swedes that cam e
TO this parish and located last winter have be-
| come dissatisfied and intend emigrating to some
| of the Western States at an early date. We are
not advised as TO the cause of their dissatisfaction
but presume it is owing mainly to the absence oil
more Of their cOuntTymen."
There is a strike among the engineers on the
| Mobile and Montgomery Railroad, but the trains
| have made their regular trips without Interrupt
| ton. Monday night the superintendent took out
| train, on the 10th the assistant superintendent
took cut one. and on the 18th an engineer was tc
| manage it. So the superintendent seems deter
/ mined not to be outdOne. Other engineers were
| 10 he on hand.
The Montgomery Mail of the 18th says: The
rain still holds of, and now that the corn IS SILK
| ing and tasseling. we need it more than at any
| other time. II the corn crop is subjected to
| drought at this stsge of its growth, ninety mine
| times out of one hundred will the crop be ar
/ almost entire failure. Only q few more days o
| continued dry weather, and the work upon The
| corn crop for its destruction will be done. TIT
rains in the few very few, localities that we hav
heard of in this county, amount to little, 10 com
parison 10 the countTy at large. The planter
| also when asked about his cotton CROP replies In
| melancholy and despondeEt tone, that 1t is no
| good. The market is not apt TO be overstocke
with cotton next fall; but if the planter secures
| good price for what he makes, he may be able
| buy his groceries"