The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-21
Southern Items.

"Like to froze TO death,n is the grammatical
heading OF o paragraph in Mobile contempt
rary.
citizens Of that place.
Before emancipation q negro beggar was un.
known in the Southern country. Now, the name
is legion.
A man named John Long, who keeps a grocery
at the corner Of Wilkinson and st. Michael streets,
Mobile, was murdered on Saturday by one Of three
brothers named Chisholm.
The Mobilians are delighted with the "Black
Crook
DR.. e. G. King, of Philadelphia, a surgeon Ia
the department Of the freedmen's bureau, has
been making free by entering mems houses near
Rome, Ca, whilst they were away.
A distinguished radical in Mobile has caused the
arrest of Harry Mccarthy on a claim for fiddle
strings purchased five years ago by one OF Harry 3
musicians.
Col Forsyth president of the Central Conservs.
tive Club, Of Mobile, issues a stirring appeal to
all Alabamians TO register under the order reopen
ing the registry books.
Thanks TO the Francis for late Mobile papers.
In Texas the German voters are consolidating
vigorously against negro suffrage. They will vote
for no delegate unless pledged against it.
The owner of q fertile plantation near Colum-
bus Mississippi, offers to give, rent free, to any
white man who will furnish his own mule and
pillow, the use OF twenty-five acres for one year.
One young gentleman, not raised to hard work,
has hCCtpteQ luls OHeT.
Judge Leonard, of the Memphis Probate Court.
was knocked down by youthful disciple Of Black
stone. In rising the judge drew pistol, but was
knocked down a second time before he could fire.
=. Capt. Philip Pennywit died at Little Rock on
the 9th instant.
Mr.. Hodges, a colored member Of the Virginia
convention, favors the abolition of the freedmens
bureau. He "d0es not want negroes to stand
around the freedmen's bureau, squealing like
hogs for few grains of corn but to 60 10 work
like men and make their living"
Out of six deaths last week in Vieksburg, five
were of colored persons; and the same number
were under five months old.
The river is rising at Baton Rouge at the rate Of
six inches In an hour.
Two negroes on the plantation of Mrs. Welham,
IN the parish Of st. James, got into difficulty,
one being armed with a saber. the other with a
broadax. The sabreur had his nose cut off. but
succeeded in all but decapitating his antagonist
Our sprightly confrere, lie Louisianais tells of
q white man in st. James who, with his son, has
raised the following crop Off thirty acres, within
year: two bales Of cotton, two hogsheads Of
sugar. forty barrels Of rice, one hundred and fifty
two barrels Of corn, twenty five barrels OF sweet
potatoes, six barrels of Irish potatoes, ten barrels
of onions, five barrels Of pecans, two barrels Of
peaches, twenty-five carrots of perique tobacco,
large quantity of beans, lettuce aud other vege-
tables. He also cut twenty-five cords Of wood,
and when his crops required no care, he would go
on bunting excursions, invariably bringing home
dozens OF ducks and sometimes a fat buck. He
had two WORKOUT horses to drag the plow but no
freedmen TO assist him. The butcher never
stopped at his door, because our planter had a
store of plump porkers and calves. His wife,
from her poultry yard and dairy, not only fur
nished their table abundanty, but sold enough Of
eggs, chickens, turkies aud ducks to pay all ex-
penses. II happiness dwells not in that house.
hold it is not to be found anywhere on earth.