The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-27
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

A good deal Of fever in the country around
Baton Roege.
Capt. c. E. Stevens, sheriffof 81. Tammany par.
ish. an efficient officer and clever gentleman, is
dead.
Capt Hendry A. Shillito, Of Mobile, has closed
contracts with Indiana boat builders for fine
stes mer, 10 ply as weekly packet from Mobile
to Columbus and Aberdeen, Miss
A new Catholic church, on "0l3 st. Stephens
Read" near Mobile, was dedicated last Sunday
with imposing ceremonies and In the presence OF
Q great Wrong Of people.
General Reynolds has ordered special tax OF
one fifth of one per cent. to be collected by the
assessor Of Lamar county. Texas, to pay the ex
penses incurred after the lst of January, 1868, for
arresting. guarding, subssting and trying persons
charged with crime.
From the Houston Vedette we learn that In ad
dnon to the four steamers of the Houston Direct
Navigation Company, TO ply between Galveston
and Houston the coming season, Captain John
Price, who ia now 10 the North. has made arrange
ments for bringing out two new and elegant boats
for the sane trade.
The Greeusburg Star is informed that while a
colo ed Democratic speaker was addressing a
crowd in spnngfld, Livingston parish, one day
week before last. he was fred upon by one Jared,
q negro Radical, and most notorious scoundrel,
and almost instantly killed. Jared was imme
diately arrested and lodged in jail:
The Greensburg (La.) Star OF the 22d learfs
that few days previous some negroes employed
a. turpentiDe factory, near Tickfsw station, on
the jackson railroad, committed an outrage on
the daughter of Mr.. Hutchinson. IL was rumorei
ttat Mr.. Hutchinson, assisted by several OF his
friends succeeded in arrestng two OF the wretches,
and at last accounts were In hot pursuit OF the
balance.
The Franklin Banner says appearances indicate
that somebody is stirring up bad spirit among
the negroes tberesbouts, and remarks We tell
the white people Of St. Mary whsl Senator Jewell
told the people Of New Orleans-put your arms
in order Let us see IL Democratic negroes are TO
be whipped by order OF carpet bsggers, and II
10y al leaguers are to charge and whoop through
Franklin, armed and bidding defiance TO the civil
officers, and IL white men are to be halted on the
road by armed Radicals"
DR.. W. J. Murrell Of Mobile, had the misfor.
tune one day last week to lose q very interestng
child, some eight years of age, from accidental
burning the funeral taking place on Friday at the
new cemetery. On the morning Of the 24th, on
taking out bouquet Of flowers, the sgonized
father discovered that the grave had been desc
Grated. the box gone, the place tenantless. Imme-
oiste search was set on foot, and In the evening
the body was found about mile or so from the
Enclosure. The coffin. whicbIwas q metallic one,
Was still in the box, and the body apparently IN.
disturbed, though the case had been cut In several
| places and the lid forced open.
The Memphis Avalanche Of the 2lst says
police detectives and sherifs have reason to re-
member white man named Glover, whose ex-
plots in borse-steslng during the past two years
| have given him q most unenvisble notoriety.
Glover was once In the Confederate army, but de.
serted and joined gang Of horse thieves. BE
married into a respectable family, near Olive
Branch Mississippi. but his conduct soon aliensted
| him from every member Of il excep. his wife,
| who chung 10 him, through good and evil report,
1 with the constancy characteristic OF the sex. A
/ few days ago, after long absence, he returned
| home. and on Saturday last his mother in-lsw
peremptoriy ordered him 70 leave her roof. BE
did 60 saying be should sleep that night in an oil
schooIhouse IN the Deighborhood. Early the next
morning Glover was discovered In the road be-
tween Olive Branch and Robnson's cross roads,
dead. He had been shot In the breast. aud ali ms
clothing was taken with the exception OF ms shif'
and drawers. The author Of bis death ls not even
surmised. II was known that he was In the VI