The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-15
sOUTHnRN ITEMS.


The death in Bsstrop, Texas, on the 4th. of DR..
W. II. Stamps. useful and esteemed citizen, 10
announced. aar aos 80 gs1l.pi rt.at f.i 20 ta''iA
We learn that Gen. Dudley. recently comman.
der Of The postof vicksburg, has been assigned
The Trinity cTexas) Advocate learns that Col.
j. J. Cook OF Cooks Ferry, on the Trinity, was
killed few days since by Mr.. J. D. McCauley.
The latter has surrendered himself to the au-
tborities. snmnO 10 faUg at1 SOB ~.
One day last week, says the Baton Rouge AID
vOcate, two little negroes, brother and sister,
we're bitten by rattlesnake, while gathering dew
berries, over the bayou north Of town, and both
died on the day following. -. s.
The San ANTONIO Herald says, that never since
the spring of 1862. has Western Texas presented
such perfect garden of fruits, both wild and cul-
tivated, together with the finest crop prospects
ever known or desired. AZ &. 100. -f.ra o-.U
ton than usual was planted this year IN bis neigh
borhood, in Bastrop county, Texas, and he thinks
the same Is general throughout the country. he
also represents the prospects for good cotton and
corn crops as more encouraging than they nave
been at this season for years past. llI-. n : Il'
The Seguin (Texas) Journal of the I'd inst. dis
courses as follows: /" The grasshopper Is gone,
and not only so. but we have had one of the most
aeliphtfnl seasons for the growing crops known.
With corn as high as our shoulders, and extra
ordinary season in the ground-suificient TO insure
. crop without rain-we now believe our bread
shall be sure -rroiassI .-L,1Lf re 1n..3 e
Inc waco Examiner says MT. ElsQn, OF tnat
city is now at work on o steamboat for the navi-
CATION of the Brazos, between Waco and Dyer's
Mill above and Marlin Falls below, making the
aggregate about one hundred miles, The boat
will be done in about two months. This shows
that enterprise is still alive in Texas. We wish
Mr.. Edison abundant success. sf1 tllr.l
The Bastrop (Texas) Advertiser says: Maj.
Garwood informs US that the company are now
surveying the route and permanent location OF
the Air Line or Brennan and Austin Railroad.
The route will run, at the nearest point about 10
miles from this place. The surveyors have been
working for several days past in the neighbor.
hood Of Middleton Springs. Bastrep will be
forced TO build a branch, or go up" seaal
The Waco Register of the 9th says: " Mr..
Poulson informs US that, by letter from his son
in Norway, he learns that some 100 immigrants
sailed from that country for Texas on the Attn OF
| April last. Mr.. p. expects they viii arrive here
about the first of June. when he hopes to be able
to fulfill his engagements to furnish servants 10
| different parties in this community" l.srli-l
The Baton Rouge Comet says, friend who has
latterly been making tour In the farming region
about Port Hudson, informs US that he was sur.
| prised TO find so much land under cultivation.
Vast fields of corn and no little cotton greeted his
| eyes on every hand. The crop thus far seemed to
| be doing finely. as general thing, but, ia some
| instances, there were evidences Of over-crop-
| pipg-the grass getting the better Of the planted
stufs, for the want of sufficient labor to keep II
| down, tIttstH N.H .f"