The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Heavy rain fall last week all over
Texas.
The verdure of Scotland is pale sea-
gr
A bushel of chestnuts weighs fifty
pounds or 80.
Slight frost fell about Jacksonville,
Fla, last week.
Currant jelly heightens the effect of
roast rabbit.
Canned roast beef from Texas has
made its debut.
The Crittenden, KY, Grange tair was
| great success.
Maine exports about $1,000,000 worth
| OF manure year.
Superior cotton bagging is made OF
jute at Columbus, Ga.
Jocund pumpkins are smuggling close
y to the autumn fields.
Phosphorus and pulverized charcoal
combined will take fire.
A Columbus (Ga.) mill is shipping
glnghams, etc, TO Missouri.
Geneva, Ga, exports five hundred
thousand shingles annually.
A profuse butternut crop adds to
Massachusetts, complacency.
| new and green bug is riddling Cali
| lorhlas golden pumpkin vines.
Lots OF Bucks County farmers haven't
picked their winter apples yet.
Old corn 40 cents bushel, and new 81
to ~ cents i'll DaVless County, XIV.
Trltoma, or red-hot- -poker-p plant, makes
the New York floral shops gorgeous.
Raising sage is becoming a paving
business at Smiths Landing, New Jer-
sey.
Water cypress, plant with long
grassy leaves, Is in demand for fern.
| cries.
| WeIl-diggers in Mecklenberg, NC,
! found a corn-shuck twenty-Cight feel
deep.
An agricultural exhibition was re.
Gently held at GrahamsloWn, South
| Africa.
Thirty-one thousand acres of Holmes
| County, Florida, can be had at rs cents
an acre.
Columbus, Ga, now makes forty.stx
Kinds Of goods, from spool cotton to
blankets.
West Hartford elm, planted in
honor of Burgoyne's surrender, still
ti0urishes.
A horse with four white feet and two
glass eyes passes free through all toll
gates In Kentucky.
The editor of the Mt. Sterling (Ky.)
democrat mas been presented with "a
sweet potato five leet long.
MIR. z. s. Willingham, of Lincoln. Ga.
mas thls season made over nine hundred
QNII0nE = n
Enoch Breeding has a sweet potato a
| traction less than yard long and
weighing seven pounds in his Rockdale.
| Tex, sanctum.
A Maryland peach-grower is said to
nave shipped twenty barrels OF peach
kernels 70 Dayton, Ohio, a day or two
ago, 10 De USED ior chemical pur-
poses."
Chattanooga Dispatch: The sequat.
ehee valley boasts of three-leggeu
aucK which uses It's third leg as well as
lts olher two, and could not preserve its
perpendicularity without it.
On all The rivers of Maine a larger
logging business Will be done the coming
season than for many years, On the
Penobscotand Kehnebec twice as many
men Will enter The woods as last wear.
The crop OF potatoes this fall in Dor.
tl0ns OF kentucky is said to be immeuse
Some farmers report as high as four
hundred bushels to the acre, and all
say the crop is the largest for many
years.
Bridgeport Standards. "Now doth the
glossy cnestnuC jostle the smelly shag
bark ON the huckSter's stall, and the
leonsclentious Agricultural dIlutes the
sweet cider for the city market with
treshIaId water from the wel!.n
! Vicksburg Herald: Mr.. S. T. Fortson
an lnLelIlgeht planter OF this county, has
realized this year from an acr OF sugar.
cane S-ou, besides saving enough mOIas
ses for nls own use, and enough cane to
plant Ave acres next season.
Florida oranges this season are re-
markaDly tlIn-Skinned and unusually
sweet. 1t is sald that the IEuit from the
same trees last year were thick skinned
and more acid, ana that drouth pro-
Guces the latter and much rain the tor
mer condition.
Savannah News: Pindars, chuias and
goOber peas, with hickory and WaIuuts
dried fruit, the arrow and cassaya root
With the starch obtained from The Two
last mentioned products, were note
worthy displays at the late South Geor-
gia Fair, aL TnomasYille.
In September one hundred and TWEEN.
ty-One emigrants setIled in Tennessee
under the auspices of the lmnIis ration
Bureau. A large colony OF Quakers
from Pennsy lVania is settling in Blouul
county. In Coffee County landhoIders
are donating fifty acres to actual SET
| Llers.
| A woodpecker bored hole in the spire
OF church In Jackson, Missi, sipDi, lasl
spring, and made his nest wltnln It, La
the summer, however, d swarm of bees
tleW to The spile, drove out bse woou-
pecker. ana nave since filled the interior
with honey. And now man, the soyer-
eign despOller, has discovered the hoard.
ana resolved to exhibit the spire, win
Its novel contents, at the Stale Ear.
| Mobile has not been fourishiAg since
| the war. 1t has at last made a forward
move. A company has been organized
and a cotton factory will be built. IL is
| TO have thirteen hundred and iorty.iour
spIndles, requiring eight hundred bales
OF cotton. Ine Mobile Regis Ger cl aims
that the new factory will nave an adyans
| age OF cents a pound over the New
England manufacturers, o. SI5 a bale, or
Sl2,U00 tor efgnt hundred bales--a sum
equal 10 good dividend.
Few Eastern farmers know any thug
about Inc KiRanuC blows in use inCtTl.