The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Boston is hayiuga relapse OF vcloci-
pGding.
Our butter is finding good sale i'll the
" est Indies.
England no longer questions the quail
IUy OF our beef.
Wisconsin is sending some admirable
cheese eastward.
In Austin, Nevada, fresh oysters cost
| llH cents eac0.
Happy thought: turn the iCe-houses
into orOquet grounds.
Glass is gradually supplanting paper
III Japanese households.
Good tieli-hands are hiring in Georgia
at $50 and S75 for the year.
Taunton River gave up seven thou
| sand three hundred and eight shad last
year.
| Massachusetts grows one thousan
six hundred and forty pounds Of tobacco
| to the acre.
few days ago one hundred AID
twenty pound deer was shot near Mid
dletoWD, Ct.
A sycamore tree was cut on John
NichoPs farm In Kansas last week that
measured over seven feet at the butt.
The receipts of cotton In Atlanta this
year will exceed those OF last by about
ntteen thousand bales, which will make
the receipts over one hundred thousand
bales.
Montgomery Ala. Advertiser: Mules
were selling at auction yesterday at the
remarkably low price Of $35 apiece.
There is plenty OF good stock in the
country.
Maryland has one thousand nine hun
dre1 and tigty-six schools, with one huG-
dred and fifty thousand two hundred
aud seYenty-six pupils and two thou
sand nine hundred and six teachers, and
the total expense last year was 81 l,044,.
515.
According to the Railroad GaZette's
record there were two thousand one hum
dred and ninety-nine miles Of railroad
built in the United States last year,
against two thousand four hundred and
SIXTY In 1876, and one thousand five hum
dred and sixty.one in 1875.
The Reading Penn. Times says that
snipe, which usually do not make their
appearance In that vicinity until the
latter part of March or beginning O.
April, may be already found in the
meadows along the Wyomissing and
other streams in the n6ighborhood.
Here's the sort OF calf they raise down
in Georgia. The Savannah News says:
This 10 what Thomas County can do in
the way OF cattle-raising for market:
"Mr. p. II. Bone butchered steer the
other day, raised by MIR. X. L. Taylor, iu
Thomas county, which weighed seven
hundred and fifty pounds net. Mr..
Bone says the steer was equal, II not
superior, TO any Tennessee or Ken
lucky cattle which he has ev,r
butchered."
Tarboro IN. C.) Southerner: In OPEN
Ing a bed vi mari on the farm Of MIR. A.
Case, some days since, they struck into
what is supposed to be creek or small
river, some six or eight feet below the
surface. There they found an Indian |
canoe with skeleton OF a human being,
sitting upright, with the remnant of a
paddle in his hand. 1t is supposed that |
the emoankment must have given away
abovo and buried this person while sill. |
ling at Its base.
San Antonio Herald: Corn is SO n |
busnel in chihuahua. 1t sells in this |
city at 35 cents bushel. Northern |
Mexico suffered tearfully from the
drOuln last summer, and provisions
there are very scarce, and sell for enoI-
nous prices. Here provisions are plel :
tilul and very cheap. If we send PR,
visions from San Antonio 10 Chihuahua
we must use wagon transportation, anu
take the northern route by Forts Duncan |
and Davis, thence across the Rio Grande |
and by circuitous road to chihuahua.