The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-21
ITEMS AT LARGE.

A well-borer has struck oil near Waco,
Texas.
-Four elk were sold in Fargo, Dakota,
the other day for $50.
Drought has shrunk the West Vir.
ginIa streams to puny rills
Senator Howe recently purchased a
farm near Green Bay, Wis.
The face of the South is fairly tanned
and corrugated by the heat.
Rural Wisconsin towns are enlivened
now by the blueberry trade.
Out of town housewives are hunting
the blackberry wine recipes.
Alpena, Michigan, ships lots of match
timber, cedar fence posts, etc.
A white heron five feet in expanse has
been shot at Cedarville, N. ].
Kentucky has much smutty wheat,
but the smut can be taken out.
Fifty millions of bushels is the latest
estimate of the Iowa wheat crop.
Pineapples are sold daily in Key West
eV ""SVioi lOl WV anu IlllcC CGHlS.
Twenty cars of new wheat left Jack
sonville, ILL.,, for Baltimore recently.
A Milford del man is shipping some
specimens of pine piling 70 feet long.
Genesee County, Mich, counts on
piling up million bushels of wheat
Bears are plentiful on Cow Island, La,
and the hunters are after them briskly.
Dry weather still rcigns in Grant Par
ish, La, and the corn crop is burning up.
Reports from all quarters of Arkansas
give promise of exceptionally fine crops
Drought and caterpilIars are threaten
ing destruction TO crops around Glen
vile, Ala.
One little railroad station in Florida
has shipped fifty thousand crates of Gu
cumbers this season.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkan-
sas, Tennessee and Mississippi have
2,SSS,000 sheep; about one to every hun
dred acres.
Selma Ala Times: We shall certainly
have the grandest corn crop ever grown
in Dallas County. If the cotton worms
keep away, look out for 125, 900 bales of
cotton next season.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: The
heat OF the sun was so intense last Tues
day that tray of corn set in Major
Poole's yard, at Tallahassee, to dry,
popped open as though fire was under it,
Quitman (Ga.) Reporter: J. M. Ster-
ger, of Plainfield, New Jersey, sold five
thousand acres of his lands near Glen
more, on the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad,
last week to a party who will establish
colony thereon soon.
A snowy design for a bed of early
spring Aowers-which it will be in order
to plant in few wceks-is in the shape
of star, the outline of which is formed
with bricks set up endwise. The tall
flowers, like tulips, are planted in the
middle, hyacinths next, and snowdrops
along the inside edge of the bricks.
Collect some SCOT from a chimney or
stove where wood is used for fuel, put
lhto an olu pltcher and pour not water
upon it. When COOL use it to water your
rose bushes every few days. The effect
upon plants is wonderful in producing a
rapid growth of thrifty shoots, with large,
thick leaves, and a great number OF
richly tinted roses.
In nearly thirty years of experiment
ing and careful culture, Mr.. Bull at Con
cord has raised 25,000 seedlings of grapes,
from which he has saved % vines worth
keeping; and he has descendant of the
Concord which ripens as early as the 25th
of August. He still has the original viEe
which, however, he came near losing in
one of the late severe winters, but man
aged to save. The carefully cherished
patriarch is in the middle of his garden
surrounded by a slight hedge of rose
bushes-shorn of its luxuriance and past
its prime.