The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-22

in Orange, Fla.
Wetzel County, W. Va, has a Wool
growers Association.
Guava promises ere long to be an i'm
portant Florida export.
The manufacture of plug tobacco has
begun at Raleigh, N. @.
indianapolis has shipped carload Of
mincemeat to Leadville.
The Kansas wheat fields are in their
best way, thanks to rain.
A flock of plump birds of unknown
plumage fits about Portage, Wis.
Five thousand sheep are being fattened
for butcnery at Galesburg, Mich.
Three is quite a brisk demand for
sheep in Los Angeles County, Cal.
Fernandina, Florida, farmers are CIV
ing thought to strawberry culture.
Ice formed nearly an inch thick at
Fort Worth, Texas, Friday night.
North Carolina hogs are fattening on
the best chestnut crop ever known.
"Cane grindings" are the chief indus
try these days at Mariana, Florida.
There's an idea in Tennessee that cot
ton will never go below II cents again.
The Iowa Fine Stock Breeders Asso-
citation meets in Des Moines January
10th.
New Orleans Tines Mr.. Joe Jeffer-
son has the finest orange orchards in
Louisiana. He has five thousand trees
on his place.
Memphis Ledger: Our receipts of cot.
ton are now 22,767 bales ahead of last
year, and 1,164 bales ahead of year be-
fore last at this date.
Sumter (Fla.) Advance: The orange
business is in full blast, and the store
houses in Leesburg are filled to repletion
with the golden fruit.
Henderson County, KY, raises more
tobacco than any county in the State,
and from the last advices now at hand il
would have paid some of our farmers fal
better had they grown more wheat and
corn and less tobacco.
Mr.. Drexel, the New York banker
has bought several thousand acres Of
land in Worcester County, Nd, or
which he proposes to build 200 dwellings
and to send down families to occupy
them. He also intends to start wooden
cotton and other factories.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: A
Warrenton party of gentlemen in hun
or the Ogeechee killed 693 ducks, tur
kies and squirrels, five deer, and brough
home the left eye of blind coon. ON
hunter killed three Of the deer, an(
another three gobblers on the wing a
one shot, and ninety-two ducks at clever
fires.
Danville (Ky.) Advocate: Tip. Bruc'
weighed on yesterday, to R. S. Russell
the enormous Jersey Red hog that ha
attracted so much attention from breed
ers in this section. He pulled the bean
down to 915 pounds. He looked like
young elephant, with his enormous ears
Good Judges, before he was weighed
thought he would reach 1,100 pounds
Mr.. Bruce got cents for him, or $36 6
for this one hog. He came from th
Tom Grundy stock, of Washington
County.
NJ. V. Turner, prominent colore'
man of North Carolina, says: 9Th
statement that thousands Of negroe
lined the roads of that State, MAXIM
their exodus North, is all stuff, and il
less than a week the movement will b
over. On my way to Washington it wa
only here and there that little band
could be seen waiting for the train as
means to get off. Those who have left
or will leave, are generally the most is
norant, restless and unstable of the popu
lation. They do not represent the co
ored race of the State"
The Cuthbert (Ga.) Appeal says tina
the Georgia Wine Company, recent
chartered, with quarters at Cuthbert,
sure to be success. The charter prt
vides for capital of $4,000 with powe
to increase to S0U,OOO Wnen deeme
necessary. The $4,000 stock was take
on Tuesdsy in less than an hour after til
books were opened, and it is believed ths
$25, 900 could have been secured in da
with but little drumming. They will (
organized and prepared for the man,
facture of the next crop.
The editor Of the Southern Plante
says: 'The other day we met a gentl
man from Alabama, who gave us a piet
of information as to ascertaining the az
of a horse after it has passed the mint
year, which was quite new to us, an
will be, we are sure, to most of our rea'
ers. 1t is this: After the horse is mir
years old wrinkle comes in the cyclic
at the upper corner of the lower lid; an
every year thereafter he has one we'll d
fined wrinkle for each year of his az
over nine. If, for instance, horse hi
three wrinkles, he is twelve; if four, thi
teen. Add the number Of wrinkles
nine and you will always get at it. s
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