The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-24
ITEMS AT LARGE.
Rye is seven feet high in Georgia.

Rye is seven feet high in Georgia.
Strawberries are merely Is cents pei
quart in jacksonville.
A Georgia paper, talking of frost, says
earl y corn bit the dust.
Decatur Mich, has a factory for max,
ing wooden butter-cups,
Hcrrings sell in Elizabeth City, North
Carolina, at SO per thousand.
Excellent phosphates have been found
in Wakulla County, Florida.
Hogs, dogs and chickens are dying in
Hickman County, KY, with cholera.
Pontiac, ILL.,, trappcrs caught three hun
dred and ninety-one muskrAts the other
day.
Lime disease has lately carried off fif,
teen hundred sheep in County Glare, Ire
land.
Charleston is shipping daily by express
II 800 quarts of Strawberries TO New
York.
Brunswick, Ga, claims the champion
rain-fall-ten and one-tenth inches in
eighteen hours.
Florida's biggest orange tree is thirty
seven feet high and eight feet five inches
in circumference at the base.
A rock fish or sea bass weighing sew
enty-two pounds was caught in the
james River, at Rockets, Va.
Florida is turning her attention to The
| cultivation of rice, which is stated to be
better crop there than wheat is in any
other State,
Hail storms prevailed last week at
points in every Southern Site. They
were accompanied by very heavy rains
and great damage was done to crops.
The crop, in North Louisiana have
been somewhat retarded by drouth and
cold The open weather hls been favor.
able for work, however, and TIE farms
are in fine condition in the main.
East Tennessee exchanges say that the
damage to the fruit crop b. / the recent
cold spell was not so serious as at frs
suppo- ed. The grain pro 4pert5 are re
ported to be particularly bright all ovel
the country.
The Cambridge (Md.) News says tina
the sparrows do OF destroy the peach
buds, but that they do destroy the lar
vn of insects that would, If left alone
greatly damage the trees on maturing
into grubs.
Celebrated as is England for its higl
farming there are yet thirty nlillioi
acres of water or uncultivated land il
that country-a possible means of hom
food production to that island is rtain
ly very promising.
| An Apopka Florida correspondent
writes: Mr.. Sinclair, our cassava man
has been here, is much pleased, and vii
put up the necessary machinery as sool
as sufficient root can be furnished. HI
can Use from ten TO twenty tons per day
Chattanooga Times: There are grea
numbers of big grasshoppers in this city
Some of them are as large as ever seen
being more than two inches in length
DR.. Wright says they were blown here il
one of the late gales from the southwest
A Swiss paper publishes some curiou
hunting statistics, from which it appear
that during the past year 10 chamois,
bears, 2 eagles, vultures, Is owls, 6
sparrowhawks, 324 magpies, and on
other bird were killed in the Canton O
Grisons.
In Spottsylvania County, Va, fe,
days since, Clptain Elliott Dtjarnett
) had thirty of his lambs and eight of hi
grown sheep killed by dogs. The mex
day Mr.. Dtjarnette and Mr.. Isaac Car
son, who owned a joint flock, had eigh
of them killed.
Mr.. VIM. Hughes, Sr., a gentleman
whose name has been well known il
Georgia for the past fifty years as
prominent land surveyor and who is nov
living near Johnson's Station, Libert,
County, sent us a few days since sam
pie of tea grown and prepared on hi
farm. 1t was drawn" in the usual way
and the result WAS most delicious bey
erage. Those who want the unadultsr
ated tea should try the Georgia article
and they will never after drink the ind
go-colored, medicated leaf, as prepares
, in China. especially for the Europeal