The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

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at Des Moines. a.,'
A dime buys four oranges on the streets
of Fernandina.
Butter is now shipped from San Fran
cisco to Oregon.
Homegrown COOLERS fetch 81 a bushel
at Winston, n. c. ....
Chestnuts sell at 25 cents per bushel
in Southern Virginia.
Rome, Ga, manufactured over five
million brick this year, .....
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, has shipped l0,5O0
bushels of apples this fall,
A Tennessee writer has seen hogs
"groaning in their fatness."
A Wareham, Mass, man has foreign
order for blueberry bush roots.
A Meriwether, Ga, man traps beav-
ers and sells the skins at 81 25.
A hunting party in Dinwiddie County,
Va, killed eleven deer last week.
A sorghum refinery at Faribault, Min
nesota, expects to do huge business.
Los Angeles, California, expects to
plant at least 100000 vines next season.
They are cultivating tuberoses extern
sively in the southern part of California.
Peach blossoms fecked with falling
snowfakes were Lagrange, Ga, specta-
Gle.
The market at Jacksonville, Fla, is
supplied with green peas, ekra and GU
cumbers.
A Dover Point, N. H., farmer recently
killed an eagle by lunging at it with a
pitchfork.
A French capitalist has purchased 5O,,
600 acres of land in Parker and Palo
Pinto Counties, Texas.
The farmers of Monroe County, Miss,
expect to get $3.50, 900 more for their cot
ton this year than last.
The colored people own thirteen thou
sand acres of land in Halifax, N. c., and
eight thousand in Warren.
The weather has been 80 favorable in
Oglethorpe County, Georgia, that the
third crop of figs for 1879 is nearly ripe.
Paris (Ky.) Citizen: G. M. Clay, Jr.
of this county, while fishing in the noun
tains, caught with a hook and line a pike
that weighed twenty-one pounds.
The Kentucky Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association, at Lexington, ha:
added to it's fair grounds five acres OF
woodland, paying therefor 81 500.
In splitting open log hauled on lanc
from the Susquehanna River at Marietta
Pa, three handsome bass, one weighine
five pounds, were found in cavity il
the center of the log.
A young man near Somersville, Mt
Desert, Me-, shot three deer at one sho
on Friday last. Two of the deer fel
where they were standing when fired at
and the third fell after running abou
twelve rods.
Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman Mrs. Camp
bell Steele, of Louisville, sent us yester
day the largest ounce we have ever seen
; 1t was grown by her brother, DR.. A. H
Branham, at Natchez, Miss, and weigh
two pounds and four ounces.
Eight hoesheads of choice tobacco con
signed to Liverpool, rolled into the rive
at Owensboro, KY, the other day an,
were damaged to the extent of $40C
which the management of the steamboa
for which they were intended will pay.
,, Most of the farmers in Loudoun an
;, Fauquier Counties, Va. who Craze ca,
tie, have purchased their stock for tn
!, coming season. The cattle bought az
{ generally of good quality, and were pur
= chased at from 81 81 to SO per hundred
? A citizen of Lynchburg, Va, killed a
opossum in his house the other nigh
' Whether the 'possum stole free ride o
e a load of wood, or walked in from Cal
S dler's mountain to see the sights is M
e known, but he was very fat and made
s savory dish. ,....'. .m.o.I a
t California apples are not seen in til
a markets of the Eastern States, and it
: not generally known that good varieti,
a of that fruit are produced on the Pacif
Coast; but the fact is that they are ver
: fine and are monopollzing the markets
New Zealand. @GH
The achlal returns of the present year
; crops in the South, as far as known, a
! interesting. The cotton yield is larg'
4 by half million of bales than ever b
: fore in thexays of slavery. The tobact
crop is greater by twelve million pount
than lat year, and the production
> sugar exceeds by two hundred thousar
" hogsheads that Of 1873. tt 90 rlsa.
!. Reports received from all points of II
e Mason County, Kentucky, district (
:. your correspondent show the tobac,
l. crop to be in much better condition tina
!, anticipated There has been some "hous
e burn," but by no means 50 much as r
. ported. A good deal of stripping b
J. been done, and the process of curing 60
d on satisfactorily. Ths crop this sease
{. is much larger in quality, ranker
d growth, and, as a general thing, the
It IS not quite so much bright tobacco
D last year. rraF l 4 l ar.
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