The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30
THE DAILY STAR
ITEMS AT LARGE.

Liuh SUuubf, OItSUu, IhIsOu ldISO
amount of lint fax this year.
The mast crop is good in Texas, and
hogs will have good feeding.
Apples are scarce at Williamsport, Pa,
and readily bring 81 bushel.
A ounce weighing two pounds and
four ounces has been raised in Ken.
lucky.
In Letcher County, KY, corn is worth
forty cents per bushel, pork four cents
per pound.
The tobacco crop in Graves County,
KY, this year, is the best and largest
ever raised.
The tobacco crop is greater by four
million pounds this year than last, and
Of a superior quality.
Three fine Cotswold sheep, belonging
to FL. W. Tomlin, Jackson, Tenn, were
killed by the falling of the building in
which they were confined.
Mr.. s. Karner grazed on his farm near
Gum Spring, in Loudon County, Va,
two steers that weighed 1900 pounds, and
were sold for six cents per pound.
Gadsden, Ala, this season will buy
12,0O0 bales of cotton, sell 81, 100000 of
goods, manufacture 100000 feet of
lumber and thousands of dollars of furni-
ture.
James X. Maddux, of the Warren
Green Hotel, in Warrenton, Va. in six
teen days this season bagged three hun
dred and forty-eight partridges, thirty
seven rabbits and two pheasants.
Danville (Ky.) Advocate: The two
turkey-packing establishments in Dan
vile have killed about 1000 head up to
this date, and still the work goes on. The
question is-"Where do they groww
Stanford, KY, Interior Journal Farm
ers are getting little uneasy about their
corn spelling in the crib. They say that
corn, being damp when cribbed, the con-
tinued wet weather will cause it to mold.
Jas. P. Woodward, who lives near
Clinton, Hickman County, KY, raised
1,100 bushels of Irish potatoes this fall on
two and seven-eighths of an acre of
ground Land and potatoes both meas
ured.
The Portsmouth Weekly reports little
satisfaction among growers of sugar beets
in that part of New Hampshire this year;
the result of a first venture, which it
thinks experience and improved methods
OF culture may change.
An emigration of farm laborers from
Alsace-Lorraine to the United States has
set in during the past few weeks, and
the people of that German Imperial
Province are very much excited over the
proportions it will probably assume.
AT Sherman, Maine, the snow Is about
nine inches deep, and farmers are i'm
proving it getting up wood and yarding
mill logs There is more numbering in
that vicinity this winter than last, and
the wages Of men and teams are higher.
The Hinesville (Ga.) Gazette suggests
that a sugar refinery in Savannah would
pay At present the cane growers are
content to turn their crops into sirup,
having no machinery or means at hand
to make merchantable the dark sugar,
which only classes as "milado" in the
markets.
Miss Austin and Miss Hatch, of Cali
fornia, have become successful fruit
growers. During the past month they
have packed six thousand pounds Of
raisins in boxes, each holding twenty
pounds. The ladies have learned to make
their own boxes, and each box of raisins
has sold for 81 so.
Lake Charles (La.) Echo: Fl. G. Gill
Esq, has presented us with beet, raised
by him in his garden in Lake Charles
which weighs thirty-two pounds and fif
teen ounces, and measures two feet anc
five inches in circumference. 1t can bt
seen at J. W. Bryan & Co.'s And il
isn't good year for beets, either.
A Barre, VT, man recently bough
some buckwheat flour for his wife tt
make into cakes She set it on for break
fast, but said it would not rise satisfac
torily. 1t appeared to be gritty. While
they were trying to eat it, up comes thu
grocer's clerk and wanted to exchange
the -four, saying that he had put W
plaster Of Paris by mistake. -
There will be five days racing at Au
gusta, Ga, commencing January 9th
Horses are already in training from
Maryland, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky
The track and stables are in fine condi
ton. Three thousand five hundred dol
lars in purses have been paid in. Th'
Savannah races will commence on tn,
Goth of January, and the Charleston
races on the 9Th of February.
A boar's head is usually sent to Queer
Victoria from Germany each Christmas
For fourteen Christmases from 1887 j
was the custom'of King Ernest, of Han
over, to send one to each of his politica
friends in England. His list was some
what lengthy one when he left the coun
try, but if man abandoned his rigit
creed of High Toryism in Church ant
State he was at once expunged, and a
his death it had dwindled down to
very few names indeed. ......