The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-12
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Hosts of potato bugs coat the sidewalks
of Lafayette, N. j.
The horses are dying of charbon in
lberville Parish, La.
The woods of eastern North Carolina
are dying for lack of rain.
Springfield, Mass, has potato glut
they are so cents bushel.
Some Nebraska cornfelds will yield
nearly 100 bushels per acre.
Toledo, Ohio, estimates its receipts of
wheat this season at 25,000,000 bushels.
The Vermillion County, Ill.,, wheat
crop equals the value of the land it
grew on.
Mr.. Gardner, of Charlotte, Mich, has
mastodon tooth weighing fifteen
pounds.
A grindstone has been running for one
hundred and fifty years in an Onslow
On. C.) family.
The corn, rice and potato crops in
Louisiana have been greatly benefited
by recent rains.
Opossums are so plentiful about Peters
burg, Va, that it is common to pick them
up in the streets.
The cattle in some portions of Lump
kin County, Ga, are reported as dying
of some unknown disease.
A rapid rise in the Ocmulgee River, in
Georgia, last Sunday, devastated the
crops on the banks considerably.
The cotton worms appeared in the
cane-break lands of Alabama about the
1lth inst, and are now out in the form
of moths.
A farmer near Wilmington, N. c., set
spring-guns in his watermelon patch, and
the thieves came along and stole both
guns and melons.
Between the drouth, the dogs, coons
and the squirrels, they have made sad
havoc with some of the corn crops
[Concordia Lag Eagle.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says that
the damage resulting to the crops in the
swamp lands below the city is estimated
az iioLh iual Iei w Il tHilu VI Il ClOp.
The Claiborne La.) Guardian says the
corn crop in that parish will be short,
but thinks that, if there is no change
the cotton crop will be the finest raised
in that parish for many years.
At the close of the war young man
named Crouch hired out to herd sheep
for $l2 month in Frio County, Tex.
He now owns $50, 900 acres of fenced land,
1000 cattle and 1000 sheep.
The Toledo (Ohio) Blade remarks:
"With wheat at thirty bushels to the
acre, and selling at about 81, and that
dollar being gold, or as good as gold, it is
uphill business to talk of ruin. What
begins in groan generally ends in a
grin"
Montgomery Ala Advertiser, August
I'd: Farmers in the city yesterday spoke
very encouragingly of the cotton crop,
which, they say, is very promising just
now. No worms have yet been discov-
cred, and the only enemy they fear is
the rust.
Hartwell (Ga.) Sun: At Mrs. Margery
Skeletons sale last week, a COW with
good bell and leather collar on that
was worth 81 IS, all together brought
only 81. A large OK sold for 81, and
good young OK that plowed well and
worked well in shafts, brought the mag
nifcent sum of SO. All on long credit.
A correspondent of the Hartford Cour-
ant thus explains the disappearance of
bobolinks and larks from New England.
Formerly, under the old-fashioned prac-
tice of moving by hand, the mower
when he came upon a nest, moved around
it, leaving little tuft of grass and the
nest. But modern moving machine is
no such respecter of larks and bobolinks
Clarksville (Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf; We
have often heard it stated that the grub
worm produced the persmmon sprout,
and now have the assurance verified by
curiosity in that form-a genuine grub
worm with well-developed sprout grow
ing out neat its head, for which We are
indebted to Mr.. E. P Martin, of Big
Rock, Stewart County, who states that
it was found by Mr.. H, N. Cherry, of
that place.
A Russian paper gives an account of
a plague of locusts, near EIisabetpol,
which forced a detachment of troops on
the march to retrace their steps. They
settled so thick on the soldiers faces,
uniforms, and muskets, that the Major,
driven to desperation, ordered firing at
them for half an hour, but this produced
no effect, and march back was ordered
The swarm covered an area Of thirty-five
square versts.
DR.. Hugh J. Glenn, or GARNER
Glenn" the candidate for Governor of
California of the New Constitution
party, cultivates $4,000 acres of land and
has 10000 acres in wood. He owes
100000 on it, but is expected to clear
half of that this year. He is a Virgin
ian by birth, Missourian by education,
and formerly horse dealer by ocoupa-
ton. He is also the Democratic candi-
date, and is opposed to the railroads.