The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-04-24
PARAGRAPHS OF ALL SORTS.

WI Roii Va Ahii SipNh cAANt' ~
customary to reap an income of 5000
or $4,000. They are said to be yer
dangerous, as an ostrich kick is NOR
fatal than that of Il mule.
Four thousand immigrants lande
at Castle Garden during twenty-fou
hours, among them two hundred
Finlanders who attracted much at
tention, having their babies sewed VI
in seal-skins.
| Wheat, cotton and iron are all OF
the decline, and parties who hav'
been holding for higher prices arr
getting badly frightened.
Advices from Texas, state tha
peaches ars not in bloom yet in some
places and there was a heavy frost OF
the 9th inst.
We hayereceived a postal card from
Centralia Illinois, from G. w. Barnett
of Chicago, who states that the fruit
crop is badly damaged in Southern
Illinois and in Tennessee. They had
ice OH the 18th inst, quarter of an
inch thick.
On April Sth, 1852 immigrants
landed at Baltimore from Bremen.
A Company has been formed in
England with a capital of ESQ, 1000, to
transport fresh meat from Australia
to England.
Seventy-one fine sheep were recent
ly shipped from Rock Bridge, Illinois,
which weighed 10 pounds and
brought S. so piece.
Negroes continue to pass through
st. Louis from the South to Kansas.
Two young seal elephants have
recently arrived in st. Louis, which
were supposed to be extinct. They
were captured on the coast some six
hundred miles south of San Francisco.
Mr.. Geo. r. Armstrong, of Missouri,
recently sheared twenty-four merino
sheep, which averaged Is pounds
apiece.
The Vermont Agricultural Society
has appropriated three hundred dol
lars for making experiments in the
of sugar from sorghum
and cornstalk.
Boiling hot I've poured around the
runk of peach trees, is said to be
sure destroyer of borers, and does not
njure the trees it is also said to
cure yellows.
Two hundred and ninety-five thou
sand head of cattle have been driven
TO Kansas this season.
Chip manure is said to breed disease
lmong potatoes, on account of larvae
ound among the decaying matter.
The Indiana Farmer, OF the 18th
INST. says: The severe frosts or rather
reezes, of the nights of the 10th and
18th have cooked some of the peaches
n this latitude and seriously injured
he early pears. The apples remain
lnhurt.
Ten THOUSAND Canadian farmers will
eek new homes in the West and
Southwest this season.
Over two hundred negroes are now
n New York from Arkansas, await
to Liberia.
Over one hundred thousand cheese
actories are in operation in New
Cork.
There are still twenty-five million
ushels of grain in Iowa to be sold.
Three hundred and one Thousand
cad of cattle will be driven from
yestern Texas this year.
Three millions of acres of fall wheat
ave been sown in California, which
well.
Over twenty thousand head of stock
ave persisted in Idaho, Nebraska,
uring the past winter.
One vessel is loading with 100000
allons of wine at San Francisco, for
he German market-the largest ship
tent ever made to that country.
One thousand boys and girls are
nployed in one cigar mandatory in
an Francisco.
Mules and stock, valued at one
Indrcd thousand dollars have been
by buffalo gnats in Ouachita
arish La, during the present spring.
The United States grows annually /,
lie hundred and fifty million bushels {
potatoes-enough to give each man,
oman and child three bushels around. .
Numbers of cattle are dying very
ysteriously in Missouri +; they will
apparently well and die very sud, :
My.
Twenty-three thousand quails are 0
their way from England to Penn fl
lvania.
Tobacco plants in Florida are in
Il bloom. +
It is estimatee that the cotton of p
xas for 1879 will bring into that
ate forty-four million dollars.
'apt. B. Harris, of Hazlehurst, says
at a year or two ago he realized one
)usand dollars from about two P
ndred peach trees, the fruit from
e tree selling for thirty dollars.
ireen peas are now only selling for
2 dollar and one dollar and fifty =
its per bushel in Chicago.
window Ornament.