The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-05

ldint iuleps are ripe in Mississippi.

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Portions of Florida are suffering froa
drouth.
A snow white partridge has been shot
in Jasper, Fla.<
Silk worms are to be tried in Atlanta
County, N. J.
Parsley must be sown very early on
cool rich ground. st.r
A rain last week was worth millions Of
dollars to Kansas.
The laughter of white blossoms will
dimple the fruit trees.
Immigration is fairly pouring into the
wheat lands Of Dakota.
Long-snouted pigs are said to be in,
digenous to Sussex, Del =
Shoals of crabs have lately come ashore
on Slaughter Beach, Del.
A large area of fax will be sown in
Buchanan County, Iowa.
A straw board factory, to cost $40, 600,
is the talk at Easton, Md.
North Cardinals new salmon and trout
hatchery is fine success.
A penchant for collecting sea-moss pre-
walls at Martha's Vineyard.
Hog cholera is alarmingly prevalent
in portions of Scott County.
Fifty pounds of live lobster hardly
furnish five pounds of meat
A fever for pigeon-raising is the pet
speculation of Oceana, Meh.
The backward spring has been favora-.
BILE to the tree-shipping trade.
A New Bedford man advertises trained
bull-fnches piping four tunes.
A Milford, Del, factory is rattling
out 10000 berry baskets daily.
Kansas is already counting on 30,0oO.-
600 bushels of wheat this year.
Lots of wild ducks get caught III the
shad nets at Washington, N. O.
Great heaps of sturgeon, caught at
Saugatuck, Mich, are sent to Chicago,
In Gibson County, Tennessee, David
Holt killed eighteen hundred partridses
within six months.
VIM. Morris, of Fulton County, KY,
realized from his tobacco crop just sold
a net profit of $62 70 per acre.
Rev. DR.. Crayon, of the Methodist,
Episcopal Church, dedicated a cotton
factory in a North Carolina town.
Sponge fishing is an important interest.
at Key West, Fla. Over $4,000 worth
Of sponge was sold at that place last
week. .....
Adam Juett, of Harrison County,
KY, reports that his tobacco crop Of
five acres, grown in 1879, brought him
net profit of $2l7 IS per acre.
The Barlow gold mines at Dahlonega,
Ga, will soon have in running order a
forty stamp mill, one of the largest and
best gold mills in this country. It is
run by water power.
The hog cholera is ravaging that part.
of Queen Anne's County around Elem,
Backbone, and as far southeast as Ed
ward J. Landlords, Esq, who alone has
lost thirteen porkers.
Mt. Sterling (Ky.) Republican: The
dogs killed sixty-two sheep for Waller
Sharp, in Bath County, on Monday
night, and forty-one for Jack Clark, in
this County, on Sunday night. .
In Washington County, Ga, a fire in
the woods burned over. four hundred
acres of pine land, destroying fifteen
thousand rails that had been gotten oht
for fencing, and also number Of hogs.
A Vincennes, Ind, farmer purchased a
horse with lump on its head. Curiosity
led him to cut it open, when he found
that it was a stone weighing four and a
half ounces. A horse with a gravel roof
: on its head must be rare curiosity.
The Courier SAYS that the people of
some sections of Lewis County, KY, are
gradually dropping off from the old
fogy notion of depending on numbering
for a livelihood, and are going to engage
extensively in the culture of tobacco.
The Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman reports
the killing, in the Kentucky River, Of a
catfish weighing 17S4 pounds. Mr.. Ur-
sold, while in boat, ran upon the fish
in shallow water, and came near being
overturned. The fish was killed with an
oar.
The Toronto Globe makes the state|
ment that, on the morning of the 16tj
inst, "an emigrant train left Ottawa
and by the time it reached Cobour]
there were 447 persons on board bound
, for Dakota and only three for the Cana
dian northwest"
A Northeast letter to the Wilmington
Every Evening says of kaolin bed ii
the vicinity: This kaolin seems TO uni
derlie a good portion of Mr.. Hunt
!. farm, and is of quality equal to. thu
best imported English clay and to thl
, celebrated South Carolina kaolin. 1t i
! ! used for q variety of purposes in thu
! manufacture of confectionery, soap, pa
. per, &c.
The Buffalo Commercial prints a stor,
about Jacob Reinhardt having cut aowr
Q at Cold Springs cherry tree, the trunl
q of which was fully three feet thick. A
section Of the lower mart of the trun]