The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14
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Sheep-shesring is the order of the day
in Central Texas.
Wheat and oats have fully headed out
in Western Texas.
Swarms of men and boys are catching
sturgeon at Oshkosh.
Illinois sugar product this year is es-
timated at SIC, 100000.
The culture of peanuts is becoming
more general in Virginia.
A PlacerviIle, CAL, man has invented
peach splitter aud stoner.
A Delaware mule that kicked over a
beehive died the next day.
No less thin fifteen meteoric falls are
recorded in North Carolina.
Carloads of wild ducks have been
killed on the river at Montreal.
They are catching pellucid perch by
the ton, at Elizabeth City, N. G.
Southern Illinois will begin a big
strawberry harvest in few days.
Some farmers can foretel tempest
by the wood sorrel closing its leaves.
Towering dog-wood and wild crab
apple blossoms bedeck Indiana now.
North East, Maryland, letters report
the heaviest herring hauls for years.
In Galveston the oleander grows twen-
ty-fve feet high, and is used for hedges.
Green Bay, Wis, ships about fifty
thousand pounds of fresh fish per week.
A good quality of white porcelain clay
has been discovered in Forsyth County,
N. G.
The spring clip of wool in Nueces
County, Texas is estimated at $1,000
pounds.
A cotton compress, costing $40, ,000,
will be erected at Brenham, Texas, this
summer.
1t is estimated that the present rice
crop in Louisiana will be double that of
last year.
In Henry County, Ga, whole drove
of hogs, while lying in heap, were killed
by lightning,
Frankfort, KY, is enjoying home grown
Strawberries, but still imports yegetabl,s s
from Georgia and FMrida.
The planters of Alabama and North
ern Mississippi are more engrossed than
ever in the cotton crop, and are neglect
ing everything else for it.
In Leon County, Fla, Christopher
Gray killed on his farm bear which
weighed, when dressed, three hundred
and fifty-six pounds. He sold half of it
in Tallahassee at 10 cents per pound.
At Orlando, Florida, Willis Altman
has gathered ripe seed from sweet pota-
toes planted in his garden in March. He
has planted the seed, and tie young
pl nts are already up and growing finely.
Farmers around Petersburg, Va, are
complaining greatly Of drouth. They say
that they have never known such a dry
winter and spring, and that the streams
and springs and wells nave not fully r.
covered from the effects Of last years
drouth.
At Argenta, Ark, an immense cotton
seed oil mi is to be erected Immediately
by Memphis and Little Rock capitalists.
Trey will also erect powerful cotton
compress, the press costing $50, 900, and
having a pressure of twenty-five hundred
tons to the inch-capable of reducing a
bale of cotton to six and half inches.
At the Office of the Commissioner of
immigration for Florida were received
on Saturday two letters which were
somewhat unique as to the requests con
tained in them. One was from a Greek
firm in London, which wanted cargo OF
orange wood sticks. and the other from a
gentleman in Kentucky who wished a
water monkey forwarded to him.
The farmers Of Morgan County are
making considerable improvement of
late. Long lines of new fencing, newlv-
cleared fields and Il general ''straighten-
ing-up Of farms are among the evidences
that an era of progress is beginning in
this mountain country. New houses are
being LuiIt in West Liberty, the county
seat, and trade is improving there.
A newspaper in Georgia says that if
the farmers of that State would devote
less of their energies to the raising of
cotton and give more attention to the
cultivation Of sugar-caue, rice, arrow
root, the tea plant, wine-growing, and the
production of early fruits, vegetables
and melons for the Northern market,
they would be much more independent
and happy.
A. Rust, residing on Grand Prairie,
Texas, while returning from Dallas, was
attacked on Mountain Creek Bridge by
Mexican lion. His lie was saved by
his dog, which engaged the lion. The
dog was terribly lacerated. The neigh
borhood demand action of the County
Commissioners in Kidding the county Of
the beast. This is the third person at
tackled by it.
A horse biscuit is being manufactured
in Russia to take the place Of oats. 1t is
made of crushed oats and the -four Of
srray y,aoe ,niyad with hamn caod oil owl