The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-26
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um dens.
Florida will plant more rice than for
many years.
The Rome, Georgia, nail-works, strange
to say, are idle.
Orange culture is to be tried in Liber-
ty County, Ga.
Cassava root is being successfully raised
in Florida spots.
Potato planting in Kentucky has COM
menced in earnest.
Oakland, CAL, has started a jute mill
with $50 Cinnamon.
Bucks County, Pa. grain never looked
better at this season.
The Susquehanna River is fuller of
shad than ever before.
Cattle have been dying of starvation
in Llano County, Texas.
A new factory near Chalfonte, Pa,
turns out Switzer cheese.
Jacksonville, Florida, will soon have
water-works in operation.
Flint on starting fire-remain in bed
and let somebody else do it.
In Charleston, s. G., a man was fined
SO for stealing three potatoes.
Hydrophobia is very common among
the dogs Of Bryan County, Ga.
The ice factory at Baton Rouge, La,
manufactures three tons daily.
An orange grove at Fort Dade, Fla,
has borne three crops in year.
Many farmers are obliged to replant
their corn crops in Navarro County,
Texas.
1t will require 5000 bales Of cotton to
pay for the guano to be used in Marion
County, S. c., this year.
Mrs, J. G. Bucklin, of Providence, had
a set of dining-room furniture made from
ailanthus trees which grew in her garden
in 1862
The New Haven Journal says that
there is cream-colored crow in flock
that has its haunts in field near South
Lyme, Conn.
Every free citizen of Mississippi is al
lowed to keep dog who will buy a 50 SO
brass collar from the State, and keep it
on the dogs neck.
Londoners who six years ago looked
upon ice water as an unhealthy beverage,
and stared when Americans ordered it,
now find it indispensable.
There has been organized in Barnwell
County, S. c., an Agricultural Indus
trial Association, for the purpose Of hold
ing an annual fair at Aiken. The capital
!. is $4,000.
; Twenty-one horses and mules were
J burned to death in the livery stable of
; Berg Bros. at San Antonio, Texas. They
were valued at $3,S70. The cause Of the
fire is unknown.
|; Virginia and Maryland capitalists
have bought twentv-three thousand acres
of copper lands in Northwestern Texas,
,, and families from those States are rap
, idly taking possession.
The Evergreen (Ala.) News says: We
were yesterday shown stalk of oats
: taken from twenty-acre grain patch Of
t DIR. McCreary's, which had headed out
: Pretty good for March 10Th.
Jas. R. Dodge, in his investigation Of
sheep husbandry in the South, reports
: more than 100000 killed by dogs last
> year, or more than five per cent. Of the
a entire number IN that section.
o A man in Marshall County, Tennessee
|. over 80 years of age, has never seer
either railroad or steamboat. He il
a good farmer and attends closely to hi
!, business. He has lived within five mile
70 of railroad for several years.
" South Florida Journal: While throw
!. ing up the grade for the South Florid'
> Railroad, near Lake Monroe, the work
men cut through what seems to be bet
: of pure shell mari. Although it has no
!. been analyzed, it has the appearance 0
h being a fine fertilizer. Beds of natura
d fertilizers will yet be found in man
% portions of the county sufficient to ena
Is BILE us to do away with all foreign kinds
The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf report
lr the wheat crop in middle Tennessee IT
% markably forward, requiring great des
i. of pasturing to keep it back until th
lr danger from frost is past. The crop hs
le suffered great deal from the excessiy
N rains. All fiat lands and basins wer
,e covered with water for weeks and tn
wheat drowned out. The past winte
in that section was very mild one
,e Blue grass and other grasses have col
as tinued to grow all winter.
or The value of good riding horses has il
it creased immensely in Ireland since q
ly Empress of Austria has patronized tt
chase there. Several ladies have bee
lucky enough to sell their horses for h
he use or that Of her suite for q very larl
of figure, varying from three to four, tiv
ar. and even six hundred pounds. o.
at lady, whose horse was fsncied for Il
nv Empress, asked e300 and got it, havir
M: purchased the animal from dealer la
ct. year for ESQ; so much can be done
en- improve an animal BY light hand a.
ill firm riding.