The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-01
ITEMS AT LARGE.
Sheep pay in Nebraska.

Hemp culture is success in Putnam
County, Ind
Many Georgia farmers are getting in
their spring work.
Rocky Mountain trout have black
spots on their bodies.
America begins to feed vegetables to
all the world, in cans.
Extensive sassafras oil works will soon
start at Oxford, N. @.
Large bales of rabbit skins are steadily
shipped from Raleigh.
Strawberries are sold daily on the
streets of Tampa, Fla.
Natchez Miss, is building yarn mill
4S by 100 feet in size.
Orange blossoms array the Florida
landscape in bridal garb.
The Bloomington, ILL.,, market has been
cleared of all the good horses.
Six three-year-old bullocks are in
training at Columbus circus.
A pack of about forty wolves is prowl-
ing around Rich Mountain, Tenn.
The ga1ney north woods of Wisconsin
are now reached speedily by rail-
A Burgoin, O., farmer has invented a
mole-killing trap after years of study.
A Maryland company will make mill
stones extensively in Moore County,
NC.
A Paterson artesian we'll, fifteen hun
dred feet deep, is penetrating red sand
stone.
Eleven members of the Farmers Club
at Granville, N. G., have eighty-one
children.
There are thirty-eight people in Rhea
County, Tenn, for every wheeled vehicle
in the county.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand
bushels of corn are cribbed between Des
Moines and Fort Dodge.
Mason County white tobacco is being
introduced on the farms near Petersburg,
Va, where it promises to become popQ-
lar.
A large number of eagles have been
seen recently in Cheatham County, Tenn.
One killed by VIM. Teasely measured
nine feet from tip to tip.
The Charlotte IN. C.) Observer says
that the demand for phosphates as a fer,
tilizer is so great this year that the man.
ufacturers will not be able to fill all their
orders.
At Covington, Ga, farmers are buying
largely of gnano, and prospects are favor.
able for large clipping Of wool: Small
grain is looking we'll throughout that
section.
In interviews on business hardwood
lumber-dealers say the supply Of black
walnut in Indiana has decreased to such
an extent that it can not be handled
proftably.
/ The Gazette says that there are old
gray-headed men in Hawkins County
Tenn, who have never seen steamboat
The Holston River runs, through Hawk.
ins County.
The Mankato, Minn., Review says the
wheat crop in that section is pretty well
marketed, and the same is true of most
of the southwestern counties. What re-
mains is mostly in the hands of large
farmers who can afford to hold it for q
rise. ....
4 Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: Sew.
eral farmers were in the city yesterday
looking for farm hands. They found that
the city had already been rid of all that
class who can be depended on for farm
work, and two hands was the number Sc.
cured.
The Oglethorpe (Ga. Echo says that
in 1848, a minor ON the Pacific slope un.
earthed a perfect cross of solid gold. He
gave it, with $l3 in specie, as a marriage
fee to missionary, who is now an hon.
ored member Of the North Georgia Con.
ference.
In the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
the ground is frozen SO hard that before
a grave can be dug great fires have to be
made in the churchyard, and in some
instances, when this expedient proved
unavajling, the grave-diggers were COM
\ PEELED to use dynamite.
4 The Ocala (Fla.) Banner Of the 18th
inst. says: "The climate of no Other
State in the Union than ours will war.
rant the young people in having picnics
in the middle of winter. The winter has
been a season rich in these festivities in
this county, and on all occasions the
i young ladies were attired in .May-day ap.
= parel."
!. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: 1t has
been discovered that the climate of Cali.
!. fornia, Northern Georgia and Alabams
I. is Just suited to the cultivation Of the
! cinchona tree, from which quinine il
made, and it is proposed to introduce the
!, cultivation of these trees in this eoun
try, SO as to save the expense incurred
in sending to South America for Peru
!, vian bark.
/ The Hinesville (Ga) Gazette has me-
with Mr.. L. jackson, gentleman orig
inally from Scotland, but who for many
years past has been engaged in the cul