Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-08-04

- Ieecneo Wes0 soiIin& IN f1ttoOuf6,
lest week, Eve for A.dims.
- The ferry travel between Brooklyn
and New York on the 4th Of July, 10 est
mated at $4,000.
~ A German blssk rspublicsu paper
has just besn started ct Ksokuk, entitled
F" The Iowa volksblatt."
~ Won Humboldt 10 said to have LEI,
q manuscript treatise on Geography, more
perfect than any yet known.
~ Four persons were killed BY sun.
stroke in the vicinity of Davenport. les,
week. and one near Burlington.
~ The wheat product Of Ohio this
year 10 estimated to be 5000, 900 bushels
more than ever before raised.
~ The Misunderstanding states that
the capital employed in the 81. Louis
breweries is nearly 100000 900.
- The Americas Association for the
Advancement Of science, meets at Spring.
field, Mass, on the Bird Of August next.
~ The corner stone Of the N. York
State Agricultural College was laid at
Ovid. Seneca county, on the 18th ult--
The building WILDE completed early next
Spring.
~ A church wss dedicated TO Spiri
tualism At Sturgis, Michigan, on the 10th
of June. Sixteen hundred persons were
present.
~ s. A. Benson, has been elected for
the third time to the presidency Of the
black repoblic Of Liberia, without opposi.
ton.
\ ~ Porter's Spirit says the horse Jack
Eossiter has been matched for $4,000 il
England to trot twenty miles in one hour.
Jack can't do it.
~ The three Collins steamers, the
Baltic, Atlantic and Adriatic, have been
sold to the Pacific steamship company for
81 100000
~ Eighty kegs Of powder in one Of
the mills Of Gorham, Me-, exploded re.
Gently, blowing the building to atoms
One man was severely injured.
D6r According to the American Gas
Light Journal. there are now 400 gas
works in operation in this country, with a
capital Of $50 100000.
D6- A son of Daniel Parker. Of Lam
caster, Mass, and John Business, of Kill
ington. c.. were recently killed by light
ming at their respective residences.
DA- Since the first Of January last
there have been twenty-five trials and
convictions for murder aud manslaus hter
in the New York courts.
n@- Gen. Pierce expects to return
home next month, recent indications in
m-s. Pierce's health being less encourag-
ing than heretofore.
~ Judge Marsh of Humboldt county
advertises in the Fort Dodge Sentinel, for
proposals for the construction of county
buildings for that county.
49, Another attempt to lay a tele-
graphic wire across the Atlantic is soon
to lie made. Arrangements are in pro
gress at London, to bring about this
result.
nA- One dollar bills Of the Iowa State
Bank. altered to Elves. have appeared at
Ksokuk. The vignette of the 81 is a
woman milking COW while that Of the
IS is a movers wagon.
~ The Democratic Congressional
Convention. held at Savannah. Ga, has
nominated Porter F. Lore A. candidate
for Congress, in the place Of Hon. Jas. l..
Seward.
49, A new and dangerous counterfeit
bill. on the State Bank of Ohio. branch
"Tadiz, has been largely circulated in
oh'' and will he likely to find its way
west Look out for them.
se population Of San Francisco
oa''' aceo';ng to the last census. is 7s..
oo'. Inc '',ale population is $4,000.
l4'ooo OF whol are above 10 years of
age.
~ A Hunr"ri". force Of %. 900 men
is to he formed at Ge.., to he composed
Of such exiles and fore,r.r. .s NAV be
disposed to assist the flag { pationa, in.
dependence, together with We deserters
that may be induced to quit tn. ustr;an
ranks.
No. An awkward mistake occurrJ n
a German paper in Wheeling one o>y
last The name Of well known preacher
was inadvertently placed at the bottom o
a lager beer saloon advertisement. and thu
lager man was announced TO preach at the
reverend gentlemans church.
~ A gentleman of Newburyport
Mass. has something like hundred toad.
which he keeps in his garden to destro,
insects. He has house built for them
keeping them Is he would chickens, snd
they are SO tame they will come at bis call
- The daughter Of Joseph Charle.'
recently asssssinated at s. 1ouis, has
given $4,000 to epow the Professorship
of Physical Science in Westminster Col.
Iege, a Presbyterian Institution At Fulton
Mo.
BARNUM ON THE AMERICAN EAGLE.-P.
T. Barnum delivered Fourth Of July
nrat;nn ~ Hr;d1annst Conn HcrA il An