Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-12-03

- n
Il Is sisted that Bsyasd Taylor realized
$500 - ths receipts, after dedussing oil
sxpsasss. Of bic tive months lec,uring tour
10 California
Gov. Weller, Of California. has appointed
Judge n. p. Ham to fil! the Vacancy IN
the U. S. Senate, occas;oned BY the death
Of Broder:ck.
Gov. Ransom, Receiver Of Public Mon
eys q Fort Scott, Kansas, died on Friday
last, Of typhoid fever.
Ars. Ysokse Robinson, Of circus notori.
sty died ir Charleston, s. c., l4sh ult
Gen. Vim. Walker i about to lead
force to the relief Of Brownsville, Texa.
A Gcldea Eagle Vas killed last week on
he Lower St. Lawrence, and brought 10
Quebec, which vas shot while endesvoring
10 esssy OF child shout three years Of
ags. This 10 The only bird 10 America
that will attack the human species. They
breed in the North, following At this SEA-
500, the birds and asinals that seek .
mildsr climate.
An Official census has been taken twice,
ia Chios, during the present century. The
first was taken in 1872, and gave the num.
Der Of inbabissuts 1t three hundred AID
sixty millions two hundrA and seventy
nine thousand Eve hundred aud ninety
seven. The last census was taken in 1852,
and givss the number 1t over Eve hundred
and thirty six millions. being an increase
Of more than enc hundred and seventy six
millions six hundred thousasd iL forty
years.
Tootle h Jackson Of Council Bluffs have
disposed Of their mercantile establishment,
10 that place to Messrs. Parks l. Robin.
| son.
A daughter Of Caleb Marshall Of Ches-
ter, Warren county, N. Y, only eight
years old, weighs l24 pounds.
The Centennial birth day Of the cele-
DRAFTED German Poet. Schiller, was duly
observed 10 many towns and cities Of the
United States, by German residents.
Bishop Auss Of the Methodist church,
was lately robbed Of 500 At GaIena, III.
The Chinese have temple in San
Francisco which cost $4,000, and have
;moort.d n, idol fro,, China Of q ,os, If
$50 900.
The Jewish merchants Of Cincinnati
have held . public meeting to consider the
Sabbath question. and resolved to close
their places of business on Sunday.
The Unitarian Chapel at Rochester, \.
Y, burned 90 the 10th lust, is supposed
to have been set on fire by au incendiary.
The loss Is about $4,000.
Rev. DR.. Cahill has postponed his de
parture from Ireland till the middle Of No
vember, when he will take passage by the
Galway line Of steamers. lie proposes
remaining 10 America until the end Of
next May.
The Lafayette, Ind, Courier, nnnoun-
ces the sale Of 1000 head Of hogs in tina:
city a. 81 90.
During the present Napoleon's reign
the French have constructed railways to
the extent Of more than $500 miles.
Mr.. Henry J. Raymond. editor Of the
N. Y. Times, gave bail in $500 to answer
the charge Of libel recently preferred
against him BY Commodore Vandt rbilt, as
previously noticed.
The lucifer match factory of Byram,
Carleton & Co., in Charlestown, Mass,
wss burned on Thursday night, together
With oil the stock. Loss about $4,000.
The Boston Transcripts says that Scna.
tor Sumner is expected home next week.
Congress convenes the first Monday of
the present month.
A Miss Goddard, daughter Of one Of
the best citizens of St. Louis, has eloped
with . professional gambler.
An encounter took place ia Nashville.
Tenn, on the 18th ul,., between Allen 4.
Hall, editor Of the News. and G. G. Poin-
dexter, editor Of the Union and America.
Poindexter WAS shot dead. The quarrel
which led to the catastrophe was an often.
sivs editorial.
A man in Kalamazoo is training an elk
to trot on the race course. The elk has
already ,rotted against horse for purse
Of seven hundred dollurs, winning the
prize BY long distance.
Washington Territory is six hundred
miles long and two hundred wide, and
contains one hundred and twenty three
thousand and twenty-five square miles
I. is now principally valuable for its ium-
Der.
TELEenAPHIc IrEMs.-Private advices
from Brownsville to the 10th, confirm the
news brought By the steamer Arizona.
Mobile, Nov. 22.-It was reported tina,
Miramon had Joined Marquee, aud that
both had fed from the country on board
British steamer. taking the $4,000 in
specie with them.
Charlestowa, Nov. 2l.-It is rumorcd
that Gov. Wise has received dispatch
from Gov. Chase Of Ohio, informing him
that large body Of men, numbering from
600 to 900, are arming for q rescue un