Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-08-25
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~ New wheat is selling at 60 cents
in Auscantine.
- The new Csstom House n Gslens,
H., i completed. n
~ Hon. John Gayle. q. 8. Jsdge for
Abams, died on the 2lst alt
- Anthony Buras Of Boston notoeis-
y is Baptist preacher st 1ndisospolis.
~ Juarez is still gaining 10 Mexico
-be was st Mstsmoras At last accounts.
~ The Democratic State Conveotioa
Of Wisconsin, meets At Madison, on the
24th inst.
~ The Fort Smelling property would
not bring 81 90 per acre to-day; it cost
Steele sll 90.
~ Since January LIST, 1859, over for
~ million Of dollars in specie have gone
TO Europe.
~ The population Of Montreal, Ca
NADIA, 10 $4,000, Of whom $4,000 are
ROMAN CetnoIics.
~ There is . great religious revival
in progress among the colored people Of
Richmond, Va.
~ The Boston Ledger lnow defunct)
is reported to have sunk $4,000 trying to
establish it.
49, Horace Mann, President Of the
Antioch College, Ohio, died at Yellow
Springs. on the End inst,
- The works of Rufus Cboate, bis
principal speeches and addresses. sre to
collected aud published in book form.
49, The Boston Courier backs out Of
its statement that Professor FELTON,. Of the
Cambridge University, had become spi-
ritualist.
~ Hon. Richard Rush died at Phila-
delphia, August LIST, in his 10Th year. He
was distinguished politician and diplo-
mstist.
~ The State Teachers Association
will meet on the 23rd Of August at Wash
ington, Iowa. Hon. James Harlan is TO
deliver the Address.
~ The Mayor and Common Council
Of Cincinnati have been on a visit to Phi.
ladelphia. They we're carried to the city
Gas works q course.
~ A New York paper sfIirms that
memorial requesting Hon. d. T.. Sickles
to resign his seat in Congress has received
! 400 signature.
- A lad named George Pomeroy
Cooper, son Of Isaac Cooper, Of Des
Moines, was killed Oh the 9Th inst. by the
accidental discharge Of his gun.
DH- The convicts in the Sing Sing
State Prison attempted rev Oft on Mon
day week, but the officers queled tb. in
surrec,ion before any damage was done.
49, Saratoga is full Of watering place
persons. Who can doubt this who learns
that 6l2 individuals sat down together NJ
ore table to dinner there in hotel last
week.
BE- Four million pounds Of wool were
sold in Michigan this year; it brought an
average Of iorty-two cents per pound. A
convention Of wool-srowers is called this
Fall it, North Ohio.
n1- The American Flag was display
cd ho , ft4 . 6
Consul at 81. Petersburg is the first
time it was ever flung to the ureeze in the
Russian Capital.
~ A Convention of negroes took
place in Boston, Angus. LIST, to bring their
influence to bear in recognizing New
England society on more liberal, sociaI
and political basis.
~ An American engineer in Cuba
was throwa into prison a short time since
for allowing an accident TO occur on the
Havana railroad. He was also fined one
hundred dollars.
~ The 18th Annual Fair Of the
Mary land Institute will open At Baltimore
on the 18th Of October. The exhibition is
to be held in one hail. extending the
whole length Of the New Market, and will
continue open for four weeks.
DA- At Juniata. Miss, died last week q
horse for several years the property of
Gen. jackson, and BY him presented to
an intimate friend. The animal has long
been unable to masticAte, and was fed