Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-03-24
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100 counties of Illinois.
nsy- The next Illinois State Fair will
be held at Freeport.
Ha5@ The Bank Commissioners have 10.
Gated a Branch of the State Bank at Lv-
| ons.
sas- The first volume of the Life of
James Madison edited by Hon. W. c.
Rives, of Virginia, is ready for the press.
nzA- The government have established =
new Post Office at Fort St. Vrain, in the
"Gold Diggins,' for the accommodation Of
the miners.
Sea- A post office has been established
at Sioux Rapids, in Buena Vista County,
and Lenox II. Barnes has been appointed
post master.
1D- A Negro once gave the following
toast: ''De late Gubsrnorl of de state
him come in wild berry little opposition,
him 60 out wild none at all"
IER- The government Of the United
States is about to erect q mammoth fouu-
dry on the Pacific coast 1t will be loca-
ted at the Mare Island Navy Yard, near
San Francisco.
H@-T There is large emigration from Salt
Lake into the southern sections of Califor-
MIA. The local papers state that the towns
are crowsd with Mormons or fugitives
from Utah.
49, The Oldest couple in Vermont 10
said to be living in Hnrdwck, the old gen.
tleman being 81 and his wife 80, the TIVE
having lived together ia wedlock ~ years.
Very remarkable-very.
reA- How came such greasy mess in
the oven? said fidgety spinster to her
maid-of-all-work. Why" replied tho
girl, "the candles fell into the water, and
put them into the oven to dry
ssy- Cockney, seeing drove Of jack
asses going by, to Yankee My hi, there
goes lot of Yankees.
Jonathan" Yes, they're going to
IsJ'- The law passed by the last session
of the Legislature of this State making
the first term Of Court after suit was
brought simply an appearance term, ex>
pred by limitation on the first day Of Jan.
uary last.
geB- \ butchers boy carving tray on
his shoulder accidentally struck it against
a ady's head and discomposed her wig.
The deuce take the tray cried the Ia
dy in a passion.
"Madam,' said the lad, gravely, "the
deuce cannot take the tray"
Et2- The remains of Ira J. Thruston,
the pronaut, who met his death BY his
unfortunate ascension from Adrian Mich,
in Sept. last, wers accidentally found about
ten mile, north west Of Toledo, and about
ten mile, from the place of his second
ascent. His remains were fully identified.
DsT-Francis P Blair, Jr., who is now ad.
vocating Black Repubhcanism down east
,
fancy and mis- associates of the Supreme
Court without stint: and all that in the
face of The fact that Judge fancy long
since emancipated every slave he owned.
Es.,- The death OF Hon. +. A. Hanne-
gan,, formerly L. S. Senator from Indiana,
is announced, having occurred at St. Louis
to which city he removed some three or
four years ago. He had taken high rank
in tn. legal profession at st. Louis, hav-
ing reformed from the irregular habits
that had ruined his early prospects.
rs1- The Mankota Independent learns
that the Winnebagoes have squandered all
the money paid them in the early part of
winter. and that they have sold the bills or
orders 10 the traders for nearly the full
payment. Consequently. the money wi Il
be paid to the traders.
1ag"NIc. WARD, the young rascal who
was whipped by the schoomaster Butler,
at Louisville and for which another Ward
assassin killed the schoolmaster, recently,
on Mississippi boat, fred a revolver At
a man named Cameron, shooting off the
lip of the latter
saT The number of Indians within the
limits Of the United States is $4,000
More than three hundred and fifty treaties
have been ratified with the Indians since
the adoption of the Constitution, by which
the Government hasaccquired 53l, l63, ISIS
acres of land.
ga-A Cincinnati court has granted
decree of divorce on the ground that the
husband uttered an oath in the sacred
presence Of the wife. The Enquirer says
the wife had 'hecome so supersensualized
by the ETHEREAL influence of spiritualism
that the gross vulgate was shocking to her
nerves. Delicate creature.
ssA- The For, Dodge Sentinel mentions
that large wooden factory is now in pro-
cess Of erection a, Swede Point, in Boone
County. 1t will, probably, be completed
the last of this season. This will be
great encouragement to the farmers in all
the wide region around, already so much
engaged in wool-growins, and so well a.
dapted for the business.
rsn. A National Sunday School Teach.
er's Convention was held at Philadelphia
last week, Hon. Jas. Pollock ex>Goyer-
nor of Pennsylvania, acting as President.
| The Convention was largely attended, and