Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-06-09
NEWS ITEMS.
- The prospect for good crops IN II
linois is encouraging.

12- The assessment OF personal and
real property in St Paul for tho curren,
year amounts TO s5,s72,544.
H0 At New Orleans on the 5th, the
water was eight inches higher than ever
known before and rising slowly.
"a Mrs. Mary Taylor Key, mother Of
the late P. Barton Key, died recently at
Baltimore, aged IS years.
nJ- The Nebraskian of the 9Th, saws
that during the preceding fortnight one
thousand wagons had passed through
Omaha for Califo n a.
%The Dubuque Sun of the 26th ult,
says that about sixty emigrant teams have
crossed the Dubuque Ferry, bound for To-
wa within the last three days.
I6- The total value of horseAesh in the
United States is 1897 100000. The num-
Der is 4,5OO,O0l, of which Ohio has the
largest number and Minnesota the least.
nea- According to the report of the
commissioners Of emigration, the number
of emigrants who arrived at New York
since the first of January last is 2l,329.
s<s- The Bugle says that "enigration
to Pixies Peak has about fzzled out" but
that an average of about fifty wagons pass
through Council Bluffs daily en- route for
California.
Bea- The Democracy of Pottawatamie
county have chosen L. W. Rabbit, J. D.
Test, S. e. Kennedy, L. s. Hills and W.
C. James to represent them in the COM
ing State Convention.
AA young man named Robert
Humphrey has twice climbed flag staff,
one hundred feet high, in St. Louis. and
stood on its apex. He should be put in
lunatic asylum.
@- The War Department have order.
ed an armed escort to the trains Of army
supplies, from apprehended attacks by the
returning Pixies Peakers, information hav.
ing been received Of the necessity Q f such
protection.
aarThe uncommonly high water in the
Missouri and other tributaries of the Mis-
sissippi threaten the lowlands seriously
with crevasses, floods and miasma. Just as
the warm weather is coming on. A sick.
ly season is anticipated.
A4- In China q man can obtain d.
vorce from his wife if he can prove she is
jealous. This beats Indiana, and If the
Chinese should ever become civilize ,
what an emigration would set out for their
land from all Christian countries.
neA- W: D. Phillips, lawyer from To-
wa, and late clerk in the Central Land
Office, is now in Jail in Washington, to an
swer an indictment for forgery. He ad.
mits that he used Senator Douglas frank
without his knowledge or consent.
D6- In Montgomery county. Pa, the
Peoples Convention met at Norristown
recently, and resulted in the selection of
two sets Of delegates t, the STATE Conven.
ton to be held at Harrisburg. The spill. oc-
Cured between the Republican and Know
Nothing members.
lor The Odd Fellows block. in Dubu-
que, was entirely destroyed by fire on the
night of the Goth ult. The Post Office
and L. S. Land Office were in the building.
but all the papers and property belonging
to them were saved. Loss $50, 900 in
sured for $4,000.
Ma The Democracy of Ohio have nom.
mated for Governor, r. p. Raney; for
Supreme Judge, II. c. Whitman Auditor
of State, A. Volney Dorsey Secretary Of
State, VIM. Bushnell Lieut. Governor,
W. H. Stafford; Board of Public Works,
James Tomlinson School Commissioner,
Charles Allen.
nth- The Republican National Commit.
tee met at Albany n. Y. on the 18th ult.,
TO determine the time and place of hold
ing the next convention for the nominn-
ton of candidates for President and vice.
President. The proceedings were private
but it is thought they would decide in ia
vor of St Louis or Wheeling.
SU- The Muscatine Journal of the goth
says:
"One Of Brigham Young's wives was in
town this morning, having become tired,
perhaps of the small dividend ofthe Saints
attention falling to her. She was dressed
much as other ladies, and had on bloom
er hat
sa- One of the French generals now
in SARDINIA, is character. Gen. Bourbaki
of the Zouaves, says the Courier de Paris
stormed the, city of Zaatcha during the
war in Algeria at the head Of his troops
in white kid gloves and patent leather
boots. He brandished q stick in his
hands, aud marched up to the canons
mouth with segar between his teeth.
The Forces iM the Field.
Sardinia 20 ctoto1 ,o hoya =, 0ln t.ooo.