Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-11-10
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The SUPPRESS Court adjourned on Tues.
day, the 23d ult The Davenport Gazette
says that 200 cases were decided during
the term.
TOBACCO UNDER THE BAN OF THE CHURCH.
The Ohio Conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has issued its anathema
against tobacco, in the following preamble
and eso,ution, which were adopted at its
late meeting at Gallipolis;
WHEREAS, The use OF tobacco is . great
evil, and leads to other OWLS therefore,
Resolced, BY The Ohio Conference, That,
after the present session. we will not re.
ceive any persons into full connection
who persists in the use of tobacco.
An editor says: ikpn our outside will
be found some fine Suggestions for raising
peaches"
We suppose on his inside may be found
the peaches MISUNDERSTANDING.
We wish we had few for our inside
Will somebody send enough for 'leader u
The wife of cotton broker at Montgom.
cry, Ala, received and opened telegram
in the absence of her husband. 1t ran,
" Your darling-siek-Saint Nicholas
send l,ooo-true love-only-Mary-Ne
York, Sept, so" Jealous rawlings and
fainting fits employed the wife till her bus
bands return, when, curbng her feelings,
She handed him the missive. She was
comforted by an explanation from his
cypher book of the dispatch.
A few years ago, on the occasion Of the
blowing up of a steamer, on West b
river, poet perpetrated the following:
THE wheels they turned and the crank it creaked,
The whistle it whstled and the boiler it leaked,
They looked at the boiler and found it rusted,
And all OF sudden the old thing busted"
Oliver l: Taylor, editor Of the Iowa State
Gazette, died at his residence in Burling-
ton on the 10Th ult., Of typhoid fever, af.
ter an illness of two weeks.
The cheapest, but not the most pleasant
astronomy, is blow on the head with a
club. A watchman's mace has revealed
more stars than Lord Ross telescope.
The Oregon Mountaineer says that sta.
TONERS up north, anticipating Lanes cleo
ton, are closing out their stock of spell.
ing books, under the impression tha. cor.
rect spelling will become nationally un-
fashionable.
1t is understood that Gen. Lane will not
return to Oregon to reside, but will 80
back to the "Old North State" and seek
the old roof tree. He has been put out,
and prefers to stay out.
Many years ago Elwood Fisher predicted
that the epitaph which in future ages
would be inscribed upon our political ia
ble,s would read as follows: "Ilere lies
people who, in striving to give liberty to
the negro, lost their own freedom"
A rural editor was recently married,
and, previous to starting on hi, wedding
tour, promised his readers that be would
give them minute detail of all he sag
and did" No doubt there will be a call
for large extra edition Of his paper.
When two caravans meet n the interior
OF Africa, the two head men approach
each other and ten go back . reasonable
distance, lower their heads and butt. The
one that goes down has TO yield the right
Of way to the one who downs" him.
The Democratic jackson Association of
Washington having expelled Mr.. Wallach,
editor Of the Star, in its report of the
meeting the Star gave it the subioined
heading: "TuE DEM JACK. ASS BRAYs.,
The abrevations, Of course, were to save
space, but they were expressive.
The trees have nearly all shed their fol.
iage, and prepared themselves for the
fierce winds of the winter months. From
our window can be seen several tall cot
tonwoods, nearly all in state of naked
ness. Adam and Eve, in the garden, had
more leaves on them than some of these
trees.
Some very astute individual has discov.
cred that most new watches are second
handed.
The hippip.pip and the hip-pop pop
potamus has arrived in New York, and,
with his Arabian keeper, taken passage
for New Orleans.
The shortest article we ever saw in a
newspaper was the article a.
The Postmaster General has issued an
order that after the LIST of Novemb Der all
unpaid letters will be sent to the dead let
ter office, the practice of notifying the wri.
ters thereof not having the desired effect
of preventing their accumulation in the
post office.
Mrs Elizabeth Bloun., aged sixty eight,
was married at Kingston, c. W., last week,
to A. V. Bulger, aged twenty The
fair widow had $4,000 to counteract the
summers which have passed over her
head.
The potato rot is prevailing to cousid
cradle extent in many parts of Massachn.
sets. In many localities the crop is an
entire failure.
Many portions of the East are being
visited by snow storms. Four inches late
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