Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-10-18
STATE NEWS.

INV c0oA oPPoAnt00 ouiA cou VI su0 "Sd~
ty-Eight Infantry.
The Twenty Fourth Regiment, en-
camped at Muscatine, will probably leave
this week for Davenport where it will be
incorporated into brigade
The remains of an infant we're found
in we'll in Mount Pleasant q few days
since. 1t was a case of iniantside. The
guilty party is not known.
Thomas Bowen, formerly resident
of Mt Pleasant, is now Colonel Of the I'd
Kansas Cavalry.
The frs, death which occurred in the
24ih Regiment at Muscatine, was that Of
young soldier by the name of Mckay
who was to have been married in a few
days
The opening of the State Fair at Du.
buque was no: propitious. There was
rain the first day.
-Adjt. Gen. Baker is stopping tempo
rarily in Dubuque, to attend to the inter-
es:s Of the Regiments rendezvousng there.
1t is stated that since the war broke
out, one hundred and eleven students of
Western College, Linn County, have en-
listed. This College is under the SUPER
vision of the United Brethren Church.
Joseph P Robinson, an old settler Of
Scott county, died few days since at his
residence in Blue Grass Township.
Col. Preczel, Of the 10Th Iowa Infan
try, is now in Davenport. He has tender
ed his resignation to the War Department
and has been permitted leave Of absence.
"A soldier belonging to Camp Kirk.
wood, Charlton county, ran guard one
night and proceeded TO beehive which
he was about to despoil when the owner
bIazed away at him with sho. gun, and
brought him down. He was badly bu. no,
fatally injured.
-Asbury Griffin is associated with Mr..
Williams in the publication of the Knox
vile Rcpu5tcan, Mr.. G. published the
Nebraska North for some time in our
eighboring town of Dakota City, N. T.
F. I. Campbell, late Editor of the
Montezuma Republican, has been trans.
ferred from the 2Slh to the 40th Regiment
and appointed Sergeant Major of the
latter Regiment.
David Mosier, Henry sbopbell, John
Worth and J. Hindson, a | of the 4th Cav
airy, were killed recently near Helena,
while on picket duty
AT the battle of Iuka Col Rankin Of
the 18th Infantry was thrown from his
horse aud slightly bruised. His horse WAS
shot three times.
Two hundred and fifty recruits for
the Is, Iowa Cavalry passed keokuk
day or two since bound Tor Sprias field,
Missouri.
Col John C. Culbertson, of Iowa City
declines to accept the Office Of Assistant
Adjutant General rendered him By Gov.
kirkwood.
The hog cholera is prevailing fatally
in Charlton county.
The people of South Eastern Iowa
are still apprehensive of rebel raids from
NJ ssouri. Prompt measures have been
taken to head off all such demonstrations.
Hon. Chauncey Gilett, member of
the Legislature from Franklin county in
1860, died recently of consumption in
Chicago.
The proprietor and employees of the
Dubuque Times Office have presented
Lieut. Fl. W. Petit. the late Local of that
paper, with an elegant sword.
A Company for the Mounted Rifle
Regiment for border service, is now Or
gan!zing in keosauqua.
-Adjutans General Baker has lately
received an assignment Of 10000 Prus.
sian mu,kets, with ammunition and &C.
coutrements.
TIE Iowa CoRx CRop.-This staple is
now 60 nearly ripe as to be entirely out
Of the reach OF frosts, and the crop may
now be safely counted upon as the largest
ever produced in the State. The estimated
average yield is sixty bushels to the acre
The Secretary Of the State Agricultural
Bureau, after careful investigation. comes
to the conclusion that the aggregate
breadth Of land occupied by corn in this
State ia, at the very lowest calculation,
1925, 900 acres, giving Weld Of IS, $50.
bushels--beng l6 100000 bushe Is more
han was produced last year The same
authority ADDS that the crop Of this year
may reach the enormous amount Of l00,,
100000 bushels! This would give each
man, woman and child in Iowa about las
bushels - Ddr. Dam
SERIOUS AT tho Lee County Fair, last
week, our esteemed friend, Judge Clag-
gett of the Keokuk Constitution, who by
the way, is great horse fancier, was seri-
onslv kicked nv a bnrsa ON the proupds