Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-09-27
STATE TIE MS.

-AssEssoRs.-The last General Assem-.
bly, changed the old mode of assessing
property by an act (cbap. Us, page PA,
sec 2d) which provides that all townships
containing within their borders city or
incorporated town shall elect two assessors
one to assess the property Of this city,
the other of the township.
-DRrMMEp OUT.-Wm. Barber, a pri.
vate of the 22d Iowa, was drummed out
of camp, at Iowa City on Saturday. A
woman of this city had been robbed and
accused the man of the theft. The man
was searched, and the money found in his
possession. He was tried by regimental
court martial-his head was shaved, and
he was drummed out Of camp the same
day.-Hark- Eye.
Persons without front teeth have been
held to be exempt from the draft on &C.
count of their not being aole to bite q
cartridge In consequence of this, a
good many fellows, it is said, hare had
their front teeth pulled. But now an or.
der from the War Department prescrbes
that the toothless shall not be exempt, but
subject to draft for the artillery service
Good for them.
This will be ;omewhat rough on some
of our Dubuque X. NJ pts.-Dub. Time.
-PRoMoTED.-Among the recent mill.
tary promotions, we notice the appoint
ment Of our townmau N. W. Mills to the
Lieutenant Colonelcy of the ID Iowa In
fantry. Some 10 months ago, he occupied
the position of Lieutenant in Co. D. He
succeeded to the Captaincy of the same
company on tho promotion of Captain
Croker. Subsequently in view of his
military services, he was appointed Major
Of the ID. Now he has taken another
in promotion. Colonel Mills has earned
distinction by solid service.--Des 1Moines
Register.
SAD ACCIDENTAL child of Mr.. John
Dow, of Harris Grove, was almost in
stantly killed last Sunday. l. was riding
with its mother in one bore buggy the
horse, for some reason, became unman-
ageable, ran into a fence and com menced
kicking, and finally succeeded in throwing
Mrs, Dow and child from the buggy. The
child lived about an hour afterwards. The
mother was very seriously injured but is
expected to recover Magnolia Rep.
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"CANARD" This word, now popular'y
used for hoax, is the French for duck,
aud the origin of its new application is
said to be the following amusing "sell'
on the public: To give sly lift to the
ridiculous pieces Of intelligence which the
journals are in the habit of publishing ev.
cry morning, Cornlissen stated that an in.
teresting experiment bad just been made,
calculated to prove the extraordinary 70.
racily of ducks Twenty Of these ami.
mails had been placed together, and one
Of them having been killed and cut up in
to thesmale,t possible pieces. feathers
and all, and thrown to the other nineteen,
had been glut,onously gobbled mp in an
exceedingly brief space Of time. Anoth.
or was taken from the remaining nineteen,
and being chopped small like its prede.
cessor, was served up to the eighteen,
and at once devoured like The other; and
so on to the last, who was thus placed in
the remarkable position Of having eaten
his nineteen companions in a wonderful
short space Of time All this most pleas.
antly narrated, obtained success which
the wri,ed was far from anticipating, for
the story ran the rounds Of all the Jour-
mails of Europe 1t then became almost
forgotten for about score Of years, when
it came back from America, with ampli-
fication, which i. did not boast Of at the
commencement, and with regular Ger.
tifcate Of the autopsy Of the body of the
surviving animal, whose esophagus was
declared to have been seriously injured
Every one laughed at the history Of the
canard thus brought up again, but tho
word retains its novel Specification.