Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-10-17

Capt Manning Of the Xi.'i.,ippi dses
.3-TAs Davenpor: Gazette say. that tbs
Sorghum crop Of ssott county viii -
lssgs. Notwithstanding the recent itosta
-Suel Foster, of Muscat;ne Who is
engaged in preparing = report Of the con.
dition Of the crops 10 the eastern portion
Of the Ssste, for the Agricultural Depart.
asns Ae Washington, es,ima,es The dam.
49, done to the corn crop by drought,
ehints bug. aud frost, =, 40 per cent.
adj. 0en. Baker il receiving large
quantities Of arms and cavalry equip.
msnss from St. Louis, designed for new
Regiments raised and those in process Of
filling up.
-Fsrmers in Scott county are re.li.ing
$500 to 5000 per acre for their onion
crop. ",-
Tho Davenport Gazette learns thu.
the Mississippi and Missouri R.ilrosd-
extension Of the Chicago and Rock Island
lie to be pushed westward to Dee Moines
It an early day:
-Four banks have thus far been start.
ed IN the State on tho National nlan.-
One at Keokuk with capital OF $50, 900,
ono at Lyons, capital SEC, 90, and one At
Iowa City, capital $4,000, and ono 1t
Davenport, capital 100000.
Owing 60 the rapid;ty With which the
9th Cavalry is being raised. another cav.
airy regimen. Is already talked Of. and j.
il stated that the Colonel for this regi-
ment has been already designated, and
application has been made to the War
Department. for authority to raise it.
The Maquoketa Excelsior reports
that The Treasurer and Recorder Of Jack.
500 10 defaulter in the sum of 1900.
u. c. CuIbertson. Esq. Of Iowa City,
has been appointed Assistant Adju'ant
General. in place Of Lieut.. Col Trumball
who has been appointed to command the
Ninth Cavalry.
"A man named Campbell. about IS
years Of age, vas instantly killed At Du-
buque recently, BY being run over by .
locomotive on the railroad track. He was
deaf and did not hear the engine when !,
whis,led.
The pretended son Of Robert Dale
Oven, who took in the people of Dubu.
que, visited Davenport last week and was
playing the same game there, being .Jeted
BY the irst class society, when his 70 81
character vaa exposed and he suddenly
decamped. He obtained some money Is
advance pay on certain rare scientific
works which be promised to forward.
Samuel X. Barkley, an cd citizen Of
Davenport, aged 81 years. shot himself
through tho head With \ revolver and was
found dead in biz room. The Gazette
attributes the rash act to intomper ance.
The deceased was unmarried. He had
many acquaintances and friends.
B. B. Bray.on and party having 10
charge the location of the Western extern.
sion Of the NJ. l. NJ. Railroad passed
through DesMoines en- route for the Platte
Valley last week. There is fair PROS
pect, We believe, that this importan. road
10 to be pushed forward vigorously, this
fall and winter.
The statement Of the Dubuque Times
that the Herald is to change hands on the
18th Of October is denied BY the Herald
Capt S. B. Espy, Of Fort Madison,
Was killed at the battle in Georgia. He
was. some years since, editor Of paper
At Fort Madison, aud leaves family At
that place.
The Dubuque and Sioux City Rail
road is under contract for immediate con.
struction twenty three miles vest Of Cedar
Falls. The Illinois and Mississippi te'e.
gragh line il also 10 be extended from
Dubuque to Cedar Falls by the 18Th Of
November.
A substantial truss bridge, Of the
Howe Patent, is being bull. over the Iowa
river near Marshalltown. The Times says
that this will be one Of the 3est bridges
ia Central Iowa.
w. f Ijams. Superintendent. Of tho
State Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
during the past eight yeara, has lately
resigned his position on account Of i'll
health. Prof. b. Talbot, late Of the Ohio
Institute, is bis successor.
Judge Hubbard Of Sioux City was in
town last N onday, stopping at the Nation.
al Hotel. he came for the purpose Of
addressing the last "ereat abolition rally"
At Nevada. But the rally wasn't there
That wasn't = "6zzle."
In the evening he addressed few Of
the strongest At the Court House. The