Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-03-21
STATE NEWS.


On Friday morning last the river was
clear of ice at Muscatine. Boating will
commence in few days.
DR.. T. s. Bardwell of Muscatine has
been appointed Assistant Surgeon of the
9Th Cavalry.
J. Frank Rowe, Hospital Steward Of
the 3lst Regiment, died near Vicksburg
on the 18th day Of February. He was
from Davenport.
Scarlet fever is now prevailing in Butler
county.
The Masonic University Of the State of
Kentucky has conferred on Dr. John f.
Sanford Of keokuk the honorary title of
L. l.. d.
Colonel W. E. Miller of the 18th Iowa
Infantry is now at Iowa City. He has
been seriously sick, and has come home
to recuperste. His regiment numbers
now $50 effective men. It's sanitary con.
dition is better than any other Of the new
Regiments. So says the Davenport Neps.
Indictments have been found against
certain aliens in Clinton unity, for lille.
gal voting. After swearing in their votes
at different elections, they went before the
Draft Commissioner ut De Witt and
claimed exemption from military service
on the ground of their allegiance to for.
eign powers. There are hundreds of these
scamps in the State who ou,ht to be
smoked out
The charter election at lie Claire, Scot,
county, resulted in mixing things consid,
erably. l.. Summers (Democrat,) was
elected Mayor. Mr.. Stone Republican
was elected Recorder. Three Democratic
and two Republican Trustees were chosen.
Col Wilson Of the 9th Iowa Cavalry,
was presented few days since with an
elegant sword and sash by the officers of
his regiment.
AProlNTMESTs.-Second Lieut. r. NJ.
Lytle has been appointed LIST Lieut. of Co.
G. 10Th Regiment Iowa Infantry, from
Dec. 9Th, 1862. vice Oliver. killed in battle
I'd Lieut.. W. J. Steele, OF lie Claire, is
appointed lst Lieut. Of Co. X, Goth Reg
iment, from January 9th, 1868, vice 1t.
Stone, promoted.
Sales of real estate in the vicinity of
Iowa City show a healthy valuation of
property there. One farm of 200 acres
sold for $4,000. Another one of leo
acres sold for the sum of $1,000.
DR.. Lo.hrop, of Lyons, Clinton county,
has been appointed Assistant Surgeon in
the lst Iowa Cavalry.
The Mississippi river is about clear of
ice as far up as Dubuque, and perhaps
farther.
Three car loads Of cattle, destined for
Poweshiek county, passed over the NJ. l.
NJ. Il. r. two or three days since. The
cattle hail from Kentucky.
The people of East Davenpor. District
are preparing to build fine school house
during the coming season. The schools of
Davenport are reported to he in -four.
lshing condition.
Geo. w. Bourne has resigned his posi-.
ton in the Adjutant Generals Office. lie
is about to return to Boston, his former
residence.
Several individuals in Mahaska county
have been fined literally for selling whisky
to law.
VIM. Bell, Of the 37th Iowa, regiment
Of the Silver Grays) Company !, died on
he Seventh street Military Hospital, after
IN illness Of some ten days. Deceased is
rom Appanoose county, Iowa, and is be-
'ween forty five and fifty years of age
This regiment has lost about twenty of its
members by death since ito organization,
,nlf Of them in st. Louis. "s.
The first steamboat of the season left
Dubuque for 81. Louis on The 18th. s9s, : : ]