Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-10-24
STATE NEWS.


A new brick church is being built q.
Mt. Vernon at cost Of $1,000
-Four prisoners broke Jail in low.
City recently. Three were retaked.
u. B. Bausman, Of Des Moines, was
seriously injured by the late accident on
the C. R. & NJ r. r. r.
A Norwegian College is being bull,
at DEBORAH, which is to cost $l2O,OOo-
Five States unite in the enterprise.
Charles He,zel, Of Scott county, has
sold his years crop Of peaches for sG25.
The fruit brough. one two dollars q
bushei.
Miss Amy Sheppard is teaching in
Keosauqua school Of twenty two con.
trabands. We guess Miss Amy is an an.
cient maiden.
The MeGregor Nc,cs claims to have
the first printing press brought Into Iowa.
1t crossed the river and was Sc. 10 in
Dubuque in 1885 or 1886.
A Minord Wemple, the murderer Of
Alonzo Sherman, OF Monona, has been
arrected at Dixon, Illinois, and will be
taken to McGregor for trial.
j. s. Barnum, of Hardin county has
had q party Of ten Sioux and Winncbago
Indians for several weeks on exhibition at
Barnum's Museum in New York. p. T.
pays $3.50 per week for the use of the
noble red men,"
A gentleman in Boston who had Civ.
en- $500 towald the endowment of Iowa
College, at Grinnell, Informed the agent
few days ago that be had been thinking
his donation was too small, and make it
a thousand. Such "second Thoughts
are rare.
-Posihcely no Draft tn Ioara.-rro.
vost Marshall Hall, of this District, re
ceived official notification from Washing.
ton last Saturday, that no draft should
take place in this State under the last
call Cor troops. This is direct from head >
quarters, and oflicial.--Dar. Gazette.
We learn from the gate Cuy that
the niger received their uniform, and
that the regiment was organized by mus
tering in portion Of lis officers. 1t num-
bers sol in all, and is now made up of
six companies
The people Of Newton are somewhat
disappointed At the prospect that the NJ.
l. NJ. Railroad will be located two or three
miles north Of the town. The Press says
efforts are being made to secure its loca.
ton through the town.
MIR. Stir pc, the Assistant Assessor At
keokuk, seized new distillery in that
city last week. The parties neglected to
comply with the acquisitions of the reve.
nue. laws They had filed no bond, nor
obtained a license as the law requires.
Henry Grie5er, the man who was
badly w.unded in the affair at Garibaldi,
a short time since. is still in precarious
condition. Ed. franklin, the man who
did the shooting, was committed to jail in
default Of bail.
-Ncw Railroad in Northern owa. 49,
The new company to construct railroad
northwestern from McGresor, to connect
with the Minnesota end Cedar Valley r.
r., from Minneapolis, have commenced
work with energy. Track laying was be-
gun at McGregor last week. and it is ex-
pec,ed to finish the first forty miles before
New Years. The name Of the new road
is to be the McGregor Western Railway.
"A DR.. J. C. Hardy, Of Charlton, died
on the evening train Of the Burlington
Road, just as the cars reached Burlington
on Thursday evening Of last week A.
Mt. Pleasant he took veratrum and got
an over dose. A physician in the cars
tVoh SHuips VI H'tu, Uut Iouuu ~ luposel'
bic to save bis life.
The Twentieth Safs.-A letter receiv
ed by Mr.. Slathem from his brother in
the Goth regiment, gives the gratifying
assurance that the Twentieth regiment
was not with Colonel Leake, therefore
was not captured as reported. The regi-
ment is encamped at Morganzia, Point
Coupee Parish, La, and, as we learn
from another source, reported on the 9th
ult, as it for duty, only 90 sergeants, 26
corporals ana 1870 privates. The res.
being sick, absent or on detached service
Col. Leake is reported to have been
wounded before taken prisoner.-Daren-
port Gazette.
-Iora ahead. "Naboclish," owned
by J. Simpson, Sabuls, Iowa, the same
horse which was so successful at the Scott
county Fair. won a purse OF 5000 at q
grand sweepstakes trot at the Illinois
State Fair, thus beating the flower of II.
linois trot.ing sock. The race was Tor
two in three, Naooclsh winning two las.
heats. Time 2.36 and 2:32, Iowa trottiug