Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-01-03
SIOUX CITY, IOWA. SATURDAY, JANUARY g. 1863
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in Dubuque. " ,.r y ]"' "'..' T''.'' 79'
.a.. Winter wheat y selling in. Darenporl
at 81 per bushel
There is no whisky shop in Magnolia
So says .bs Repub,can Of tha, place -
Two citizeas of Warren County, Jas.
Brown !'''n and l Pleasant BOND, disd yer, sud
deH!y a few days since. 49, =, -"
The aggregate Federal assessment: in
the First Congrp ssional District is over
twenty.six thousand dollars
Col; Vandever is now in St. Louis
getting ready for down river expedition.
He will not resume his seat in Congress
e, Zerg, who will be remembered as
the murderer Of Bushy in keokuk few
months since, mas teen acquitted.
The Independence Guardian speaks
highly Of the prosperous condition of the
Dubuque and Sioux City railroad. 1t is
doing heavy, renumerative business.
A FIRE broke, out 10 ,McGregor recent.
ly, destroying the warehouses occupied by
MyGregor 4 Co, Lacey \ Skinner aud
Shoeball 4 tlarvey-Ioss SO 600.
Col. William Dewey, Of the 23l low.
Infantry, was buried at Des .Moines on
Wednesday the lDh inst The ctremo
nies took place at lngham Hall, under the
superintendence, Of the Masonic Order.
General Curtis sends dispatch to
Gov. kirkwood, informing that if the Iowa
paroled prisoners repor, themselves at St.
Louis before the first Of January, no char
ges viii be preferred against them.
The editor Of the White Cloud CNnf
refers to the Presidents Message thus -
The greater portion of our space, this
week, is occupied by an entertaining pro.
dnction of A. Lincoln. We hope % pro
cure his services as regsIsr contributor
10 our columns" ~
A man named Parsons, overcome with
liquor, lay down near the railroad track
in WappelIo county, and vent to Sleep
with his band ON the rail. Result-three
fingers were severed from his hand when
the cars passed along. .~'.'f
An old lady who died lately in the
vicinity Of Vandaiia, Jasper couuty, h.u
n husband, Two sons, and four sous III law
IN the army. she WAS making READY to
visit them at Corinth when she wastserzed
with fatal disease .'...s "5 p #"t9"
A genIleman from Iowa has obtaiaed
n patent tor making wine from sorghum,
which is said by conaoisseurs at Washing.
ton to be equal 10 Madera. It. c1,u 5e
made So q, TO be sold for, Is ceutss p,,r
gallon A h"e, .quanty OF ram ,~ also
made from the same proiutp-- Cdicd4o
Jourdai ! .."s '... "'- '" 'i. ."'. 81
g. - ihe 10 loving psraens hay be=u an
pointed by she C.rc.ll Cuuil to. be l. Cu,4ju
States COmmlss,oncrs int fha Mate Il,
Iowa. viz: J. L. Harvey, OF Biboque J.
n, Rogers, Of DrvrnPott; II, b reu
Eyck, OF keoku. &c ", Sas.e. of Far
field |; Stephen sloisy, oi t,es h!oines p d
&. Bloomer, Of Cohtttl Buff, AID " q
Woodward, OF Muscatinr
AS an eAam,le OF ctatai preva ence If
d'ptherla Ia Dallas county, WI, menuon
that John Meus ui that COUNTY lost 5 of
his I children. OF three chlidren OF il
Mr.lJones, Two died OF the ane disease.
friend wrlrng to Us fom Adel, AMI
VINO gives us the above particulars, states
that he has made 23 cotlins within the
past three monthA-DeS Moiaes Register.
-Diptheria is prevailing extensively IN
the Northern par, of Scot, county.
We are inf, rmed, says the Des Moiues
Rcgister,,b BY II. D. Merri,, Of Fort Dodge,
thatsn disease calledr. the :. Baekirg m
very fatal among the cattle Ih'Webster
county. 1t is exclusively Confined to
young cattle. Its cause nul its remedy
are alike unknown, III. same disease
has prevailed considerably ia Illinois. jibul
until recent date, its ravayes were not
Transferred to Iowa N--> "'"
The Clinton Herald cf last Saturday
announced its suspension until the first Vi
January adding that il was ''byno means
certain that publication would be rel
sumed at that da,e;+it would depend upon
the citizens Of Clinton. l..r.5,... st.. H.
~ lien tholshni dollar . worth OF prop
er,y was destroyed by fire in Burlington
en- Tuesday nigh last. The City Brewery
and four dwelling houses we're pestroyed.
The fire is thought to have, originated in
lbs stable attached TO the Brewery. We
CLEAN fiom the Hark Eye. L.3 II" '.''
"A CHANGE Or BASE. The N. Y, Tines
until lately very rad cai' speaking Of the
late blunders in The conduct of military
affairs says: Fl i''' ''' st'
!, isthe Governmental at Wdshinstoa, and