Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-07-30

has been presented with sword, costing
5000.
The County Judge Of Polk county
has issued lO3 marriage licenses since tbe
frst of January last.
The farmers are Offering $3.50 and
$500 per day for harvest hands in the
| eastern part Of the State.
- Hon. J. B. GrinneI's clip of wool
this season will bring him $4,000! He
is eminently wool|y. Register.
- The Boonsboro Times says the clip
Of washed wool on the Ten Eyck farm
this year amounts to 1850.
The Marengo Reriew proposes to
commeLce in short time the publication
Of the names Of delinquent subscribers.-
That will bring them up standing.
Counterfeits on the Dubuque branch
| Of the State Bank are in circulation in
some portions of the State. The counter.
Gei,s are los raised from the genuine rs.
We see by the Dubuque Herald that
dock Of 1920 sheep passed through that
City from Ohio, on the 2lst inst bound
for the interior Of Iowa.
- The managers Of the Cedar Rapids
Railroad intend orening'a wagon road
from the present terminus Of the r. r. to
Panora, to intersect the stage road from
Des Moines to Council Bluffs So Council
Bluffs Nonpureil.
The Editor OF Marshall county Re-
porter states that he has not seen O new
potato this season Bugs have destroyed
them. We know how to sympa,hize with
the Reporter man. Nary potato over
here for same reason.
- The members OF the Bar present.
ed valuable god.headed cane to Judge
Isbell, of this District, at Marion, on Tues.
day evening" The presentation speech
was made by Col. Preston. Judge Isbell
is well deserving of the honor which has
been conferred upon him. Ctdar Valley
Times.
The Fort Dodge Republican says
young man by the name Of Stewart,
who has father and brother now ir the
army, moved last spring from Ohio with
his mother and several young children to
Tama comfy. He has lately been drafted
in Ohio, the Provost Marshal has taken
him TO the army. Hard case.
Perhaps the most lucid work which
has hailed from this State, is composed Of
two volumes, entitled Geology Of Iowa.
The only person who has read these vol.
umes is now in a very critical condition -
His submaxillary law is Of no account to
masticate his food. The effort TO get
through book, which, all the way through,
is stake. aud rdered with barbarous words
of pronouuceable length, has ruined him
for life. The Geology of Iowa. may be
fair specimen Of Choctaw Literature, but
it must be confessed that it is very poor
English.-State Register
The citizens of Eldyvil'e, lately held
a meeting and passed Resolutions. The
preamble says that the State Of morals has
become SO low in that city, THAT some
thing must be done \
to stop the tide of Iewdness which renders
it unsafe for our (their) wives and children
to walk the streets, or remain in our
(lheir) own houses.
VIM. Duane Wilson Secretery Agri-
cultural College, writing to the State
Register, July 18Th, 1864, in regard to the
prospect Of crops in Iowa Cor 1864, says
after careful and we'll considered calcu-
lation, he has arrived at the following re.
suit: Wheat-al,hough the drou,h and
chin,z bug has damaged it much, the
yield will average ten bushels per acre, or
l2,SOO,00 bushels in the State Corn-the
average will be about forty-three bushels
to the acre, the gross yield 50, 900 bush
els. Oats-Average about thirty bushels
per acre, or, 1924, 44O bushels. Sor.
ghum-not as much planted as last year,
prospective YIELD not to exceed l,6s7,5O0
gallons.
- Butter is selling at l3 cents per pound
in Chicago. In Des. Moines i: is selling
at 20 cents. This is Notwithstanding
more-no.hiog less. We paid day or
two since one dollar for a peek os new
potatoes.-Four dollars bushels for pc
tatoes. Four dollars bushel for potatoes,
20 cents a pound for butter, GO cents a
pound for coffee, and $3.50 hundred for
flour! Jerusalem! These terrible prices
will have a backset one of these days.
Rather than submit to such extortion, we
intend hereafter to live on Faith which is
said to be On excellent article Of diet for
dyspep;ics. If we die in the experiment,
we shall have the consolation in death to
know that we have saved our money, al.
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