Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-06-04
STATE ME WS.

Butter has fallen to fifteen cents 4
pound in Des Moines.
Tho Abba Uaion says Monroe county
has one company Of Volunteers about full.
A company Of volunteers have gone
into rendezvous from johnson county.
The El1ader Journal says = German
woman named Catherine BRIGHT died re.
Gently under Suspicious circumstances.
The Burlington Hawk. Eye says Theo.
Gulick of the Burlington Tribune has en-
listed for the hundred day service.
The Washington Era says Gen. G.
NJ. Dodge is to be promoted to a Major
Generalsbip.
The Second Iowa Cavalry, numbering
about four hundred, took their departure
from Davenport on the 10Th inst.
The 6sss esapany of one hundred
0HtA0a133c1.eA4 reached the rendez-
~ 1faF2oG} u was from Wapcllo,
q, esS Il. Chamberlain.
ice csmpanies Of veterans
oslss % the First Iowa Cavalry have
arrived at their homes ia the Southern
part Of the State.
&C. II. Hyink, a man about sixty years
of age, was accidentally drowned last
geek in the river near Mascatine. So
as' the Journal.
Buchanan county has contributed ono
company Of volunteers, who have gone in.
to rendezvous under command of Capt. C.
F. Herrick. -
Tho Clinton Herald says The sum of
s25, 900 was paid in one day las, week to
the men employed on the Railroad bridge
over the Mississippi river a. tina. point.
The Waterloo Courier says a man
named Charles c. Perse stole horse on
the 10Th inst, near La Porte City in Black
Hawk county, took the animal to Iowa
City and left it. The thief was arrested,
aud is now in Jail. p.
"A company Of volunteers enlisted in
Muscatine county and commanded by
Capt. Butter arrived a: Davenport on the
18th, and went into camp. Another raised
in Mahaska county, ard still another from
Appanoose, arrived on the 18th and went
into rendezvous.
The Burlington Hawk Eye tells of 4
farmer-J. A. ia:ta-living eight miles
from that city, who shipped for Chicago
two steers whose aggregate weight wa.
forty'se hundred aud eighty pounds
They were raised in Page county. and fed
BY Mr.. Lat,a. They were worth in Chica
60 At tho time OF shipment 1882 40.
Tho Fort Dodge Republican says that
. portion Of the remains of human body
was found on the prairie between Wright
county and Fort Dodge few days ago
A prairie Ere hal passed owe, the place
where the body was found since the body
had been deposited there, bat no clue as
to the identity Of the remains could be
found.
The Dubuque Times says a little
daughter of F. Z. Bissel|, Esq, Of that
city, while visiting playmate on the
corner of Twelfth and Bluff streets, and
while a: play, fell into we'll which was
being dug ia the yard. She fell upon a
mau who was at work in the we'll, and
thus probably saved her from instant
death. Her wounds are serious, but are
not regarded as dangerous.
The Muscatine Journal says one of
the hundred day recruits Of that city was
discovered to be a woman last week. She
lined the army" two weeks ago, since
which time she has put on all the airs of u
gay recruit, carrying herself with swag.
gering dir, swearing like tour army in
Flande:s,' and sleeping with the "other
boys without her sex being discovered.
She resigned her "posish" on the discov-
cry and travelled home. Bully for the
woman.
The Bloomfield Clarion says one of
the most terrific hail storms, accompan.
led by violent wind ard heavy rain, .ha.
has ever visited that section Of country,
passed some three miles south of Bloom
field on Monday evening. The hail is
said to have laid four or five inches deep
on the level. Timber, crops, and all man.
ner of vegetation, in the area of country
visited by this storm suffered severely,
and the corn and oats much of which was
already up was literally washed out Of the
ground.
The Dee Moines Register says from
all sections of Central Iowa We hear the
most fa,,ering accounts Of the prospects
Of crops. Abou. three weeks ago the
finest rain ever known "upon the Cont.
nent,' or to be moro specific, since the
Deluge, visited this region, and irrigated