Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-12-24
STATE NEWS,

~2-Rego'ar trains are ranning TO Wsver,
verify. The Cedar Falls l. Minnesota
Railroad is completed to that point
. The First Regiment of State Militia
has been formed At Davenport, and Ira
NJ. Clifford elected Colonel, C. Mueller
Lieut.. Colonel, and T. s. sIaymaker Major.
d. N. Cooley, Of Dubuque, has been
presented with beautiful silver tea set,
consisting Of eleven massive pieces ele.
gantly ernamented with eu bossed work,
bearing the inscription =" Presented to
Hon. D. N. Cooley, Secretary of the Union
E. G. Committee, by his associates in the
campaign of 1864 Washington, D. C.
Assistant Surgeon John j. Saunders
LIST Iowa Cavalry, has been dismissed from
tn service by order of the War Depart.
ment, for being drunk and useless to the
service.
The Second Regiment Of Iowa State
Militia was organized in Davenport last
Saturday, by electing JAS. Thor;ngtou
Colonel, II. Laischer Lieut. Colonel, and
&. W. Smith Major.
They have big hog down in Daven.
port that weighs, live weight, $50 pounds,
and SOLD for s93 80. 1t was of the Chester
White breed, aud brought ut the rate of
lie per pound. - Dubuque Herald ''
On Wednesday Of last week, an old
man, named Bleitgen. while at work in
the woods. was 50 badly burned by fire
communicated to his clothes from his pipe
in his pocket, that he expired in o short
time. Deceased lived about three miles
Judge Claggett sued Captain Ball for
$4,000 damages for shooting of cannon
somewhere N Keokuk. The Judge finally
withdrew the suit, on the reception Of $50
from the defendants counsel.
DR.. Cochrane of Story City, Story
County, late y got into difficulty with bis
son, and shot h;m 10 the side. The young
man is about 20 years Of age and is hard.
" expected to recover.
We CLEAN from the Buchanan Guar.
dian the vote Of severa! towns on the line
Of the Dubuque Il Sioux City r. H., viz
Independence, 4G3; Cedar Falls, 433;
West Waterloo, 2o4 Eas, Waterloo, las.
Our cotemporary at independence
gives long list Of substantial building
improvements made recently in tha. -four
i.hing place. The towns on the line Of
The d. l. S c. Railroad are increasing
very rapidly in wealth and population.
The editor Of the Lansing Journal
lives in good town, a!bei, be lives in
Corp"rhead county. As Thanksgiving
exercise he writes Of his neighbors: 1--WE
are thankful for the energy, industry,
Christianity, 'vir,ue, sociability, iberality,
patriotism, pride, charity. wisdom and
goodness OF the community 10 which
We live.
-Adjutan. General Baker has issued
general order strongly conaemning the
gross negligence aud carelessness that
characterize so many of the descriptive
rolls and discharges forwarded to the chief
recruiting and mastering officer for this
State. Promotion will be refused in future
to any Iowa officers whose rolls are re-
ceived in an improper condition.
- The somewhat celebrated hore,
= Wild Hornet" owned by G. ". Conner,
Of Musca,ine, Iowa, was sold few days
since far $500, and sent to Chicago.
Some one stole Bible from the sane
tun Of the Keokuk Gate City, few days
since, which the editor SETS down as the
best Of evidence Of total depravi,y in the
iaksr j isn't every editors office that
has a Bible iu it to be stolen.
They have arranged to have "a wood
procession - for the relief of the poor of
keokuk on the 24h Of December, when
the benevolent farmers will brin: wood<o
the poor gratis.