Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-04-01

Washington City is to be defended BY
Dan Voorhees,, Congressman from Indiana.
Tho subscription Of the 10Th Iowa
Regiment to the Orphan Asylum reaches
the magnificent sum OF 1898.
The inaugural address of Mayor Horn,
Of Charlton, commences With, my be.
loved Mud Turtles r
"A New England Kitchen" enter.
tainment at Clinton, ns.ted $40 This
amount will 60 to assis. in the erection Of
= stone edi6ce tor the Protestant Episco.
pal Church.
They have sn Order or Society at
Fort Madison, called the Oriental Sons OF
Bsnevolence. This Society recently d..
mated ten dollars to the Orphan Asylum,
a. We learn from the Bulletin.
Emerson and Reed, two Of tho Dubu.
que burglars, have been recognized as the
Cedar Rapids bank robbers.
The Marshall Times compla ms of the
prevalence Of slanderers in that place.
That breed Of vipers exists everywhere
there is no community exemp. from them.
The Dubuque Times says that ras.
cally dealer in Chicago has furnished it
With paper which seems to have been made
Of equal parts Of buckwheat straw and
black walnut sbaviuos!
The people in Dubuque county paid
in one month and half on their taxes of
1864, $74,97l 81.
Many persons profess frm faith in
the existence of native Petroleum in Mus
catine county. A company from West
Virginia advertise in the Muscatine Jour.
nat, Offering to contract for the right to
bore" on limited number of farms.
Many emigran,s are daily passing
through Keokuk westward bound. So
says the Gate City.
The Dubuque Times chronicles the
discovery Of large cave at the bottom of
shaft twenty fee, in depth, near Dubuque,
on the Julien Company's grounds. 1t is
described a. being six hundred and fifty
feet long from East to West It's narrow
est breadth is three feet, and greatest
width twenty-five feet, while its high. is
from Eve to ten.
There is young man living in Mad.
ison county, whose Neigh. is abou. six
feet six inchesi He's . whopper. So
says the Flag.
The creditors Of . poor woman in
Marion county, whose husband is absent
in IDAHO levied on few chickens which
were about all the property she had The
Pella Blade justly calls that contemp,i
bic trick.
A boy nine years old while fooling
with a gun the other day near Pel:a, shot
Miss Vernon in the ankle, and wounded
al old lady who was present.
Monroe Warren, Of Clinton county,
was lately mulcted in the sum of 500 Tor
slandering the character OF Mrs. Eliza
Clark. So says the De Witt Observer.
A couple Of fellows, convicted Of lar
ceny in Clinton county, have been trans.
ported to Botany Bay a. Fort Madison.
A man down in Page county came 10
personal collision with creditor, and was
thrashed SO amazingly tina. be was forced
to make an unconditional promise to pay
the debt in ten minutes. Hostilities then
ceased.
A man named Levalle was arrested
ct Boonsboro few days since for murder
ing . man at Pixies Peak three or four
years ago. He will be delivered to the
authorities Of Colorado Territory upon =
requisition. The Index says one or two
citizens Of that place were at Pixies Peak
when tho deed was committed, and think
Levslle was jus.i6able in wha. be did.
Louisa McCandless was arrested .
few days since in Burlington on charge
Of adultery. She was committed to Jail
in default Of $500 bail. The size Of the
police reports in the Hawk Eye indicates
that Burlington is a pretty ambitious city.
Albert Collins Of that place, made amend,
as far as possible for the crime of seduc.
ton, By marrying his victim in the police
Office.
The best wine produced in the United
States is made At Burlington, Iowa, from
the Catawba grape. It closely resembles
the celebrated Rudesheimer Berg" of
the Rhine. There are several large vine.
yards At Burlington. cultured BY Swiss
and German vine growers, and the culture
Of the grape is increasing very rapidly
there under the stimulus of the increasing
demand for wine.
The body Of dead soldier, name I'M.
known, was found on Saturday last about
three miles above Keokuk, rs We learn
from the Gate City. He had been dead