Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-12-02

There are 2,2l7 dogs in Henry Co.
The hog cholera il making it's ap-
pearancs in the vicinity Of Musca,iue.
Major Drummond Of McGregor, has
gone to South Car olina, a. Com missioner
Of Texas.
There has been twenty school houses
built in Fayet.e county The past season.
According to the Register. 500 build.
ings have been erected 10 DesMoines this
/ season.
Coal is selling at fr.een cents BUSH
el in Oskaloosa.
Mr.. Thrall If Marshall county, raised
a pumpkin this season weighing $50 lbs.
The editor Of the Musca,ine Journal
has been shown a pear raised 10 that city
which weighs twelve ounces.
The Sentinel. at Eldora, is about to
be moved to Iowa Falls, which will soon
be in r. II. communication with DUBUQUE
The proprietor Of the Algona stage,
in the Lost seven years, has travelled IS
600 miles with his vehicle.
| -McPhail, Of Boston, has Just present.
ed 1915 piano to the ladies department
Of Grinnell.
There is mill in Iowa City for tho
manufacture Of rope, which employs 40
workmen
The assessed valuation Of real and
personal property Of DesMoines for 1865,
will no, be very fur from 49, 10 900.
Tho Lansing Journal Complains of
the rowdyism Of many young men Of that
place.
%" Saturday last, Mr.. g Epp,ry of
Muscat'ne los. 500 Fifty dollars reward
for its return.
The Editor Of the Burlington Hank,
Eye has been shown four good s'z,d ap-
Piles, Get closely on one ,w;s, the seco.i
growth OF this year.
"A lady was seriously injured at Du
buQue by stepping through IA hpl. in the
sidewalk. The City Council has lately or
dered the walks to be improved.
The teams,ers a, the Dubuqe lumber
| yards struck for al advance Of v ages from
- to IS per day, aud now receive it.
Mr.. Dunham, late editor of the Bur-
lington Ha1kEyc, was recently presented
with gold headed r~ue worth SO by the
employees OF tao t'ice
There are SIX y.dsc papi'. nov in the
Iowa Institute for the Deaf aud Dumo Al
Iowa City, with four assistant teachers,
under the superintcndance Of Mr. Talbot.
The editor OF the Independence Guar.
dian and the Mayor OF ,ha, little city had
a knock dowa few days ago, in which
the editor cane on, second beat Ei,o-
rial luck.
- A National Bank has been es,.b
lished at For, Madison. Capital, 5000.
}. II. Wintertotham, President; Gen.
Clark Z. Weaver, Cashier.
Tho Boohsboro Inaer says a route
has been surveyed for u railroad track
from The depot in tina. city to the coal
mines worked BY the Des Moines Valley
Mining Co.
There we're 2,5Gl students in the Du.
tuque pubic school during October. The
city is to be lighted with gas, and a re-
spectacle police force is to be maintained.
The First National Bank Of Cedar
Rapids, for the year ending the lst of
November, has declared dividend of ten
per cent, leaving six per cent still undi-
vided. The capital has reached the sun
of 500 900 aud it is designed to increase
still farther to $4,000.
Me. Slocum, formerly local editor
and foreman Of the Maquoks'a Ercelsior,
died on the 2nd in.t. Tho Excelsior SAYS
that within four years there have been
eight deaths among the typographical fra
terni,y OF tina. office, Eve Of which we're
in The army.
"A female teacher was fined five dol
lars "nj costs, at Iowa City, on Thursday
last, for whipping q scholar ut one Of the
public schools. The magistrate decided
that a teacher had no legal RICH. to whip
q scholar.
"A fiat boat loaded with corn and po-
tatoes bound for Vicksburg, sunk a, the
Musca'ine wharf on Sunday.
Calvin W. Rice, IA years of age, was
fatally wounded last week by an acciden-
tai shot. His home was in Marshall