Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-10-28

The Davis County Fair was held on the
18th and 18Th insts r.
Wapel!o county contains 1855 youths
between live and twenty one years Of age
The Cedar Falls Gazette says a number
of children have died at ,ha. place aud
vicinity recently of dipthsris
From the Dubuque Herald we learn
that immigration is flowing into our State
in rapid manner q. that point. ~..
The editor of the Muscatine Journal
has received piece Of the rope with
which one Of the conspirators was hanged
The editor Of the Osceola Sentinel is in
receipt of an apple which measures AZ
inches in circumference.
The McGregor Ners congratulates Nc
Gregor on the fact that it now has q first
class merchant Touring mill.
An OK, owned by Mr.. Sha.tock, in Jack
son county, is five feet seven inches high,
nioe feet long, and girts sevon feet seven
inches.
Tho Christian denomination nur..bers
about 500 COMMITMENTS in Fremont
county. They have fine church build.
ing in Sidney just completed.
A grocery shau,y ia Os,eola, owned by
Mr.. Sawvei, was recently fired by au in
cendiary aud destroyed
A gentleman writes from Indiana, d.
recting bis agent at Dcs Moines to invest
$3.50 in that ci,y's railroad bonds.
Three boys recently broke into groce-
ry in Eddyville, aud stole SIS. They
were nabbed in Oskaloosa, and brought to
grief
There is a gentleman living at Polk
City, by the name of Palmer, who was
born thirteen years before the date of the
Declaration Of Independence, being, there
fore. l02 years Of age.
report has been put in circulation
that Sheriff Mahoay, Of Dubuque, is no,
expected to live. After flooring the abs
of that section so completely, he bids fair
to live an hundred years.
During the three months ending Sep
TENDER Goth, the Governor has con;nis
stoned ninety three notary publcs, re-
stored six persons who were Suffering the
penalty of the law for crime, and Que up
on condition that be leave and remain out
Of the State.
A boy fourteen years old. named Nc
Gee, OF Marion county, had bis arm taken
of BY cane mill few days since. The
unfortunate little fellow has no relatives
living 10 this State.
There are now one hundred buildings
a. Counover Junction, in Winneshiek
county, where but two months ago there
was but hazed roof aud few oaks
The Cedar Falls Gazette notices the re-
turn to their former owner, near that place
Of a yoke of oxen that had been sold and
taken away for trip across The plains
nearly year ago. They must have trav-
eied several hundred miles, guided only
by instinct, to reach their old home.
An order has been received, mastering
out of service all the Provost Marshals
10 the State, with the exception of Cap
tain Esber,, of Davenport. Thus the
military machinery of lows is breaking
dsw"; and glad are We tina, such is
the case, albeit, we have the person
al interests Of the Proves, Marshals at
heart
From all accounts from the interior,
the prospects for heavy yield Of sorghum
mo'asses are fa.tering.
The crops Of Hamilton county for this
year are pronounced to DO Of . superior
order.
A man named Wool was killed last
week near Boonesboro, by the running
away Of his team.
Jas. NJ. Craddick, of Wapello county,
Was killed on the 4th instant BY a stage
driver.
A mine Of black lead in the vicinity of
Webster City has been discovered. The
vein is Of considerable thickness.
A stranger from Illinois, whose name
is not given, accidentally shot himself in
Taylor county. His wound was mortal.
A notorious horse thief, namdd Heiner.
was recently nabbed in Wisconsin, aud
brought into Clinton county, where some
Of his misdcmsanors had been commit.
ted. ~*..
The Auditor of State showed rs yester-
day, says the Des Moines Register,
number of early June apples, which were
the second crop for the present season.
On last wednesday evening, the body
Of male child, evidently but few hours
old, was found drowned in q box, in the
river at Cedar Rapids
The people of Cedar Falls have pre-