Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-11-25

luna. lnere are l4Z schools, and lOl
teachers. Five Of the schools are graded,
employing "a teachers.
AN agent Of the Freedmen's Aid 50.
cisty bungled meeting very badly a.
Iowa City. and got sl4 So says the Iowa
City Republican.
Iowa City has peace and q,ietude
within its borders, 80 far IS public items
are concerned, The Republican says
there are no braw's, no fights, no mid
night carousings, and such like.
The State Horticultural Society has
a mortar which was used by the Yankees
in the capture Of Mobile. So says the
Iowa City Republican.
The Fenians Of Iowa City publish an
address to their brethren through the pa
pers Of that place. The Catholic Priest
Of that city, Father Emons, gets a pretty
sound castigatiou for his hostility to the
Fonian move ent.
The First National Bank of Vinton
will soon 90 into operation, as we learn
from the Eagle
The Iowa Conference of the NJ. E.
Church has decided to celebrate the hum
dredth year Of Methodism in the United
States, which will occur in 1866.
The capacity Of the Iowa Hospital
for the Insane is for 800 patients. There
were $50 in it on the 3ls. day Of Septem-
Der. Other States are now excluded.
"A regular black bear was recently
killed within two miles Of McGregor,
Clayton County, as we learn from the
Ne,cs Of that place. The bear was about
six feet long, and weighed about l4O
pounds.
The trains on the Dubuque l. Sioux
City K. h. meet with many misadventures
as We CLEAN from the Cedar Falls Gazette
What with ~a"~;~s off the track, waiting
for repairs on bridges, and collding with
mud.paddles, and ''sich' like, they have
an interesting time on that road.
The Davenport Democrat says the
Orphans Home treasury in that place is
running low. Money is needed immedi
ately to continue the repairs at Camp
kinsman.
There is an effort making by the Fort
Madison people to establish railroad com.
munication with Burlington.
In Burlington there is very little do
ing in slaush,ering and packing, and but
little will be done while the present high
prices shall last. We CLEAN from the
Haun-Eye.
A pamphlet describing the public ser.
vices and death of Bishop Smpth, Ca,ho,
lie prelate of Dubuque, has Just been is
sued from the Herald Office of that
place.
The Davenport Democrat says trains
are running on one of the spans Of the
new railroad bridge over the Mississippi a.
that point.
The family of man named Benton
was poisoned in Ottumwa, and that Of q
man named Donsyth, of Agency City,
were poisoned few days since by eating
cheese.
The Marshall Times records a pump
kin, raised by Thrall, Of Albion, which
weighs 1870 pounds.
There are now 90 convicts in the
Penitentiary, two Of whom are Women
The Warden's House is nearly finished,
and the chapel and hospital buildings will
soon be completed. We CLEAN from the
Gate City.
The Charles City Miel2igencer says
George W. Kellogg of that town, met with
sudden death few days since by the
careless use of gun. In attempting
to shoot an owl, he accidentally discharged
one Of the barrels into his thigh near the
groin, serering an artery aud causing
death in few minutes.
The Dubuque Times says parties
were last week engaged in making sound.
ings in the Mississippi River, opposite
Seventh street, in that city, for q railroad
bridge connecting the Illinois Central
Railroad with the Dubuque and Sioux
City Railroad.
The Marshall Times says thatJ. b.
Bausman. Engineer OF the Pella l. Mar
shalltown Railroad Company, has CON-
pleted the Preliminary survey from Pella
to Ackley, the last named point being a
station on the line Of the Dubuque l.
Sioux City Railroad, and finds tho die.
lance to b uinsto-seven miles.