Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-01-21
STATE NE WIS.

Provost Marshal Adams has received
orders to accept recruits for the Second
Iowa Cavalry. Application should be
made a, headquarters for enliating in this
important branch of the service u.
buqne Herald.
We are informed that Gen. Sully has
asked permission to raise a company in
this Congressional District for the from
tier service against the Indians, aud with
view to attach the company to the 7th
Cavalry, a. that Regiment is not full at
present. Should he succeed in this, it
will afford chance for those who wish to
serve their country without going south,
to enlist in a service that some think is
scarcely more dangerous than staying at
home. Besides, the company will be
credited to this district, 0. parts OF it. md
thus aid in relieving it from the .lraf, to
the number of loo men. We hope Grn.
Suly will succeed ia obtaining authority
to raise the company Dubuque Herald
The residence Of Gen Bridgman, at
keokuk, was consum ed by fire on Wednes-
day Of last week. Loss from $4,000 to
$4,000. Covered by insurance.
The Bloomfield Guard says that Da
Wis county has over 700 men in the army.
A son of Isam White Of Vinton, fell
from chair on pair Of sharp pointed
shears, one day last week, and was killed.
He was five years old.
The grocery store of Mr. Logsden, at
Newton. was entered by burglars the other
night, and quantity Of money stolen.-
Two arrests were made. We CLEAN from
the Newton Adrocatc.
The Garden Grove Wolf Scalp Club
is thinning out the wolf tribe in Decatur
county. Seven dollars nre paid By the
Club for each wolf killed within the lines
Of the District.
The Muscatne and Burlington Bran
ches Of the State Bank are about to be
come National Banks.
The editor Of tho Maquoketa Eject
si0r thinks that the individual who carried
away most Of his wood pile without. asking
leave, was decidedly a"mean specimen Of
humanity. We coincide in that belief
A sword with steel scabbard, and a
revolver with accompanying belt, were do
mated, last week at Lyons to Captain J.
II. Smith, Of the 10th Infantry. His
friends at home were the donors. We
CLEAN from the Lyons Mirror.
A couple O: rebel prisoners were shot
on Sunday evening las. a. Rock Island
Barracks while attempting to escape. The
Davenport Gazette doesn't state whether
they were killed
The large house on Monroe street,
Fairfield, owned by James Pollock, was
consumed by fire on the l1th of Decembe
Loss, $1,000. NJ insurance.
Tho Festival at Council Bluffs for the
tened. Of soI!icrs' families, Melted for
City and Township, well nigh s. 0oJ
-Ediyvil'e contributed aboo, 5000 to
soldiers families on the 81 It ut.
A white man in Eldyvile was recent.
y arrested, charged with an attempt to
commit an outrage on n negro woman
We 9 lean from the EidyviIle Star,
William Loring Names was arrested
the other day in Cln,on for cutting q
horses throat. 50 says the Clinton UerGld
A dog by some accident was locked
up in the First Presbyterian Church at
Dubuque; and to arpense his hunger, be
devoured Watts Hymns, aud Bible and
Testament. He must be pretty we'll posted
by this time in theological studies We
CLEAN from the Dubuque Times
The nev organ for the universalist
Church a, Dubuque, cost 1000.
Smallpox is prevailing in various
parts of Washington county. 1t is Of
mild type, producing but few deaths So
we learn from the Washington Press.
The First National B,nk at Oskaloo.
81 has increased its capital stock to So, 900
S. G. Caster recently sold his farm in
Union Township, Mahaska county, Of 2io
acres, for 1900 Mr.. Caster Immediately
bought farm of 40 acres near OskalooSa.
for which he gave -, 100. So says the
Oskaloosa Herald.
Gen, Ei'z Henry Warren is spoken
Of in connection with foreign mission.
Captain Shelton, the companion of
Captain Deal ia a wonderful escape from
Rebel captivity, Is now a. his home in Of
tumwa. So We learn from The Ot,umwa
Con- Ter
The Leon Ners claims for its town
one of the finest school buildings in South.
ern Iowa. Its dimensions are &c bv 81
feet, two stories high, and put up in the
best style.
-Be., Turner has been sent for three
years from Burlington to The peuitcntiary,
for concealing stolen goods. So says the