Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-02-17
Sionx City &egistrr
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1866.
A hog weighing 900 pounds was among
the late distinguished arrivals at Ottun-

A hog weighing 900 pounds was among
The late distinguished arrivals st Ottun-
George Thompson and Anna Dickin-
go are to lecture at Keokuk this season.
N. Rysa and bic wife terribly beat .
brother Of the former on the 9th inst,
badly cutting his head, densely backing
HE eyes, and bruising his face till i. put:
fed out like a bladder. This was at Bur-
line,on.
The board Of Supervisors Of Jefferson
County have appropriated $4,000 for
bsilding bridge across the. Cedar River,
provided a like amount be subscribed by
indi,iduals for the purpose.
The Dubuque Post Office was removed
70 its new quarters in the custom house
las. Monday. The Herald says the apart
msnts are the finest in the United
States. There are2,272 glas. boxes,
and 295 lock boxes.
A hucks.er at Dubuque was made to
pay 1896 on the 9th, for buying poul-
Try At wholesale before 9 o'clock a. m,
contrary to city ordinance.
At q skating match at Dubuque on the
9Th, Miss L. Townsend, WAS awarded the
prize of a pair Of Blondin skates, worth
$l2 The friends Of hesother contestants,
three in number, at once started a sub
scrip.;on for the purpose Of giving each
. precisely similar present. We gather
from the Herald.
The Adcocate learns that quarry Of
excellent granite has been discovered
near Boonsboro.
Counterfeit $50 bills, National Curren-
cy, we're offered in Burlington lately.
They are very course and may easily be
detected BY any one acquainted with
money. So says the Hosck Eye.
A lad aud lassie, evidently from the
most verdsnt Of rural districts, were mar
ried BY . Justice at Burlington few days
ago. After the ceremony had been per-
formed, the couple came forth, with broad
erius on their countenances, and With
hands joined and arms swinging, went
down The street, oblivious to oil surround
ing objects, and wraps in the con'empis'
ion Of their own supreme happiness.
A murderous .6rsy came OF between
t~o Germans, in Des Aoiues County on
the 25,b.-Much lager had been imbibed
By both, and q quarrel about some money
finally brought hem to blows One Of
them, with . heavy iron wedge, cut his
antagonists head aud face terribly, prob
ably disiguring him for lts We gleau
from The Hack Eye.
The Manchester linton is responsible
for the following specimen Of precoc',y !:
G'hs other day four-year.old, who is an
a,,endau, ut Sabbath School, was gazing
on, 0, the window, aud tapping upon the
pane, when suddenly the child propouua-
ed The following query: Mamma, when
God made me, did be sew on my thumb,
Or did 10 drive Il ln?'
Harrie, Miller, q girl Of only fourteen
years, who had been driven by harsh
srestmen, away frou her home, and into
. life Of vice, has been arrested in Jack
sou county for larceny, aud bousd over TO
answer So says the SabuIa Gazette.
The City Marshal Of Musca'ine last
week paid on. $50 for dogs sca'pa, ~
50 cents per scalp.
A fresLet carried away a bridge ct OF.
teyvile. On Os,er creek, Buchanan county,
. few weeks sgo. This is the third ca.
lami,y Of ,he sor, there the present season.
So says the Independence Guardian.
The mail route from Win.erset TO Os.
ksioosa will terminate Ct pella from The
6rss Of February.
A Gro 1t Wintersst On the Goth inst,
partially burned building occupied BY d
issslsr and . boot and shoe maker.
The ere was evidently the work Of an 10.
sendisry.
The ladies Of Fontinelle rseen .ly bought
ont al the liquor in the only shop Of the
kind 10 that town, with the understanding
that no more should be kept for sale
they then spilled the stuff on the ground.
We CLEAN from the AGdisonian
Sheriff M.hony, Of Dubuque County,
has prohibited tobacco to the inmates Of
the county Jail, the prisoners having been
in the hsbi. Of detiling the wall with the
juice to sickening extent.
Three young rascals were caught on
the night Of the 18th, in the act Of cut
ting out glass in one Of the windows of
q hardware store in Muscatina They
we're probably after some ska,es, tempt
ingly displayed in said window. When
discovered, they took themselves OF.
yohn n I.ittle6eld. an artisk Of Dayen.