Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1867-08-24

The printers Of Detroit arc on q strike.


men .. Perry, ILL., TX
A "Coiored Academy is shout TO Be
built at Montgomery, Alabama.
| Bvownlows hirelings have been Withdrawn
from Franklin, Tenn.
The c"',on worm has made it, appearance
on several Of the Sea Islands on the coast.
Advices from Havana, announce the
appearance Of the yellow fever IN the city.
Four Cincinnati street car c. nduclors
were arrested Thursday, charged with EN-
bezz'ing money from their daily receipts.
The War Department has i-su. an order
that hereafter mileage will be computed by
the shortes, routes usually travelled.
Butler, in report Of bis action a. Com.
| missioner Of exchange Of prisoners. says
! tn at he acted uLder The direct o,ders Of Gen
Grant.
-Four cases Of suns,ryke occurred in Buf.
falo, New York, on Thursday, one of which
vas fatal.
| A committee from Tennessee and another
| from Alabama ore now in Ohio soliciting
aid for the destitute people Of those States.
Ellsworth, Kansas, is nearly depopu:ared
in consequence Of cholera. There were
from three to ten deaths daily Cor fifteen
days.
Mace and O'Ba'dwin intend soon to mash
| each others 'smellers' and close each 9th
| ers 'oglers' for the championship Of Eng
| laEd.
Miss Carrie Cl,pp formerly Of Hampton,
Va.,. drowned herself in pond at Atwood
vile, Conn, on Monday night. Cause, IN
requ'tsd love.
The revenue cutter Pnwtucxet has hesn
sold at auc,i III at Baltimore, for SIS, 900, to
paths in that city. She will be dispatched
t China.
connective on the Pi't.bnrg and Con,
ne'sv,e railroad, exploded hear L.y,oni
station, on the 5,t lust, killing fur persons
and wourdng several others
In Philadelphia, on Wednesday, a negro
named Nolan qusrrelIed with bis wife, and
in the melee cut her with knife some thirty
times. The injuries were not fatal.
The New York Constitutional Conversion
has refused to extend the Gubrrnatorial
term to four years.
The Secretary Of the Interior ha. decided
no. to authorize the sale of the residue OF
snds in Kansas, held 10 trust, until action
is taken by the Seua,e 90 treaties with the
indians.
Ia Ohio serious complaint. are made in
relation TO the corn crop, which has in many
places been ruined for want of rain. Late
o'atoes are suffering from the same cause
The first post ffic in Russian Amer ca was
established by the Department. last week.
1t is called ''Snka,' and John n kinkh-ad
IS the Postmaster. The mail matter to
''Sitka will be sen, by vessels from SAT
francisco.
Walter Brown. the present champion Of
American waters, has accepted the challenge
Of james Hamill of Pitlsburg, to row a We
mile race on the Hudson river, and has de-
posted $500 in the hands OF the editor of
Wilkes Spir.. Of the Times as n forfeit
The race is for g.. 1000 aside
The Chicago Republican has again chang
ed its "ed,or-in -chief' J. +. BaIlanlyns is
now the managing editor.
A bill has been introduced in the Connec-
ticut Legislature to forbid the growth, use or
sale Of tobacco.
A young man named Maloney, living in
Chicago, recently struck his mother on the
head with brickbat With such force that she
died in few days.
Rev. A B Earle, a Massachusetts rsviv..
list, has beeh presented by his Nevada ad
mirers With u City pound silver brick worth
$500
New gold bearing lodes have been found
in Idaho, near Bois City, which are reported
to be very valuable.
1t 10 said that the Iron Mountain Iron
Company. Missouri. are now shipping twenty
car loads of crude ore each day.
Adyices from Arizona stale that a mail
carrier had been attacked and killed by In
dians. Tommy Schall was also killed by the
Indians forty miles east of Sandy Station
The Salt Lake Vedeue says the Colorado
river has risen SO high As to back up th,
waters of the ella river, causing the entire
destruction Of ARIZONA City. Warehouses,
stores, soloons, hotels aud residences we're
swept away. The loss j. supposed to be
about 100000
The cholera is reported to have disappear
ed from Ellsworth ard Fort Hark-r, Kansas,
and the inhaLitsnts who had nearly oil des-
ered their homes, are returning The cpl
dsrnic was caused by the overflow OF waters
which deadened all the rank growth Of We
peta,ion in the bottom land, the efflavia from
which seemed rank poison.
The State of Iowa loses $4,000 by the
criminal cond uct Of the State officials in
connection with tho swamp lands. Senator
Harlan, rs Secretary Of the Interior, had a
hand in this swinde, aud nov enjoying the
fruits of il, both ss Senator and as million
airs.-&. Joseph Herald.
Il 10 rumrred in Washington that Sir
Frederick Bruce, The British Mnister, and
Secretary Seward, have been trying to agree
On . plan Of the cession Of the British