AUGUST 23.—Arrangements made with Dull & Gowan, and others, to build the Neosho Valley road. -Mr. Bogert has a large force at work on the basement of the State House. - The building of J. E. Hays, Olathe, has been bought for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. AUGUST 29.-Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton leave New York to advocate woman suffrage in Kansas. SEPTEMBER 1.-George T. Anthony enlarges the Kansas Farmer. SEPTEMBER 3.—John B. Irvin dies, at Jonesboro', Ill. Dr. Irvin lived at Kennekuk, had been a member of the Legislature, and was an early and leading citizen of Atchison county. SEPTEMBER.—Kellogg and Norton become the Editors of the Educational Journal. It is published at Emporia. SEPTEMBER 5.—Leading Republicans meet at Lawrence, and organize a campaign in favor of negro and against woman suffrage. D. W. Houston is Chairman, and John A. Martin, Secretary, of the meeting. An AntiFemale Suffrage State Committee appointed: C. V. Eskridge, Chairman; E. C. Manning, Secretary. The members of the State Committee are as follows: S. A. Kingman, Jno. A. Martin, C. G. Foster, T. C. Sears, G. H. Hoyt, H. C. Haas, J. G. Blunt, S. A. Riggs, G. W. Deitzler, E. M. Bartholow, T. B. Eldridge, Geo. W. Smith, J. W. Roberts, R. J. Harper, Martin Anderson, Geo. W. Martin, D. W. Parker, B. F. Simpson, J. D. Snoddy, S. A. Manlove, D. W. Houston, I. S. Kalloch, C. C. Whiting, J. R. Swallow, J. F. Cummings, O. H. Sheldon, J. B. Orwig, Jacob Weisbach, C. G. Allen, Andrew Akin, P. B. Plumb, J. Stotler, H. N. Bent. Grasshoppers leave Omaha. Since they left Kansas they have done much damage in western Missouri and southwestern Iowa. -National Cemeteries are to be established at Forts Leavenworth and Scott. SEPTEMBER 11.-Reception of General P. H. Sheridan in Leavenworth. SEPTEMBER 18.-Iron received at Atchison for the next section of the Central Branch. -Indians continue their attacks on railway men, beyond Hays. -Grasshoppers appear on the Cottonwood river. They are seen in the air in Leavenworth, flying southwest "in great numbers.” SEPTEMBER 18.- Democratic State Convention at Leavenworth. F. P. Fitzwilliam, President; P. Z. Taylor, Vice President; J. A. Berry and A. A. Tousley, Secretaries. The following platform is adopted: "Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Convention, public credit can only be sustained, public confidence in our institutions preserved, and the general prosperity of all classes of our people maintained, by a return to a system of rigid economy and retrenchment in national, state and county expenses. "2. That, as charity should always begin at home, so should economy and the cutting-down of expenses begin in the curtailment of our national, state and county extravagances, and in abolishing all useless expenditures; and we demand the same at the hands of our national, state and county authorities. "3. That we are in favor of a system of equal taxation, predicated upon all property and valuables, that the burden of labor may be lightened. "4. That we are opposed to an aristocracy exempted by partial legislation from taxation or bearing any portion of the burdens of government. "5. That we demand the redemption of the United States Government bonds in the same currency by which they were contracted, that there may be no unjust discrimination between the citizen and the bondholder. “6. That equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever sect, rank or condition, is a cardinal doctrine of Democracy, and that unequal taxation is one of the sources of the discontent which now prevails throughout the land; that we demand that the three thousand millions of bonds on which no state, county or municipal taxes are paid shall be placed upon the duplicate in every state and county in the land, so that all men shall stand equal before the laws, and that the children of the rich and poor may start fairly in the race of life, without governmental favor or governmental oppression. "7. That we do not regard a national debt as a national blessing, but, on the contrary, as a sore and great calamity to any people. The down-trodden masses of the Old World, suffering for ages the oppression and penalty, caused by the ambition of rulers, and the wars of privileged dynasties, have no reason to love the tyrants who saddled upon their backs ponderous national cumbrances. Such debts are constant drains upon the manhood of nations, and pander alone to the passions of the non-producer and the worthless. As citizens we desire to see our national debt paid to the last dollar-paid without delay in the same national currency that the farmer gets for his products, the artisan for the work of his hands, the laborer for his toil and sweat, and the merchant for his goods. When the people of the United States do this, they will have fully discharged their duty, and none but moneyed Shylocks, or their tools and apologists, will ask for more. "8. That we are opposed to all the proposed amendments to our State Constitution, and to all unjust, intolerant, and proscriptive legislation, whereby a portion of our fellow-citizens are deprived of their social rights and religious privileges." SEPTEMBER 23.-German Convention at Topeka. H. C. Haas, President; August Tauber, Secretary. The sentiment of the Convention in favor of adhering to the Republican party, allowing full latitude of individual opinion and action, and opposition to sumptuary laws. Gov. Crawford tenders a regiment to Gen. Sherman, the Indian hostilities still continuing. -P. H. Hubbell starts the Grasshopper Falls Gazette. -J. W. Cook is building a woollen factory at Wathena. - Lyon county is building a court house. -The Hutchinson Family singing for woman suffrage. OCTOBER 1.—Henry Buckingham buys an interest in the Leavenworth Times. -Jefferson county votes on two railroad propositions. -Doniphan county votes on the Nebraska and Denver roads. -The Central Branch is graded to the Blue. OCTOBER 3.-Two men hung by a Vigilance Committee at Ellsworth. -Spring Hill, Johnson county, growing rapidly. -Samuel N. Wood leads the woman suffrage campaign. -Blind Asylum at Wyandotte completed. OCTOBER 11.-General Sherman telegraphs that the United States will pay the Eighteenth, when it is mustered out. -Excellent crops in every county. OCTOBER 14.-The Leavenworth Commercial says the State funds are in Dan. M. Adams's keeping, and are now invested in cattle. OCTOBER 15.-The Kansas Pacific has completed 338 miles of its road. OCTOBER 15.-Ground broken at Junction City for the Neosho Valley road. Speeches by Thaddeus H. Walker, Geo. T. Anthony and others. -Heavy Texas cattle trade at Abilene. OCTOBER 21.—Treaty made with the Kiowas and Comanches, on Medicine Lodge Creek. New reservation defined. OCTOBER 28.--By treaty with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, made on Medicine Lodge Creek, these tribes are located on a reservation in the Indian Territory. OCTOBER 28.—Frank H. Drenning, Chairman of the State Committee, issues an address to Republican voters, in behalf of negro suffrage. -Indian Peace Commissioners at Medicine Lodge Creek. OCTOBER 29.-The Eighteenth Battalion ordered to Fort Harker, to be mustered out. NOVEMBER 4.-Geo. Francis Train concludes his campaign for female suffrage, and leaves the State. NOVEMBER 5.-Annual election. VOTE ON THE VARIOUS PROPOSITIONS TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE. |