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The Ohioans are to have a grand pic. nic at Troy, sometime in September. A new M. E. church at Washington, Kansas, is to be dedicated September 8. Only six cases have been recorded in the Burlingame police court in six years. Cattle are dying at and near Chetopa from a disease supposed to be Spanish fever. The Democrat says there never has been a commercial failure in Great Bend. A Kansas City man has killed a serpent weighing 125 pounds and having 42 rattles. The Methodists of Abilene are arrang. ing for the erection of an elegant church edifice. Fifty marriage licenses have been issued in Franklin county during the past six months. Clay Center has organized a company to prospect for coal. They will have a coal "bore." Prof. Watson, of Mich. University, is talked of as a successr to Prof. Bardwell of Lawrence. 3,000 acres of school land have lately been sold in Allen county at an aggregate of $10,000. The grist mill at Brookville is to be opened with a banquet and ball on the 10th of September. Mr. I.C. Cuppy, of Humboldt, in a few weeks past has lost over fifty head of hogs by cholera. S. S. Tipton, of Burlington, a former Emporian, has been employed as principal of Garnett schools. Mrs. A. H. Reeder, wife of the first governor of Kansas territory, died recently at Allentown, Pa. The Wells orchard, near Manhattan, is set down to produce from 3,000 to 4,000 bushels of apples this year. The Iola Register complains that some sneak thieves have been stealing trees from the Iola cemetery lately. Mrs. J. Clarke Swayze, formerly of the Topeka Blade, has been elected a teacher in one of the schools of that city. A correspondent of the Kirwin Democrat represents the Nicodemus colonists as reasonably contented and prosperous. Boyd Porter, a negro at La Cygne, was assassinated last week. A man named Collins is under arrest for his murder. Calvin Burnett, of Lawrence, an old settler and one of the original New England anti-slavery men, died at his home August 22d, The Crawford county bank, at Girard, which failed sometime since, has made final payment, with interest, to the last creditor it was owing. Arthur Signor, a boy of six years, son of Mrs. G. R. Signor, of Russell, was smothered in a wheat bin in the Russell elevator, on the 23d inst. The store of S.S. Coleman at Toronto, Woodson county, was recently broken into and about fifty dollars worth of merchandise stolen from it. B. F. Shoemaker shot and killed Lee Conley, and it is supposed mortally wounded his father, Robert Conley, at Short Creek, on the 22d inst. The water is so low in Fall river at Eureka that it is impossible for the flouring mill to -grind more than six hours out of the twenty-fourIt is reported that George C. Crowther, who was once secretary of the Kansas state senate, was killed recently in a disreputable brawl in New Orleans. A railroad engineer at Russell, Kas. named Foster, attempted suicide with a revolver, then cut his throat from ear to ear, because he was tired of living. Peace Monthly Meeting of Friends has received into membership, by letter and otherwise, since the first of last year, one hundred and sixty-five persons. J. I. Foot, the greenback nominee for state superintendent, has written a letter of acceptance. It takes a letter over a column of newspaper space for him to say he is a candidate. At a late Greenwood county teachers examination there were sixty applications for cirtificates. Thirteen received first grade cirtificates, thirty four second grade, and thirteen failed entirely. The Government surveying party fitted out at Ottawa for the final survey of the Marais des Cygnes river, left Ottawa on Monday last. The survey will be complete from Ottawa to Osceola, Missouri. A contract has just been completed by Mr. Robert O. Wood, of Philadelphia to build the railroad from Burlington to Eureka. They are to complete the road ready for business within four months, and will begin work next week. Empire City Echo: Mayor Cheney has received, on the 16th inst., 66,000 pounds of lead ore from his lease on the Baker tract since July 20th. This is turning out among the best diggings on Short Creek. Mrs. Pasley, who obtained a divorce in the district court at Topeka, a few days since, was married within twenty minutes after she was released from her former harness. The Commonwealth calls it a "double shuffle." H.C. Sales, a brakeman on the A. T. & S.F. R. R., while loading coal upon an engine at Peterton, on Tuesday morning last, lost control of the chute, and it came down upon him, burying him under the