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# State News and Notes. Episcopal church, Manhattan, is having a $1,000 organ built at Utica, New York. G. A. Hutchinson is the new Presbyterian minister at Eureka. A movement is on foot in Topeka to build a residence for the Rev. Mr. Martindale, late state agent for the American Bible Society, who has gone totally blind. Mr. Black, late of Black's bank, Topeka, heads the subscription with $100. The residence proposed will cost $1,000. Four inches of snow in Pottawatomie county election day. "Giles" thinks the city schools of Topeka a failure. But another man goes for "Giles" and says he don't point out wherein or mention a remedy. It is easier to growl than anything else in this world, and more fashionable. The kind of brains that can pick flaws with every existing thing are plenty, but the kind that makes good, sensible suggestions to better things is awful scarce. Topeka has made her library free. Junction City is to have a new hotel 47x82 and three stories high. We wish another town we know of could raise the spunk to follow suit. Prouty has a new suit of clothes and has only been in Junction City about a month. There must be some credulous cuss up there in the clothing business. "Pen, Paste and Scissors" says the 1st national bank at Paola had a run a few days ago, and that "twenty-five dollars were drawn out." That must have been awful. The state agricultural college has telephones. Colonel N. S. Goss is hunting birds in southern Texas. Seventeen births occurred in one week recently at Burlington. A narrow gauge road between Topeka and Fort Scott is talked of. Turnips are said to be a sure preventive for the prevailing hog disease. Eighteen thousand bushels of peaches were shipped from Fort Scott this year. A dam is nearly completed across the Solomon river at Scandia, Republic county. T. W. Hurlbert, of Burlington, has received a patent for a "weed-folding attachment for plows." Seventeen hundred persons have identified themselves with the Murphy temperance movement at Fort Scott. A colony of Dunkards from Pennsylvania have purchased several thousand acres of land near Frankfort, Marshal county. F. P. Baker has sued Dr. Munford, of the Kansas City Times, for libel, in the United States circuit court. $20,000 damages are asked. Major Beman, of Topeka, late adjutant-general of the state, has been appointed clerk of the commission to appraise Kansas Indian lands. The editor of the Commonwealth has an order to ship several brace of prairie chickens to New Zealand, for acclimatization in that country. H. B. Johnson, formerly attorney general of Missouri, has formed a law partnership at Topeka with Willard Davis, attorney general of Kansas. The Missouri Valley Life Insurance company has made up its impairment, and received a certificate from the superintendent to that effect. They are now ready for business. On the 30th ult., Rev. James H. Defouri, vicar-general of the Catholic diocese of Kansas, and who has been a resident of the state for fifteen or twenty years, took out his first naturalization papers. While a colored man and his wife were attending churce in Mt. Pleasant township, Atchison county, last Sunday, their residence burnt up and their two-year old child was burned to death with it.
