SEPTEMBER 11.-State Democratic Convention, at Topeka. Called to order by T. P. Fenlon. Temporary Officers: President, John Martin; Secretaries, H. Hiles Moore, Nathan Cree, Nelson Abbott.

Committee on Credentials: Wilson Shannon, jr., H. Miles Moore, Samuel A. Williams, H. E. Norton, and Asa Hairgrove.

Committee on Permanent Organization: M. V. B. Bennett, Hayden, Clover, Leonard, Lane.

Officers of the Convention: President, Wilson Shannon, of Douglas; Vice Presidents, Charles Sprague of Jackson, John Hanlon of Leavenworth J. C. Frazier of Montgomery, C. Durfee of Doniphan, Hiero T. Wilson of Bourbon, A. P. McMillin of Pottawatomie, J. H. Conolly of Johnson, Isaac Sharp of Morris, T. W. Waterson of Marshall,, P. T. Pendleton of Ellsworth, T. J. Dolan of Atchison, E. H. Keables of Neosho; Secretaries, H. Miles Moore of Leavenworth, Nathan Cree of Douglas, George F. Prescott of Leavenworth, Nelson Abbott of Atchison, Solon Goode of Bourbon, W. H. Ellis of Miami, G. H. Peacock of Montgomery.

Committee on Resolutions: Charles W. Blair, T. P. Fenlon, John Martin, M. V. B. Bennett, P. T. Pendleton.

Committee of Conference with Liberal Republicans on State ticket, and other matters: B. S. Cash, T. J. Dolan, J. P. Taylor, A. Sims, A. M. Crockett, W. N. Allen, T. P. Fenlon, T. J. Lane, D. G. Campbell, T. H. Ellis, P. Chitwood, S. A. Williams, J. R. Gathright, J. D. O'Conner, J. J. Brown, G. W. McMillin, M. Neal, J. Deskins, N. Cree, J. Martin, J. Merryberry, A. M. Van Slyke, G. W. Houston, H. E. Norton, A. A. Jackson, I. Sharp, G. W. Murphy, T. T. Curtis, J. Foster.

The joint platform was adopted.

State Central Committee: H. M. Moore, R. B. Morris, John Martin, Ely Moore, E. W. Burton, J. S. Bentley, M. S. Gast, Robert Reynolds, J. M. Gordon, J. H. Conolly, M. V. B. Bennett, T. F. Pursey, R. B. Safford, P. T. Pendleton.

SEPTEMBER 16.—The letter of S. C. Pomeroy to W. W. Ross is published in the Lawrence Standard.

The "Greeley Executive State Committee" is as follows: Isaac E. Eaton, Samuel A. Riggs, Wilson Shannon, jr., Byron Sherry, M. S. Beach, John C. Shea, and T. J. Anderson; headquarters at Lawrence.

—Dr. C. A. Logan, of Leavenworth, elected Grand Sire of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., of the United States, at Baltimore.

SEPTEMBER 19.-Old Settlers' meeting in Douglas county.

SEPTEMBER 27.—Death of Hovey E. Lowman, at Waverley, New York. He was the editor and one of the publishers of the Lawrence State Journal when it was destroyed, and his partner, Josiah C. Trask, killed, by Quantrell. Soon after this loss he removed to New York; thence to Saginaw, Michigan; returning to Kansas, and editing the Lawrence Tribune and Leavenworth Times, in 1870. As a logical writer, he has had no superior on the Kansas press. Mr. Lowman was a man of the purest character, and chivalrous in his warm-hearted devotion to friends and principles. He wrote and published in a pamphlet a history of the Quantrell Massacre. The assassination of his friends, and the sleepless nights and constant alarms

that followed that murderous morning, struck him a blow from which he never recovered.

OCTOBER 3.-O'Conor Electors appointed.

OCTOBER 5.-Kansas Yearly Meeting of Friends, at Lawrence. Proceedings published in a pamphlet of 55 pages, by the Lawrence Journal. OCTOBER 6.- Street railroad completed in Leavenworth.

OCTOBER 12.—Thos. Hughes buys the Marysville Locomotive, and changes the name to Marshall County News.

OCTOBER 17.-Death of Wm. H. Seward, at Auburn.

OCTOBER 17.-Floyd & Sowers issue the Wichita Daily Beacon, the first daily in the Arkansas valley, in this State. The daily edition ceased December 10th. Milton Gable bought the Beacon in the summer of 1874. A Daily was also issued in the summer of 1873.

OCTOBER 20.—Temperance Electors appointed: Geo. S. Evarts, of Topeka; H. N. Elliot, of Manhattan; M. J. Firey, of Emporia; L. D. Myers, of Humboldt, and F. Coates, of Solomon City.

—The M. K. & T. is completed to Caddo.
-Terrible prairie fire in Butler county.

OCTOBER 25.-Benj. F. Stringfellow presides at a Republican meeting in Atchison.

OCTOBER 30.- Death of the wife of Horace Greeley.

NOVEMBER.-Parsons and Eldorado have built large school-houses. NOVEMBER.-W. H. Rossington becomes one of the editors of the Com