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STATE NEWS. Col. Faniord begins his trip round the world at Des Moines on the 14th. Three prisoners broke jail at De Witt last week and have not been i ) heard from. Teeling, clerk of Floyd county has 3 been convicted of fraud, and deposed from office. An organized 'run' was made on ) t the First National bank of Marshalltown last week. It didn't succeed. Mount Pleasant is making efforts to secure the location of the German Methodist College at that place. The Marshal Republican says that if a man wishes to 'see himself as others see him,' he should run for office. Teachers in Center township, Guthrie county, are paid in 6-20's; that is, the orders draw six per cent and run twenty years. The Postmistress of Fairfield is said to conduct the business of the office with more dispatch and business propriety than any postmaster the town ever had. A few evenings since because of the explosion of a kerosene lamp,t office of the La Porte City Progress,was burat. Loss $2,500. No insurance. Tuesday morning, about forty miles east of Clinton, on account of a broken rail, thirteen frieght cars were thrown from the track and down a declivity, and one man was killed and three seriously injured. A fire at Osage, Iowa, caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, destroyed the drug store of J. F. Daley, the Hitchcock blook, containing three stores and five frame buildings, and the Miohell County News office, The total loss is $50,000. Insurance only $3000. What does it mean ? The Salem, Henry county, Register says "Cyrus C. Carpenter who has just been vaca ted to a seat in the U. S. Senate, in his inaugral address, before the House of Representatives, comes out very plainly and briefly." A test liquor case will be tried in February in Des Moines, under the State temperance law passed in 1865. Mrs. Anna Priestly sues J. Hierb, a liquor dealer of that city, for selling liquor to her husband. She lays her damages at $5000. A servant girl in Davenport saw a man in the house coquetting with the spoons. She went and told the owner thereof. He went and got a revolver and a policeman. The robber went and got out of the window, The owner and policeman went and searched the house. They found a boarder in his own bed-room. In the dark the policeman knocked down the boarder with his club, the owner drew his revolver and shot the policeman thro' the shoulder, the boarder knocked down the owner with a chair, and then they found out it wasn't any of them.
