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Show STATE NEWS. NEBRASKA, Homer is the name ofa nw town at the head of Omaha creek. The teachers iostituto at Bcitrico Is pronounced a perfect success. A new town has been laid out at the mouth of Wa'nut creek, in Seward county, and named Pittsburgh, Tho ladies of tho Presbyterian church at Beatrice, had a New England supper sup-per for tho benefit of that denomination, denomina-tion, and netted JOoO. ''Lincoln is ahead, a girl of twelve gave birth to a healthy child, Wednesday Wed-nesday night. It ii called a freak of nature." I.XDIA.NA. Madiion moistens its moustache at 65 saloons. v Tho Fort Wayno agency pays pensions pen-sions to 3,o00 relics ol' battle. Colfax ia holding a snow-plow on the streets of his beloved South Bend. There are now 30 ooal shafts and slopes in Clay county, giving employment employ-ment to about 1,500 hands. The Bedford Loader saya that a carload car-load of hounds are shortly to bo shipped ship-ped from that p'.aoa to tho south. A largo vein of coal has rccontly been discovered near Taylorsville, in Warrick county. It ia said to bo of very fine quality. A Madison belle went skating on the street, and fallinrr, drove a hairpin hair-pin into her head. She evidently haa a "mellow softness" in that part. WISCONSIN. Rock River Falls has mumps and scarlet fever, Wisconsin's load minus have yielded $.3U,0UO,U00 worth of lead utoco their j discovery. Fortunate university stuilcnt-i sought positions as school teachers at tho close of tho last term. CouDcily.a Milwaukee bchool principal, princi-pal, resigned last week, aud tho children child-ren wero ho grateful that they gave him a set of table tilver. A letter directed to 'Allsquahh, Hut a-bago a-bago county, Wisconsin, reached tho right man, living io Ushkosb, Winnebago Winne-bago county. The track of tho Green bay nod lako Pepin rai'road ia now completed to Merillan, in Jack -on county, tho junction junc-tion with tho West Wisconsin railroad. rail-road. Kansis Cily is holding a mechanics' fair. (Jsccola is about to organize a firo department. Tho ewino of Cedar county arc dying ia a bloodless manner. St. Louis claims to bo almobt aa uict on Sundays aa other days. Raiding "keno" dens in tho fivorito ainu: cmctit iii KatH.m City. Spririgfn Id wuh huinbiii (,-ed cut of $.',fiui) in O'h: w t!. by "v'l't- fni'-r-prih"M." The Sinlo hurti'-nhtir;il im-if'tv will hold j T h nniMial unitmi; iii, J liiTh.m Cily, Jiimnry 7 to ID. At th'i fi'notid il: 'I ri-': Mr I jmi of St, L'juis mi .V'ni'f.y, in" ;i ."hi:1 e w;in l(;j:Orlul. I llC ...llc?; Ili'.n lij.. Tin h'ThrlM.I tiili i-ti-.d, f.r iho '.r a"T p i't. in 1 i- minify, WTO whipped (run N':u lift mi Monday, |