MISCELLANEOUS NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE.

ILLINOIS ITEMS.
     Madison county is to build a new jail at Edwardsville, to cost $40,000.
     Gen. O. O. Howard is to lecture in Bloomington on Saturday evening next.
     D. J. Baker, Jr. the Republican candidate for Judge in the Cairo Judicial Circuit, has been elected.
     At a primary meeting to choose a candidate for Postmaster, at Bloomington, Ca. S. F. Dolloff received 267 out of 373 votes cast.
     D. C. D. Rankin, of Peoria, formerly Surgeon of his Seventh Illinois Cavalry, died at Danville, New York, a few days ago.
     The Family and Farm Journal is the name of a new agricultural paper established at Jerseyville, by Thomas D. Wovrall.
     The first load of coal taken out of the mines at Litchfield, was sold several times on the street, realizing $107, which, with the coal, was donated to the poor.
     The Alton Telegraph says that the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad Company propose to lay a second track between East St. Louis and Springfield.
     A verdict for $5,000 damages has been recovered against the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, by a passenger whose arm was broken by a freight car at Chicago.
     Arrangements have been made for the prosecution of the work on the Pana, Springfield & Northwestern Railroad, and the cars are expected to be running from Pana to Taylorsville, in Christian county, by the 15th of June.  It is also reported that the contract for constructing the road from Pana to Shawneetown has been let.
     At the annual meeting of stockholders of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railroad, at Peoria, on Tuesday last, the following persons were elected Directors:  Charles L. Frost, New York; Zeno Secor, New York; Jas. W. Smith, New York; Gustavus Ricker, Cincinnati; John B. Brown, Portland, Maine; Wm. H. Cruger, Peoria; H. F. Clark, Peoria; J. H. South Bushnell; Henry Hill, Warsaw.