The city municipality is mainly in the hands of the residuum of Irish emigrants which has never percolated into the interior of the country, and it has often regarded itself as a dollar-distributing and dollar-retaining machine, and has spared no expense in acting on this principle.
They are, however, among the most costly that have ever been erected.  The city municipality is mainly in the hands of the residuum of Irish emigrants which has never percolated into the interior of the country, and it has often regarded itself as a dollar-distributing and dollar-retaining machine, and has spared no expense in acting on this principle.  Of its productions, the most remarkable is the Court House, which was begun nearly thirty years ago, and is not yet finished, though no less than ,£2,400,000 have D 2