, 1876-12-24
TIE CITY HALL,

The receipts yesterday from the Water D
paFtment we're $2,372.
County-Trcasurer Huck yesterday paid ov.
to the City Treasurer $S3. 994455, and settled b
account with the city.
Jacob Rehm yesterday paid to the city SIS
as final payment OF that Lincoln- Park 1c
which has been heard of before. Where,
Storrss
Calvin Day and o. A. Walsh yesterday too
out permit to build ten tno-story and base
menr stone~front dwellings, 2ox40 feet each
corner OF North LaSalle and Eric streets,
ti Yesterday was the last day for the payment ii
further payments Will be made at the Afer
chants Exchange National Bank In New York
Superintendent cleveland will have his thca
tre report ready By the middle OF this week, ht
/ having been delayed somew hat in making hi.
tour Of inspection.
Q. B. Green yesterday filed his bonds for fur
n1shinE tug to ply between the Clark street
bridge and the crib at any and all times the CITY
| 1877. =
tton for the fre-hydrants, for while the ground
is frozen to the depth Of four feet the snow has
| prevented the freezing Of the water in the hy-
| drant-pfpcs.
Health-Commissioncr Wright contemp]ates
proposing to the Council the adoption Of an
ordinance making it unlawful for any one per-
son to keep more than three COWS In one stable
anywhere within the city limits.
The Finance Committee, the Mayor, and the
Comptroller yesterday visited the Public L.
brary and looked it over, and talked to the Of
nrlals about the amount OF money needed for
next years expenses and various other matters
OF interest to the concern.
One Of the Mayors police has been at work
Tor some days stirring up the butchers who do
business without license, and the result of the
work has been that fifty meat licenses xcrc
taken out in December, while in the preceding
month there were but seven.
The health of the city in the week Just closed
was better than in the preceding week, although
the number Of deaths will not be much smaller.
There were eightdeaths from diphthcria, twenty.
three from scarlet-fever, aud Group is on the i'll
crease.
The Department Of Public Works Yesterday
opened bids for macadamizing West Polk street.
between Ogden and Campbell avenues There
we're good many bidders, and several cases of
tic bids The lowest were Michael Ryan and r,
Reardon, at $l.73 per linear foot.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Adams has
been at work upon aud has finished the draft OF
the new revenue LAW which he was requested to
make. He will not make it public until be shall
nave presented it to the gentlemen who request
ed the work from him
The city delayed the prosecution of the tardv
agents OF the foreign Insurance companies with
the hope that the = per cent would be naiI |
without prosecution. and their hopes have been !
realized. Most all Df the agents hare paid the
amounts assessed against them, aud but few
are left to be brought before the Criminal
Court.
There was 4 mingling OF JOY and sadness
among the clerks of the City-nall yestcrday.-
uY because there TN hp M |
l'ucsday and sadness because there was such
naii stock Of money to invest in Christmas
: ixina and such bad prospect Of the speedy
'aynent ;a,nst q rhr;t salaries atter Jau l. Nev
nas) 1nuoticed. The Joys s Of iss tse
Y fater-ohice gathered in bunch yesterday, ap-
'roachcd their cashier, DEACON Reed, and, with
pokesman, addressed hearty little speech to
fr. Reed aud presented him with watch and |
hahn. Mr. Reed replied fcelingiy, but was much |
hagrined upon opening the box to find that It |
entained siIs only a., acent stem-wnier; such as
iai watches" The joke, il it could be SO called
shamed. Mr. La1rabee, in charge Of the De-
ar artment, was presented with an. elc-
3bbed Of his horse and buggy r about out ,,
month ago, he will now be under the painful 8
ccessity Of buying new rig to match the whip, {
mother present noticed At City~Hall yesterday !
as four volumes Of Allan Pnkerton's detective
the man in the crib With the proTiso that they f
e to be left in the crio for the use of the Or:
.pant and his successors.
Mayor Heath yesterday sent to the Mayor1 Of | F
1ty ot the largest towns in Illinois cooy Of | !
|e following, which will explain itself: I
Noe: n ZOE, 9sz!sk Cz1sAse Dec a3-DE4n Str:
ute, declaring void the city revenue Law known 7