, 1877-04-15
TIE COUNTY BUILDING.

/ The County Court was engaged yesterday In the
trial of bastardy case. The City Treasurer elect
served as juror
. ]. J. kearney, the champion Of the eorrnps
stCounty Ring at Springfield, WIS around ycster-
day shaking hands ana being seen. He has not ret
out1ived his ''home record, " It appears.
Some time ago request for extra janftors at the
City-Hnl} was sent In, but no action was taken on
it, 1t is not necessary that nnr should be, for
Sheriff Kern has caused his bailifTs to perform the
special work for n hich the janitors were wanted.
such taking the files to and from the courts etc.
Levy, the conddence-man, tried hard yesterday
to get ont Of jail but in vain. lie offered scyera!
He begins to realize that there is higher court
than be has been accustomed to deal with = and
thht it is far easier to rope Granger than 1t IL
TO get snide bail through the Criminal Court
Mr., Baker, contractor for furnishing the county
with coal, announces that unless tho county pays
him promptly he will havo to stop delivering. The
county is In arrears to him now IN excess o.
S5 600, and he does not look with satisfaction at
the prospect OF having to wait until August Tor this
and continue furnishing coal In the meantime.
Like Walker, he wants money.
The Committee on City Relations will report to
tho Board Monday that the contract with the city
for dieting prisoners at the Uridcwell. expires in
May, and will ask for authority to consult with the
city authorities with a view Of making new con-
for T The feeding Of each prisoner, and the snm is
regarded as too high. -'::..
- The prisoners who were arEaigned fe" days ago
and pleaded guilty were yesterday sentcncSu "
Judge Booth in the Criminal Court a. follows:
William Simpson, larceny, one year Pointer. .
tiary; Edward Logan. larceny, one year Honse q
Corrections; John Kane, j. 3. Houpt- and Nell
| McMullen, burglary, eighteen months Pentten-
tiary; Thomas Fisher, larceny. eighteen months
.Pcn1tentiary: Joseph Morgan, larceny sl1tv days
House Of Correction; and Joseph Bntler, larceny,
| thrce years Reform School, Peter Gibbons
pleaded guilty I'd larceny and was reminded
THE COURTHOUSE WORK.
Very little was being done On the Conrt. House
Yesterday. Walker was trying to do sometn1ng IN
The way Of setting stone but he made little mead,
way In the afternoon he virtually suspended
work until such time he can get an advance from
the County Treasury, and discharged the most 0!
his men on part pay. He thinks that tue Board
will give him S2, 600 to- morrow, and that ha VII
then Be able to 60 forward Bnt he forsets that
the County Treasurer has already distinctly said
that without regard to what the Board may do. he
will not nay him any money until he is entitled to
draw it under his contract The only avenue iclt
for him to get money, then. Is through his signing
what ia known as the amended contract, which nc
does not want to do. By signing it he can get about
S:}5. 600 ut once ii the Board approves
il hut he knows that when hn signs It ne Is simply
stcpDii,r out OF one ditch into another, and that
two months hence he will DC far worse OF than ne
now IT,. This, then. ia bis real condition-he must
money is advanced him to 80 forward, anu IN any
event his surrender il belize ed to he only Inatter
Of time, It IL already nofscd around that th1s
state Of affairs Is intentional on the part o. INC
f,nnnty Board, md that the pushing out OF walker
il desired that some one moro fnToFed,-se1ton
ueTIlaps-may he pushed in. Tomorrow, 1t Is
thought, will decide something.