, 1877-03-11
LOCAL MISCELLANY,
TIE COUNTY-BUILDING.

! The Grand Jury for the March term will b
fnlpanelcd tomorrow. It has q large amount
Of work to DO.
| The Collector Of the Town of Rich turned hi.
books over to the County Collector yesterday,
| and With them s. 400.
The canal-Dock Company gave tue North
que collector helping hand yesterday By pay
Ing its taxes, amounting to $4,000.
=. =. Runyan, e1.member Of the Board Of
Education, will be placed on trial in the Grim
| tnal Court, tomorrow, for larreny as pailee.
several GAYS ago his attorney requested to have
the case set. Runyan lives at Lincoln, Nep.
The Commissioners watch the progress OF the
tax-catherer in South Chicago yery Closely. and
are already muttcring because he has not turned
any money over to the County Treasurer. They
arc never happier than when they yan audit bills
knowing that they will be paid promptly.
Now that tue Sullivan murder case is ont Of
the way, State's-Attorney Mills is going to
make desperate effort to clear out the Jail He
had intended nahing tyIug visit East to the
home OF his wife this week, but has abandoned
the idea that he may make way with the large
number Of accumulated cases awaiting trial.
Austin ]. Doyle, Clerk Of the Criminal Court,
is the only Democratic official around the build
ing whose term expires this fall who is spoken
OF for reelection. There appears to be no op-
position to him in his own party, and there
ought not to be, for he has conducted his Office
With great credit to bis PARTY and himself
will my Of the Commissioners be.
Commissioners Schmidt audtHolden are mani
Testing deep interest in the welfare OF the
County Hospital, They want to put patent
gas machine OF a particular kind In the building,
and SO eager are they In the matter that they re-
fuse to entertain any Of the dozen other propo-
sitions looking to economy In gas consumption,
Notwithstanding that they are bounded every
day on the subject. They will doubtless get
tue machine they want after 4 while, for such
energy as they are showing must win.
The Committee on Hospitals and Public
Buildings took another turn at quantity OF
bills presented by Sexton and Hogan Yesterday
for work done ut the new Hospital. The bills
OF Sexton bore every impress Of extrayagance,
ret those who sought to reduce them bad up
hill work. Messrs. Fitzgerald aud Bradley did
succeed in reducing some Of the items, but they
did 1t only By driving, aud BY tncurrlng the dis
favor Of certain members Of the Committee. a
looker-on would naturally have supposed from
the proceedings that the Commissioners were 1
laboring under the hallucination that they
had been elected to serve the t1x-eaters rather
than the taxpayers.
Judge Williams resumed his place in the |
Criminal Court yesterday, and disposed Of COZ |
Harrington, CONVICTED some time ago Of rob /
berry, labored hard to get new trial, aud. TAIL
Ing, made all manner OF dilliatory motions
They were disposed of by being sentenced to
'isit Joliet inside Of five days, Corners to re-
main three years aud Harrington 1--WE. William
Johnson, ID jail awaiting d trial for larceny,
yantcd to attend church to-day, ana made appli-
,ation for discharge on writ Of habeas corpus
Il lie worships at all it will be III the Jail. In |
he afternoon the indicted, to tic number OF I
lsual innocent set, that is If their word is taken
or 1t. ]