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THE NEW COURT-HOUSE.
The first court-house worthy the name in Peoria county, was commenced in 1835 and completed and occupied in September, 1835. In the day of its completion it was recognized as a handsome structure and a credit to the enterprise and liberality of the people by whom it was built. But as time passed on and the elements of nature beat against its walls, its beauty faded and it began to look dingy and dilapidated. A few years previous to the beginning of the rebellion, steps were taken toward erecting a new building in the rear of the old structure, fronting on Jefferson street. Work was begun, and one wing - that used for the office of the circuit clerk previous to the commence- ment of the present magnificent building - completed. Then the war came on, and the court-house fever was lost in the new excitement. The proposition to build a new court- house was abandoned, and the efforts of the people were turned to saving the country. From that time until 1874 the project to build a new temple of justice remained in abeyance.
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On Thursday, December 10, 1874. the County Board being in session, Supervisor Anderson, from the Committee on Public Buildings, offered the following :
GENTLEMEN :- The undersigned would respectfully report that from careful observation he has been able to note the following facts .
The present court-house is getting old and dilapidaled, unsightly and uncomfortable, unwholesome and un- savory, leaky in the roof, floors and windows and doors that are neither ornamental nor hardly useful ; that its founda- tions are showing decay ; and finally, that the present court-house of Peoria county is entirely inadequate in accom- modations for the business of the county, and in looks and appearance a disgrace to the county and city of l'eoria. In view of these facts, the undersigned would respectfully offer the following resolutions :
Resolved, I. That the county of Peoria needs a new court-house, and that in order to build the same it is necessary to issue county bonds.
2. That the question of issuing county bonds to the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to run not exceeding ten years, and to draw not exceeding eight per cent. interest, be submitted to the legal voters of Peoria county at the next April election
3. That the county clerk be instructed to give the proper notice that the question will be submitted to be voted upon at that election, and that he also cause to be printed on the ballots to be used at that election the words " For County Bonds," and " Against County Bonds," as provided by law.
11. G. ANDERSON, Chairman of Committee on Public Buildings.
Mr. Bennet moved the adoption of the resolution.
Mr. Rowcliff moved to amend the resolution so far as to submit the question to a vole of the people at the next November election, instead of at the April election.
Mr. Anderson accepled the amendment, and the yeas and nays were called on the adoption of the resolution as amended. Those voting in the affirmative were :
Messrs. Anderson, Burdett, Bennet, Collier, Giles, Gorman, Herger, Hart, Homes, Humphrey, Kingman, Kneer, Keiger, Rowcliff, and Waugh - 16.
Those voting in the negative were :
Messrs. Armstrong, Baly, Burley, Clinch, Hakes, Nesselhouse, Parks and Yates - 9.
The vote on issuing bonds was taken on the 2d day of November, 1875, and result- ed : For the bonds, 4,213; against the bonds, 2,697.
Plans were invited, and after a pretty severe struggle, the plans and specifications offered by Messrs. Wilcox and Miller, architects, of Chicago, were adopted on the 31st day of March, 1876.
Style, Venetian Italian, plan, cruciform, with grand colonnade entrances or porticos, forty-two feet wide, at the Adams and Jefferson street fronts. At the Main and Hamil- ton street fronts, two-story colonnades and arcades. Size, one hundred and seventy-seven feet front on Adams and Jefferson streets, by ninety feet on Main and Hamilton streets. Height to cornices, ninety feet, and to the top of the lantern supporting the dome, one hundred and sixty feet from the base line.
Proposals for the erection of the court-house were invited, and ten bids, necom- panied with samples of stone were offered. The bids were opened on the 3d day of May, 1876. The samples of stone offered were Kickapoo. Amherst, Aux Sable and Buena Vista. After several ballotings on Thursday, the Ith, the Amherst sand stone, from Clough's quarry, near Cleveland, Ohio, was approved, the last ballot resulting as follows : For Amherst stone, fifteen votes ; Aux Sable, seven votes : Kickapoo, four votes.
The bid of Philip II. Decker, of Cook county, was considered the best, and the con- tract was awarded to him, at the sum of $206,071.31, and a committee of three, consist- ing of Messrs. Anderson, MeClean and Collier, with the architect, was chosen to prepare a contract with Mr. Decker. The contract was dated May 12, 1876, and beurs the sig- natures of Philip H. Decker, the contractor and builder, and John A. McCoy, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, at that time, and John D. MeClure, County Clerk.
The old court-house was sold to David Burns, for the sum of $250.00, to be removed within ten days." On Saturday, the 13th day of May, the members of the Peoria Bar, many of whom had grown old in the practice of their profession beneath its shadows,
* In tearing down the old building, George R. Parish, who was associated with Mr. Hurns, in attempting to jump from the top of the building to the wooden ceiling of the portico of the front entrance, fell through, and re- ceived injuries, from which he died in a few hours.
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assembled in the court-room of the condemned structure for a formal leave-taking before the work of demolition was commenced. Jonathan K. Cooper presided. Speeches were made by Judge Gale, E. G. Johnson, E. P. Sloan, D. McCulloch, Judge Louck, John Holmes and others. The speeches were full of reminiscenses incident to the courts, court-houses, lawyers and judges in early times. Some of them were historical, some humorous, but all appropriate to the occasion.
THE CORNER-STONE.
The corner-stone of the new temple was laid on Saturday, the 30th day of Septem- ber, 1876. The ceremonies attending were simple and quiet. Brief speeches were made by Hon. J. K. Cooper and Judge Cochran. After the speeches, Thomas Crotty, Esq., presented the following contributions to the crypt :
List of county officers, members of the Board of Supervisors and special court-house building committee for 1876; Names of architect, contractor and builder, and superintendent of court-house building ; Photographs of R. G. Ingersoll and the old court-house, by H. H. Cole ; Copies of the Chicago Tribune, the Times, and Inter-Ocean, Campbell county (Kentucky) Leader, and the weekly Peoria papers; Packet from Crotty Brothers ; Packet miscel- laneous business and visiting cards ; Published reports of the county treasurer for the year ending September 1, 1876; Annual report of the Workingmen's Loan and Homestead Association of Peoria ; Abstract of valuation of real and personal property in the county of Peoria, for the years 1875 and 1876 ; Photograph bust of Abraham Lincoln, by J. N. Ward; List of practicing attorneys, furnished by Crotty Brothers ; Illustrated weeklies from 1834 to 1876, furnished by Crotty Brothers ; Thirty-five dollars in Confederate scrip, by Louis Furst; Copy of the Brimfield Ga- zette; Laws of Illinois, 1873-4; Twenty-five cents postal scrip, original issue, by Charles H. Sult ; Fifth annual re- port of the trade and commerce of Peoria ; Notes of Texas; An act on roads and bridges in Illinois in IS75; One volume of the proceedings of the State Board of Equalization, 1875 ; One volume of the report of the State Board of Charities, 1875 ; Fire insurance register and index, 1875 ; Fire insurance calendar, by R. Bliss & Co. ; Packet from George L. Bestor; Photograph of C. C. Miller, architect, from Wilcox & Miller ; City directories, 1858-1871 ; Life of C. Bestor ; A Mexican silver dollar, by Samuel Crouse.
By Mark M. Akin, the following :
Centennial Idyl, Franks & Sons ; Frank Incense, do; Historical Centennial Poem, by R. W. Burt ; Centennial New Year's Address, by the Transcript carriers ; Graduating exercises of Peoria Iligh School, class of 1875; Cen- tennial Guide Over the Erie Railway ; The type-writer ; Twentieth annual report of Peoria Board of School In- spectors ; Future of Peoria, by Rev. A. A. Stevens; Specimen of fine wood-engraving, by F. S. Hallock, Peoria ; Transcript Almanac, 1875-6; Centennial oration and speeches of R. G. Ingersoll, 1876; Premium list of Central Illinois Fair, 1876.
These chronicles were placed in a tin box which was hermetically sealed. The large triangular block of Amherst sandstone, finished smooth on the Adams street side, with the year - 1876- deeply engraved in handsome figures, was raised by the powerful arm of the derrick, and held in readiness. The box containing the offerings above enu- , merated, was deposited in the cavity cut in the solid limestone water tablet. Spencer's Band struck up an appropriate air, the chief corner stone was swung slowly around and lowered to its place, and the ceremonies were concluded.
HOUSE WARMING.
The contract specified that the building should be completed on or before the 1st day May, 1878. It was not completed, however, until the beginning of November of that year. The event was celebrated by a grand banquet and house-warming on the 18th of that month, when all the people of the county were invited to come and inspect the new court-house. The exercises, as laid down in the programme, were opened with prayer by Rev. J. D. Wilson, of Christ church. Speeches were made by Messrs. James, Crotty, Cockle, Fuller, McCoy, Tipton, Cremer, and Judges McCulloch, Cochran, Puter- baugh, and others. About two hundred and fifty persons sat down to the banquet, pre- pared by Mr. Deane. All day long there was a throng of visitors to the new building, and all seemed proud of the local dwelling place of the Goddess of Justice in Peoria county.
The contract price of this imposing law temple, as already mentioned, was
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$206,071.31. Modifications from the original plan were made in some particulars. In such cases, a corresponding deduction was made in the contract price. In some other cases changes were made that involved additional expense to the contractor, and a cor- responding addition to the contract price followed. When the final reckoning came. and the sum total was footed up, the cost was found to be $248,965.70. It is virtually a fire- proof building. The girders, beams, inside columns, door and window shutters, etc .. are of best New Jersey iron. The entire structure is warmed by steam. The steam is gen- erated at a boiler house in the rear of the jail across Hamilton street, and conducted through an underground passage. The tunnel through which the inain pipe is laid is large enough for a foot-passage way, and besides serving this purpose, affords means for safe transfer of prisoners between the jail and court-house.
The clock in the tower was manufactured by the Seth Thomas Clock Company. of New York, and is of the Hotchkiss pattern. The bell, weighing four thousand pounds, is from the Meneeley and Kimberley bell works, at Troy, New York. The clock and bell were furnished by the American Clock Company of the city of New York, and cost $2,495.
The stone coping around the square was erected by Messrs. Triebel and Son, of Peoria. The junior partner of this firm also designed the plan for the grade, walks, etc., of the square, all of which reflect credit upon Peoria genius, enterprise and workman- ship.
COUNTY INFIRMARY.
An examination of the records of the county clerk's office reveals the fact, and a most commendable one, that from a very early period in the county's history, generous and humane provisions were made for the care of the poor, the siek, and the disabled, to whom fortune had denied her favors. In the earlier days their care and maintenance was secured under contract, with suitable persons.
As an instance of the manner in which contracts were made for the maintenance of the unfortunate, the following order of the County Commissioners under date of March 8, 1845, is presented :
Ordered, That John Keller be allowed to take charge of the paupers now upon the county, and that he be allowed two dollars per week for Benedict, one dollar and fifty cents for Isaac Dewey, one dollar and fifty cents each for Nichols and his wife, and one dollar per week for each of the children.
Physicians to the poor and indigent were appointed by the County Commissioners, and their bills, when presented, were audited and ordered to be paid as were any other bills against the county.
This system of management continued in force until the beginning of the year 1848. On the 11th day of December, 1847, the County Commissioners, Thomas P. Smith, Thomas Mooney and James L. Riggs, contracted with William Mitchell for the south half of the northeast quarter of section ten in Limestone township (eighty acres) for the purpose of a poor farm, the contract price being one thousand dollars, to be paid when the deed was delivered. The deed bears date June 9, 1848.
On the 15th day of January, 1845, the county clerk was directed to advertise for bids for taking charge of the farm and the poor who might be sent there ; the proposals to be opened on the first day of the next month. When that day came, one of the County Commissioners, Mr. Riggs, was sick and unable to be present, and at his request the pro- posals were not opened till the next day. The bid of Hiram Patridge was considered to be the lowest and best, and he was elected to the management of the poor house and poor farin for one year. The buildings on the farm at the time of purchase were made to an- swer for the time being, and thus commenced a system of management that has resulted in the present large, comfortable and convenient county alms house.
Mr. Patridge was again chosen to the superintendency of the poor farin at the be-
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ginning of 1849, and for the services of himself, wife and three boys, and one yoke of oxen and one horse, he was allowed at the rate of three hundred and sixty-five dollars per year. The same management was continued under Thomas Bryant, as County Judge, and for some years after the management of county affairs passed under the con- trol of a County Board of Supervisors.
At the first session of the Board of Supervisors, on the 8th of April, 1850, L. B. Cornwell, Stephen C. Wheeler and Isaac Brown were appointed a committee to visit and examine the poor house and poor farm, and to report thereon. This committee reported June 19th, of that year. At the same session fifty dollars were appropriated by the Board for cellar repairs and one hundred and fifty dollars for repairs to the house-mak- ing a total of two hundred dollars, which was, the first appropriation for improvements on the county infirmary. On the 13th of September, in the same year the Board ordered the erection and enclosure of an addition to the building then used, for which purpose an appropriation of four hundred dollars was made. At the March meeting, 1851, Mr. Patridge was chosen to continue in the management of the farm, and Dr. John H. Murphy was elected by the board to be county physician. In the Summer of 1851, the Board of Supervisors purchased what was known as the Herron farm, adjoining the poor farm, and as an addition thereto, for which they agreed to pay $9,000. This tract consisted of one hundred and sixty acres, and increased the poor farm to two hundred and forty acres. The deed from Herron and wife to the county bears date September 14, 1851.
In April, 1867, the Board ordered the Herron tract to be sold, stipulating, however, that it should not be sold at a less price than the original cost. Henry Harker became the purchaser, and the sale, as made by a committee appointed for that purpose, was rati- fied in full board on the 10th of September, 1867.
In April, 1868, a committee was appointed from the Board of Supervisors to select a new site, to consist of forty acres. Several sites were offered and examined, but the committee finally reported in favor of a re-purchase of the Herron tract at a slight ad- vance over the price for which it had been sold. They assigned as a reason that it ac- joined the original poor farm purchase, eligibility of situation, purity of water, healthful- ness of location, and that with the two places united, there was ample room to raise enough farm and stock products to support the inmates of the alms-house, with some- thing for sale besides. The report of the Committee was accepted and adopted, the County Board voted to re-purchase the Herron-Harker place, and appointed Messrs. Anderson, Matson, Jenkins, Wilder and Pinkerton a committee to advertise for and receive bids for the erection of an alms-house according to plans previously adopted. On the 22d of February, 1869, this committee reported that they had received several proposi- tions for the erection of an alms-house, and that the bid of G. L. Ryers, for $59,000, made on the basis of the plans shown, was considered to be the lowest and best ; also, that the committee had prepared a bill to be presented to the Legislature authorizing the board to issue and sell bonds to the amount of sixty thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting the building under consideration.
After some discussion on the adoption of this report and the bid of Mr. Ryers, the following resolution was adopted :
That there be a committee appointed by the Chairman of this Board to get up plans for a poor house that shall not cost to exceed thirty thousand dollars. The plans to furnish accommodations for one hundred paupers, to be a good, substantial, plain building, and to be so arranged that it can be added to at any time the necessities of the county requires, without destroying the appearance or convenience of the building.
Messrs. Anderson, Burdett, Monroe and Dunlap were appointed a committee to adopt the plans and proceed with the building. In April, 1869, plans were presented by Charles Ulrichson, which were adopted, and the contract awarded to him.
Under a special act of the Legislature entitled " An act to authorize the Board of
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Supervisors of Peoria county to build an alms-house, and to issue bonds to pay for the same." approved March 25, 1869, bonds to the amount of thirty-five thousand dollars were issued and the building was commenced.
In February, 1870, the committee in charge of the work reported that Mr. Ulrichson had completed the contract, and that the building was ready to be delivered to the county.
Contract price for building $31,879.00
Extra allowance for smoke-house, out-houses, etc. 3,131.61
Ileating apparatus, furnished by Kyser & Co., St. Louis. 2.940.00
Total cost of the building. $37.950.61
In closing the account. it was voted by the board to present Mr. Ulrichson with an order on the county treasury for five hundred dollars, as a token of respect and honor for the faithful manner in which he had filled his part of the contract. This sum added to the above total makes the cost of the Peoria county alms-house 838,450.61.
ALMS-HOUSE AND POOR FARM MANAGEMENT.
The poor farm is under the oversight of a committee of three persons appointed by the Board of Supervisors, and known as inspectors. This committee is appointed from the Board. A working manager for the farm is elected by the board, who has immediate charge, subject to the Inspectors, of the alms-house and the farm. A strict account is kept by the Superintendent or working manager of every thing produced on the farm, of the articles and amount consumed, and of whatever sold. Regular reports are made to the board, which are as carefully examined as are the accounts rendered against the county by private individuals. Since the re-purchase of the Herron-Harker place, the farm has been well improved and all of it made available for some purpose or other, Some of it is devoted to tillage, some to meadow, some to pasturage and stock- growing. Every interest connected with the farm is carefully guarded and made as pro- duetive as possible. The last report of the Superintendent is here submitted :
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF THE POOR FARM AND ALMS-HOUSE FROM DECEMBER 1, 1878, TO DECEMBER 1, 1879.
RECEIPTS.
Amount paid into the County Treasury during the past year from various sources. . . $1, 345 00
DISBURSEMENTS.
Amount audited from December 1, 1878, to March 11, 1879 $1,168 73
.. March 1I to Sept. 1, 1879. 1,572 44
.+ to be audited from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1, 1879 1,445 53
Superintendent's salary for past year 1,500 00
300
l'oor Farm Inspectors' expenses for past year
100 00
Cash expenses for Alms-house hired help
950 42-$7,037 12
KECAPITULATION.
Total amount disbursed $7.037 12
. .. received
1.345 90
Excess of Expenditures over Receipts.
$5.691 16
From which deduct expenses for permanent improvements 419 53
Balance
$5,271 63
There remains on hand at this date fat hogs, the market value of which is.
175 00
And rye, the market value of which is.
225 00-$ 400 00
C'ash expenses for hired help
$
781 00
" threshing
26 07-$ 950 42
Expenses of house for repairs
419 53
Physician's ..
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EXPENSES FOR PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING FOR PAUPERS FROM DECEMBER I, 1878, TO DECEMBER I, 1879.
From December 1, 1878, to March 11, 1879. $1,168 73
March II to September 1, 1879. 1,572 44
1,445 53 = September I to December 1, 1879 Total $4,186 70
There have been two births at the institution during the past year, and fifteen inmates have died during the year.
There have been eighty-seven persons admitted during the year, and one hundred and nine persons discharged during the same time. Total number of inmates December 1, 1879, 108 ; average monthly number of inmates, 125.
The average cost of keeping paupers, per week, during the past year has been eighty-one cents per head, but when the value of products on hand is taken into consideration, to wit : the sum of four hundred dollars, the average cost of keeping each inmate would only be seventy-four cents per week during the year.
STOCK, GRAIN, ETC., ON HAND.
Milk cows
15
Steers, two years old.
7
Yearlings
I
Calves
13
Fatting cattle
8
Fat hogs
48
Stock hogs
57
Horses
1.4
Mules.
2
Total head of stock
-165
Rye, 385 bushels ; on hand
350
Oats, 535 bushels , on hand.
570
Corn, 4,500 bushels ; on hand
3,000
Potatoes, 400 bushels ; on hand.
150
Beans, 20 bushels; on hand.
12
Onions, 20 bushels; on hand
20
Total bushels on hand
-4,102
Hay, 18 tons ; on hand.
38 tons
CIRCUIT COURT.
THE FIRST TERM.
The first term of the Circuit Court commenced on the 14th day of November, A. D. 1825. John York Sawyer, judge; John Dixon, clerk, and Samuel Fulton, sheriff. The court was held in a log building fourteen feet square, that stood on the bank of the river, just below the bridge of the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw railway. It had only one window, and its loft was low - in fact, it was a genuine log cabin. This court-house also served for religious meetings on the Sabbath. The basement, which was reached from an opening or door on the river side, was sometimes used as a jail and sometimes as a stable.
The first case called was entitled Crocker & Funk vs. Latham, appeal. The judgment of the court below was reversed and ordered to stand for naught, and that the defendant have judgment for twelve dollars and fifty cents and costs.
The next case, as shown by the old docket, was a slander suit brought against Ed- mund Weed by Abner Cooper and his wife Sarah. A. W. Cavarly appeared as attorney for the defendant and filed a demurrer. The demurrer was sustained, and the defend- ant " permitted to go hence and to recover from the plaintiffs the costs in the case." Cavarly came from Carrollton, in Greene county.
The following other cases made up the docket: The People vs. Joseph Ogee, and Jacob Funk, affray ; The People vs. No-ma-que, murder ; The People vs. Levi Ellis and Lyman Leonard, affray ; The People vs. Abner Cooper, assault and battery ; The People v8. John Griffin, assault and battery ; Abner Cooper and his wife Sarah vs. Sally Weed, motion to reconsider; same v8. Edmund Weed, motion to reconsider ; William Blanch- ard vs. John Taylor, trespass.
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John L. Bogardus, attorney, was fined five dollars for contempt of court, and Wil- liam S. Hamlin, a constable of the court, was also fined five dollars for contempt. but the next day after the fine was imposed, it was ordered to be remitted.
No-ma-que was an Indian of the Pottawatomie tribe, and had been arrested and held on the charge of killing a Frenchman named Pierre Landre. An indictment was found against him by the grand jury at this term of court. and he was arraigned for trial. Joseph Ogee and Jaques Metti were sworn as interpreters. Defendant's counsel. Wil- liam S. Hamilton, moved to dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction. The motion was overruled. a jury ordered, and nine men called from the bystanders. The pannel was not full and Judge Sawyer directed the sheriff to summon twelve talesmen to appear the next morning. The second day after arraignment a jury was obtained and the trial proceeded. Plea, not guilty. Some of the witnesses, the three Bullbonaits, who had been summoned, did not appear, and were subsequently punished for contempt in neg- lecting to obey the mandates of the law. There were witnesses enough, however. to sustain the charge in the indictment. and on the fourth day of the trial the case was given to the jury, and the following verdict returned :
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