The Portland daily press., 1869-11-13

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AUGUSTA, Nov -, 1869.
To the Editor Of The Press:
s. j. COURT
This is the fourth week of the S. J. Court.
Appleton CD. presiding The continued docket
shows III cases, of which 404 were set down
TOT trial. Court has been in session 21 working
days and tried q cases. resulting in seventeen
verdicts, one disagreement. ten cases law report
and one hearing and decision by the Court
divorces, trustee disclosures and motions not
counted. The civil docket is pretty well sif-
ted. Court will adjourn over Thanksgiving
week and take up the criminal docket the
Monday alter; the week 10 be devoted to
criminal business alone. After the criminal
docket, the civil business will be resumed If
there is any left.
Sensationists were disappointed in the great
Gardiner breach of promise suit, Lawrence v.
Cook, in which the fair plaintiff, two years
ago, recovered $4,000 from the inconstant de-
tendant which the full Court set aside for ex
cess. just as the plaintiffs counsel was ready
W hidhC hio opCufli5 anu luC SJcTuOSTdpDcT
to produce full and complete report of testi-
mony and the address of Clay, Libbey, Vose and
Shepley, significant signs of conference were
visible, speedily followed by the announce
ment that the case was arranged. The out
siderS are allowed to guess that the defendant
paid between five and six thousand dollars to
the plaintiff and her attorney, followed by no
small fee to his own able and eloquent coun-
sci.
Mr.. Wbitehouse, the new County Attorney
by appointment, serves his first term. He
showed commendable dispatch with his grand
jury, working them only two days and re-
turning some sixteen indictments. Mr.. Webb
as is well known, declined the appointment,
preierring seat in the House to which he
had been elected, which opens the course for
new competitors with Whitehouse ahead.
Senator Morrill's ringing voice is missed at
this bar. A dozen years ago, we rem ember
to have reported the first words of his in an
address to jury of Androscoggin in behalf
of an old man, plaintiff in a suit for damages
for assault and battery. He made the words
of the defendant the text for sermon to the
jury. Perhaps no one then present will for
get them, or remember a more notable in
stance Of how much fine-toned voice and
just emphasis aids expression: "Gentlemen of
the Jury,-what will it cost to strike man {?
What will it cost to strike a MAN? This is
precisely the question you are to determine"
The Senator is recuperating for future work,
in the new Senatorial career to which he has
been so recently called.
Governor" Pllsbury is laboring lovingly at
the law which perhaps will give him more
opportunities for distinction than his vicious
politics would allow him to achieve in the
public service.
Three commissions are hard at work. The
commissioners On the equalization of the mu-
ncipal war debts, Nathan Dane, Dennis l..
Milliken and James A. Milliken for more
than year have labored sedulousy st their
task. They expect to report the 10th of De
cember.
The committee on State Valuation, Scam
mon, the two Prescotts, Smalt, Currier. Hub
bard, and Houghton, each with clerk works
out his own district. They then compare
notes and harmonic results ----------
49, The committee appointed by the Governor
to revise the statutes have made as great pro-
gress as the exceedingly intricate and difficult
nature of the task committed to them would
allow, and will report early in the session,
This committee consists of Messrs. joseph
Baker, Ephraim Flint and E. w. Wedeewood
The council on the Doth of November re-
port on elections Of Senators, Representative
and county officers.
The Senate offers three candidates for
President, Bolster, Lindsay and Gu shing.
The Speakership i narrowed to two competi
tors, Reuben Foster and A. B. Farwen. The
Assistant Secretary of the Senate, Lane, nat
urally aspres to and expects promotion.
Who will take his place? Clarence Hale, an
orator at the last Bowdoin graduation is
named for one.
Treasurer Caldwell, Attorney General Muir
ray, and Col Drew, Secretary of State are not
troubled with rivals for their places.
Our worthy and popular Governor, General
Chamberlain, is now delivering his war lee
lures to appreciative Massachusetts audi
enees, and is said to have engagements until
the meeting of the Legislature
Adieu, P.