Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-11-14
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The November Term of Court

The converting of our Circuit Court is
matter of both general and local import. All |
classes of our people attend Court and look |
forward with pleasing interest and expectan-
cy to its approach. The happy lawyer in
imagination sees long train Of clients with |
full pockets and liberal views; he makes |
fine speeches to himself and shifts from afar
the intellectual combat.
The farmers, too, eagerly anticipate the ex-
element and fascination of the Court room
the forensic debate, the caustic speech and |
witty reoinder, the contortions and embar-
rassment of the witness on the rock of cross |
examination. All of these have peculiar
charm and attraction for one emerging from
the quiet monotony and dull routine of |
country life. 1t is "a change which brings
with it keener sense of enjoyment for this
reason.
The minister laying aside for the time his
clerical dignity and exclusiveness, watches
with deep, absorbing interest the conflicting
passions and Impulses of the human heart,
and draws from thence points of spiritual
instruction "to point moral or adorn a
tale"
The physician is there to add the weight
of his authority and medical skill and expe-
rience in explanation of fractures and con
tusions, or trace the strange alterations of
the "mind diseased"
The mechanic is there an attentive listener
to the wise exposition of the laws touching
his vocation and imbibing useful knowledge
affecting his rights and privileges. Such
knowledge, while it strengthens a love of
law and order, gives a stronger sense of Sc
curity to the rights of private property. All
are duly impressed with the importance of
Courts, Judges and Lawyers, the active
agencies in the administration of impartial
justice. TO remove these symbols of authori-
ty, to wrest from the hands of the officers of
the law the insignia of their power would
strike instantaneous death to the heart of
civil liberty. When Oliver Cromwell wished
to remove all barriers to his personal ambi-
ton and encroachments on the rights of the
subject, he commanded the British Parlia-
ment with bold unblushing effrontery to
"take away that bauble," in dersion and
mockery of constituted authority. Courts of
law are established to protect the weak from
the aggressions Of the strong, to arbitrate
our rights and settle our disputes. When
the strong shall rise against the weak, the
Judge shall restrain him. The prosperity
and happiness of every country have had for
their primal efficient cause the equitable adj
ministration of their laws. All men respect
and reverence the impersonation Of magis-
terial authority-the ideal embodiment Of
abstract justice holding on high the tradi-
tiona "scales" so nicely poised as not to
WAIVER in the estimation of hair.
With mingled emotion of pride and adj
miration we can point to the unspottcd
purity Of our judiciary, and bestow upon
them this well-earned tribute Of honor
praise-sans fe1r, sans reprOche.
Those of our lellow-citizens who failed to
he at the opening of Court to hear the
charge of the Chief Justice-now as laml-
lar as household words-indeed missed an
intellectual treat. Its scholarly diction, its
chaste verbiage, its profound legal wisdom,
replete with earnest, thoughtful and practi-
cal suggestions render it a model of mental
aqumen and finish. "fo live, move and
= have our being" under laws administered by
men of such unimpeachable virtue and in
tegrity is the mtima hale of political and
civil liberty. Under the fostering, protect
ing ngis of such influences our lives are sa-
cred, our home castle Of refuge, our pro-
perty secure, and all the varied industries of
man bloom and fIuctify into the myriad
comforts and Injuries of life, May it re-
main an eternal blessing!
The November Term of Court began
Monday morning last with a full bench
Judges Bowie, Bouic and Lynch.
The following list comprises the names of
the gentlemen selected to serve on the grand
and petit juries:
GRAND JURY--IIazel b. Cashell, Forman
John o. Clark, Americas Dawson, Samuel
T. Magruder, Joseph f. Burr, Richard 4.
Bently, Francis M. Griffith William C. Gar
tell Benjamin ID. Candy, William H. Phair,
William G. Fowler, Nathan J. Walker, Geo.
+. Brooke, John H. Worthmiller, Charles L.
Downs, John r. Kelley, Salathel T. Multi
can, George Dunlop, Noah Watkins, Darius
Claggett, James r. Miles, Edwin Cissell,
Henry A. Dawson.
PETIT JuRY-William II. Clarke, Alfred
Ray, Rich'd H. Bowman, Harry Riggs, JAS
+. Dean, VIM. b. Miller, Louis L. Sadtler,
Elgar Tschiffely, Joshua Purdum, VIM. NJ.
Candy, John A. Carter, George A. Darby,
Zach. NJ. Waters, II. A. Hurley, John II.
Williams, Augustus C. Flack, Harry d.
Cooke, Michael Duffy, Richard r. Trail,
John A. Riggs, William Valdenar, Philip
Stone Caleb Lewis, VIM f. Shaw, John
Shoemaker
After Judge Bowie's charge Jas. b. Hen
derson, Esq, was appointed by the Court
States Attorney, vice SpencerC. Jones, Esq,
resigned. The following cases have been dis
posed of up TO the hour Of going TO press:
r. 7. IIillard VS.. Isaac White, tried by Court,
judgment reversed; White and Wooton vs..
r. I. lIillard; judgment reversed by consent
Jas. Dawson was appointed special States
Attorney in cases of State vs.. Adolphus
Graf for keeping dsorderly house, State vs..
same, and State vs. Rose Graft for selling IL
quor 10 minors; Geo. S. Mccormick VS. Boyd
w. Smith, judgment below affirmed; G.. w.
Hyatt vs. Chas. Spates, judgment reversed
with cost, and Judgment for appellant for
$G.92 with interest and cost; Chas. T.. Bos-
well vs.. II. g. Chase & Bros, Judgment af-
firmed with cost TO the appellee; G. d. Du-
iief VS.. John II. Nichols, judgment reversed
by agreement and for appellee for $l2.40-
each party 10 pay his own cost; John G..
Kinsey Va. Robert G. Davidge use II. w. l..
Raisin q Co., Judgment with cost and judg-
ment for appellee for $i253 with interest
aud cost; Sol Slower vs.. John 5. Belt, iudgt
reversed and judgment for appellant for
$4,000 with interest and cost; Jas Ganley
q uN Va Jas T. Williams. Judgment re-