Frostburg mining journal., 1883-06-30

special juri.s aie wanted there are
plenty OF chronic idlers lying around
the court room only waiting to bs
called upon by II e sheriff. This class
of men should be avoided and judges
should instruct sherifs to secure their
talesmen from bey ond the court house
grounds. Some people say that the
jury system is an efete institution
that, having outliyed its usefulness,
must now give place to something
better because of an occasional mis-.
carriage of justice. The Dukes ver-
dict has been cited as reason Of its
wholesale denunciation, but probably
during the duration of that trial a
thousand juries in the land fairly and
equitably adjusted issues between
man and man and the State and its
citizens. As to the Star Route ac-
quittal, also instanced as a reason for
the abandonment of the jury system,
who expected any ether verdict than
the one returned? Tho legal remedy
sought in this case was disputed by
the best lawyers in the land as i'm
practicable. Only last January this
community was shocked at tie YER
dict in the Fisher case that was nei-
ther in accordance with the law or
facts, the defendant escaping the pen
atty for the crime he committed, and
convicted cnly of an assault with in
tent to commit an outrage, which gave
him a term of eight years in the pen
itentiary ins tead of iDficting capital
punishment If the judge simply
complies with the law in regard to se-
lecting juries that will be sufficient,
and we will probably have different
and better sort of juries than we have
been favored with for many years.
When l wrote my last letter l did
not expect so soon to chronicle SO dis.
astrous defeat to the Cumberland
base ball club at the hands at the
"Cony" boys as I witnessed on Satur-
day last at the Detmold grounds. I
had heard 90 much that l went pre-
pared to witness close and exciting
game, but was very much disappoint-
ed, and came away from the grounds
before the game was closed. 1t was
fortunate for the Cumberland club
that they concluded to make an effort
to beat the "Cony" boys before they
went east, as it would have been very
humiliating to have been "skuuked"
by the Washington club after having
beaten the Lonaooning club. ut is
said that one of the Cumberland
club few minutes before the game
was called, made the remark to a
Homecoming citizen that "the Cura6er-
land boys only came to Homecoming to
have little exercise previous to their
contemplated trip to Washington"
which, l understand, has been "in-
definitely postponed"
The excursion train left Cumbor.
land about noon and arrived at Loaa-
coming in about two hours. Your
correspondent was among the nun Der
Of visitors and when he arrived on
the grounds there we're at least 900
people present, many of them ladies'.
The game was called at 2:43 O'clock
and lasted about three hours. The
Homecoming club was victorious by
score of 90 10 4. The Homecoming
club did not play their half of the last
inning.
at was game tie like of which
No one had ever seen;
Folks came by hundreds TO the grounds,
And swarmed upon the green.
They packed the grand stand 10 the roof;
Such yells, such cheers, such bets
Had not been heard since Sullivan
Played pitcher for the Nets"
The ground, are poorly adapted to
ball.playing, being rough aud closely
bounded on cne side by rocky bill,
which was natures grand stand"
supplied with stats Of stone. Both
clubs wore their new suits. Quite a
little sum Of money was offered to be
bet by the fr ends Of the Cumberland
club, about $3.50 of which was taken
ur. / saw colored man bet SIS on
the Cum mberland club and took it for
granted that he was citizen OF this
city. | admired his pluck, as the
Homecoming club had just scored 8 in
the first inning to nothing for the
Cumberland club. "Comical jim"
was on hand with his "wheel of for
tune" and ait is said" was the only
Cumberland citizen who returned