The morning news., 1897-01-03
WILL FIND A LARGE DOCKET.
JUDGE sPEERs COURT TO BE IN
SESSION WEDNESDAY.


Up for CONFERENCE.-The Session
VIII BE "A short One, But Il Great
Deal of Business Is Expected to
Be Transacted.
The employees around the upper floors Of
the custom house have begun to get things
in apple-pie order for the reception Of
Judge Emory speer, who will be here
Wednesday to hold a term of the United
States district and circuit courts. Tho
court rooms are being cleaned out, the
floors and wainscoting will have scrub
bing, which will constitute the physical
part of the cleaning up, while the clerk
has been engaged upon the dockets for
the term. which are now in shipshape.
This term of the court will not be a long
one, but from all indications it will be an
extremely busy one. Both the civil and
criminal dockets are filled up with cases.
The civil dockets will be taken up for as
signment Wednesday, and the grand and
petit juries will both meet that day.
There are now about forty criminal
cases on the docket, in which indictments
have been found, and there are fifty or
sixty more cases which are yet to be pre-
sented to the grand jury. The criminal
business alone will, therefore, take up
great deal of the time of the court. The
criminal cases in which indictments have
already been found are as follows:
George w. Newburn, Jr., and Others
larceny of postoffice funds; HerK5 D. At
wood embezzlement of postoffice funds;
Ed Staley, retailing liquor without a gov
ernment license; Lawson Warren, passing
altered obligations of the United States,
two cases; ]. l. Southwell, embezzement
of money order funds; A. F. Holt, en-
bezzlement of postal funds; /. b. Toomer,
violation of pension laws, four indict-
ments; Carolina Evans, making and pass
ing altered obligations; d. S. Tyson, using
the mails for fraudulent purposes; D. H.
Bennett having in his possession coun-
terfeit money; Bee Hughes, P. H Mangle
Zack Carter, M. H. Lamb, Steve Smith,
Floyd Moree, Hugh Hathcock, c. s., alias
Bunk, O'Neal, j. j. LennoX, Abb Moree
j. M. Hegwood, Abe Champion, B. F. Heg-
wood Mrs. j. r. Cooper, H. G. Massey,
r. c. McAlpin, Tom Island H. G. Parham
and Gabriel Massey, all indicted for vio-
lations of the internal revenue laws; G.
w. Maddox, making and passing altered
obligations, and w. l. Poore, formerly
deputy marshal, who was indicted on
charge of attempting to extort money
from a defendant in criminal case pend
ing in the court.
Writs of scire facias were issued against
the following parties, and unless they ap-
pear in court at this term their bonds
will be declared forfeited: J. R. High
tower, H. B. Atwood, B. Hughes and 9TH
ers, NJ. II. Lamb and others, J. S. Fair
cloth and others, Lawson Wigg and others,
Abe Champion, ]. T. Saunders, Bennett
Fort, r. J. Shealey, G. w. Bird and G.
w. Maddox.
There are thirteen cases pending on the
common law side of the circuit court
Those of particular interest in this sec
tion are w. d. Wheelwright & Co., against
the First National Bank of Brunswick;
Dunwoody and Atkinson VS.. Wheelwright
and others; j. w. Bennett, receiver, VS..
w. E. Kay and C. P Gooryear; the Elec-
trio Railway Company against the Sloss
Iron and Steel Works and others, for dam
ages; Charlotte B. Carson VS.. William
Roberts, Sr, for breach of promise.
There are nineteen equity cases on the
circuit court docket, those of interest
among them being the United States
against the Mutual Gas Light Company;
the First National Bank of Brunswick VS..
Wheelwrght &, Co.; Interstate Commerce
commission against the Ocean Steamship
Company; the Interstate Commerce Com
mission against the c. N. o. & T. p. r.
r.; Claudius b. Pease against d. S. Sin
clair and others, complaint for land; H.
A. PeYear against the Savannah Street
railway, the Electric railway and others; ].
w. McReynolds against the City aud Su-
burban Railway and others; Central Ma
tional Bank of New York against the At
lantic Short Line railroad, which may be
closed up; the Knickerbocker Trust Com
pany of New York against the Brunswick
Company, and the Brunswick Light and
Water Company against the Mercantile
Trust and Deposit Company,
There are thirty-siX interventions In the
Central railroad litigation on the docket
The special master, Mr.. George w. Owens,
has reported on many of the interventions
and the court will probably act on those
on which reports have been made
On the common law side Of the district
court there are only four cases pending,
the United States against one lot of Jew
elry, fancy goods, etc, the United States
against Screven A. Sweat and others, the
United States against Jacob Rauers, con-
demnation proceedings for land on st.
GATHERINGS Island, on which to place a
lighthouse, and the United States against
j. Mason Rice and others.
The cases in admiralty now on the
docket are as follows: Conner and Hayes.
receivers, against the steam tug Maggie.
the United States against the steamship
Chattahoochee, the United States against
the stoaship Chatham, the United States
against he tugboat Ripple, Darien and
Sapelo Towboat Company against the
steamship d. H. Miller, John Fletcher
against he schooner Julia A. Trubee, p.
Sanford Ross against the steamship City
of Birmingham, Andrew DAILY against the
steam tug Maud, Peter Young and others
against the schooner Bertha, the United
States against the steamer Dauntless of
hlibustering fame, Silas c. Force
against the Italian bark Tony, for
merly Aurela; e. p. Johnson master,
against Bond, Harrison & Co., William w.
Wilson against the steamship Ripon City
and the Hamburg Underwriters Associ-
alton against the bark Tony, formerly
Aureia.
These constitute the most important
cases on the civil and criminal dockecs.
AS the court will be in session only until
Feb. !. after which time cases are as
signed in Macon, it will not be possible
for all of these cases to be disposed Of AS
usual, however, Judge Speer will carry
the business forward with all the dispatch
consistent with justice, and no doubt a
very large number of the cases will be
cleared from the dicket
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