The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-06
SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION.
oo~vENED FOR THE DECEMBER
TERM YESTERDAY.


,,dae FaIIigant Admonished tho
Grand Jury on the Subjects OF
coubIing and sunday Liquor Sell
;,p-Fhe Jury Urged to Do Its Fun
nutv in These and other Matters.
,orrx sweet Indicted for the MUIR
der of Patrick o'NeiII-Three In
1,ctments Found Against George
~ manufactures Business Before
mo Court-DivOrce Day TO-mOr-
TOW.
rhe December term of the Superior
c,nrt convened yesterday and promptly
ao+ down to work There is large
,,,r+ Of business before it and it is evil
5o-r that the court and its officers will
1.-Two no sinecure for the next three
,,ontbs. Besides the large number of civil
and criminal cases already before the
,,nrt il is evident that number of in
elements will be found by the grand jury.
of the list of thirtythree jurors drawn
.+s following were empaneled yesterday
"a serve for the December term: Garland
N rivals. Simeon E. Theus, Daniel c..
newton. Edward j. Kennedy, John J.
cummings w. K. Wilkinson, Richard A.
rl,odford George w. Dwelle, John
sebwarz. Henry H. Mckee, Leopold Ad-
10, Nathaniel Harrison, Lewis W. Has
l,su Joseph E. Fulton. William T. Leo
Mold. John Henderson, George S. Haines,
lobn @. Hodges, George B. Prtehard and
William H Connerat.
Judge Fa,ugant addressed the jury in
his usual impressive manner, but owing to
tbe fact that he was suffering from Sc
we're cold did not make his charge as eX-
,ensive as usual. The usual instructions
were given the jurors as to their duties In
civil and criminal matters, including the
evamina ion of public works and the in
,,estigation of the county offices and their
maDagement Especial attention was call
81 IN the evils of gambling and the sale
If uouor on Sunday and the jurors were
urged to do their utmost in suppressing
these evils by presenting for trial the gun-
ty parties wherever the evidence could be
obtained against them. Allusion was
made to the work OF the provost guard
in suppressing the sale of liquor on sun
0avs i'm conjunction with the local author
iies and Judge Falligant expressed the
grateful appreciation of the community
for THIS service.
The local and state election laws and
tho. necessity of preserving the purity of
the ballot and bringing to punishment all
who infringe these laws were strongly
dwelt upon By request of the County
Commissioners, Judge Falligant said, he
called the attention of the grand jury to
the matter of the publication of their pre-
sentiments, which has grown to be a con-
edera bic item of expense. This expense
for last year, including the publication OIL
the presentments of three grand Jurlessln
the two daily papers amounted to S6SS.Oo.
II is the province of the grand jury, ne
said to name only one paper in which
their presentments should be published, to
desisnate what part of the report should
be published and to ix>the compensation
to be allowed for the publication.
After the grand jury had been dismiss
ed to its room the call Of the docket was
entered upon and some two hours was
srent in calling and assigning cases for
rial. number of the attorneys who
we're interested in the cases to be tried
were present.