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Show THE CHAMPION GRAND JURY. Monterey county, California, has reoeutly had a grand jury that will compare favoiably with some of the inquisitorial bodies that have been packed in the Third district court of Utah. Indeed, wo are not certain that the California jury is not a ueck ahead of our local uo'.orieties iu some respec' Lately the Monterey jury found a true bill against Salinas city, "a body politic and corporate exidting under and by virtue of the lawa ui California." The offense for which the city wai indicted eonii.-'.ed ; in wil!ully omitting to psrfjrru its legal duty in putting lbs necessary ordmauces (or the abatement abate-ment of a public nuisance, iu the shape of a stagnant pool on a certain Btroet, "contrary to the torm aud force aud e fleet ot the statute in euti cases made and provided, aud against the peacj and dignity of the stale of California." This indictment of a city is certainly a novel proceeding, and as we say, lays in tbe aha le the proceedings, and "investigations" of Borne of our Utah inquisitors. We are not sure that we have done right in publishing tbe fac', as it may be considered a precedent for grand j dries here, and as' each succeeding jury tries to overtoj its predecessors in the matter of strange doings and remarkable proceedings, it is not improbable im-probable that ere long the spectacle will be presented of Ucab juries indicting in-dicting municipal corporations and flailing true bills against election precincts pre-cincts and" school districts. This result is ipcciaMy threatened from the fact th .t our gracd juries have already dug up and stirred over and over again everything that could be found to furnish either food for scandal or material for sensation; henco the field for future inquisitorial bodies has become narrowed to such insignificant dimensions that a chance to indict towns and communities will be looked uooa as a glorious windfall. |