If a majority of said court should not be in attendance on the first day of the term, the clerk shall enter such fact on record, and the court shall stand adjourned till the succeeding day, and so from day to day for three days; and if said court shall not be opened within three days, all matters pending therein shall stand continued until the next term, unless a special term be sooner ordered, and no action or matter shall abate or be discontinued thereby.