Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-19

q. C.D.HUbbAhD, OF Ohio County.
ConosrnIng a Paupsr ',of Whom Less
20 Might hRVebe Written"
A few days ego we copied from the Fair
mont National, the following bit of Marion
county news:
A pauper died at the poor housea few
days ago and lay three days before being
buried, because the Undertaken refused 10
make coffin and take the county for pay
the Board of Supervisors refusing to pay
his bills for former work of this kind. The
county is rich, bat its credit and honor
have departed under the penurious man
agement OF the present Board of SuPervi-
sors.
In reply to and by way of comment upon
the above paragraph, the Board of Super
visors for Marion county, through their
CLERK, send MS the following statsment:
CARD FROM THE sUPERvIsoRs or MARION
COUNTY.
An article having been recently published
in the Fairmont National, weekly news
paper published in the town of FaiFmont,
of which John N. Boyd is the editor, stat.
ing that psuper had recently died at the
Poor House of this county and remained
unburied for three days, because no person
would make coffin therefor on the credit
of the county, by reason of the Board OF
Supervisors having heretofore refused to pay
such bills, which article was afterwards
copied into the Wheeling IHtslIigenesr, and
has been brought 10 the notice of this
Board. Whereupon the Board proceeded
70 make dilligept Inquiry into said charge,
and have ascertsined the same to be false
and slanderouS. ~,
And various other false aud slanderous
articles having also appeared in said papef
In regard TO this Board, the individual
members thereof, and citizens Of this cOun-
ty, tending to ipjure and discredit the
county, this Board, its individual members,
and said citizens, the Board deems it
proper to condemn the same; doth there
fore resolve and declare the said paper, the.
Felrmont National. to be false and SLAM
derous sheet, and its editor, the said John
N. Boyd, to be unworthy the support of q
patriotic and Intelligent community.
Ordered, That the Clerk of this Board
have copy of the foregoing, together with
the affidavit of Joshua McElfrssh, Steward
Of the Poor House, published in the Wheel.
ing IntelligeHeer. T. A. MAULsAY,
It. Clerk of the Board.
% LT- ARg1DHVlr.
MARION COUNTY, To-wIr: /
Before me, T. A. Maulsby, Clerk Of the
Board of Supervisors of said County, came
Joshua McElfresh, aud made oath that for
two years he has been Steward of the
Poor House of said county, and that the
body of no pauper ever lay, either two or
three days in said Poor House without
burial for the want Of a coffin, and that as far
as be knows the Board of Supervisors never
refused to pay for any coffin, or the burial
expenses of pauper. .9 ..5. -
p, He says that q few weeks ago pRuper
died in the Poor House on Sunday evening
at 4 o'clock, and was to have been buried
on the following tMonday) evening, bat
was delayed on account of the undertaken
being called outin the militia, and there
being misunderstanding about taking the
cofin to the Poor House said pauper was
not buried until the next Tuesday morning
at 8 o'clock, and that it was no fault of the
Supervisors. +
iSigued,) JOSHUA MoELFREsH.
Su6cribed and sworn to before me this
7th day of September, 1864. IS s.s.l.s
1t T. A. MAULsBY, Clerk.
Having given the above statspent from
the Supervisors we. as 3 matter of Impair
tial justice all round, append the following
from the pen of Mr.. Boyd, which apPearI
in the last issue of the NatiOHGl. Refer
ring to his original parsgrsphs the On'
copied by us at the beginning Of this arti
Gle, he goes on to defend il thus:
The statement was in every respect thG
truth, as was understood In the commuui
} ~ at the time il was written. Mr.. Josepl
Nuzum, the undertaken, informs ns that he
was applied TO by Joseph McElfresh, stew
ard at the Poor house 70 make the cofiu
but, that be declined to do it partly be
cause be had been unable to obtain hi
nay for similar work performed within tn
iastfwo years. GHessys the trouble ID. get
ting pay from the county for such WoTl
has been so great that he had resolved Z
do no more; at least, until other Workme
had doue their share tsf the payless an
thankless labor. Another was that b
wanted 70 show the authorities he woul
ieontract no more such ''bad debts"
they had called them when he presente
his bills ON former occasions.
Mr.. MeElfresh made application to hay
the comm made at one or two other place
but was unsuccessful; because, as %
workmen stated, they had no lumber
The true reason is understood to be ii
same as Influenced Mr.. NuGum to turn u
work of. ~ 10 -l a1sa 8ar y
!. The next day Mr.. Nuzun was again AI
4 piled 70 aud was assured that two or thri
citizens would become responsible to hiI
y Flor his pay. Under this assurance,
= made the CONN; but oWng to misundel