The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-19
The Late Judge GoOd; of the NUM-.
cipal Court.

The Late Judge Good; of the NUM-
cipaI Court.
(Fiom the NoundsvIlle Reporter)
The many friends Of Major Good,
throughout Marshall county, will be pain
cd at tue announcement OF his death. He
died at his residence in Wheeling on Sat.
urday afternoon, the 9Th inst, after q
short illness, in the GSth year Of his age.
He was courtly and courteous gentle
man in the true sense Of the word, ripe
scholar, an able lawyer and an upright
Judge. He filled, during his long and
useful life, many offices of honor and trust,
and all to the entire satisfaction Of his
constituents. He was an honest christian
man, and when his old friends in Marshall
county land they are numbered by his
acquaintances,) realize the fact that he Is
no more, and that they will never in
friendly greeting clasp his true and gen.
erous hand, meet his pleasant smile, and
receive his polite and atiable congratula.
tions, they will be saddened and think of
the days gone by.
Major Good las our people are wont 70
call him. was as well and iaVorably
known throughout the county as any
man who ever lived in It. He was reg.
ular practitioner in our Courts, from the
organization OF our county in 1885, up to
the time he became Judge OF the MUM.
cipal Court OF Wheeling. He was upon
one side or the other OF all our old land
suits, and as land lawyer was excelled
by lew. He relished good joke, and In
the management Of cause always sought
to make himself agreeable TO the court,
witnesses, parties, and all. There was q
vein of humor in his composition Of that
high order that would occasionally crop
out In spite Of his efforts to restrain 1t.
We recollect, on one occasion, during the
trial ola land cause, when Capt. Dlckey,
now Judge OF our County Court, was
on tho witness stand, He had made
some surveys in the cause, and had
made out and returned herequired platts
The survey was a complicated one,
and the corners Of the plat were desig.
mated by the letters Of the alphabet, and
there being so many Of them It required
nearly the whole alphabet to be used.
Major Good, in conducting the examina.
ton commenced at the letter "a" and
went through to the last, interrogating
the witness as 10 how he run, what he
found, SC. Finally they came to the
corner marked "S" to Ut" The Major
then said, "Well, Capt Dickey, suppose
we might conclude when you were at
tea that you were taking your supper,
and that finished tho surveying for that
day" Tho Captains humorous rejoinder
We do not now recollect, but everybody
laughed.
yers who qualified to practice in Marshall
county. The first County Court ever
held in our county was organized on the
14th day Of June, 1885, at Mrs. Pariotts
hotel in the lower town, MoundsVille, the
same building now owned by A, Weide-
busch, latterly known as the Lane Hotel.
The Justices sitting at that time, were
Jacob BurleY Gather Of james and Joshua
Burley), Sam'l Mechen and John Parriott,
all OF whom are now deceased. The
clerk was James D. Morris, Prosecuting
Attorney L. A. Caldwell, Sheriff Blair
Moran, Deputies james Burley and Col.
VIM. Alexander. The attorneys who
qualified TO practice az that term, were q.
Jacob, Morgan Nelson, NJ. Q. Good,
Lewis Steward, VIM. Mcconnell, Isaac
Hoge, VIM. Wilson, Jacob Clark and
James 8. Wheat. The foreman Of the
Grand Jury was Archibald MCLEAN.
Hon. Joseph L. Fry, was the Judge Of
the Circuit Court-Jsmes D. Morris,
ESQ.,, Clerk, and q. Jacob, Prosecuting
Attorney for the same.
OIall the officers who were present at
the organization Of our first Circuit and
County Court, there but remained Col
Alexander and James D. Morris, the 9th.
ers Rre all gone; and Of the Attorneys
who first qualified there now remains but
Gen. Wheat, who Is still in the prime Of
lie and in the full Vigor Of his manhood,
Thus one by one they have gone
from among US. The surviving three are
the only monuments who have been
spared thus far to perpetuate our first ju-
dicial organization. May they live to
good old age, and enjoy In the future. as
they have in the past, the respect and
confidence oil their felloW-citizenS,