The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-11
TRULY GOOD LAWYERS
of ELlzABErH, WAT COUNTY.
Sketch or The staId Old TOwa-Inprorsnsats
GOIng ora CarIo.ity In PonOiOsy-As un.
natural Fathsr-HlS Violent DEATH
at the Hands OF 'HIs Son.

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natural Fathsr-HIs Violent DEATH
At the Hands Of 'Bls Son.
Spstta! Correspondence QfAe IrteResHea.
ELIZABETH, W. Va, June OIL have
great hopes for the future OF Eliza
beth. These hopes are founded on
the fact that nearly every attor-
ney in this pleasant little village has
Just purchased, and paid for an elegantly
bound copy Of . family Bible, containing
prayers for all sorts Of occasions, and an
intelligently compiled series Of hymns for
social worship. 1t was sight TO cause all
good men to return thanks to see as did
your correspondent, on Thursday evening,
half score OF barristers carrying home the
book spoken OF above. They looked hap
py, so did the agent.
This county is one Of the banner counties
OF the State on the temperance question.
A mass meeting was held at the NJ. E.
Church Thursday evening, which was ad.
dressed by several speakers, including my
good Democratic friend and attorney, D. @.
Caste. Delegates 10 the State Temperance
Convention to meet at Clarksburg the Goth
were appointed, all pledging themselves to
be present
Rev. Mr.. Grimes, the pastor of the n.
f. Chnrch, is closing up hiG second year
with great acceptability. He is fine
preacher, popular with all classes and has
built up the church since his coming here.
THE COUNTY SEAT.
Elizabeth is aine miles below Burning
Springs, the great oil field, and is pretty
thriving village, whose chief industry is
the lumber business. Several large mills
are in operation. though the lumber mar
ket is not good Just at present The town
shows signs OF awakening, aud more i'm
proyements are already under way and in
contemplation than for several years past.
The streets are to he graded and guttered,
and the county court has ordered the court
theuse painted and repaired, and sewer
built from it to the river. The people OF
Elizabeth have great faith in the future OF
their town, and it would seem that their
faith will result in full truition.
The Transcript under the management
OF Mr.. Rockhold, is doing good work, and
should be sustained.
In conversation last evening with Joshua
Lee, learned some interesting facts con.
cerning the earlys history OF this county.
Mr.. Lee is rs years old, but is hale and
well preserved. One would not think HIM
over 90 years OF age. His hair is scarce
~ gray, he walks rapidly, attends to
the business OF the county and his
own with as much vim as II he were a
young man. Mr. Lees grandfather was
The first man to raise corn in Wood county,
from which this county WAS formed in
1913. Mr.. Lee distinctly remembers having
heard Isaac Morris declare in q speech at
Parkersburg, in 1917, that railroads would
traverse this country. Morris was taken to
task for his statement by one Mr.. Thomas,
who thought Morris insane. Mr.. Lee lived
to take Mr. Morris to see the first train Of
cars he ever saw, and called to his atten.
ton the speech he had made years before.
The Court house which was erected in
lS49, is plain two story brick building,
which looks very much like church. In
the upper story is the court room, large
square apartment with very high ceiling
and windows. Six or eight long wooden
benches, arranged at one end, serve as
seats for the spectators, when there are
any. The judges desk consists OF conf
mon table covered with what appeared to
be red table cloth. In front OF the court
room are two small offices, used by the
Sheriff and his deputy. Below is the jail
and residence OF the jailor. At present
three persons are confined in the jail, which
consists Of one large room about twenty
Ave feet sqnare. One OF the prisoners Is
A. ]. Mccoy, who killed his father on
the 10th OF April last. The other two
prisoners are both under seventeen
years OF age and are in for
petty crimes. One OF them, Francis Ma.
rion Robson, is bright looking lad OF six
teen, who is under arrest for stealing a
powder flask aud pocket compass. It is to
be regretted that some charitable person
cannot take the boy and make a man OF
him. Mccoy is one Of most singular
family. For years they have resided in
what is known as the Rtedy District, about
eleven miles south OF this place. The
father was man OF violent passion, ire-
quently abusing bis family, save the youn.
est son, in a most inhuman manner. All
the time that he could spare from beating |
his wife and children, and working on his |
poor farm, were given TO experiments in |
pomoloey. These were not made with the
view Of bettering the general grade Of the
fruit or so much to give new variety, as
TO produce unique specimen oi fruit |
After years OF grating, budding and trans
planting, be succeeded in getting what is a
phenomena in pomology-au apple that is
one-ha sour and one-half sweet.
Impossible as it may seem, am assured
by q score OF the best men in this place
that there can be no possible doubt Of this,
and that In his orchard there is more than |
one Tree that produces this unique fruit
the NuRDERER's STORY.
The circumstances OF the killing have
nauar hean ancnratalv piven 10 the nnhlic |