South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1890-05-16
They Lost Money.


Towar Is the close OF the LAST ses-
sion of the Legislature, the Moore
fell Examiner, criticisiug that boiy
for not adjourniug, sail its course
was dictsied by - sc, Of one .hor se
lawyers. who could not make g. per
day by their practice Tais wa q
lame attempt 10 curry favor With far.
mers by abusing lawyers. and ALSO q
spretu thru t at Senator Fi3urnoy
and Gen. JOS. Sprigg for neither OF
whom does the Examiner seem "a
have any good hood. II makes q
great show Of being indifferent 10 the
good opinion OF attorneys. This il
can aft 'rd to do. since the members
or the Hardy bar are compelled by
law 10 give their patronage 10 some
paper published In the county. and
the on'y one prI1ted there is the FIX.
aminer. But let another sheet lie
started in MoCIefleld and the Exon.
liner would sing a diff rent tune very
quickly. Now, the policy Of The IL
rELLIeENcEE ~. TO do Justice to all
classes OF citizens to tn, bes; OF ou |.
ability. and in every way to treat them
all alike. We are required by this
our rule ofconduet, 10 defend Messrr.
F'ournoy and Sprigg in this case.
and We will chee,fuily DO the same
for pubic officers of any 9th r pro-
fession. who may be unjustly accused
ofattemptine to make moro money
out Of their Offices than their cons;i.-
uents intended they Should. So. to
show the nonsense Of the article QUO
ted from our Hardy contemporary,
We will relate an incident that occur.
red just about the time it vas pub
lish"d. We we're talking I'd Squire
Gibson and several other gentlemen
near the postofhce, when soms one
expressed surprise that the Lsgis,a-
ture stayed in session SO long, and
wondered what could be The 6,use OF
Mr. Flournoy's not C ming Hume any.
bow, whether the assembly adjourned
or no.
'Perhsps i.'s the four dollars 9
dav, We suggested.
-Four dollars. noti,ine!' replied the
Squire. Why, you mt know whst
you're talking about! know OF
five hundred dollars that F!ournoy
lost The very day he left for Charles.
ton
Rive hundred dollsrs?'.
Yes. FIVE hundred dnllafs. He
had Lot been gone half day before
a gent eman came up here from Ca
pom Bridge, who wanted an estate
settled up. He ssid lie wanted Mr.
Flournoy to attend TO it, and request
c me 10 show him his Vflce. / told
him Fiournoy had gone to the 1egis-
latureJ whcreupon he expressed re-
greet al not fnd' no him here, but ss,d
lie supposed be would have 10 get
somebody else 10 transact his bust
ne's for him and asked whether there
vas any other lawyer in town. /
told HIM. YES MIR. was a. home
lie engaged Attorney -, who ham
died al estate OF 10000, making, al
3 per cent. commits, ion, $500. THIS,
you must remember, said tue Squire
IN conclusion, SIS only what lie lost
by one client in one lay af er lesv-
ing, AID it was only an accident lha
| happened 10 know anything abou.
1t. Here Was money enough lost at
one clip, before he was halfway 20
Charleston. 10 pay his salary as Sen.
a'or for the entire term nearly three
times over. How much prac ice be
missed that / did not know anything
about, i of course, csh't say; but I
do know OF many parties who wrote
here to get him 10 bring sui for
them viii he was away, aud who
had TO employ other lawyers; snd ]
b lieRe thA. villa. he lost 10 this way
would amount TO several thousand
dollars
Why would lie leave such a la era
tive practice TO serve IN the LeRisIa q.
ture az four dollars q day?
i don't know. Ambition for pub
tic Office, | suppose, which is natural
shd honorable in man. can't see
what else would make him do II
This was a revelation To us. We
bad no idea that accepting q scat in
the Senate meant such a sacrifice TO
Mr.. flournoy. We saw also that il
must have resulted in pecuniary loss
70 Gen. Sprigg ~ we'll, and cur opin-
ion OF both gentlemen for hEith went
up a coed many per cent. We have
given Squire Gihson's story strictly
as lie told T.. lie never dreamed
that what he sail would be publish .
ed, and no doubt all tue parties con-
corncd will be greatly surprised to
see the story 10 print. We give 1.
space a. \ SIMPLE matter Of justice to
two deserving public men, and hope
IL may have she effect OF inspiring
tbougbtless pers ms with . beIler =
pinion Of our lawmakers than they
sometimes express IIs iruthfulness