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 Some Kentucky Lawyers of the Past and Present. eloquent speaker. A pamphlet on " Liabili ties of railroads for injuries to employees," with which Mr. Clay won a prize at the Washington University, is now considered authority in railroad law. The oldest practitioner at the Lexington bar is Major Otis Seth Tenney. He was a gallant Confederate soldier, and when he

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attempted to practice law, after the war, he was refused by the presiding judge, under the expatriation act of the legislature, but he appealed to the court of appeals, and the celebrated Chief-Justice Robertson rendered a decision by which he and all ex-Confeder ate soldiers were allowed to practice law in Kentucky.