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PARIS. and orators of his day, what Byron was Bourbon County is one of the oldest and among men of letters, what the Earl of wealthiest in the State, and has been as Peterborough, the hero of Barcelona, was rich in great men as in everything else. among warriors, what Junius Brutus Booth One of its citizens, the late Gov. James Gar- was among actors. He was the nephew of rard, enjoyed the distinction of being the John Marshall, the great chief-justice, and only man ever elected twice in succession, and he had been admirably educated by his serving two terms as governor of Kentucky. father, Dr. Lewis Marshall, the most accom Judge Robert Trimble was an able law plished man of his day. But Tom Marshall yer, and an associate justice of the Supreme was more than an orator, he was a profound lawyer, an accomplished scholar and a Court of the United States. Benjamin Mills was a judge of the court brilliant statesman. of appeals. Judge Little says, "His success Tradition has it that he was unhorsed in rested on his profound knowledge of the Congress by the veteran John Quincy Adams; but get the remarks of both and law." Jesse Bledsoe, one of the leaders of the read them, and you will find that " The old early bar, was a fine scholar. He received man eloquent," himself, was also on the only twenty-five dollars for teaching six ground and rolling about in the dust. Edward C. Marshall was a famous wit months in the Transylvania University. "Money was valuable in those days," and and speaker and wherever he spoke th« even the greatest lawyers received small halls were crowded. He went to California, fees. Chancellor Bibb sarcastically wrote : was a member of Congress from there, and "Kentucky lawyers receive large fees only defeated for the United States Senate by in promises." He was a circuit judge, and only one vote. Once when he was a candi went to Texas in 1836, where he died. He date a man said to him : " Mr. Marshall, was one of the most popular lawyers of his day. were you not the gentleman who all through William E. Sims, a distinguished lawyer, this campaign has said, ' the man should was a member of the Confederate senate, not seek the office, but the office the man? '" "Yes, sir," was his reply, " but when the and a woman who was in Richmond, Vir ginia, during the war, says: "Judge Sims office comes seeking the man, I think it is was one of the most popular bachelor very discourteous for him not to be where it can find him." beaux of the Confederate congress." He was attorney general of California, VERSAILLES. and died in 1893. During his time as at Woodford County was named by Col. torney general the Southern Pacific Railroad Thomas Marshall, father of the chief justice, was forced to pay the State $1,280,000. for Gen. Willard Woodford, his commander There was much litigation over it, and it in the Revolutionary War. They were cap was carried to the Supreme Court. It is tured together at Charleston, South Carolina, said, " For nearly two years this vast sum re mained in the exclusive possession of Gen and General Woodford died while a pris oner. Colonel Marshall's son, Alexander, eral Marshall, and at any time, if he had was a very talented man, and his grandsons, been dishonest, he could have appropriated Edward C. and Thomas F. Marshall, were the money for his own use, without fear of brilliant men. Thomas F. Marshall was one legal penalty." A friend wrote of him: of the greatest orators this country has ever " As Saul was, from his shoulders and had. A writer says : "Marshall was a mar upward, higher than any of his people, so velous genius. He was, among the lawyers Ned Marshall strode among men, taller than