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daughter was very handsome, and there were many evil reports about her, so three good citizens considered it was necessary to purify the neighborhood by driving the family out of it. They pulled down the house, and the half-clad children were driven out in the bleak winds of November and took refuge under some boards fastened against a fence. Judge Ward made a powerful argument, and the jury gave a verdict for heavy damages, and it is to the credit of one of the defendants that, after mature deliberation, he approved it and declared it was just. Once, during the Civil War, Judge Ward engaged in a heated discussion with Thomas F. Marshall, in the latter's law office in Ver sailles, as to " whether a State had a con stitutional right to secede from the Union." After various arguments pro and con, Judge Ward quoted from a pamphlet which Mr. Marshall had written himself some years before, against the doctrine of secession, saying: "This was from the pen of a man who has one of the brightest and grandest intellects Kentucky has ever produced." With a burst of laughter, Mr. Marshall, recognizing his own words, said : " I must surrender, for it is impossible for me to maintain my position against Tom Marshall and Harry Ward combined." Judge Ward's son-in-law, Judge William Thornton Lafferty, is beloved by all and a splendid Christian gentleman. It is said his mother never uttered an unkind word in her life, and from her he inherited the beau tiful disposition which has made him so beloved and respected, and gained for him the name of " Lafferty, the Peacemaker." As a judge, he is kind, firm, considerate, but unprejudiced, and he is a leader in his profession. One of the most noted cases ever tried in Cynthiana was the trial of Issa B. Desha for the murder of Francis Baker. Desha was the son of the then governor of Ken tucky, Joseph Desha. The trial was long

and sensational, and some brilliant forensic efforts were made, but the jury found Desha guilty and condemned him to death. He was unable to procure a new trial, and appealed to his father, the governor, for pardon. The old man, who had been a gallant soldier in the War of 1812, and was one of the ablest and most energetic of the chief executives of Kentucky, for a long time remained firm and refused his son's appeals, but, after a pathetic struggle be tween his parental love and his sense of duty, he pardoned his son, who left the country a free man. He disappeared, and nothing was heard of him for many years. Recently there has come a story, that he went to Hawaii, married a Kanaka woman, and that the most eloquent and popular native preacher now in Honolulu is his son. The murder was committed in 1824. At the trial a noted jurist of Harrison County, George Shannon, presided. For the defense were the renowned John Rowan, Villiam T. Barry, William Brown and James Crawford, who also stood high as lawyers. For the prosecution were Martin P. Marshall, one of the ablest men in Kentucky, Villiam P. Ware, a splendid lawyer, and John Chambers, who was brainy and eloquent; so the array of legal talent was notable. NEWPORT.

Campbell is a long, narrow county which formerly comprised all the northern part of Kentucky, and numbered then, as now, dis tinguished men among the members of its bar. It is said the county has furnished many novel points of law for decision by the court of appeals, and since the formation of the present boundary, the county has had as many causes, that are now known as leading cases, as any county of its size in the State. James Morehead, a governor of Kentucky, was one of the ablest lawyers in the State, and a scholarly gentleman. Henry Stanberry was a lawyer of great ability. Although a native of New York he