Thomas County cat., 1890-07-31

DR.. Louis Marshall had been a student
at the university of Edinburgh, in Scot
land, and afterward went to Paris and
attended the university there. He was
one of those who led the attack upon
the Bastile. and was afterward arrested
by order of Robespierre, and was saved
from the guillotine only by the strenu-
GUS efforts of powerful friends. During
his stay in Scotland and France he
fought many duels, always without
serious injury to himself and with dam
age to his opponent.
One other affair that DR.. Marshall had
in Kentucky was with man named
Sites. Mr.. Sites took offense at some
publication DIR. Marshall had made.
Arming himself with pistol and raw
hide, he came upon the doctor while the
latter was smoking cigar and reading
newspaper, and had his feet cooked
up higher than his head against tree
box in front of hotel in Versailles,
Ky. With his pistol drawn in one hand,
he commenced to cowhide DR.. Marshall
with the other.
Dr. Marshall never took his cigar
from his mouth, nor ceased putting, nor
lifted his eyes from his paper, until
Sites ceased his blows. Then, looking
at Sites over his shoulder, and brushing
the ashes from his cigar with one finger,
he asked: "Are you quite through p
Mr.. Sites answered that he was, and
DIR. Marshall replied: Every we'll you
will hear from me before long," and
kept on reading and smoking. When
he had finished his cigar and news
paper, he got up, sent runner to
Frankfort for Colonel Joseph Hamilton
Gaviess sent Sites peremptory chal-
lenge that night, and shot him through
the body in duel next morning before
breakfast, infiicting a wound from
which Mr.. Sites shortly afterward died
DIR. Lewis Marshall, who was pol
ished scholar of profound learning, was
an infidel during his young manhood
but afterward became converted, and
would never recur to any of his various
affairs of honor, and for any one else tc
do so in his presence gave HIM deep Of
fense. He was at one time president o1
the Pennsylvania university, at Lexing
ton, Ky, and at the time of his death in
1855, he was president of Washington
college at Lexington, Va, now known
as Washington and Lee university.
Hon. Thomas F. Marshall, who at ont
time represented the ashland" district
of Kentucky in congress, and who was
undoubtedly the most finished and giftei
orator of his day, was the son of DR.
Louis Marshall. His grafton upon the
life of and public services of Richard II
Menefee must ever rank with the first oI
the classics. "Tom" Marshall, as Ken
tuckians loved to call him, was a vari
able and eccentric genius, and he, too
after the manner of the times and state
practiced under the code, and hi.
affairs" were numerous.
He had a duel with Hon. John Rowan
of Barostown, Kentucky statesman OF
national reputation, and dead shot q.
well, in which Mr.. Rowan, calling hi.
shot," as they say in billiards, hit him il
the leg within half an inch of the spo
which he had indicated as the place HI
had intended to hit. Mr.. MARSHALL.
next duel was with Colonel Jane.
Watson Webb, editor of the New York
Courier and Enquirer in 1S42. Mr.
Marshall was engaged by that notorious
forger and magnificent rascal, Monroe
Edwards, to defend him in his trial in
New York, and Webb severly criticised
the conduct of Marshall in so doing, a.
he was ther member of congress.
Marshall, in his speech before the
jury, retorted upon Webb in that bitter
style of which he was the master. This
led to a duel, and Marshall shot Webb
in the knee, laming him for life. He
also met General James L. Jackson, D1
Lexington, KY, OH the field of honor in
Mexico during the Mexican war, both
gentlemen being officers in the same
regiment of Kentucky volunteers. This
event, however was a blOOdless one
General Jackson was killed at the
battle of Perryville during the late war
Hon. Thomas F. Marshall had one
other "unpleasantness" during the Mex
lean war with still another officer of his
own egiment-General Cassius NJ. CLAW
who is still living, full of years and
full of honOrs. Trouble has been brew
ing between the two men for sometime.
Mr.. Clay, as he says himself in his
autobiography, spent nearly all his
leisure time while in camp sharpening
and polishing his sword. This fact led
Marshall to refer to Clay's sword as
'the sharpened blade of an assassin"
One day, while the regiment was en-
camped Oh the banks of the river, Mr.
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