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A LOST LEADER. Tho lan Whom Critics Say Waa Louisville's Greateat Painter. Clarence Boyd, Ms Life, nis Work aid What It Hare Eeea. Reminiscences of His Studio This City and His Methods. In Reproduction of Some of His Paint ings Now Owned By Louis-rillo People.

HI? IDEAS AND HIS AIMS. The ht artist Louisville ever pro- fl'icet. 1 and not only than but lie ws bringing bis, genius to full growth so-fast, that hd he lived, by thU time wonld havo been ranked among the ry greatest American painter Now he 1 forsrotW by onny people iright here la hi old horne, but had it not hnen lor nta enrly death the whole country wouiu have been prond of him." It wns of Clarence Boyd that thee worK wer spok.n reeeittly, and the speaker was. August (arl, a competent if aay there be here, ior lie ia Liin'lf an ai tiht modesty and luck of have alonn preveLted uis draughtsmanship from leing its triu alue. Nor is he ah-ne in I.

is Boyd's career was of what has often lieen awrted. There in no ireneral or evvn of art' in As In the Jr.tm.i, a pniductiun to ern priiwr come here wirh haM-mftrk of metropolitan approval, or le tlie work of some charlatan who lias made hiniat-lt a 'fad. But AN IDEAL HE.VTX tlier are a few who can dboern a worthy Mention even over the signature of on unasvuminx LouUvilie boy, and it waa a piark of Boyd's merit that by this circle -ull a budly small out. his work wv always in deiuatid. John Botto, I'owl-attan W'oolnde, J.

F. Cooper ami 4iers were always on the watch lor his pictures, nd if one escaped them now and then it was only because some btraiMrer hiHI -eri it net ore icem anu caine.i of! the (tue. Boyd was not a native of tliis city. His lathtr was a wealthy iron merchant of Iroutou, Ohio, but r.iusferred his busiami to BouisvUle when Claivnce was a smill boy. Tlie art lns.inot wu etron; in him tarlit years, acid he was but little over tweuty tarud to Sew York to lie ro-btaiucd there for about two years, then weut to l'aris, and found that he hud been waisting his time.

He often said afterward 1 1 had uever seen Jiew So much of tnat pn-cious tiiue in i-inco 1 had to t-i I undoiug the wrong tiaiu 1 had taiigut ia Icw iiis iu Tar uiiUr toe tuition of Carol. lu an, was indeed precious to him, and his stay V-re waj tut so snort tiiat it wax 11 tor hint tliat during a year ia th its lemta.ious were never i.i...u enough lure him fr his eaune his iudusiry and to The rttiult was that whvn, the news came which recall'-d iu home he had accoiu-plisii-J in oitiliux'ti wh.it would have tak a yi i to ins; ill into tnottt pupils. Not tt.at there was not H'l much for him to learn. -No one that more than he, but he had laid a bread foundation of art knowledge and hvling upon which all he did was Tlie nea that ended his stay iu Paris was that his other had met witl busi-Iis uiisfortmies. Iloyd knew that hi place herv.s and a charaotert-tic act wa that he took suTagn Viicx-axe Ik me, though frUttidn Would gladly havo advanced him tite.inoney to bring'him back ia comfort, lie brought no uicdals or mentions fruui the Salon.

He had exhibited nothinif, becau. hU aim was too hial. to put crude vlTorts on vie lie ished to i iu the art wi rld by what was worthy of him, and his tiiiv hud been ton shrt fur his itieas tc reach fruition. Once here, he settled down to hard work. He opened a stu li on tlie seonti floor Of tho Couricr-Jctirual building, and began givins hvson.

And wl.ue he taucht, lin By close study, relf-rritieiiiu and self-enniunins, he wrought slowly out the knowledgn whlnh lie needed. -V his eoldcn years w.e pussiuf. thought W.ut this kuowledsio tliat came so cmild have been to quickly acquired iroui hin giat master, would have made must men im- mmm pntknt, but it vm not so with Boyd. Tied to his tnbes and brushes as lna a the west light streamed in the brua I windows, as soon pointing could no longer be done, he amiifiit wua lrce, chooiy, boyish and had-fellow- woiHii't too tuueli to suid the few who dil uut like the Landacme young painter. rx me pas-ssl in.i pupils dropping invaluable bints to artist ii--lmir his art, turning ouv cauvae alu-r cauvtui, never satudied with nis worn yet nevT dissatisfied, fur trom inch I'll or he (mined huo.i pimure le niusltcd wav.

worthiest to ut a work of art. It hud served his uurpoe -u-aiued a lit-r more trie eye. hand or thought nut it was a tep uuon whioh lie lavi trodden, oue of a sutir- case down which he never would retrace path. Ilia art aim waa high and noble, and he was niovug toward it, hut the end came, it is uueb- to recall he end ami trugio story. tood waa Ueud and with hiut hia illus.

He vu a true artist wls-n he died. What he would have been can only be gue.vted by lite promise shown in the work of the man cut off bctore he had rwacis-d thirUnth year, wnea lie tlrst returissl Laitusville his rueta-ods were a revelation to hia friemU and pupils, who had scumbling ttieir uine away, Boyd's fnedotn and oread: a n.iin. re thing small about tlie mail or. hia idae lie pointed with a ew-ep and a dash, though with infinite pains, lie never at hie raanl. Hew can a man a picture doubled on tup of it, he UiMi to My, after eah broad, hrm stroke he would step back to cttrh the effect.

There was not a tmall brush atout his AtiKlio. 'I'ltr-y w4i tiiv 11 r.n p.iint a minUtur with a mip," his frifn ld use-l to mv an i believe. And his palette! The way he would (landfuls of paint on it made po.r men shnd'ler. Vim 'have to hav plenty it," he imcd aay as he emptied) tube after tube. Then would come Ids Bwift of the colors into elusive tints, aiTl then with his hiit the dash-ini? in of lirht and hia w-IUinpt to and from hia easel, and the broad, bold tin-r ii ra-T PCEITAJJS ATTACKED TS CHCBCH.

strokes, each with an object and a uu-auiag. methods were distinctly Frencli. tliat tlwy were distinctly uioUlth. lie waa a stickler for nature, filled with ti plein fair'' enthusiasm of Cuiirh't and the oUkt lead-rs of tho revolt anninst the claxsi' Lits. As to jiuint fi gttres oiw nsf know anatomy, so lie thought to paint a Held one must know the secrets of nature how the botislis of- each tree branched, how each kind of gnss swayed iu the wind, how tlie writer trull different slisvlows tinder clouds and under sunliaht.

It is ntettv," he said once to a friend who brought him sketch to insist, ut it -is a li-v Oak hnves doa that way. Wait aud I'll show you" and Miir-r-r came a great daub of paint over hall the picture, but out of the daub KTw in half on hour a tiee that was an oak. Am) to straight from nature's heart rume everything he 1id. lie left more on land'-ennes, perhaps than hut tigur were what he prefeT-d Had Ik livi-d tiere would have heen such a series of illustrations to As Y'ou -Like It" as will never now seen. Tit was his fnvmite n'ay ard Rowilied.

Celia, Tucli tone, Audrey, Orlndn, snd the oilier were always in liis thouchts throiiirh their woodlnnrl life They fur-nishel hirn more then one sub'ect, and among them wis his maf.tvrpi"-. It was a po-turo tun i was seen niy oy few of his fiiendn in Louixviile. for it whs shipped away licfore the mint was dry It wns called Touchstone" and was twenty five bv thiity inches. Fair in the center of the canvuh came the fool, hi yiaring motley fixing the eye at once. Shoutirg with laughter, with hcxl 'hro'vn and lmuble hib in "tvS tX' TV till, ho t-amo down a glade in tlie woods.

Audrey's ruttiu flure sliowed in the Uirouli tht cool shade of the foliage, that, tipped in tlie summer bree the sunlight Siole with marvelous effect, for of chi-ira-oscun Boyd was master. It iun? in the exhibition of the Acad-my-of Art at two days, Tlien to ftovd for lilt. VLH.lVcTrUwl. hi prine it was paid, but what the amount or who the purchaser his li lends here do not know The Touchstone had two odd incidents connected with it. One was that Boyd waa both painter and model, posing for hlniwlf before a mirror.

Another wns that, it was puir.t-'d over antther picture. Tliis was no new thing for Boy.1, however. Fully half his picture were painted over others his idea being that such a cunvns was niello and more susceptible of bis favorite effects. Not that any certain material was V4wt 4' a I. '-i fc S'i fr i'S'-As 'SI Vtf Kjisti I A Ya WA' Vtt--r a iKt'-f frV', z) -V 1 S'y' ysi Ui tC'Vt I- YLL fi'M one i TIIE CO LOUTSVTLLE, SUNDAY MOK2fTNG, MAUCH 13, 1802.

jnir.i..y charactt ri.siic worK, as cold and co.or- h-as oliaik and metal can supply. Jack. ily they md verve oaiy a guide-poats to tliose ho wish to two tlie originaia, lor wiiw ol Uoyd's bi-st picture are wed here. The picture ol himself ind ideal head are from hasty pencil sketoliea dashed oil at odd momenta. Tho Fagot-gatherer" is a mtall o'l, with the dull red of the girl's dress haraionis- Uig well with tlw dark foliage, the ev- Hiiit makmi; Boyd's favorite break in niWdlo distance.

It Is interest- ing from the fa. that it Is one of the neeearary to Boyd. lie waa a conjur th cj lore, a one little occurrence will ocempiity. With a friend he started day on a trip to one of hi favorite skethinif urouuds along the Ilarrod's Creek Nanow'giutge. Ah tlie trnln pulled out he uuvle a discovery.

By iove!" he said, "I've got no white. Well, it doesn't matter. Here's acme Naples ye? low. I'll make that do. Aivi he did, brlntrinjf back a aketeh.

In which ho seemed to have caught and zr--t Wwr- CLAUKNCB BOTD. fixed all tlie Hummer's golden glory. It was a little gem, but it was never iinished. Every nook in hU studio waa stacked with and, this one wiiU twenty others, went iuto pile on ton of the et am-hoatvr. One) day steam was turned on unexpectedly an I the heated colors stuck the eanvaee toeth r.

One wns a study from A You Liko It," which Boyd exiiected to cltorate, but when lie discovered the nt he siHwlv lauched and tossed the entire heap into the alley back of the buildinir. Oil whs the only medium which Bovd reallv eared for, but he was a deft 'handler "of water-colors. About tlie only examples of bi water-color i-i tenrV lnvmrK xmt dstntv little menu and souv nir cards, which he painu-d for his friends. He modelel well in wax ani clay, and some little ba-re-liefs xliowed di-cidcd ui Tit. but he knew his limitations as a soulptor.

and he ouly laughttd when he ufd to find that ti S'ni 1 I'SH tfri' IM' THE FAGOT GATHEBEB. in his al'nce some pupil had decorated a claifeio head with a carmine nose atid a black mutttache. istron as he was in colore, be was also good in blacK ana wlme. Ho made many charcoal slc-tcn- and a few portraits. The latter were unsatisfactory a a rule, bat laud- seat" re strong, and of these at least ITY.

two almirable cxam-plee are owned la this city. One oalk-d "Spring," ia the pro-rty of Mr. Lyitletou Cooko, aud the oth Big lioc" was purcbaacd hv Mr. Curtin too day ISoyd wa kUtuO. Both were stuuies from that stretch 01 country, now Clierokeo Park, where he loved to ekeuiu.

AcbomiMuyiuu Uieso rtouiniscences are such reproductions of uuie of Boyd's very few ruinvaes he brought buck from France, in owned by hU life-long friend. Mr Will Caweiu. of tliis he Wood-cutiersr" is a scene in tlie woods near llarrcd' creek, tli figures teing Boyd and Mr. Cawein. Futurity" is one of Ins h--ht creations.

Its color-scheme, the handling of light and shade, and the cvntul tigure are all edtnirshle. lM present owi.cr is not known, but he Is fortuu.vte. T1k Puritans Attacked In Church." a largo unfinished nicture. is in Polytechnic. i.ven in present s'ate, it ia strong and in his best Two good exumples of his por- trait wrk are owned hv Powhatan Woolridgr- One it ennniahed, but the other is remarkable for its e.viuisifo flesh tones.

in which tho fane is that of orie of Louisville's handsomest women For Lack of (jold now owned in Lexit.pten 1 tie Wootuand Spring," owned by Mr J. T. C'tioper, and a study from his la orite, As You Like It. owm.d hy Mr. William rosdyck, are ii h.

-Jo tieintit.av now reealled. 1 here were many other. His friends were always welcome to his sketch, and one, Air Jhn Botto, in hia pretty 1 1 eoua'r h't at Alfortville, near Rrl, iliwil 10 a IjOUISviiib visitor last inmnixr he said of Boyd: lie would have aa the irenen- men sav. Uv the side ol the mouern masters hi work was not great, but it was good, tt was true, and each day irrowinr t-ener. leu turn pwpo at home to hold on to anything of hi the have.

It ia the work of a man who with ten years more or iwouia have been among tlie SHOOHnQ STaRS (For the Court -r Journal.) Ijavt nUht 1 aaw a burolmc stir Tl wrr ntnni I 6 kv. As thouah an ai.gel host with torcai ThMd acme woU on high. AA. mahy are fie sUr sttll flxed In night's great fcbadywy dome. And is tfore not one Uttte one Tha waila to Hct me home DOROTHY CouinaunloaUuns sad exchanga for thl dcDartroeDt ahouM be adrtresana ts ue chess editor.

Ths TAulnTtn Chest Club meets at moms 613 and eie uotnmerce uuuiuua. Fourth and Room open at ail aours. All ebsas plarers welcomea. Problem No. 70.

FtrM rrlie three-mover in touroer of the Bristol Jlerrury. (By T. B. Rewired. DubUn.) mm or1 i Hi W-s 'antra White (71 White to play and tuna In three move.

KolallOkk. IIiIU-kil HO. 67. 1-K-KtA. Solved br A.

J. C. Louisville: 3. M. Lnbanon U.

Part- CUo. Har-aliihburg, IikI. 11. M. litsm bun, Ind.

b. Jacvbit, Glomes, iuwa aieiaila vs. laehigorss. Twentiaih gmaie of the greit match. ZUKLaiXUKf ol'tMNU.

White nfui. lilac ilsctdgorin) l-l 4 a At- 3 3- P-K 3 4 3 b-g Kt 2 (a) 5 i tl 3 tb 7 Cant tot 6 Si -i 9 Kt IU 1 11 4 11-K Kt 3 (d) liKt 5 13 Ii 3 (el 14 KuKt 1 (4 3 -li-PxP 17 It sl 1-1 Kt -J 10 Kt BO, 2U 11 11 3 (ft 8 24 It-Q (s 25 Kt Ml fill KtxK (hi 27 Kt 9 (D Kt sq (J) 2 3 30 5 a 3 31 32 RxP (k) 83 HXP 34-Q-Q fi 3'. a 37 a r.M 30 HxB 40 Kt 1 a. 'i. 4 li 3 -P 11 4 Kt 8 61' 11 7 i' a Kt 4 8 11 K.t a ii K.

3 (c lO astlcs 11 il i iu -g a 13 Kt a -P a 1 llKt It I Xlt 17 ii Kt UH 18 Kt 2 111 SI so. JO Kl Kq 21 Kt 4 a RxK 3-Q-R 4 .4 a it a 11 Ml 2t K16 37 PxKt Kt 5 eh jo a 4 30 I' Kt 4 1-Q-B 3 a a S3 PxR 4 U.P 351 5 (I) Kt Kt 3T-U-K 7 3- P.xQ lixB 40 Kt eh 41 KixP -KIXP 41 BesliP. SOTES BY PTErNI tAborerlated). (at An unhanDT Inrmvwlfm. (bl If QKt 3.

7. QKt 4. QB4. 8. 0.

followed by Kt 5. tc ii 3, iv 4 wnite to retroHt or effect a prems4iire exrhanre. (ill If P-K 4. 13. PxP.

KtxP. 13. Kt xKt. QxKt. 14.

KUQP, aoA now QxKt IS. 11 4. (et Waste of InnwMin time. (fi In order to plar KtxOHP If WMte at- taokel the giir oy 1 4 ao4t Kt Jt 4, C) To prevent Kt Kt 4. (hi The to which this leads not easy to fomnee.

3 was better, but even tV-n Whtte pa Inert by exchanging R's. his QKr De.ing roii'-vea tr.m previure. fir 8, IJH 4, MK. l)l-IKt Kt 2. 20.

BxB. OxB. 30. Kt 5 foiiowea uy uxsl ana Ktxp en. winning a (ii ir a.

as. Kt en. Kt 1. CO. QxQ, Bxa KtxP, Kt 2.

31. 1. 14 -a. Kt Ki 1. jx.

ux etc. (jl If 1. 30. ch. Kt 3.

30. KtxKLP WHO a grrAt attar k. (kl Blwck was belple. If Q-Kt 9. wnite wouia answer yxi- wm aeamy ei- (U TO avoid rol 00 gat ion by Kt 3.

CkM al t. g. A set of celluloid cheat men has been received from P. Catlln. box 3650.

Kew oric ma ooea not ruo on taese. sax. The Phode Tsland Asoclaaoa held a Tfsry micccsftul meeting Pebtoary 22. In te tournaeut Mr. A.

K. Cunningham in iirM pnie. The Msnhattiui Chess rtub Ties aecDtV ed the challenge of the New OrVns Club for a matea. and pla wlH nrob- aoiy oean Jiarca ia. Tho adjourned game for the ew 1 orl Mtift cbamplnnslilp was won by Mr.

A. H. HndzM. living him first Drlze. Mr.

Edward Oily tak-a rec-vna pi lie. The Ohlc 6Ut Association met at Toledo Fetnisrr 12. Mr. V. laxae CutU on the rbamploaslup.

Mr. W. C. Cochran, of Cuv cinniu. was i-eienen iTfuatnu Do vou belong to the Kcntnckr Cness A'Soc'ntionT if you live in Kentucky and do not, though a chess winter, you should Join it om-e.

The next meeting will be a thl? InteteMing one. and every Kentucky dxe player viioufi oe frweuv. An addition to chess Iltemtur the American Chess Wonthly, published at Bos. ton by morse h. wairott.

it I handsomely goticn up, and hwk hill of interesting mU tel. There ought to be room for a good rhe-4 magazine In these bioad Cnltel States and If meiit wins the Chess Monthly will get were. St. Paul Chem Is wit ol rbe nilet pastime ever Invented bv the wpeuiaiy 01 man, out it is, as LeibniU. the ni4twoMier.

aeciarwi. a Mieace, More bo-jk have heeo written upon the trubjeot ci cne. 1 11 11 11 uiiuu aoiy oiner except uiaft of the lUbl'. It Is rosiuo poli tan In ita character. It 1 not couflned to tbe Binlta 01 nnguxge or niuonaiur.

tverv nlvlllxMl narln beneath te tun, and even tlie seml-borharlc are anions He devotee Protu tlie steppea ot Ruda to the mountains of the Cape." Every level la life rvreeute4 among the l.vers of thla ntxiis creauon. urvat poiiosoptiers. kings. tatesmcn. travelera.

scholars, lawyers, ota- tor. generals, doctors, divine. poeU and peaaaoU swell the lint. Lr-iboitx. Charles vie loran, uoeuie, rrantun, apoloon.

Dr. Kane. Buckle. Olsdst ne. On.a vie.

torla. Lord Rnrd Iph ChucMlU nisrnarvk. Von King A nude us. prof. A ri der? sen.

prol. eweotitb, 8ydner- smith Burr. D-vt1 Chrlbtla Muitbv. Count Von der I Lincoln and hundreds mora of tits wor.a.' great nsois. If tbeia ever was peel fie for any one eompla iiu then Carter's Utile Liver Pilis ate a tpecinc lor sica neauatas.

sua everr woman tliould know this. Only one sul a iry wank MOORE'S VICTORY. He Is Successful In Having An Employe Appointed Receiver. Rh4a Weodard Asks For a Divorce ani ill ikes Several Severe Charges. Property of W.

H. Stapp Attached To Enforce a Judgment Rendered Several Years Ago. Pight Between Agents of Rival Life Insurance Companies Results In a Suit For Damages. 0THES 2TCWS 07 THE 00TXBTS. George S.

Mo ire scored a victory in the Chancery Court yesterday in the suit brought by William J. Watldaa to have a teceiver appointed lor the drayuge account of 'the corporation, lite Uermama Saiety Vault and Trust Com pany resigned as 'teceiver and Kobert II. Ferguson, cm of Mr. Moore's em. ployea chosen in Ids stead.

lie was ccmmusionel to set tle ail accounts of the Cor poration, sell all stock and property and turn the money into court. HU bond wag Hxcd at which was immediately glveu with William Bridge- foul as burety. A nnmber of suiu were filed in the Court of Common Pleas ycbtcrday against 'jeorgo S. Moore. Iher are a follows The Decatur Car Wheel and Manu faoturing Company, of Decatur, to recover on a executed.

October 21, leSl, payable six uiouthe after date at the iiuu.t ol Coaimerce; lor 1, 521.2a, due on a bill of exchange ex ecuted October 3, iat, payable to N. S. itonton, once Free.utnt of the Cur Wheel company, and lor 1 (( cu a prcinis- sory note, dated aud eimxi Deueuioer 1HW1, paiaole at the iauk of Uom- uierte ninety days after date. Tws llorcea A-ked. While the officials in one office at the Couiwboute are iaiuiug liueusea tor peo ple to marry, the clerk iu another are i-qually busy Teoordinj the petitions of those who want to unmarry.

Yesterday tuore veto tw a pairs who desired legal sepaaation. KhoUa Wood ard, in Iter pe tition egainst John Woodurd, goes on to state tliat she was maivitd to lam Jan uary 2. I ee 7. iive years and one month later she says he. abandoned tier.

M10 diaries lam with ij rig a couhimeu drunkard and with cruelty. 1'iaiutiil umerts alie was reared well and is in every rceiwet a lady, it very uraiini; tot her netve when dcioiidaot, as she alleges, cursed her, oilled her uamee. talKcd to urn ainiut her. sci-uaeu of xoite of misconduct aud threat- eued her Hie. She also ml Mt tiescrud sp-uso is ttying to keep her frooii earn-ug a livelihood by taking from her her machine.

The husband is the cotnplainnnt in the see- nd case. C. A. 1 rutku says he was rasiried to Can-line lrudcn 'ptem-htr 5, lst-0. On January 3.

ol last year, he al legos, the duleudant abandoned Kail oi Notes a ad Aceonau K. II. Hoskins sues 3. Lewis in Common Pleus to recover $5 5.50 foe mer chandise furnished. Carl Mann sveks to recover from John Hallmaa and Henry Kiaft $135 on a promissory note.

j. a. Lewis ar-Ks luagment against o. N. Cropper for il TS lor rent.

llenrv C. Ormsly sued Frank Ingram and Flauner)' dc. congleton on a 10 ur- montns note ror The Firtt Ntttioruil Bunk of Anniston. Ala-, sued J. F.

Curran Co. on tliree notes for $875 each Attaci.rnei.tt Asked. The Farmers' Bank of Kentucky se cured in Equity an attachment of 9tH against W. II. Stapp and Augusta P.

Slapp, his wife, lid in tiff aseerts in its petition that it obtained judgment in a uenuerson court aainss a. v. oiapp, Sona ija. An order was granted en joining the dcfendar.ti 'nmi sellmg tlieir pioperxy as tvainus ana iweuiy-sixtu streets Lauffer asked an attachment for $361.20 against Louis Leister and wifo and others to enforce judgment. Asks Damages or Assaalt.

In a nine-line petition W. L. Clark asks in the Common 11ei Court for 000 damages from Frank O'Brien, alleging that a few days ago he sot upon lulu aud beat hiiu. luis is anouier chapter in the life lusurauoe war, which was up in the city txiurt yeeteruay, when O'Brien was tiued $15 aud placed under bond of ilOO lor three months. Legal UreTities.

The Louisville Trust Company soeks to discharge its duties as guaxuiau ol William Lishide, now of a. Charles M. Foreman, of hsquire alley, shot his wife the other night, lie was bold to answer, aa wet aaao two witnesses. A motion was yesterday filed for a hew trial lor istepiien Bite, the con demned murderer, it will be argued- next Saturday. The grounds are itew evidence aud illness at the time of tlie first trial.

The Louisville Trust Company, by its petition in Chancery, seeks to recover judgment in the sum of $1,345 from WilLam and John L. Hughes, aud caih, upon the bprmgfield FjjlciUo and thresher Company to assert an alleged lien. Proceedings la Court Yesterday. Jefferson Circuit Court. Commonwealth vs.

oelie Andrews, keeplug dueitkily bouw ecutlijUvd. April 4. b. lw Hi 10, muitlvr; auuiuuuisl grouuils for new tr.al bled; tuo-Uoa lor new tiisi couuuued lo lOui lu-u; leave to file aittd-vvus. Tliotaaa Uiiourt, ripe: motiou lor new trial suborn wo.

thiules borr.es, murder; niouon for ba.1 suomlUed. Herniau NeuLeca. murdrr; motion to lncreawo bail cout nued to Ivu lust. John alcCtte, alias Wuoii, pund latvouy motion to reduce ball subniuted. Court of Common Pleas.

Adams A West-lake Co. vs. lliiisiii bubinsun Manufac-tui lug Cos nioUou and grounds lor now trial flk.1. bbalicross vs. Loa.sviUe aud Nasbvlile Rallioad Juiy tluMigrttd and ditcaarged.

Law and Eoulry vs. Clvk-son; law and Inrts, assigned to April 19. Held vs. Kentucky and 1 1.01 una Ur-iugn ruotua aod grouwls fw mw Ula. nied ana set lot -li lu.i.

tarlc. vs. ecuwiug executor; motion to require defendant to elect bet ween paragraphs of answer mid set for 24 Uo-t. A.er vs. Kiel: jvry; verdict and Judgment, for plaautilf.

tuaub vs. ringer; bond died at'achrd funds re-ieasud. Parker vs. Williams; jury: on trtaL vvntaon vs. Wciser, juugment for plafr.titf.

Cramer vs. Rtone; oitler submitting nitUou to quash retLrn ou summoiis act aside, leave to amend reloru. AStest: JOHN ii. D. C.

City Court-Malk-lous Cutting John McLean C50 to at swer. Money by False Pretense Albert Reed. to answer. Suspected Felon Dan Murphy; 1,000 for twelve nioouix. Judgment auipended twuuty.

fnur hours; Louis VLtce. Monday; Chris, Lmncan. oiKn Ised. Mioothig ami wounding Charles fore man. 1,000 to answer.

iisoiijrly CortOiict Lew A I km son. A. u. brown. 20: Mabel Meere.

Lulls Mathews, John Burnett, Henry Smith. Wal ton BewJnger, James Murrv. Charlrs feteu- l.i sen. Kate Uilev. Mary BnrUti.

C. Kane a. w. iiurne l. di.m.s-eu: kuceno i-t- love, 5 peter CoebcL 2 Amy Jacoby, i.

Jefferson Circuit Court. Commonwealth vs. U. Dot son ootaiumc money by lalae pi tenses. Hoiaoe Couiba; cutting, laid 1J siicr; euiong.

John l'oa-ers: petit las cuy. uioe oaannon; giana larceny. AUtMtt JUJtN H. i'Aua, ii. u.

Court of Appeals. Frankfort. Hares 12 8 pedaL -Walker vs. Bank of Keuuicky. Kenton; tuiiuiud.

bromley vs. McTalTS administrator, Boyd; inirni.ll. CMhhsnlrs vs. Wllmer St Wilson. Ckmp- 1.

11 llsteup vi. LI nosey Edmtnon leveiwt. Citr of Newoort vs. AlUier. Campbell: wit a tunaec.

Abmathy vs. Long and 'A heeler ChnsUm; and Uoote vs. Baker, ilieatiilit; lie l-e liions tor r.tiesrmg wi-re Eild v. Hamilton, Montgomery peti- uon tar renearmg ana miomutca. Trrtlnes vs.

tludr 11. lutU time lor fil ing netition extended thirty days. AUvman v. oraaioowtmen Ilm UmIIiIH Court adjoamed ucfl TueSay. STRIMNQ A BARGAIN.

(Uie.) "Vat you seharge Icr da, child on As train -Nothing, as he's under live years. "but he take oop a scat schoost Uka I well we lose that" fiy, how moo'h you take oft my ticket et 1 tuave. 110 aiu as lunt 1- WORK OF THE REAPER. The Weekly Statement of Mortality Shows a Total ot Sixty- Four Deaths. Bids Opened Tor Sewer 'Work Other News and Notes From ths City HaU.

The condensed weekly statement of mortality furbished by HvulUi Officer ohows a decided increase ia tlie nuuilmr ol deaths for hun, week, as com pared itn tme week beioie. There were sixty-four deaths, ot fourteen mote than tho week helore, which was exceedingly light, consumption leU as a oaiuM of utaili, with uue cases, followed by bueu mcnia, with six. lheie were four, vio lent 'Ucailis uuu two were rvporieu Xroai the gripie. ihe statement is as lol- lows: exess or DEATH. ADODlexy Maraantua I brociciuiia.

a jit-aii gu ceremu. 1 1 Meuiasuis, tuutrcul 1 OM sav Brsia CooAUDipuoa 1 Psr.iy.i.. 1 1 Pt-riuMiuia. I iropay. 1.

cr. pera'cs int'tut 1 lueuiiionia. Fsver. puerperst. lever.

lym.oiJ I Hsu orrbage, uu I hraruirguwiaof. I lnuuriua. 9 Laryug.us. 1 Limns, emigration of. Louo-moSor aiavis.

1 h- D.a.a of womb 1 Kucuinai isia. Tetaaua I TuuarcuioaM. Arc 'Omit. burs. I Aceiai, ad 1 Poimo 1 srx.

culos. socusi. asLar'a, wbus 44 bingw. 11 SI ttaureq. It ItarrsMl Sa SATivrrr.

LouawUla Outer paAs of U. IX. 1. Auca. Under 1 yr.tfl Ir'm 1 to t.

lr'ui loS. t'ntSte iu. 1 'm lutu xu rr'm 20 to 10. Ir'uiJU to 4a, 10 Kr'ui 40 U)k 1 ixl to 40. sr'iu mio f.

wasos. rrmtStoSX Fr'm sjiohI 1 Koi stated. 1 First 1 bac'otiward. Iwru waru. 4 wma ward luui saiwL.

Blxth warcU 1 Elavth wd 11 hav an ui a 4. 4 Iweifiaward. taguia w'il. 1 thy Hospital. 7 Niuta ward.

CVwriaavaua. Ismsu watw.lS WXKXUT MOBTAUTT. Week aodlng March so Bids for the work outlined in yester day's Courier-Jouraal wae opened by the Mayor at noon yesterdsy. I hers was a large number of bidders. Lacu particular portion of the work being lud tor seuaiaieiy, it-will require sev eral days to determine who ia toe lowct ladder.

Building permits as follows were is sued jeylorday P. DettUnger, Montgom ery bald Twenty -atxth. l'lame, $blH); O. M. iarth.

Oak aud Third, brick addition, M. Thieie, Samuel and 'lexas, frame, tfK; Phoenix Blowing Company, Oreen and Fourteenth, frame addition, $i0: Augusta Beuehause, llrtle, near Mueteeutli, name, t50U; U. Faliey, 'Freaton and lireckinridse, fiatue, (5oiX The (olio wing deaths were reported to Health Ofllcer Gait yesteiday: MaUie Willie, thirty-eight -year, pneumonia, (12 Fulton; Martin Bader, premature birth, bOJ Cane; Lailie Stouo, one year, dipiitheria. Garlsaid avenue and Light-eeuth Henry Yearns, twenty-nine years, cooaumptaon, 21 Ls't Main Mary Cur- ten, six day-', congeetioi, 130s liiglt Conrad Segrcst, tldrty-four years. usumption.

City Hospital Matia Mitch- ed, thiny-eix. consuiuptiou, clay ami tioeckert: Williaui J. Mukr. fortv- fcur rur.cei ol fttoUach, bli5 Hancock: Viola Bruckert, fonrtoen months. diputlietia, Ui last iauison.

DISUNION IN 1H-UNION BAND. Split Iu a Iieaevoleat Kwcielf Caases a Kait i De Filed. Are there two of them? If so which one is the true Lnion Band, o. 2, and which tlie seceding body. Magistrate Herd was hearing evidence all yesterday sfternoon to decide the question, and will answer to-morrow or the the day after.

Over a year ago tits Union Band, an organisation of colored people, bad a sidit about an election. Iraorgia 1 "res- ton was aid to have been elected dent of the band, but Cora Ixiwards said that she herself was President. So a factional fight followed, and B. T. Gardi ner was called in to lay down the law.

He was p-iiu for his ecrvices by a check on the Lruoo ltand's account in lnk. When he went to collect it "the bank officials said they had instrucu-d by both par ies to hold the money until a settlem-'ut of the society's affair had hen lie then sued' the Union Band. No. 2. for his bilL and now the question Is who owns the money in the banic, the eauu or Uie aeceoersr CLCTH OUR POLICY Has always been to sell our stock at the end of each season, or reduce it as much as LOW PRICES can do it- that's why we are now, and have been for two months, selling our Winter stock of Suits and Overcoats at such low prices.

It will pay you to buy one to lay aside for the next season. Finest Suits and Overcoats this Week at $8, $10. $12 and SIS. In addition 'to giving you the opportunity -of buying this Winter Stock at these low prices, we now offer you the entire SPRING-. STOCK Of Men's and Youths' Suits carried from last season AT TIIE SAME REDUCED PRICES as we have on the Winter Stock.

This will be bargain week all -over our house Finest Suits for 10, S12 and $15. NECKWEAR half PRICE. -J 10 For choice of about 200 dozen Scarfs Puffs, J.w2 Tecks and fine P. Iv. Washable Four-in.

Hands, that we sold for 25c Irutcher FOURTH AND CAKPcTS. SPRING A superb assortment of ail the very latt st styles and colorings i RICH EFFECTS ZACS STXX. POKTIj RE PRICES THE LOWEST POSSIBLE In The very -THE- 'BANKRUPT SHOE' SHE! coisrlriisriJES. $6 Worth of Shoes for $1. Nothing like It ever heard of in Louisville before.

The Bankrupt gtoek of Lynch of Cliicaso, turned oter to us, aud we are turninc; it over to happy thousands. Come for your share. Come keep on coming at loug a you Te a dollar leit tell ail your frit nib and bring them along. Look at these Trices: Children's Shoes that were sold in Chicago by Lynch from $1 to $3 per pair, go during this sale at 20e, 35e aud 50c a pair. Ladies' Fine French Kid Oxford Ties, Lyneh'a price our price 1.24.

Ladles' Cloth Top Button Boots, patent tips, Lynch' price S3; our lriee Ladle' Urisbt Kid, l'atent Tip, Wnukenpbast Button Boot, Lynch price 6, our vrice LaUie' Kid l'atent Leather Tips Lynch' price $1.50, our price 5 c. Ladies' Fine Kid Oxford Ties, Common Sense Hake Lynch' price $2, our price Sc. One iot of "en's Ilnnd-sewcd Calf Lace Shoes, Lyncli'i price was $5, our price $1.1. THACKERY'S, Second and Market. "Wintersmitii's Eemedies For Sale by NO.

SterkSo JEFFERSON. 1892 NEW GOODS. which can be found the products otthe noted imn-uiacturers oi the country. CURTAINS latest importations of all the new ideas and oddities. Brook and Market.

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