Show A FEUD The dispatches in Tuesdays issue of TilE HERALD respecting the feud in Kentucky may lead some of our readers to wonder if our civilization after all is removed many paces from barbarism Good grounds exist for such a question when in one of out oldest old-est states such a thing as a feud can exist The feud is a peculiar institution of the south Bitterness is engende ed between two families is nursed and brooded over until murderous plans are formed for the extinction of each the hatred extends to the relatives of each part and to then neighbors sometimes setting townships against each other and sometimes being so extensive as to embroil whole counties until it swells to the proportion pro-portion of a miniature civil war The present feud exists between the Cow DEUS and TCIIXEUS but it has so many ramifications ramifica-tions that it is difficult to determine here it begins Previous to the < quarrel last week more than a dozen deaths had occurred oc-curred through this feud and a light last week between two of the parties seems to have brought matters to a crisis Each part has been gathering its clans a pitched battle was fought in which more than oOO shots were filed and man people were woun led One thing that is peculiar may always be counted on that is that both parties will turn on the officers ot the law if said offi ers undertake to enforce the law against murdci and not This has proved to be the case in the present instance in-stance bj the sheiifTs posse which attempted at-tempted to arrest the rioters It was driven hack to Baibouiville A second posse under the leadership of Judge GUI was more successful and five of desperadoes were captured But this did not end the difficult for after the arrest another battle bat-tle was fought and more men were killed and wounded At latest reports over a thousand men were armed and m the mountains moun-tains and the sheriffs of three counties through which the feud extends are talking talk-ing of making a combined attack upon the outlaws and it mav be that the state militia will be applied for That such a state of things can exist in one of our een tially located and oldest states is a s id comment com-ment on our civilization and uoou Chris tianitj Such savage outbreaks as these make one believe in the words of the poet who said Our polished manners are a mal 1 we wear And at the bottom barb irous still and rude A Ve are restrained indeed but not subdued In a land and age so boastful of its progress pro-gress enlightenment and civilization it is time that such outbreaks were unknown For Christian shame let such brawls cease |