Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-02-21

Austin, for the very fendish murder
of his grand aunt, Miss Bland, wo-
man Of over 80 years Of age, gives as
much satisfaction here, and perhaps
more than that against Guiteau, for
there are those who are charitable
enough 10 believe the latter insane.
But not word can be said in pallia-
ton of Austins crime. lie murdered
for money his best friend on earth,
friend who, Notwithstanding his way
wardness and worthlessness, had stood
by and supported him, and even gone
so far as to furnish him means to get
him Of numerous troubles. Then the
manner Of the murder, the supreme
cruelty Of il, is shocking TO contem'
plate. He not only inhicts three ter
rible wounds, each one of which was
fatal, but he stamps he on the face
and head with his heavy Loot heel rs
she lay gasping and writhing in the
agonies Of her awful death. The SEN
tence Of hanging is therefore doubly
deserved, and we congratulate Gar
rard county, that she has men that
will not finch from a plain discharge
Of their duty when summoned to pass
upon such a case. Sentimentality
and false opinion in regard to the
punishment of murderers, lave
brought our section into disrepute.
Murders the most foul have been
committed, and no one has suffered
the penalty of them, until such cattle,
emboldened by the leniency shown
them, have grown fearless and more
bloodthirsty, and rendered human life
so cheap, that any body cantake it with
IMMUNITY. The carnage must be
stayed, and it can only be done by
melting out the direst punishment on
all offenders. Let murderers know
that death shall as certainly follow
their bloody acts as their cases are
tried, and we shall have far better
state of affairs. As it is, immigra-
tion is stopped and many are leaving
for localities where the law is more
strictly enforced. Ours is naturally
the finest inheritage on earth. Let
every law loving man strive to make
it what its Great Creator intended.
A BEAUTIFUL and wealthy young
lady of Ottawa, ILL.,, had occasion to
put herself under the care of her
fathers family physician, DIR. Camp
field, for the treatment of a tumor.
The oldfelIow explained to her that
in order to properly operate on it, she
must take an anesthetic, and one was
administered. While under the in
fluence of the drug the beast violated
her person, and in the regular course
of time an infant was born. Her
relatives brought suit against the old
reprobate, which terminated in a YER
dict a few days ago, of $50, 900 dam
ages. A very nice little sum, but it
has always appeared to US that shot
gun Is better in such cases than all the
money verdicts ever given. 1t carries
with it, too, a persuasiveness that is
convincing in the extreme, and it is
surprise TO US that some of the male
relations Of the girl had not thought
to use one of these hahdy and useful
weapons on the letcherous brute.
GEN. S. s. Fay is said to have full
minated a bull from the republican
vatican at Danville accommodating
John ID. White, body and soul, mind,
members and memory, from the great
republican hierarchy. The charge
against John ID. is, that he willfully,
and with malice aforethought, and
without having the fear of the party
lash before his eyes, dared to decline to
introduce TO the President the sainted
and beloved Burbridge, and his adj
miring train of which Gen. f. was a
distinguished member. And yet to
man removed from party intrigue and
free from political aspiration, it would
seem that though John DIS. record
were as black as the landscape Of Ere
bus, that single refusal would forever
relieve its gloom and illumine its dark
est pages. But doctors will differ; and
doubtless the General reasoned that
his countenance should have sancti-
fed the unhOly history of Burbridge.
FROM the manner in which Ken.
lucky Judges are ruling men charged
with murder and other high crimes,
to trial-refusing them eontinuances
from court to court, and year to year,
until the witnesses forget the facts or
die of, and people become seemingly
reconclied or careless as to their
crimes. and from the wav In which