Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-02-24

shine hunter, who should, perhaps
have met his death long before he
did, IL half the reports Of his shoot
ing scrapes are true, was shot while
resisting arrest in Louisville, Monday,
and died in Jail next day Of the eff
fecis. Since Wyatts retirement from
the u. s. Marshalship. he has been
running a whisky shop in Louisville.
and for some time past has refused to
pay the city license therefor. M.
merous fines had been entered against
him, and a warrant for his arrest had
been for several days in the hands Of
the officers, Tom Connell and Jesse
Cunningham. They found him al the
Astor House. and when they offered
to arrest him, he swore they could
not do it. and commenced firing at
them with his pistol, which he called
'old Trusty." The officers returned
the FIRE, and fourteen shots in all were
fred before he gave up. He was
shot in three places, the one in the
abdomen doing the business for him.
He was bold, and said to be a very
bad man, and no doubt deserved his
fate. The officers can not be too high
ly praised for the gallant manner in
which they stood up to their duty. =
The dishonest decision of the Court
of Appeal of Tennessee, which refu-
ses to recognize an accepted and just
compromise of the States indebted
ness, is bearing fruit in way that
the regulators never dreamed of.
The water works contractors at Knox
vile. who are to be paid in the bonds
of the city, alarmed at the doubtful
ness Of any public security in a State
where the courts or the legislature can
rob them Of thex property at any
time, have suspended operations until
better security can be given them.
This is precisely the stand that every
body who contracts with either the
State or a municipality in Virginia
and Tennessee should take, and the
rogues at heart, who manage such az
fairs, would soon be convinced that
honesty alone can win in the world.
The National Apportionment bill
provides that in cases where State
fails to re-district and is entitled to
more representatives in Congress than
she has districts already laid out, she
eau elect the other members to which
she may be entitled from the State at
large. This being the case, Col. j.
Stoddard Johnston's proposition TO let
the districts remain as they are and
elect Gen. Wolford as the eleventh
member of Congress from this State,
is a good one, and if the Legislature
can not agree on an equitable divis-
ion, they had better let-the thing 90
by default and dispense to their homes.
SENATOR LoeAN's bill to place
Gen. Grant ON the retired army list
with the full pay of General, is one
of the meanest attempts to raid on
the Treasury, yet proposed. The
country may have owed him debt,
but God knows it has more than paid
it dozen times over for any thing
that he could have done. Besides
Grant is very rich man and needs
no such aid as that proposed.
The floods of the past week have
been the heaviest since 1877, and
great destruction of property and loss
of life are reported along the Ohio,
Mississippi and other smaller streams.
Railroads have been washed out, and
the detention of mails and travel have
been very great.
The Legislature costs the State
just $3.50 per day. The session so far
foots up $4,000. and about all the
members have done is to draw it.