Most of us perhaps a little distrust the American accounts
of the wildness of their Western life ; but a New York corre- spondent of the Liverpool Daily Post relates a story which could hardly be paralleled in Europe. Two families, or rather clans, in Kentucky have for years maintained a feud which has disturbed two counties, and has cost numberless lives. It was supposed to have died away ; but recently a girl belonging to the McCoy faction betrothed herself to a relative of the other, or Hatfield family. The McCoys at length gave up their opposition, but the Hatfields did not, and when bride and bridegroom appeared in church to be married, they fired through a window, and bridegroom, bride, and clergyman all fell dead before the altar. The McCoys armed and pursued them to the mountains, where a skirmish was expected ; and by the latest advices, the Sheriff with an armed posse was hunting them both, to prevent further bloodshed. Yet they say hatred is extinct as a factor in modern life, and a vendetta seems to Englishmen an unnatural and prepostero.ns motive for a sensation novel.