LIFE IN AMERICA

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 57, 6 February 1884, Page 2

LIFE IN AMERICA

"Jacob Terry," the San Francisco corre<pondent of the Otago DailyTimes, writes as follows :— The past month has beetfjbfyond the average m the number, variety, and deviltry of tb'6 ptldiksrpoinmitted thVolifgtiOttt the Uni6tr, and I i-egvet that this* «sffy has not ? escapgd. I take,, little o^ no ,np,tice of the reckless arftVQndi^onmiiiate slaughter by. " t cowboys ".and "rustlers" on the Southern frontier line, and ill Dakota,' Wyoming,. ancV Idaho f or ■ the equally indiscriminate >^^jiiug|a^the aforesaid : outlaws by. settlers, , aviation . h 1 ci t herjrfoj stoj) to d iscuss the frequency with which railroad, trains , are robbed, and one or ruo're' persons killed. Nor.dp l^carettf particularise the lynchings that "nave Cakdn J; place, , m. one case after by a jury; n6r the baifMngiMgß, n! twiße W thrice repeated;; . by 11 nibb's •'to'tejctdrtf «wofessions from poor 1 wretch^ vegAtding 'cattle-lifting: and hwse^stealitig, i the two unpardonable crimes m the -.cbde^.of America.^ , :^c<>res of murders L 4 h^vje f occurred through jealousy j^-and lawless ]ove v Suicides have oeen fieqnen4^S*fdi!3'3)ooting scrapes,'' usually fatal, are " to,o numerous to " mention!" ' Ndt ' k^d^yjMses without them, and San Francisco has had more than its fair proportion within the past, three or four weeks. It is noticeable, howeTer, that these criminal outbreaks-pass m. wftves^ over the^Jqpmmunity. Women haw distinguished themselves iatterly"iph the murder field, sS&leM^them bei§g per•sbus J olgob3 sdifel 'istiihdiiig/i.lA^sassination« for monfty-have been frequent, and this n&Jr^srely-pn the froniiera, but m tb^ old; fettled districts. 1 percei»e th£it the Daily Press ( holds the opinion,' tlm^ ; the, ;' r rijof4al|' '^'f Eti^pe commits these;)crinie3".' : 'Thfe Is'k mistake. Asa ruie._they are committed by Ameifcansi : . w;ho /ha^e, r inh^ted a contemptior huinaii life puich^strongor than exists among, the average