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Show j WIFE MURDER '. A perfect mania for wife murdering ! appears to havo of late taken posses- "t 5 sion of husbnnds in the Atlantic ' i States. Nearly every day tho wires ! flash the intelligence that those terri- ; ; ble tragedies are being enacted in the hearts of great cities, in the rural hamlets ham-lets and in tho peaceful country settlements. settle-ments. Murder, rapine, robbery and tho whole catalogue of crioccs, are not ' unknown to our civilization, and their occurrence estitus no extraordinary ' . comment ; but that so many of the class of crimes to which wc have referred, re-ferred, have teen committed lately throughout the country, is iouiuwhat remarkable to say tho least, and can only be accounted for upou the hy- :J, potheis of inercating depravity, and that tho demon of drunkenness and iealou.-y is running riot over the Ucd. No less a foul spirit could prompt a man of ordinary intelligence to imbrue his hands in the blood ot'a beiiKvv!uui he had sworn to love, honor and pro-- pro-- tect, under the most aysravated provo cation. There in something &o revolting revolt-ing and inbumaiin in the perpetration ' of such an act tbar tho very . t thought of it almost u,aV ? the ' life-eurrei.t to eorial in ouc's vein. We rememLcr to have read, a few days ago, iu an eastern a-: a-: change, a criticism ou the .-utj oid with which crlrn? is eommitied va the 'aci6e slope; bow a desperado . -heath':.-h:s bowie in the vitals of his victim, 1 wipes the crimson steel of dripping gore over his coat-sJceve, and carelessly j ' y returns the muiderous weapon to its scabbard, acd "on with the dance !" at . 1 a "Linnigao ball;" or the devilish 1 ' complacency with which the tellow that ; is "on the shoot" sends a "blue pill" " crabbing through the brain of the un- 1 fortunate indiridul who refuses to ( U'io a drink when ho is asked. Ad mitting the t:uth of this statement, the ooobacis and deviltry of tho West r are more than iurpasted by the hein- )Uiness and atrocity which characteme :rime in tho East. The ingenuity of ;ho Infernal would be at a loss to in-rcnt in-rcnt greater diabolism. Roasting over red-hot stoves, laying tho skull open with an axe, hacking to piece with a :leaver or butcher-knifd, and shooting, aro some of tho "civilized" means employed em-ployed by huabaodi to obtain divorces di-vorces from wives in that section of the country. True, the murderer in many instances ends his own miserable and villainous life at tho saiuo time, and in the event of an omission to do so, a mob performs the operation for him, but all this only increases the enormity of the offense and makes this bloody carnival of wifc-murdcr'mg more fearful and appalling. |