The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-30
Nebraska Correspondence.

ASH GROVE, Jan. 23rd. 1873.
The good people of Nebraska have
been chiefly employed during the past
few weeks in discussing the manner
and means to be. adopted to rid her
fair domain of desperadoes and out
laws, and to dispose of the goodly num-
Der recently gathered in out of the
/" cold" to sit in comfort around the
hearthstones of her places of security,
and fatten on her substance. This
necessarily has brought into discussion
the material points of the Army Bill.
and the probable effects of its passage,
on this community, which, il We are
to believe the Omaha journals, is at
the mercy of cutthroats and murderers,
q statement have found from person.
al observation, the truth does not ad-
init. The idea that out of bOasted
population Of 4OO, 900, a sufficient num-
ber of men of known and tried cour-
age cannot be found to rid her borders
of q nest of outlaws is Disgrace its in
habitants do not deserve. 1t is not men
that is wanted. It is money. The
Governor of the State can only offer
reward of $500 for the apprehension and
conviction of any criminal, and until
recently there was not an appropria-
ton even of that amount. Let there
be fund appropriated for this purpose
and in every organized county in the
State the civil officers will find no
trouble in calling around them ample
support to purge the State of the vio-
lators of its laws, and exonerate its
people of the insinuation of cowardice
and helplessness. I have heard it re-
peatedly remarked that the " regular
army" had established but very few
precedents which entitle them to be
ranked as a boss detective force, espec-
tally when employed to look after the
Irregularities of the noble red man."
as Western men have too fully realized
the fact that they have been but a fee
BILE impediment against the incursions
of Lo, when the sign is right for
8 raising hair )" and, notwithstanding
the screeching of q Republican Legis-
lature and few Omaha papers, be-
lieve express the almost unanimous
sentiment of the frontier, when say
they have no use for William, his
army, or his brother-Resumptio
John.
AS you are no doubt aware, our boss
criminal, s. D. Richards, who volun-
tarily confessed the murder of nine
persons, when brought to face even the
charge Of committing one, concluded
he was not guilty, and would not avail
himself Of the only opportunity he will
probably ever have of benefitting his
fellow-man, by saving them the ex-
pense of confirming his own confes..
sion by process. of law. This murder
GUS devil has forfeited every consider
alton to an emotion of pity from hu-
manity for the ignominious death that
awaits him, and will be launched into
eternity with, but one regret-that his
Satanic majesty has no suitable accom-
modations for so noted a guest.
An alteration between two railroad
men, at their camp near Bloomington,
last week, terminated in the death of
the assaulting party. Cause, knives
and whisky. An officer is after the
one who did the cutting. The man
who sold the whisky will probably run
for the Legislature.
A religious revival has been in pro-
gress in this vicinity during the past
week, conducted by Reverend Sinner
felt, of the Hard Shell Baptist persua-
sion. To hear his denunciatiOns OF
other Christian denominations, a per-
son would naturally conclude that his
faith and christianity were founded
upon their ruin. For some cause the
altar fires seem to burn with but q fee
BILE light, which may be the result of 8
heavy fog arising from those sulphur
GUS regions, the magnitude of which
he loves so devotedly to dwell upon
and to which he consigns all whose
pates are not as hard as his own. This
Vice Regent OF the Almighty, it is
said, would resemble Christ, was he
mounted on an ass, but his hope of a
legal tender reward mars the resem.
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