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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
THE LAW OF BxCUsABLB HOMICIDE.

Deputy Marshal Nagle will have a
good defense against any criminal
charge for the killing of Terry, The
common law recognizes not only a mans
right to defend himself, but his right to
defend another person whom it is his
duty to protect, as a wife, child or mas
ter. An officer of the court, specially
ordered to protect ajudge on his circuit,
comes clearly under this rule. Strictly
speaking, a homicide committed in self
defense is only excusable when abso-
lutely necessary, but in this country the
law has never been so strictly construed.
Here the killing is usually held excus-
able if, under the actual circumstances,
the accused had good reason to believe
his action necessary to save life OF pro-
vent grievous bodily harm. Bishop, in
his work on criminal law, after defining
the law of self-defense, says "the doc
trine is that whatever one may do for
himself he may do for another" "Des-
ty's Digest of American Criminal Law"
Sec. 1876, says that any person is justified
in Intentionally inflicting death when
he does it in defending himself or
any one else from the danger
of instant death or grievOus bodily
harm, if he, in good faith, and on reason
able ground, deems it necessary when he
inficts it. In another section it says
that self-defense will justify a person in
defending those with whom he is assO-
ciated, and in killing if he believes life
is in danger. This right may be exer-
cised by the servants and friends of the
party assaulted or any n present if he
be repelling an attempted felony. Fol-
lowing this doctrine the Supreme Court
of Kentucky, in a recent case, after
stating that one person may defend
another subject to attack and not in
fault, even to the extent of taking life if
necessary, adds:
Volunteer must not kill in behalf of one
in fault. This would be what some writer's
have termed a negligent killing. He may,
however, do so for one not in fault if the
impending danger thus brought atOut be
actual or apparent. In other words, as the
person not in fault may, ii he believe and
has reasonable grounds to believe that his
life is in imminent danger, defend 1T to the
extent of taking life. so another may act
upon like appearances as to such danger
and defend it for him to the same extent.
Under these rulings Deputy Marshal
Nagle will have no difficulty in making
a good defense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

The police should try and do
thing towards handling and controlling
the crowd on Thursday. This does not
imply that there is likely to be any dis
tCrbance or necessity for the use of
force. for the average Hoosier crowd is
not / -uatured or disorderly. But all
crowds need some controlling, especially
when a procession has the right of way
and the roadway has to be kept clear.
This may require the exercise of some
authority, though not of force. The
average American is quick to recognize
and obey a representative of the law,
and a little authority on such occasions,
exercised quietly but firmly, goes a long
way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
THE BENEFITS OF PROTECTION,

The Sentinel pretendS to have discov-
cred an argument against protection in
the influx of British capital to the
United States. The Journal cited it as
evidence of the shrewdness of English
investors and their desire to share in the
beneficial results of protection. "The
policy that protects American capital
and makes American industries prosper
ous," said the Journal, will protect
British capital invested in American in
dustries." Of course it will, and protect
American wOrkmen employed and paid
by British capital, as we'll as those EN-
ployed and paid by American capital.
Whereupon the Sentinel says:
This is as ample a confession as any free
trader could ask for. The tariff is q splen-
did thing for the capitalists vino are inter-
ested in protected industries. No one ques-
tions it but protectiOnists, and they have
lied about it all through the tariff contro-
versy. He John BuIl sees the
American people taxing themselves to death
to fatten American capitalists. and there
upon says: This is a soft snap. 1 will
take some of it myself" And he does so,
and the American people tax themselves to
fatten HIM. and he takes the money over to
I%uEttilu II cPOhuo " W Eli ~ ~
mirers of the great American system hold
mp their hands and say: "What a splendid
thing for American
This is very silly. If any protectionist
ever denied that the tariff protects capt.
tai as we'll as labor we should like to
know who, when and where it was. On
the contrary, one of the strongest argu-
ments in favor of protection is that
it not only protects American work.
men against direct competition
with foreign pauper labor and
keeps their wages nearly one
hundred per cent. higher than the Eu-
ropean standard, but also protects the
capitalist and employer, and enables
Kim to pay those wages. This is the re-
suit of protection, as demonstrated by
experience. 1t protects employer and
employe alike. Capital and labor are
equal sharers in its benefits.
No person has ever claimed that the
tariff did not protect capital as well as
labor, except free-traders. They deny
that it protects either, and assert hat it
! is an injury to both. During the last
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

SOME, if not all, of the Becktold- Will
Jams Biographies, distributed through
the State, are without the chapter on
Indiana prepared by State Librarian
Dunn for insertion in the Minnesota
edition. This will make matters inter-
esting in the schools when the cobbled-
up books are finally ready. Uniformity
Of textbooks is a strong feature of the
law, but uniformity is not adhered to in
pro.f;oa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

THE postal-card contract just awarded
will run four years, and result in a saw
ing of about S4O,0 900 a year over present
contract prices. 1t calls for postal cards
of three specified sizes and weights, and
the estimated number to be required
during the four years of the contract
term is 1000, 600, 900. These will cost the
government about SSOO,OOO and it will
get for them $50, 10000. This looks like
a big profit, but it includes the trans
portation, safe handling and delivery of
these cards all over the continent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

The Mugwump brethren are much
concerned because the Republicans of
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa have said
nothing in their State conventions this
year about civil-service reform. Dear
friends, do not be unreasonable. To
pass resolutions in favor of a reform es-
tablished by a former Republican ad-
ministration, and put in good order by
this, would be foolish. Republicans are
progressive, and when one reform is ac-
complished they go on to another.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
A Unique Pack of Cards.
Boston journal.

At a sale in Birmingham. England. q
dealer paid S2S5 for a pack of cards. The
pack is stated to be the only one of it's kind
in the world. Every card is specially en-
graved. and the pack comprises an ex-
haustive pictorial history of the principal
events In the reign of Queen Anne down to
17O6. They include the victories of MARI
borough, the sea fights of Admiral Benbow,
all the various changes connected with the
parliamentary proceedings of the day, and
the conclusion of the treaties between
queen of heartsis a yery weil-drawn picture
of Queen Anne herself. and the king of
hearts represents Prince George, of Den
mark, her husband. The queen of diamonds
is Annie Sophia, Queen of Denmark; the
queen of clubs is the Princess Royal of
Princess Anne. of Russia. The knaves
were represented by leading politicians of
the day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

Detroit TribuI

Detroit Tribune.
When justice gets this Job all finished.
Sarah Althea Hill Sharon Terry will have
q chance to sit down on the back doorstep
of her infamous career and wish she had
never been born. She has been the DEVILS
chambermaid ever since she was a big girl
and has given the old fellow "A great many
points in her life. She will probably con-
tinue in the same capacity as long as she
lives and receive at last the compensation
she desprvas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

THOMAS JEFFERSON Is a safe subject
for Senator Voorhees, to lecture upon.
He can talk up and down and all around
that eminent statesman's career, and
never touch upon an act or a sentiment
that would remind himself or his hearers
of the Knights of the Golden Circle.
Thomas never was a member of q dis
1oval organization
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
Reluctant Admiration.

FWIUutlpuI3 TttUIU KDCHET
Safe and sound in Washington to-nirht,
President Harrison may reflect with proper
pride and JOY that during all his New En-
gland tour he made 10 mistake. nor gave
turb the era of harmony and love which the
administration is seeking to establish in
the Grand Old Party. Mr.. Harrison is a
prudent man, who takes counsel of his own
intellectiOns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
lie Proved II.

Philadelphia Record.
A well-dressed man stood at a Main-street
crossing late last night, says a Norristown
paper. when a woman drew near, repIoach-
ing him authoritatiyely for his condition..
'.Snuthin of the kind" he answered .Jcs
had lection of Brow'-Siccard Hxir. hear
me ba-a-a-a.p The voice OF reprOach was
silenced and the patient led home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

THE order excluding vehicles from
Circle street on Thursday is a good one.
Assuming that it will include the sacred
express wagons, which have made the
Circle a rendezvous for a long time, We
suggest hat this is a good time to clean
the cutters, which are in a horrible cOn
difion af nrasenf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

NEW HAMPSHIRE is a small State, ter
ritOrially, but it does not follow that the
President faced a small audience when
he addressed her Legislature. Her SEN
ate consists of only twelve members.
but the lower House has about $50.
They are great believers in representa-
tive government in New England.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

THE law seems to be looking up in
the South. Of the regulators recently
arrested at Lafayette, La, three have
been admitted to bail and fourteen COM
mitted without bail. The decision of
the judge is said to have been a surprise
to the defendants and their friends.
Very likely; but such surprises are much
needed at times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
Horse Owners

fittsunrg Chronlcle.
William L. Scott. though owning many
bIooded horses, will never, 1T Is said, ride
behind one of them, but when no rides
chooses ONE which will not scare even NJ 4
campaign band. a deceased lawyer In this
city used to be proud of the spanking car
riare team he kept. but when he rode II was
behind a well-tried pair OF street-car steeds-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
EIixirs OF All Kinds.

Loud-mouth Quacko on South Broad street
to torch-illumined. crowd: Why. gentle
stuff on earth. There's a man on Passyunk
1oad who was bow-iegged from the cradle.
and one squirt of this elixir made him so
knock-kneed that his pants are three inches
FOO short.o
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
The Peryerse Black Man.

Philadelphia TeItgraIH.
The colored men of Atlanta don't pro-
nose To ndnlge IN the efiigy business. These
poor ignorant fellows propose TO leave the
elegant white folks have a monopoly of
that sort of heightened amusement. The
up with.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19

The distinguished scientist, whose elixir of
youth is making a sensation. was their eld-
est child. He was educated in France, but
was afterwards a professor at Harvard. and
practiced medicine in Philadelphia for some
years subsequent to 1873. He married twice,
his first wife being Miss Fletcher. of Bos-
ton, a relative of Daniel Webster.
IT is said that the chief reason why little
King Alexander was only anOinted, and not
crowned. was the somewhat humiliating
fact that the cost of a crown and the rest
of the insignia of royalty were beyond the
means at the disposal of the Servian Chan
cellor of the E~xchequer.
HAVE you ever watched the warfare
OF two women over car-faref
Each aiame with generous feeling,
Depth OF heart and purse revealing;
Each inspired with gentle horror
Lest the other should pay for her.
But take ote-the more insistent
OF the cOmbatants persistent.
She whose hand most promptly snatchcs
At her pocketbook's stiff catches,
She who murmurs; Don't be strange, dear,
It's ali right. I've got the change, dear"
She-though / am sad TO say it
Always lets the other pay it,
-Bunalo Courier.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

CIRCLE street, which just now should
be the cleanest street in the city, is the
dirtiest. The street commissioner
should give it immediate attention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
Requirements of the New Law.

No law can compel a man in thisf free Re-
public to buy what he does not want to
buy. The government may take upon it.
self the duties of paternity, and educate the
child in a direction suitable to itself, but it
cannot compel a man. on general principles.
to invest his money where he does not want
to invest il. Section z of the new
school book law is mandatory upon trustees
not patrons OF schools-in that it requires
of them q certificate of the number of school
textbooks needed In their several school
corporations. The trustee must certify
this information to the county school su.
perintendent. who shall make a requisition
for the books required upon the State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction, and he
Shall require the books to be sent out
by the contractor within ninety DAYS.
Such books shall be sold for cash only, and
if the cash is not paid for the books
they shall not be disposed OF. This seems
to imply that If the patrons do not buy the
books. the schools shall go ON with the old
ones. No law. or board of education. or
trustees. or teacher. or other school officials
can refuse the means of education TO the
child of q taxpayer because he does not
buy the books designated by them. The
school must go on in accordance with the
law, and the money provided for the main
tenapce Of the schoolsshall be paid over to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
EDITORS IN v
A Religious Journalist Enjoys Himself and
Tells of a Prolific Family.

Tells of a Prolific Family.
Georgia Baptist.
The Georgia Baptist man was happy TO
pay the Third Shiloh Association a visit.
last week, in its third annual session.
Though cotton has not begun to be mar
keted by the brethren, several subscribed
for the Georgia Baptist aud many others
promised TO send their money as soon as
they could sell some cotton. The sisters
gave us a plenty to eat on the ground.
Rev. L.. Carey and family gave US a royal
entertainment at their pleasant home
Friday night. Brother Carey has an in
teresting family. His oldest daughter is
Mrs. Blackwell, of Lincoln county, very
kindly gave US a seat in her buggy from the
church to Brother Garey's, and back to the
church Saturday morning. We took tea
with the family of Judge Sherman. who
country mile. Mr.. Sherman is a remark
able man. He is employed by MIR. Pope. n
large lane owner, TO overlook several plan
~tations that are run by. renters. His wife
excellent housekeeper. Twenty-Five years
ago she was welded TO Mr.. Sherman when
quite young, he being several years her
senior. God has blessed them to become
the parents of twenty-eight children since
that time. and doubtless the family is to
still further increase. At one birth three
children were added to the family. The
next addition was one and the next two
were TWO CUlluEen edcQ. MAKING ttSuC CHI
dren at four birth-givings. The other
twenty children followed each other rapid
ly. and so twenty-eight have been OVID
into twenty-five years. We do not believe
this record can be beaten in this country.
An Editors Outing.
Daviess County Qnd.) Democrat
Leaving Bicknell, Thursday afternoon
found us at the farm, In the eastern edge of
Daviess county, of Mr.. JOIN w. Major.
than whom a better Democratic farmer
never breathed free. pure country air.
Here we rode behind a span of the biggest
Norman horses that are to be found any
where, and saw the finest cattle. sheep and
hogs to be found outside of a county fair.
We ate country ham, corn and beans, pears.
peaches, water and muskmelons until life
in the county who knows how TO tickle the
woman must be Mrs. Hannah Major, who
loads her table with the PRODUCTS of go
broad acres. For princely living visit the
Major farm. two and one-half miles north
west of Loogootee. Tired of viewing Plym-
outh rocks and fat stock, ard coyeting ali,
we organized a company of four, and Sat
nrday morning at g O'Clock started, behind
the big span of Normans. for indian and
Trinity springs. where. after gallOping up
hill and down, over small powders the size
of a wash-tub, through ruts that would
bury a COW, by farms of sassafras and
snmac, fields of fine corn, wheat and oats,
trees loaded with chestnuts. fruit trees
loaded to the ground with apples and
peaches, over mile-high mountains, we ar
rived at III o'clock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-19
BECKTOLD'S SHODDY BOOKS.
Editors of County Papers Continue to Tell the
Truth About the st. Louis Literary Junk.

Huntington Herald: The people of Win
chester, Portland and Union City are kick
ing hard against the State map of the In
diana schOOl-book series. None of these
cities appear upon 1t.
Liberty Herald: 1t appears that the new
schOol-bOOk law has created a bigger mo-
nOpOly In school books than existed here
%tofOre, and the books are inferior in quail
ity and character of matter they contain.
Worthington Times: The people of Green
county are well aware of the fact that a
change in the schOOl-books this fall will
nectssitate an outlay of at least 5000,
which amoant will stay in their pockets
if the change is not made. This is why the
Times is opposed to tho change at this
time.
Hendricks County Republican: We do
not doubt that the trusts" could furnish
series at prices as low, and make money on
them; but the people don't want the cheap
est schOOl-bOOks simply because they are
cheap. II there is anything a progressive
American wants worse than another. it is
the best thing at reasonable rates. and not
the most inferior thing merely because it
costs little.
Warren Republican: The Indiana series
of school textbooks are becoming better
known each day, and the more the people
find out about them the more opposed are
they to a change. The books are inferior
I " ~ oCl1Oo W 10 dlu dolttC. III tuCtl
adoption by our common schools we take a
backward step, II such steps are expens-
i've, taking from the pockets of the patrons
an additional sum of money and giving in
return an almost useless article.
Delphi Journals: 1t is a loss all along the
line. The new series is out of date. The
books are inferior in every way-in quality
paper. In binding. printing and engraving.
1t has been q grievOns burden for thou
sands of people to purchased OCCASIONAL books
for their children. What will be the weight
of this burden now that they are compelled
to buy a complete series of booksf The eff
feet will be to take scores of children in
Indiana out of the public schools.
Elkhart Review: Democratic papers are
wailing sadly because Elkhart county does
not fall into the line of supporters of the
new schoOl-bOOks with enthusiasm. They
need not worry. Elkhart will conform to
the law, but it proposes TO find out just the
limits of the law, and go no further. The
| repeal of the school book law, 80 far as il
will be changed in two years, and Eikhart
county proposes to reduce the disaster to
its schools to the minimum.
Kendallville Standard: The Standard
knows nothing about the existence OF
schoOl-boOk rings. previous to the Organi-
cation Of the Indiana company. We have
not seen this company deny its connection
with the Standard Publishing Company,
st. Louis, nor that it is a sandwich be-
tween that concern and the State of In.
diana as the only way the books can be
palmed of. and that il receives a commits
| sion for its services. If these circumstance
do not suggest a"ring," what under the
sun dOesy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13
A Lucky Carriage Painter.

n Lucky Marriage Fdll1CSTs
Griffin (Ga.) News. March 6.
r. L. Malone has just returned from
Greenville, where he has been receiving
the congratulations of his friends on
his great good luck. He held one
twentieth of ticket No. 17,16O, which
drew the third capital prize of $4,000
in the drawing of the Louisiana State
Lottery Company on the 10Th of Feb
ruary and his share after deducting cost
of collecting was just S2,495.OO, as we
saw on his deposit book of the City Ma
tional Bank. 1t is not every young man
who picks up such sum so easily as
this, and he is correspondingly elated.
Mr.. Malone is young man of about
twenty or twenty-five years, carriage
painter by trade, and has never bought
many tickets in the Louisiana State
Lottery, though he says he proposes to
stick to it now as long as he has dol
lar to spare. He is pleasant, easy,
good natured fellow, and has been en-
joying himself since his sudden access
of wealth.