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IB BOONE CODNTY PIONEERjISn. a. smith, : : EditorLEBANON, gDIASA.Mdu, • December ft, 'utioTnn Hoo Tr.ui.—Tho Sentiu.1 of Hie bill says: The market opened Mixing ycsteiday. the w.uilicr bclujf ftvonMe for lucking f*irpox*-. n.nl i!ic irau-sctloiw be-lite mime-»«T largertncu borer* ami wllcra were | rein. The receipt* of Iwg Hun they lute been on any prctioult; day this-vaoii. Tiie uiajoiiiy of the arrival* were by rail. The stock ruisere near here are noi lt;1l*poicd -to reli very freely pot now. a-- they arc in hope* of obtaining better prices after awhile. Prietw yraierday were steady, and ranged from {«to fO 12,1} per hundred pounds.Sale of tbc Sun O/Uce.This cMS'ill-hraent was told, lull Saturday. by II. A.Foulk*. AdtninWtrutor of It* estate of Geo. E. Greene, to Gen. Reuben C. Kite, of I.cbiiion. Ibioiio county. IimI. Gen. K. will make a fit successor to the late limentca proprietor of tbU paper. He U a high tone-1 and honorable gentleman, and a man of distinction, both as n General In the late Civil war and n Democratic politician. He was fo' some time, until recently. editor and proprietor of the Bootic County Pioxrou and was the Democratic nominee for Secretary of State In lSGS. and ran ahead of the ticket, owing to liU great popularity.Being a man of family, and having necessarily to arrange liit affairs at hi* present place of residence, Gen. K. w ill not take |«'*eMton of the office until next Monday. Dec. 12th. n* we learn by a telegram front him.—rfocfMca fiwi-H'ffi’aX7* The Goshen Democrat is of the opinion tliut lion. T. A. Hendricks will be the Democratic, and Senator Morton the Republican cainlitatca for the Presidency in 1S72. In speaking ol Morton, the Democrat says:“Asa bold, defiant, headstrong iiolitician ho has 110 superior, and it is not for us to depreciate his nbilitv, or his qualifications for the posiuon. With Senator Hendricks for his competitor, whose acknowledged ability, and unimpeachable integrity are unquestioned, the campaign of 1872 will be invested with more than ordinary interest.“ Morton v»r*w« Hi^nnrcKs! Kv-cry citizonof Indiana,man, woman and child, will lake pari in the struggle, and a high old time will be enjoyed bv everybody. l‘c‘«ple may as well commence ranging themselves on the sid; of one or other of these great leaders. The transparencies may as well Ire goi ready,ami the wideawake lanterns trimmed for the rncc.liidiana will \t the battlefield, and one or the other of her lavorilo sons w ill. as.wo believe, take his seal in the Presidential chair. Lot the best man win.CLIPPIAGS.Two thousand three hundred hogs wore slaughtered in Indianapolis on Saturday last.Gilmore contemplates a chorus twenty thousand strong for his international jubilee in 1572.A young lady in Boston recently tried to do up her hair with a honeycomb, to make it look sweetly.Coal gas was regularly used by the Chinese for lighting purposes long before it was known among 11s.All the unoccupied women of England aro hard at work devising a secret alphabet lor communication by the new postal cards.A women was arrested in Reading last Saturday, charged with being a common scold. She was held iu the sum of $200 to answer.The Supreme court of Massaehu-lias decided that a contract made andcarriod into effect on Sunday can not be repudiated by either party.Senator Pomeroy .brought back alive from his prairio hunting trip two buffaloes, antelopes, prairie dogs, and such like, with which to stock a Kansas farmdcr.Every good citizen, desiring the welfare of his country, and the impartial administration of justice, must be sorely pained with She manner in which some of our distinguished legal tribunals have recently disposed of certain criminals arraigned befmv thorn for murder. And as a fair typo of several others, I will select the case of the ’State r« Daugherty, recently tried land acquitted Tipton, on the ] charge of murdering Van Horn I about one year ago. Daugherty ! w as acquitted on the plcaol'insani-i tv. In the last few years the plea . ol insanity has become very con-venient, and quite successful, too,in procuring the acquittal of crirni-j nals who would, perhaps, otherwise I have boon convicted. I do not now say whether a man should or should not he convicted, and visited with the severest penalties of the law, lor killing another man who ha* slandered his sister, but 1 do solemnly protest against the miserable plea of insanity. If a brother defends the virtue of his sister by killing her slanderer, let him be acquitted because the senso of the community approves his act, and leave out (he senseless, groundless plea of insanity. And lor the dignity and honor of tho Medical Profession. I hope no physicians of respectability will ever again pronounce any person insane upon so flimsy a piece of testimony as is presented in the hypothetical case upon which they declared Daugherty insane when he did tho act. Who ever heard of a case of true insanity before, just like that of Lieut. Daugherty? Would any physicians dare send 11 person to the Hospital lor Iniunc, upon the same symptoms on which they declared Daugherty to be insane:1 have read with some care the principal evidence iu the Daugherty trial, as reported in the paper*, together with the hypothec)-: cal case put to the doctors, mid their answers, and had I been an export, I would have said then, as I say now. I hat I believe Daugherty ; was just as sane when I10 killed •■Van Horn as lie ever was 111 all his life.There is not. in my humMo opinion, a shadow ol evidence to the contrary: and while 1 entertain the highest respect for those of unprofessional brethren who thought differently. 1 confess that it is a matter of astonishment to me how and by what process of reasoning they managed to reach such an unwarrantable conclusion.The attorneys presented to the medical expert* an hypothetical , case, of which the following is an ; extract, the w hole case being too lengthv to copy iu full:Pappose it be shown t lint the defendant had all his lifetime boon a I good boy, fondly attached to hi* I home; that while in the army, l.c often spoke with keenest sensibility of his regard for his sisters, keeping their picture* with him. and long ing to see them; that he had come■ nearly all of the brave t oung men ; j who marched to the field in defense; To 1 of their country, were fearfully in- j .11 sane. You could scarcely find a ■ young man who had uot (he pic-. itii( Hires of a fond mother, and loved |nij,| sisters, and w ho wa* a* mucli at-1 Jki inched to /,** home and sister* as j jot Daugherty was to hi*. But were I1*r.ny of them declared insane on that; account? Forauinn who loved hi*';’i?lr.vI In’«r.lillm.'nilI-11oil a Isisters *0 devotedly ns Daugherty is represented to have done, I think ho took it very coollv when hi* mother told him, at ludiftnnpolis, that Van Horn had been slander iug iiis sister. lie did not even 1 show interest enough in-the state I luent to ask the nature of the slun dcr until the next day. lie don’t i seem to have been wrought up to; a eery high pitch ol fury on first | hearing that hi* sister Lad been , slandered. And the on'y changes from his apparent unconcern about | the .statement are those spoken 01T just an hourbofore he committed' the murderous act, w hen his mother told him the nature of the slander. Then he changed color, dream! showed the common signs of, anger. But lias it come to pass j that every person w ho gets mad is ! to be adjudged insane? As soon, as his mother told him the nature of the slander. Daugherty straightway left tho house, walked quietly up to the Sherman House, found Van Horn and .'hut him dead.Now, in every step and act, Daugherty acted the part of a perfectly sane man. There was a perfect adaptation of means to end*. The whole tliiag was done in a quiet, business-like way. Hi* sister had been siandeied; hi* anger was aroused, and he resolved on terrible redress. Taylor, in his jurisprudence, says thatu violence of temper must not bo taken us a proof of insanity;*’ and that “the great feature of in*anity is lt;rI,any* char'icier.” Was Daugherty's character at all changed ?Compare the symptom* of iusr.ni 11 ty in Dougherty's caso ns set up , j in that hypothesis, with those oil | real insanity as described by Dr.lj Wood: It“Thepatienl talks loudly, rapid-j) ly, incoherently; llic* from one top-1 ic to another, and linidio* 1101:0; I a “ * strips hiniKclf naked ;aand even bitosliis own lle*h 111 hi* insane fury. Broken thoughts chase one iinotnor w ith licuvo haste through hi* bruin, * * *and muii'-e.liiiy.hatrod and revenge struggle for the mastery iu hi- agitated teat tires.'In cases like Dougherty’s, law yers talk much about homicidal impulse, insane impulse, homicidal monomania, a ml impulsive infinity Ac. Taylor defines homicidal monomania tobc“a state of partial insanity, accompanied liy an imptibc tnilu- perpetration of murder, an impulse under wliii h person* will destroy those to whom they are most fondly attached.One of the prominent and characteristic differences between real and feigned homicidal insanity i.-, that iu tho former, person* arc just as liable to kill their most cherished friends a* 1 licir enemies,and that loo, without any apparent motivehome, met hi* mother at Iudianapo- j whatever, while in the latter, they lis, and there barely learned from j always lull some one who has doneInher that hi* sister had been shut- them or their friends an injury dcred * * ”by Van Horn; thul nothing stead of killing a sister,for instance, vu* said about the nature of as the true homicidal monomaniacmore wthe slander until the next dayIS, lsG'j, about one o’clock p. in.,) some 0110 in//*/'• aNov..would be likely to do, they kill of that sister.jwhen he asked his mother what 1 which shows a sane state of mind,Anger isune of the directive faculties in our moral nature, as contradistinguish*. ed from the intellectual part of our jVan lloru had said about his sifter.) rather Hum otherwiseand site told him he had said one ol the girls had had a negro young one; that ho then changed color, becoming first pule then red in the face, his eye* protruding; tiiut heTwo proper old gentlemen of1 left the liou.° then, walked up townMassachusetts, who were born on the same day and had been intimate friends for over half a century, died recently on the sums day, aged eighty.Tlia statement that Yorger, the man w ho murdered Colonel Crane, at Jackoou, Mississippi,'ha* been sentenced to the penitentiary for life, turns out to be false. Verger has not yet been tried, although under indictment, and probably never will be.Tho Department or Agriculture is about to publish a magnificently illustrated work on entomology, comprising coleopterous, grasshopper#, and all other kinds of insects; tho connection whereof with agriculture ia of course at once ap parent.Part of the west wall of a now building now erecting !«v the • in cinnali Gas and Coke Company, corner Fourth and 1’lnin streets, were blow 11 down at half-past two o’clock on Monday last,by a strong wind that prevailed, burying five carpenters, at work on the third floor.to fhc Sherman House, found Van Horn, and tohl him lie had been slandering his sister, and must retract or lako the consequences; that when Van Horn said I10 had not slandered hi* sister and had nothing to tube buck, Daugherty reached for his pistol, and shot and killed Van Horn. “What is your judgment a* to hi* sanity at the time ho did the act?”And to this question, based upon the above hypothesis, 1 blush to say that two of our respected physician* did dt-claio they believed him i a jane vl the lime he ificl the act. Jail a' that lime, not ten minute* before nor ten after! Who ever before heard of *0 short-lived insanity. Those due torn must have taken il“ on the wing, for it was nut settled long enough f»r any one else to discover its pre-cure.But let 11* -'lt;•!• wliat there is in (lie hypothesis, ll represent* Daugherty as having been warmly attached to I-i* home a ml his sifter*. 1* that an evidence of insanity ? That Iso chcri-hc.l (heir picture*, and longed to nro them. 1* that an cvi deuce of Insanity -‘ If to, thenbeing, and i* a natural passion. 1 I’rof. Dunglison say*:“Hairedand vengence aro the natural and impetuous desire of injuring those that injure u*.”To feel anger, and resentment when our right*, or those of a friend havo been invaded, is quite a rational feeling There is no evidence of insanity iu it, but quit© the reverse.The following ca*es will serve to illustrate the course of real homicidal monomania:A father, industrious and affvc-tionutc, fell into reversed circumstances, which *0 weighed upon hi* mind that ho resolved to destroy hi* children lo save I item Iruni suffering. Accordingly, ho strangled all four of them ill one uight. lie made no effort to escape; made no defense at all; hut several pliysi ri.-iii* came forward and deposed • hat he was insane. No eano man 1 do the like.IH» 1:1. Ol.VII'I IH)WOlllare advi* suspend*»grs.X- - Various paper* tfio ladies to wear 11 ad'n t they hotter Wait Until I he »: ladies adopt a costumo which re., £ quires the aforesaid article? I'e-. J* sides, what would old bachelor* i „ say f ' a
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Lebanon Boone County Pioneer
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 09, 1870
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