There is always some _circumstance_ which justifies the murder and exculpates the murderer.

The black always deserves his fate.

I give the paragraph: "SPEAR, MITCHELL CO., N.C., March 19, 1884 .-- Col.

J.M.English, a farmer and prominent citizen living at Plumtree, Mitchell County, N.C., shot and killed a mulatto named Jack Mathis at that place Saturday, March 1.

There had been difficulty between them for several months.
"Mathis last summer worked in one of Col.