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tween the shoulders, and advancing
gave him another blow with the same
Smith died in q very few
minutes after the blows were given.
The defence set up was that the de-
ceased was not a legal officer of the
town-that no freebooter of that State
had endorsed the writ as the law re-
quired-that the prisoner did not know
that the deceased was an efficer--and
that he and his family had been Illegal
ly assailed by Wheaton and his assist
ant.
The jury, however, under the charge
of the Court, found the prisoner guilty
of MURDER. The following account
of his person and appearance on the
trial is from the Providence Journal.
Miners countenance, without indi-
eating vicious passions, may be said to
be rather inane, and to develope very
little character of any kind. His as
pect, during the trial, was that of op-
pressive sorrow. He is but forty.
years Of age-but adversity-which
we are told has been his Iot--has fore
stalled the work of Time, ard his grey
hairs and care-worn features would be-
speak him a man Of three-score, As
he listened to the testimony of the wit
nesses, or the arguments of the coun-
sci, the "fruitfiIl river of the eye" Of
ten ovcfGowed, and deluged his face
with tears-but at times his agony
seemed too great for such relief-and
the fountain of his grief became sealed,
and its waters too bitter to swell up, in
heart drops, to his eye. Such sorrow
is thousand times deeper than that
heralded by tears. Miner will leave
wife and nine children. He was
born in Stonington, Connecticut, and
has resided in that State and in Massa-
chusetts. While the Jury were com.
ing into Court, the countenance of the
prisoner was strongly marked with
mingled anxiety and fear. There was
an entreatlng agony-so to speak-in
his look and manner. When the ver-
dict was pronounced, his face suddenly
became suffused--but in a moment
-e'Thc hearts tumutuous blood
Rol'd back in silence to its cell, swift and
heavy food;" and he was pale as marble.
EMBALMING.--Asi singular and high.
ly important discovery, has recently
been made by Messrs. Capron and
Boni1ace, chemists at Chaillot. By
process which they keep secret, and to
which they have given the name Of
"Mummifcation," they have succeed
ed after passing a number of years in
experiment, in so modifying and per-
tecting the known process Of presev-
| ing bodies as to reduce them to mum.
mics, leaving all the forms unaltered.
All the elements Of disorganization
which show themselves in the human
bod so soon after death, are complete
| ly destroyed and not only the external
body, but all the viscera, and lungs,
the heart, the liver, and even the brain,
are perfectly preserved; the features
also remain SO perfectly uninjured, that
correct portraits may be taken at any
length of time after death, and as the
body is not enveloped in bandages as
the Egyptian method, the natural
forms are perfectly preserved. Tie
operation requires but few days, af.
ter which the dead bodies may be pre-
served in room or vault, or inferred
in the ordinary way, without being
accessible to worms. They may also
be exposed to all varieties of the air,
either in the standing or sitting positi-
on, without undergoing any alteration.
London Medical InteMgeacer.