Litchfield enquirer., 1835-10-01

riegated snd highly interesting aspect: diver sihed with hills and valleys, mountains and plains; but destitute of any large tracts or water. The brighter portions of her disk are the more elevated and mountainous regions and the less luminous districts are extensive plains, ard the more level parts of her surface' Many of the Lunar mountains are very Iotty' rising two, three, four, and in some instances five miles above the general surface o! the country. In some parts long and lotty r'dges appear, resembling the chain of the Andes or the Alps. In others, single mountains rise |" great elevation from the midst Of the cr cumiacent plains. There are also. scattered generally over the whole hemisphere. numer- Ous circular mOuntains or ridges, enclosing an area in the middle of which an insulated con ical hill rises to about one half OF three fOurths of the elevation of the surrounding rampant. These circular ridges are of all dimensions, from three or four. to thirty or forty miles ID diameter. Their elevation appears to be 'n a degree proportiOned to the extent of country which they encircle.
 "It is probable that the Lunarians have no large cities; seeing they have no commerce carried on by water, which would render them necessary, and seeing the country appears to be so well adapted to promote the enjoyment of rural life.
 By the assistance of telescope magnify ing two hundred times we obtain such view of objects on the surface of the mooO, in res- pect to their apparent magnitude, as we should have suspended in space within twelve hundred miles from them. By the help of one magnifying one thousand times. we should be, as it were, stationed within two hundred and forty miles of the objects on the Lunar surface. But in order to discover the inhab- itsnts, standing, (as they must dol win the'r heads directed towards us, magnifying pow CT of about two hundred and forty thousand times might be required placing ns. as tt were, within mile Of them. The deficiency of light, however, which can in no way be Ob- viated, would very probably, in this case. be tinguished. It is therefore highly probable that the actual discovery of the inhabitants residing on this planet, can never be enected by mankind in the present state."
 Nescark Semlinel.
 ABRAHAM PREscoTT, was tried the second time last week in Concord, N. Fl. for the murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran, on the Esd of June 1888, and again found guilty by the Ju- v. On the first trial in September last, the Jury found him guilty. but owing {" some 'emissness on the part of the officer who had charge of the Jury, the verdict was set aside md new trial awarded, which has resulted again in the conviction. ......
 Correspondent of the Boston Atlas gives the following particulars of the case.
 As this case here and elsewhere, has crea ed great interest as it has drawn out larger of facts touching insanity than most my other on the judicial records of New Eng sl1 k. ua,stk sn.}. enu earched for cases of monomania, madness, morbid delusion, and insanity, may. perhaps. .Ot be thought to exceed the bounds of let CT, in stating that the prisoner. then about 8 years old, living with MT. Chauncey COch- an, in the adjoining town of Pembroke. arose sarly on Monday morning. :he 6ih of JaUua- y, 1883. and with an axe proceeded to the keeping room of MT. Cochran, and inflicted n the dark, several severe blows upon MT. Cochran and his wife. nearly killing him and severely wOunding his wife. He alarmed the mother of MT. c. and stated that he believed 1e had done some injury said that he arose n his sleep and did the deed ; affected sorrow SIc. &c. These facts were publish d at the time, and passed of, as remarka- ,le case Of''SOmna mbuism.'' Sunday, June lS, with a stake, in retired part of a field, ,Ot great distance rom the house, he smote town and killed Mrs. Cochran, young and beautiful, the mother of two children. the pride of her husband, a loved member Of ru- al Deighborhood in quiet New England. He tO the house, and Mir. Cochran who vas engaged in reading Avery's trial. and for hat reason had declined going into the field, md ne-er entertained the least suspicion of my kind against Prescott, hearing a moaning ound proceeding from the back building. went md found P. seated upon the sill in the shed loor, who said he had killed Sally in the brook feld"-ihat he had the tooth ache, sat town upon a stump. something came over 1i,D, and when he recovered found he had ,ilIed Mrs. c. Deceased had expressed a wish, it seems, about g o'clock, to step into ID adjacent field and pick strawberries.- Prisoner (Mrs. c. being engaged in the kitch- n) went to Cochran and informed him to hat effect but he heinz engaged as above tated, declined, and Prescott, against whom 'ether c. nor wife suspected aught. accom- panied her; and as is supposed, offered her iolence in retired part of the field. No louse was in sight-it was a retired place. and 'et female might have gone as far as she it'd without shadOwing her own character Or 'een thought wanting in perception not soon- r to have suspected prisoners motive. The 'Ody was dragged three or four rods by the sead, into some bushes, and there found a. 'out 10 o'clock, by the astonishing and V eep- ng neighhors. Messrs. Wyman. of the In. ane Hospital. CharlestOwn. MT. Cutter. of Pepperel, and gcntleman connected with he Worcester Hospital. were present and ex- 'mined at much length. The prisoner has 1een ably defended. The arguments of the