Connecticut western news., 1873-01-17

empress knelt and kissed her dying bus
 band. She was completely overcome by
 her emotions, and tainted at the bedside
 The prince, who had been summoned iron
 Woolwich, arrived at Chiselhurst fifteer minutes after the death of the Emperor
 He was greatly affected, and kissed hi' dead father several times. The emperor died peacefully, passing away without tho slightest sign of pain. His death is attrib
 uted to syncope or embolis.
 MRS. SHERMAN's SENTENoE.-A gre crowd gathered in the superior court room in New Haven, Saturday morning, to hear sentence pronounced upon Mrs. Sherman whose confession appeared in the CourGn1 last week. Mrs. Shermans closely yelled, entered the coRt room in charge of Jailol Webster, about 9SO. After the charge in the Hess murder case (which was one and half hours long) had been delivered by Judge Foster, the prisonersGwas conducted to seat in front of the judges. Upon being asked If she had anything to say, hel counsel replied for her in the negative. After the usual formalities had been ob- served, Judge Sanford pronounced the sen. tence as follows:
 ''It is an unpleasant duty which the court has to discharge, but it is one from which it has no disposition to shrink. You, Mrs. Sherman, were on the the 9th day of May,
 1871, indicted for feloniously, willfully, and with mslice aforethought, killing Ho- ratio N. Sherman, your husband, by means of deadly poison, by you administered, and you were so indicted. If you had been have been murder in the first degree. You were tried by jury of your own country. men, which was largely of your own selec- tion. You were ably defended by talent ed counsel. After full, fair and impar. 'tial trial, you were found guilty of murder in the second degree. It was the opinion of the court that the jury would have been fully justified in rendering verdict of murder ID the first degree, the penalty of which is death upon the gallows. Recent developments have fully vindicated the soundness of that opinion. The jury was not. satisfied that the evidence warranted such verdict, and therefore convicted you of murder in the second degree So you have escaped she gallows only to live sur rounded by prison walls for life. The court has no discretion in fixing the pun ishment. The only sentence he can pro- nounce is that provided by the statutes, which is, that you, Lydia Sherman, found guilty of murder in the second degree, be imprisoned in the Connecticut state prison for the period of your natural life"
 She showed no emotion, and soon left the room and was conveyed to jail in a sleigh.
 AN EDIToRs ExPERIENoR.-The editor of the Schenectady Star was interviewed by a female book peddlar, and this is what he says about it.: We had a visit from book peddling female last week. She wished to dispose of book. She was alone in this world, and had no one to whom she could turn for sympathy or assistance, hence we should buy her book.-She was unmarried and had no manly heart into which she could pour her suferings; therefore we ought to invest in her book.-She had re- ceived liberal education and could talk French like native; we could not in con- sequence refuse to pay her two dollars for a book. She wanted to take lessons in music from a learned German professor; consequently we must not decline buying a boook' We had listened attentively, and here broke in with, ''What do you say I? We're deaf" She started in loud voice and went through her rigmarole. When she had finished we went and got 8 roll of paper and made it into speaking trumpet, placed one end in our ear and told her to proceed. She nearly burst blood vessel in her frantic efforts to make herself heard. She commenced: "I am alone in this world" It doesn't make the slightest diff ference to us. We are not alone, in fact, we are husband and father, and bigamy is not allowed in this state. We are not eligible to proposals" "Oh what fool this man is," she said in a low voice, then, at the top of her voice, II don't want to marry you. Iwant-to-sell-a-b 7" This last sentence was howled. "We don't want cook" we blandly remarked, s'our wife does the cooking, and she wouldn't allow as good looking 8 woman as you are to stay in the house. She's very jealous!" She looked at us in despair. Gathering her robes about her, giving us a glance of con- tempt, and exclaiming, ''I do believe if a three hundred pounder were let off along side that blamed old deaf fools head, he'd think somebody was knocking at the door" " she slung herself out and slammed the door with vehemence that awakened our office boy, who can sleep sound enough for a whole family. she was gone we in dulged in demoniac laugh. She isn't like ly-t to try to sell us book any more.
 END OF THE HESS TRIAL.-The trial of John R. Johnson, charged with the mur- der of Mrs. Hess in Meriden, July sth, 1872, was concluded last week in New Ha- ven. The arguments were heard Friday afternoon and Saturday Judge Foster charged the jury. After being out half an hourthe jury returned with verdict of