Connecticut western news., 1873-03-14
West Cornwall.

Inc StocknolderS or tue Gold Sanitary Heating Co. held their annual meeting on Tuesday, 4th inst, and appointed T. S. Gold, R. R. Pratt, John Wood, J. A. Cochrane and c. E. Baldwin, directors T., S. Gold, president, John Wood, treasur- CT, J. c. Sherwood, secretary for the en- suing year......The tin shop burglary is no longer mystery. The authorities suspect ed l.. H. Howard, Milo Wltherell, and Louis Bernard of being the parties who committed the act, and thereupon issued search warrant and placed it in the hands of E. F. Scovile, who proceeded to search the premises of Howard. and Bernard, where he fcnnd the stolen articles, some of which were secrcted beneath the garret floor ill Bernard's hohse. The rest were in use for culinary purposes in both houses. The parties were arrested and brought be- fore Johu R. Harrison, esq, on the charge of theft. Howard and Witherell plead guilty and were bound over to the Superior Court under three hundred dollar bonds Bernard was tried and found to be an ac- cessory to the act, and was bound over un- der two hundred dollar bonds. Howard procured bail. but the others were commit ted to jail to await trial. Upnn the foregn- ing revelation, parties who had lost chick ems began to look around, and found some of their chickens upon the premises of L
 H. Howard. He denies any knowledge of how they came into his possession, and says he found them on his woodpile one morning and had allowed them to remain on his premises. No action has yet been taken in the matter and we wait further de- velopments with some anxiety. The pub lie are indignant and seem to demand rig orous prosecution. Bernard claimed to be innocent of any wrong purpose, and said Howard gave them the tin ware, which Howard admitted, but it seemed that Ber- nard knew that some of the articles were secreted in his house, and that he knew they were stolen therefore it seems to l,e the opinion of the court that he was an ac
 cessory. The only excuse offered by How were drunk when they broke into the tin shop. Towards house seems to have been the headquarters of the gang, therefore he is naturally looked upon as the ''bell weth- er." We would not pronounce judgment upon any of these parties, and have er- deavored to give fair statement of the facts without fear or favor, knowing that generous public will sustain US in our en- deavors; and if future developments show that we have done any of the parties injue- tice, we will make apologies till then we shall serve the public as best we can, in our humble capacity as correspon- dent and reporter of events as they trans pire. ........ass NUF CED. DEATH FROM SMoK1Ne.-The New York correspondent of the Buffalo Courier re- ports a sad case of death resulting from smoking. He says that for thirty years the victim had been heavy smoker of the choicest cigars, but in all his other habits temperate and regular, and of excellent constitution-one who, of all men would have laughed at the suggestion that tobac-
 co was killing him. On Sunday he was strickin with the progressive paralysis pe- culiar to nicotine, and on the next Sunday
 night he died. @@His death was most pitiful.
 First sight was lost, then speech, then the
 motion of the neck, then motion of the
 arms, and so on throughout tho body, and
 he lay for week unable to move or make a sign, save pitiful, tongueless, inarticus
 late sound, which sometimes rose to al- most frantic effort, all in vain. to make knowu what he wished to say to his family or friends-for his consciousness and men tai faculties were left unimpaired till within two hours of the last, to aggrave to the ut- most the horror of his situation-a living soul in dead body, The sense of hearing was left unimpaired, so that he was con- scious of all around him. while as incapa
 ble of communicating with them us if dead, save by slight sign of assent or dis sent-to question. The doctors were full ly agreed that tobacco was the sole cause of this stroke.
 Suppose man owns 8 sktf he fastens the skiff to the shore with rope made of straw along comes a COW; COW gets into the hoat. turns round and eats the rope !: