Connecticut western news., 1879-08-06

stinctively occurs, in looking at this spot, that that concealed body must be glowing with heat, like red-hot metal. This accords with the views of those astronomers who think that Jupiter is now passing through stage of the cooling process that was completed on our globe ages before life appeared upon it.
 Another life is likely to atone for the murder of Susan A. Hanson, in New Hampshire. Joseph B. Buzzell was hanged on the 10th of July for being accessory to the crime, and now the boy Cook, on whose testimony Buzzell was convicted, acknowledges that he himself shot Miss Hanson, at the in- stigation of Buzzell, who was not pres ent, however, when the deed was done. Cook thus confesses that the testimony which he gave at the trial of Buzzell was true, and that his subsequent denial of it was false. Cook is now to be put on trial as principal, and it is difficult to see how he can escape the gallows.
 Wounds in the heart are commonly supposed to be instantaneously fatal, but such is not the case. Indeed, it is not possible, except by some extreme violence, such as dynamite explosion, to blot out human life instantly. At Sing Sing, keeper Goods pistol-ball went through the heart of Barrett, the Sing Sing convict, yet he lived four minutes. In New York, Portello's knife cleft the heart of Bolender com. pletely in twain, but he did not fall dead upon the spot. The instinct of self preservation remained and even that horrid wound had not deprived him of the strength to obey it. He ran first toward neighboring drug store, then turned and ran down Fulton street, and had reached point many feet distant from the spot where he was stabbed before he fell and expired. So O'Connell, who was stabbed by Nichols, at Nyack, July 3, though his heart was actually cut in two by the stroke, ran several feet after the wound was inflicted. A puncture of the heart is necessarily fatal, but the victim is often conscious for two or three minutes, though generally without much power of motion or of speech, save the first cry of agony. This shows that the brain can act even after the heart is destroyed. On the other hand, the heart continues tc exercise it's functions after the brain has ceased all action, as in case of deatl from severe blows on the head.
 - In New York City Justice Semlel rendered his decision in the suit O Barbara Rau against Jacob Meinzer, i, lawyer, for abandonment, and in i gives the legal status of marriage s' held by the courts of the State. Tn defense was that the parties had neve been married. The plaintiff admitted that no marriage ceremony had bee1 performed, but proved by 8 number 0 witnesses that Meinzer had lived wit her as his wife, and had introduced he to his friends as such. Two years az they separated, and he paid her smal stipend for the support of their child which had been baptized by the Rev John Neander as Caroline Meinzer After the separation the plaintiff sue
 the defendant for bastardy. The sui
 was settled by the payment to the Chal 1ties Commissioner of $1OO for the sur port of the child. Recently, the plain tiff, being advised that she was legall
 the wife of Meinzer, commenced tn
 present suit. Justice Semler decide
 that the plaintiff was the defendant legal wife, and required Meinzer t enter into bonds to pay Mrs. Meinzer @ week for her support.