St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-11-13
From Montpelier.
MONTPELIER, Nov. 9th, 1868.

HOihN ihN ciSl uii. " lSiit ahNii ttiu III
rolling up the unparalleled majority
given the nations chief. Vermont spoke
loud i'll Sept, but the 3D. inst. she thun-
dercd. Nermonters may well feel proud.
A small state she is indeed. But among
the hills and valleys loyalty is the rule,
and disloyalty the exception. Towns
We'd with each other in polling an enor-
nous vote Rutland leads by giving
Grant and Coltax CPS majority, while
st. Johnsbury gave G2i majority for the
same candidates. Each member, as he
marched to his seat seemed well satisfied
with the results of Tuesdays election.
All went to work with cheerful hearts.
The Great Captains words, "Let us
have peace" are about to be verified.
No more may we suffer from war
The work of the session thus far has
chiefly been devoted to corporations, le-
CALLING grand lists, changing the names
of persons and making them sole heirs of
somebody's old clothes. The whole
thing of making adopted children heirs
at-law, by legislative sanction is simply
absurd. If there were no other way to
accomplish the result we might be in
duced to think it paid. But the probate
court has control in such matters as well
as the Legislature. But it costs some two
or three dollars 10 make an heir-at-law
in the probate court, while 70 run the
Vermont legislature costs only about
$1,000 per day.
The great railroad fight between Mr..
Park of Bennington and the Ransellcar
and Saratoga railroad, assisted by all the
foreign railroad corporations, Is still 60
ing on, silently, but nevertheless earnest :
ly. Mr.. Park proposes to extend his
road from Rutland 10 the marble guarries
at West Rutland. The only road now
running past these quarrieS is the Ran
-cilcar and Saratoga road owned and
managed by foreign capitalists. From
the testimony evinced before the railroad
committee il appeared that the tariff Oh
the marble sent from these West Rutland
marble quarries was very high, il not ex-
orbitant Some of the dealers said it
was ~ low as the company could afford ;
while others maintained it ruined the
sale of some cla>>e, OF marble. The OPP
position oppose granting the charter ON
the ground that one road can easily carry
away all the marble, and that if Mr..
Park builds the road it will ALWAYS he
poor property. They also claim that
Mr. Parks road will he parallel road.
l'ue railroad committee have Just made
thcir report in favor OF granting the
charter. hui under certain restrictions.
he Mes,r> Burden are again at work
to procure Il charter for the Walloom>ac
railroad This same question was dis
cu~-,l last fall. and after a full hearing
the charter WIS refused The charter
a>kci for last iall gave the company 4
ri4ht II carry both passengers and mer-
ciandi-c. The one now ask- for the
right to carry certain kinds OF merchan
disc only. The Legislature cannot grace
.ully deny the charter asked for 10y the
Mes-rs. Burden in its present form.
The question OF allowing money lend
rs to take more than six per cent. for
money, if the rate he agreed upon in
writing, has again been before the house,
and the matter freely and ably discussed.
But after great amount OF lillibustering
md lodging the bill was dismissed.
Some of the able,t men in the house
were in favor of the bill 3; but nearly all
the farmers went dead against it.
The sharpest discussion of the session
took place Thursday. ON the question of
the passage of an ''act for the advance
ment of the science of medicine and sur
gerv." The bill provides that when Il
person Is executed for murder the sheriff
may deliver the body Of the person So
executed to the duly authorized agent OF
my medical school applyin. for the same.
If any relative, however applies for the
body within twcnty-four hours after ex-
rcution it must be delivered to him.
The bill was stoutly opposed on the
ground OF Its barbarity-the opponents OF
The same alleging that by death the Grim
inal eNpiates all his crime, and that
men ought to give the body of the poor
miserable man decent burial, and not
consign it to doctors and their students
to hack and mangle. The bill has pass
sed and now needs only the executive
sanction.
Friday the governor appointed and the
senate confirmed the following gentlemen
as members of the board of education
First District. - Merritt Clark of
l'oultncy; Prof. George \. Weber of
Middlebury.
Second District.-Jonathan Ross of