St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-11-19
.U'n PETER Correspondence.
MONTpEIIER- My. Ii 1870


most impossible to give any accurate
statement of the condition OF business,
only SO far rs it shall have been actually
completed 1t is safe 10 predict, how
ever. that such bills a. receive an unta-
vorablc report from the different com
mitteeS. are virtually killed off and any
Iattcmpt to reverse the decision OF the
committees is either pcremptorily voted
down, or ''choked down by the ''pre-
vious question" Thanksgiving comes
on Thursday next, and now that the day
for final adjournment is fixed so that the
members can reach their respective homes
in season to enjoy the good things" Of
that day, with their families, they are
about As intent upon letting away from
here, as is the boy 10 ego fishing when
he Gets his stint done" and fear some
of their work will be no better done than
i, usual with the boy Chatting under the
| lrkSOme restraint.
This Monday afternoon at half past
two o'clock the house propose to 90 on a
Grand ''lisling' excursion, in which large
fish and small fish, fresh water fish and
salt water fish, fish in private ponds and
fish in public streams, are all to be passed
in review before that august body and
receive sentence as the law direct.-or as
some would have the law direct. | en-
! poet 1t will be pretty ''iishy" afternoon,
and that we shall hear from the ''asscm-
blcd wisdom" just how to COAX the sal
mon and shad TO pay an annual visit to
our pub.ic streams, just to afford TO the
aforesaid ''wisdum'' the delcctablc pas
'ime of catching and catin" ''more sea
fish. For this purpose they ask the
state t" bait their hooks with small APP
preparation OF only $1,000, and give to
certain individuals the ''cNclu,ive RIGHT
t. fish for sea fish, 'ior the full term of
twenty-five years" They would not
ask to hav" any ones rights that they
nov ENJOY abridged = and are ready to
promise not "to catch trout or other fish
durimg the season prohibited by law"
The attempt Of these same individuals.
i, - L.
younG salmon into q tributary o. the
VIZ .o,'-l river was anything but salts
factory. "MmnwS, no larg 7 than the
youn" salmon. would attack the new
corners, and in one instance" they say.
1--WE captured one two inches Ior", in
which we found four young salmon"
\ Thousand dollars a year from the
state treasury to furnish food for the
''mnnows" in our streams Is asking con-
siderable.
Monday of last week Governor " ash
burn sent communication to both
houses, recommending an increase in the |
amount of the appropriations for the ed
ucation of the deaf, dumb and blind of
;he state, and in accordance with his
recommendation a bill has been passed,
increasing the appropriation for the deaf
and dumb, trom $1,000 to $1,000: and
that for the blind from 5000 to $1,000 /
On Tuesday last, the bill for the abo-
lition Of capital punishment came up for
final consideration in the senate, and af-
ter able arguments on both sides, was re-
fused the third reading 10y n very decided
vote. The bill creating degrees in the
crime of murder has however. passed
both houses and been approved by the
governor The bill provides that ''all
murder which shall be perpctratcd by
means OF poison, or by lying in wait, or
by any other kind of wilful. deliberate
and premcdiiated killing, or which shall
be committed in pcrpetratin@ or attempt
ING TO pcrpctrate any arson. rape, rob-
berry or burglary, shall be deemed muir
der in the first DECREE and shall be pun
l~hcd a. Is now provided by law for the
punishment OF murder land all other
kinds of murder shall be deemed murder
IN the second dcgrcc," and shall he pun
ishable by imprisonment in the state
prison for life the jury in their verdict
To say whether il be murder OF the first
or second degree
The same day the senate had under
consideration the bill relating to the
NcwmrY Seminary property. The ar
gumctt of Senator Dickcrmun Of Orleans
coun,y WAS full, iorcibIc and Irresistible,
against the right of the tru- tees of the
school TO remove the property from Ncw-
l!!y &c Mo;tpcIlcr. The entire forcr oon
and part Of the afternoon was consumed
by sclators il the discussion when the
bill was laid on tho table 1t MAS again
called up on Thursday, when another
lc""tly discussion resulted in a final re-
lection Of The bill-aycs 10, nays II.
Thu decides the question. so far as this,
bill Is concerned, in favor Of the citizens
OF Ncwbury, ard against the right of the
Trustees OF the school to remove the prop
erty. The case was heard the same day
III the Supreme court, now in session in
this place but their decision is not vet
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