Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-01

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vorably reported upon usually pass
in the senate. The temper of the
senate has been tried on temperance
legislation. and 5this body shows
desire to so amend and re-enforce the
prohibition laws that it will be
more and more difficult to escape
conviction and punishment in case of
violations. This house has passed
bill making an increase in fines for
intOxication after the first offense,
with months imprisonment in the
third offense; it has also given the
wife or minor children civil damages,
at the rate of two dollars per day, to
be collected of the rumseller or the
owner of a building in which rum
shop is established, if the husband or
father commits an act while intoxi-
Gated which incarcerates him in pris-
on. Another very important bill
has been introduced by Senator Hale
of Essex county, which promises to
bring offenders to trial land will make
1t extremely difficult for the man
convicted of second offenses to es-
cape the work house. Another rail-
road commissioner bill has been in
troduced, also one increasing the sal
aries of judges of the supreme courts,
and requiring that they go about the
state from time to time holding
courts in the different counties by a
system of itineracy. A bill in the
senate asks for an appropriation of
$4,000 for Soldiers Home. A
senator proposes to re-enact the old
highway law, or one similar to it.
Senator Baker has introduced two
bills which propose to simplify plead
ings in courts. Senator Pierce has
introduced bill which grants munic-
ipal suffrage to women. A large
number of petitions on this subject
are pouring in.
The house has been pretty we'll
deluged by bills during the week, the
most important perhaps being those
that relate to female suffrage,
schools, the highways, and court pro-
ceedings.
The supreme court is in session
here, and during the week the Bar
Association held it's annual meeting
supper, etc. A large number of the
legal fraternity were present, and
their addresses were very interesting
Geo. n. Dale and Mr.. Chandler de.
livered two very interesting address
es. Mr.. Dale is president of the as
ISOLATION. Mr.. Chandler, Ions
time resident of Peacham had his
torical paper on Gov. Mattocks. HI,
paid "Old Peacham" a glowing trib
ute.
The various committees on thu
state reformatory and penal institu
tons have made their visits and ar
ready to report on their conditions
The Legislature went to No. Hero
Grand Isle county, on Thursday Oh
matters of business and pleasure
This beautiful and fertile islam,
which lies in Champlain, is situate,
from six to eight miles west of tn
mainland in Franklin county, an
separated on the north from the Al
burgh peninsula by deep channel
averaging half a mile. The island
thirteen miles long, but at no poin
is over two and half miles wide.
, constitutes the town of North Hero
Heretofore the island has been a
most isolated from the main Ian
F during the early winter and the earl
spring months when the ice wa
forming or breaking up, and at othe
times reached the outer world onl
across the treacherous ice, or b
. boat. After several years of agit,
ton and effort, the state passed a
t act appropriating one-half of a SUI
y of money sufficient to erect sui
stantial bridge across the channel
Alburgh. The channel at the poil
q selected is about sixty rods wide an
s thirty feet deep in deepest waite
s The people of the island raised abo1
S 100000 very heavy sum, IL
d wealth of the community considere'
|. Alburgh contributed some thousand
!. and the state furnishes the remain
d der, the whole cost being about 500
e 900. The bridge is made of ire
e span bridges, with a large swir
O bridge in the middle TO allow Il
n passage of shipping, with lol
d dump of stone on either side.
v ought to last centuries. The a
l. which demanded the money from Il
d state was carefully drawn and tt
'e full appropriation was not to
IS made till the bridge was complet
l. and paid for on the part of the il
anders. The governor and other {
le ficlals designated were required
Of accept the work, and as they were
IN make an official visit to the islam
,e an invitation was extended to t
u legislature to go up and particips
es In the ''opening exercises" a
re help to deVour the chicken pies a
lis other edibles which were advertis
Sc as sufficient. The day was fine a
re ten carloads left Montpelier, inclr
10 ing the governor and nearly all ST
re officials, with the Legislature lead
by and invited guests, swelling the nu
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