The Press., 1895-05-23
,oNMpNr unon Sheriff Dickinson's

COMMENT upon Sheriff Dickinson's ap- pointments are generally approbative. John A. Brown, who gets the much sought position of jailor, is widely known through out the county, and has had experience in public life as representative, county com missioner, and in other positions, and is expected to make first-class jail official. All the deputies appointed have had ex- perience as deputies under former sher- ifs, or in constabulary positions. Publie sentimenti in Stafford was generally united in choice of Louis Helm, one of the best police officers the town ever had, and whose record for keeping good order with little friction and few arrests is unsur- passed. So far the sheriff has a good corps of aids.
 The supreme court of the United States on Monday rendered the final decision on the question of the eonstitutionality of the income tax as a whole. The decision made six weeks ago, which was rendered without a full bench, was that part of the law, that which affected the incomes of corporations, and those derived from rents, was unconstitutional. On the con- stitutionality of the law as whole the jus tices were then equally divided to A. Judge Jackson of Tennessee being. absent. On Monday the decision was from the full bench. It stood against the consti- tutionatity of the whole enactment, to for it's constitutionality.. This was the vote: Against the law-Fuller, Field, Gray, Brewer, Shiras; for the law-:Har- Ian, Brown, Jackson, White. Judge Shi- ras of Pennsylvania was the only judge that changed his ground.
 The "old bridge'' between Hartford and East Hartford was, burned on Friday evening between and 8 o'clock This is the bridge over which there has been so much discussion in the legislature. Two years ago the state assumed it's care and maintenance. Lately the commis- sioners in charge contracted with the Ber- lin Iron Bridge company for new struc- ture to be paid for by the state. The state senate few. days ago passed a'bill putting back the bridge on the five towns that previously had it's maintenance and declining to carry out the contract for new structure. The house has not yet acted, so the bridge was the states when destroyed. The bridge was built in 1818- replacing one then recently destroyed by a freshet and built in 1910. It was owned by corporation and was toll. bridge un- til 1889, when the legislature transferred the bridge by purchase from the Hartford Bridge Company, the state paying 40 per cent. of the cost, the rest being paid for by the towns of Hartford, East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchesteran and South Wind sor. The bridge was insured for $25, ,0O0.
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 A fire at St. Albans, Vt, Sunday night swept away property valued at over half a million dollars. The ruins cover nearly fifty acres, embracing four entire blocks bounded by Lake and Hoyt streets. The houses destroyed were mostly new ones and. many were owned by the. occupants. But few famflie saved any of''thetrAQpaA- hold eeffcts, and rdanylost their all: le work of rebuilding will be- begun; atfofee in the burned district. The government building is practically total loss, as the walls are badly damaged and will have to be taken down: Fifty BGdsiness places and seyentv=five houses were laid in ruins. The path swept by the fire is 1000 feet wide and one-third of a mile lhAg.