Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-02

THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE MAssACHU-
-arr- LEGIsLATURE-sE SENATOR SUMNER
-IuE TRIAL OF CHARLES II. SPENCER
uowLEs BROTHERS FAILURE, ETC, ETC.
BosToH, Dec. 81 1872.
The Legislature at last adjourned on
Wednesday, last week. having been in
session thirty days. During that time
several important measures We're acted
upon, and'as a whole the session has
proved satisfactory to the class in the
community for whose benefit the legis-
lo,ors were called together by the Cover
nor, For two weeks only will the legis-
la,iyc halls be deserted, as the regular
session. hcgius on the 31st inst,
0uenf the last acts done before the
tuai adjournment, was the passage by
hotA Houses Of the resolutions censuring
Senator Summer for his extraordinary
resolve offered i'll Congress, in relation to
oYasjDg the names Of battles from the
co.or> of regiments, and from the Army
REGISTER. The resolutions We're passed
by large majority in both Houses, not
wih>tm6iug many friends of Mr., Sum
nrr wine really favored the resolutions,
either roGratued from voting or voted
against their passage.
Id SEEMS as though Mr.. Sumner had
gone about far enough in his present
course, and unless he changes radically
in the course Of the next year or two,
Massachusetts Will be compelled to send
To the Senate some enc who better repre-
SCENTS her ideas than her present senior
Senator
CHARLES II. SPENCER.
In the Superior Criminal Court on
Thursday, Spencer was tried for forging
q check on the Blackstone National
Bank, of this city, purporting to have
been drawn by Emory Bemis. Your
readers will remember that he spent some
little time in Rutland during the month
of September, going from thence to
New York City, where was arrested and
brought back here for trial
On tbestand Spenccrdenied any know
ledge of the affair, and said that the
money he received just before leaving
here was paid him in some business tran
sactions. Notwithstanding his state
ments of innocence the jury brought him
in guilty, and lie will probobly be SEN
fenced by Judge Allen soon.
1t seems a pity that a young man OF
such fine natural abilities as he, should
have fallen so low. Graduating high at
and afterwards at the Law
School, he had a career opened for him
that had lie only used his opportunities
might have made hlm one OF the first
lawyers in the land 1t is great mercy
that his parents are both dead, as it
would prove too much for them to bear,
they having been highly respected IN
where they lived at the time
of their decease.
Spencer had a most interesting young
wife, bit she was obliged to leave him
some two years or more ago, on account
Of his i'll treatment, since which time she
has been living with her sister in Chel-
sea. She will probably now apply for
divorce, as lie has done nothing for her
support for some time
MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
There seems to be a great deal of doubt
as TO whether Mayor CASTOR has been
or whether the Republican
candidate Mr.. Pierce is to be our Mayor
the coming year.
There is but little doubt but that ex-
tensive frauds were committed in Ward
2. and should the committee of the Board
of Aldermen, who have the matter now
under investigation prove beyond doubt
that the ballot boxes were tampered with,
the whole vote of the ward would be
thrown out, thus electing Mr.. Pierce.
Ward 2 is proverbial for casting an
immense Democratic vote, entirely out
Of proportion to its number of voters,
and it is to be hoped that the committee
will implicate those, if any there are,
who have been endeavoring to prostitute
the ballot box.