Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-18
BOSTOy CORRESPONDENCE.

to read in every paper pick up, OF the murders
and suicides which are taking place every day,
and in every town and city. Even the suburban
villages have their share Of the frightful crimes
which have grown so common now that they are
simply of interest for day or two only; and
when a murderer is hung, the question is HON
did he murder when where :" 1t is impossible
to bring to memory the terrible crimes which Tor
a few hours months before, absorbed the atten-
ton ofeyerv one. | heard a gentleman remark
only last Sunday, giving a yawn Of utter weari-
ness: "There is actually nothing in the papers
to-day, nothing new" l also read those same pa
pers, and was shocked at the number of crimes
they chroncled A man found dead last Monday
on Mulberry street in New York, having been
gagged, bound hand and foot and thrown out OF
three story window. An aged woman in Cleye-
land, Ohio, committed suicide by deliberately
wading into Lake Erie and holding her head I'M
der wafer until life was extinct. How passion
ately must this poor creature have longed for the
rest beyond the grave, when she could contem-
plate and execute such method of Kidding her
self of life which burden! AT Ports
mouth, o., negro man named Charles Smith was
killed by the engineer of a steamer, monkey
wrench being the instrument used to destroy life
Fellow, who was convicted of killing Peter Scan
LAM saloon-keeper, and was to be hanged on
the 10Th of this month, has had his sentence COM
muted by Gov. CARRIER of Nebraska to imprson-
ment at hard labor for life. boy living on Third
street in New York had quarrel with his father
early 10 the morning; during the day he drank
heavily, and in the evening committed suicide by
Jumping from ferry boad. A brutal murde~was
committed in the town of Rockport on Cape Ann
last wednesday; boy having seen the body OF
man floating in the reservoir pulled it ashore, and
| il was found that it was Mr.. Charles III. Gilman
of Lowell. A young man Of sixteen, a resident! Of
Florrisant, Missouri, shot and instantly Killed on
| Sunday last an aged man named Snidow, who had
a wife and children in Germany, and although the
| Jury rendered a verdict of justifable homicide,
| the young man will be looked upon as murder
er by many who will not stop to consider if his
plea of self defence was a just one. These are
but a few of the cases of murder and suicide
which met my eyes as read with interest the pa
pers which chad nothing in them" What is to
be done to remedy the evil which prevails in our
midst The ssylums, prisons and various reform
schools and other institutions seem to effect but
little good One can hardly feel safe in his own
bed or at his own fresde. In a town near Bos-
ton few weeks ago, a servant girl, while wash
ing dishes in the basement. dining room of the
house where she worked, was shot and instantly
killed by some one who was coward enough to
murder in cold blood defenceess woman who
had never had an enemy as far as could be learned
What are we TO do to save our youth from grow
ing up amidst such vice and Wholesale depravity !?
There was grand baby show in st. Louis,
April 10th and llth. The exhibition was given at
Library Hail. Cannot Boston get up baby show
to rival that of st. Louisi One would imagine
so to see the hundreds of little innocents stumb-
ling through the streets, too large to be carried,
too little to walk, and consequently dragged along
by ruthless nurses who have no idea of the injury
they are doing. We see pretty little babies car
ried around in nurses arms, wrapped in embroi
dered flannel shawls or capes, or half smothered
in velvet and ermine, babies that look sweet and
kissable and fit to be exhibited at any baby show
in the world, and we also see lean, shriveled ba
bies, with red hair no hair at all, their faces
sembling those of old. old men, and who look
If they knew they had the battle Of life to fight
for themselves. These are the children of the
poor, the babies whose lives spent in degrade
ous and reform schools They would not do to
be exhibited at baby show The first exhibit
ton of the kind was given twenty years ago.
Barnum had one in New York and it was grand
success. The baby show in Chicago was decd-
cd failure, for it was connected with poultry
show, and the poultry show was miserable af-
fair At the st. Louis exhibition there were en-
tered 1919 single babies, and IA sets of twins, and
one of tripets. The gentleman who had charge
Of the show said that he had many funny expert
ences every day. One gentleman came to him and
said "See here, want you to let my baby get
the prize. You can keep the money, and II add
S2j on top of it. ! only want the baby to be
awarded the prize He said that it was wonder.
full how many women took him confdentialy
aside and begged that their own baby might get
the prize. lie also told of a mother who wanted
to show a set of five. all the way from two years
to seven; and of people who wanted to show their
babies under fictitious names: of high toned par
ents who were proud to have the chance of ex-
hihitng their ofspring and of ladies who de
sired to display the children Of their relatives.
shink Boston could beat st. Louis in the baby
line if it tried hard. AT any rate the show would
''draw" well, and be something new in the city
where intellect runs riot.
Twenty-nne hand sewers on boots and shoes
employed by Libby, Young, Pratt and Bracket of
l27 Federal street, left off work on Monday at
noon, because their employers refused to pay
them more than $l.3s per pair for the sewing work
on boots shoes. II is said that the demand of the
strikers for Sl63 per pair, with 1873 cents extra
for work on boot legs, will not be acceded to by
the firm. They will be taken back at the old prices
but not a cent more will be given.
The engineers Of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad, who belong to the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engineers, promulgated strike on Sat
urday, and left their engines at midnight. The
order for the strike was from the Brotherhood
The company anticipating some such action on
the part of the Brotherhood ad already employed
men to fill the places left vacant by the Brother
hood engineers and therefore there was no de.
tention of trains to any material extent On the
Germantown branch all the engineers left during
the last ten days aud their places imme date-