Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-05
B0ST0y CORE P0NDENCE.

BosToN, May Sd, 1877.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey have finished their
three months course of revival work in Boston
aud have left the city, Mr.. Moody, wife and child
leaving for Mortified, where they have comfort
able home, last Tuesday. During their stay in
Boston the evangelists have been treated with the
greatesteouitesy and kindness, and nearly every
newspaper has done all in its power to advertise
and extend the good work which has been going
on SO vigorously. 1t is to be hoped that the les
sons he has taught, particularly to the Incorporate,
will not be forgotten.
The new home for working women at 327 Ire
mont street, is now open, although the interior is
not quite completed. 1t is expected that seventy
five women can be accommodated at time. All
kinds of household work will be kept in progress.
and dressmakng and tailoring will be done. The
institution appears to start auspiciousy, for con-
siderable work has already been engaged.
Work was begun at the Wamsutts mills in New
Bedford last Monday morning, 200 operatives be-
ing the force employed, one-tenth of the former
force. Nearly the whole city police force, with
eight State detectives, were on the ground al
though no riot was attempted.
The family of Edward S. Rand resigned ten
days gopossesson of their house and household
| goods, but no announcement of the intended sale
has yet been given. Rand left Boston for New
York last Friday. Land formerly belonging to
him in Dedhsm, will be sold at public auction on
the 2Sih of May. We cannot help feeling deep
sympathy for the unfortunate family of Mr.. Rand,
who have been reduced from affuence to compar-
alive poverty and obscuriiy. When will our
American people learn to live within their means
One day on the top of the wave, and the next
buried beneath the pillows.
| An accomplished and intelligent young lady of
Chelsea has recently lsbored under a strange and
incomprehensible delusion. Assuring her friends
that the spirits of her departed relatives would
care for her in some mysterious manner. she abb
stained from eating. She did not touch food for
five days, and physician being summoned, found
her suffering from dyspepsia of long standing.
Her symptoms exhibit insanity in the form known
as melancholia. She persists in her theory that
it is crime to eat anything at all, and prefer.
waiting for the ministiaions of departed friends
! once heard of a man who had una mia for catch
ing mice, but nevertheless believed it was a crime,
and to eSpiate it he must eat all he caught-which
he did. l cant say that these deusions are par
ticularly agreeable to ones friends, whatever they
may be to the one who INDUCES in them.
Emma Abbott is to sing in Boston very shortly.
In recent letter to the Capital of Washington.
Grace Greenwood writes a few brief lines in
praise of this sweet singer, calling her brave,
noble hearted little woman. Miss Abbott has in
Cured the scorn of the newspaper world by re-
fusing to sing 7rdriata. She threw up very
iemuneIa,iye engagement rather than sing in n
opera she considered coarse and indicate, and
no persuasons Of friends OF railery of critics and
enemies could induce her to alter her decision.
She says she does not like to see herself 10 such
scenes or hear herself in such songs and cings
with praiseworthy tenacy to her puritanic ideas
but pu:itanc ideas are rather of discount ia ST
now, and Miss Abbott has lost money and en-
gagements from a desire to shield her uodesty,
and keep her tender womanliness.
The Opera Boufee is the favorite among the
largest class of theatre going people, as can be
plainly seen by the crowded houses which went
nearly crazy over Soldene and her troupe at the
Globe week ago. These women please the pop
ular taste-eyen the taste of the Duke Alexis was
pleased by Aimee, and he spent two out of three
evenings at the theatre where she pranced
and coquetted, refusing all invitations to dine
with the beat society of New York city, when he
could sec and hear the cequetiish lite beauty who
eAefted such an influence over his susceptible
heart.
Three lectures on the Telephone viii be given