Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-15
LETTER FROM BOSTON.

To the Editor of the RenneJee Journal:
The Charitable Mechanic Association who have
been petitoning to have the use Of Boston Com
mon, for the purpose of erecting building there
on in which to hold fair next October, have suf-
fered a defeat. The board of Aldermen were in
favor of granting the petition, while it was op-
posed by the Councilmen, one Of whom proposed
10 set apart the parade ground forever as play
ground for the boys, and for the use Of the mill
tary.
At a meeting of the Judiciary Committee a law
from the statute book was quoted, to wit; THAT
the city of Boston shall not sell or lease Boston
Common" The petitioners wanted the clause in
serted, ito build upon" and thought that the law
should be general. applying to all parks and COM
mons in the commonwealth. 1t is q well known
fact that the Common has from time mmemorial
been encroached upon for one purpose or another.
There are many little ones in our large city,
the children of the poor, who never breathe the
fresh country air, or travel outside the city limits.
Are these to be deprived of their only play
ground Their only chance TO erj,y sight of
green grass and shady trees
Any one Witnessing the pleasure which hundreds
of children derive in the summer time from play
ing in Boston Common, can not help but view it as
wrong to deprive them Of it, for the purpose Of
using it for the erection of buildings IN which to
hold even charitable fairs.
A rumor was started to the cffec, that the strik-
ing engineers had been notified that they would be
taken back on the Boston and Maine road. Su-
perintendeDt Furber states that this is not true
lie does not think that the company or the engin-
thep,u tha ilar tn vork
for the Boston and Maine road again. The strik-
ers regularly paid their wages by the Brother
hood
The Free Lovers have just concluded a conven.
ton in our city. They signed petition to the
Massachusetts Legislature, asking for the repeal
of the law prohibiting polygamy. Free love being
odious to all well regulated minds, it is not likely
that their prayer will be granted. prominent
Boston free lover is reported TO have said that be-
levers and followers of the free love doctrine are
multiplying all over the country, and that this
New England Association is the nucleus of ma.
tional organization, which is to have its head
quarters in New York. Yet SO long as the gener-
atty Of people have the regard for the sanc,i
y of the marriage relation and the preservation of
their families which three .fourths of them pos
ssss. free love cannot spre ad very rapidly and the
rising generation need not be alarmed at the pros
pect before them.
One Of the bishops of the Mormon Church, the
possessor Of three wives, is now in Boston for
short time All who are believers in polygamy
had better emigrate to Utah. where they can fol-
low the example set by this bishop, and run no
danger of having the purity of their morals and
lives questioned
The sale of the pathological library Of the late
Mr.. A. Gay, head master of the Boston Latin
School, took place few days ago. The library
consisted of valuable collection of about two
thousand volumes. Buyers for the Boston Public
Library, Mercantile Library and Woburn Libra
ry, were present. The prices were on an average
very good.
The hundredth anniversary Of the most worship
full grand lodge of Massachusetts, Masons, was
celebrated few days since. A dinner was served
to about two hundred and fifty members of the
order. Many Of the grand masters belonging to
other grand lodges in the United States were
present. Speeches were made and toasts offered,
and the whole affair passed off pleasantly and sat
isfac torily TO all concerned.
The Boston Times is very severe on Moody and
Sankey, and has devoted half its space during the
past three or four weeks to affairs pertaining to the
Tabernacle. The first page of every issue is de
voted to cuts carcaturing the evangelists in a
most ridiculous manner. They publish ed in the
issue of last Sunday, letters from various persons
commencing the course they have taken in expos
ing the weak points of the doctrine preached by
Mr.. Moody and sung by Mr.. Sankey. This pa
per is the only one published in Boston which has
devoted its columns to structures on tie sayings
and doings Of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. Their
preaching and singing is termed sensational and
ridiculous in the extreme.
A great deal OF damage was done in Boston and
vicinity by the storm which ragged so violently on
the oh inst. Roofs were blown off and steepes
blown down, and general havoc made of Old eye
sores in the shape of sheds and shanties, which
many bless the storm for dwelling.
The Globe Theatre which has been closed for
several months in order to undergo extensive re-
pairs, is again open to the theatre going public
Owing to the many panics which have recently
taken place, an iron drop curtain has been hung
in this theatre. The entire shape of the house
has been changed from what it was formerly. The
initial performance took place Monday night,
Boucicault's famous comedy of "London Assur-
ance" receiving representation.
CONSTANCE STERLING.
Boston, March 18th.