Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-15
General News.

OF the l07 women who registered to vot,
at Lowell Wednesday, GO are housewives ant
30 are teachers. Their ages range from II tC
so years, and they have all paid their taxes
The Would-be Suicide Recovering. -Chas
c. Hayes, the woud-be suicide, who sho
himself on fremont street Tuesday morning
is at the city Hospital. His condition is i'm
proving and his physicians state that he vii
recover
Last evening the Town Hall Mt Lexington
was filed with n select audience of citizens
who had assembled to witness the presenta
ton to their borough of a copy of the por
trait of the famous Earl Percy on the 10Th o!
April, l175, when he came to reinforce tn,
troops driven from Concord.
Simon Burlingame has taken fifth wife to
his home at Rpon, Wis. Three of her pre-
deccssors died at yearly intervals and were
buried side by side. with tcmbstones to match
The fourth fled aiirghted by the first attack
of illness. and would not return, thus giving
her husband legal ground for divorce. The
fifth is as yet undismaycd.
On hill near Ware, Herts, England, pill
lar has been erected to mark the spot where,
in June, 1885, Thomas GARRISON resolved to
devote himself to the abolition of slavery.
Mrs. Merivale, daughter of the Dean of Ely,
last month unveiled this memorial, and her
father told how. forty five years ago, Clark
son told him his famous resolve on that very
spot.
If there are people who believe in total
depravity only as an abstract principle, they
could add somewhat to their means of deduc-
ing correct philosophical conclusions by oc-
casionally taking peep into such places as
the police could point out not more than a
stones throw from manv of our largely
travelled thoroughfares. The Third Police
took in family last evening, which was
found in the following condition: In tene-
ment in the rear of No. IS Brighton street,
place which contains the filth of half a
score of years at least, there has somehow ex-
listed of late family, consisting of husband,
wife and infant child, named McGurdy This
family has made use of but one of the rooms.
apparently. which compose the tenement, and
of course the dirtiest was selected. The only
thing answering to the description of furni-
ture in the place where the police entered
last evening was an excelsior mattrass, as
black as the ace of clubs. On this lay the
woman. as naked as when she was born, and
she was undergoing beating at the hands of
her husband. who possessed but one garment,
that the most indispensable. The wretched
woman was crying for help, as she has often
done before when undergoing thrashing, and
it was this summons that caused the police to
enter. In the middle Of the hard, filthy floor
lay the infant, an object to make man shud-
der it was literally thing of skin and bones
its fingers about the size of wooden tooth
picks if reduced to their normal condition by
the application of soap and water, solution.
by the way, which no member of the family
had seemingly met with for weeks. The
only thing save filth of which there had been
no lack in this den of misery is rum. The
very atmosphere seemed made up of the worst
quality of that commodity, and the parents OF
that wan, dirty object, shivering in its naked
ness on the boards, were too besottcd to
realize that starvation was upon them. In
deed there was nothing in the house to eat
nothing to wear, nothing that would pawn OF
sell for the price of an oyster cracker or
Salem street in the whole house. An ole
dress was willingly loaned by woman in ar
adjoining tenement, since by the loan the fe
male inhabitant of the den could be removed
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