Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-22
TOPICS OF IHE TIME.


4 fire took place on the second floor OF
a steam laundry in New York Monday
evening, where forty girls were at work
in one room, when The flames burst in up
on them. Nellie Samuels saw the flames
coming, gave the alarm aud made a dash
down the stairs, followed by the other,
who for moment were almost panic
stricken. But every girl got out of the
building in safety.
No fewer than eighteen contested cleo
ton cases will await decision when the
coming Congress meets. searching in
vestigation of the foul Clayton murder,
will be one of the first to be investigated
The net earnings of the railroads of the
country for the first half of the present
year are about 10 per cent larger than for
the first half Of the preceding year. This
activity in the business world.
T6-days sun will set for the last lime
on the poor wretches now confined in
New lork's jail and condemned to die
for killing women. The spectacle is
heart-curdling one, but the revolving rec
ord of brutalities practiced of late upon
women by hardened wretches calls for
terrible rebuke. Let US hope that il may
be needed
The Iowa Republicans, in their State
convention last week, did not waver in
their adherence to the temperance policy
Of that State, much to the disappointment
of Democratic papers.
Prof. John Philip Sousa. the leader of
the famous Marine Band, is going to call
the services of the Consuls and Consular
Agents of the United States to his aid in
collecting some of the national anthems
ity of the Navy Department. Prof.
Sousa's collection contains llG anthems,
and he Is making an effort through the
State Department to obtain 60 more. He
the State Department will forward to it,
representatives with n view to obtaining,
il possible, the missing pieces of music.
The ll6 songs which Prof. Sousa now has,
represent the labor of u years.
The appointment of Colonel John NJ.
Wilson as superintendent of the West
Point Academy is eliciting general com
incubation. His record in the War of the
Rebellion was that of brave and able
officer. and he has filled many posts since
then with signal ability. Heis n disciple
marian. but is n genial gentleman who will
be popu sr with the West Point boys.
Presumably the largest OK in the world
Is on exhibition at the Bourbon stock
yards. Louisville, Ky. lie stands Is
hands high. il II feet in the girth, 1--we
feet from brisket to top withers, three
and half feet across the rump. and
weighs 1900 pou,sis.
their hides punctured with small syringes
loaded with elixir and who have since
reaped a choice crop of swollen limbs aud |
ulcers are on the increase. 1t looks As If |
the bottom had about dropped out of the
Rrowu-Sequad discovery.
Portland, Oregon, correspondent of
the Boston Journal. writes letter to that
paper warning all New England girls
against being "taken-in' by the recent
appeal from the Mayor Of Tacoma, WASH
ington Territory. to the Mayor OF Boston,
urging marriageable young women to
come out there with view of finding
homes with industrious and wealthy
young men," This letter is sensible at
least. and apparently truthful. The
writer says: II will state few facts just
Is they are: First, The country out here
$ vet in wild state and living is poor
Ind expensive The sociability that ex-
SITS in New England does not exist here.
second, the most Of the young men here {
cad fast lives, such as drinking and
gambling, and they have very little ,
aspect for young women Their edul a. ,
ion is lacking, and manners they have I
lone. Their reputed wealth is mythical.
Third, most ali, s-l0ths, of the work !,
loOe by women East is done by the /
'eathen Chinese here, who degrade labor i
nd pollute the air with pestilence where
yer they 90. II any respectable young !
roman wishes to desert her New Eng i
md home, aud all that is endesring and G