The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-16
For a week or two the Rev. George
Muller. of Bristol. England, the

proprietor VI the enormous Loh-
don Orphanage, which is sustained
by the means of prayers of faith,
has been preaching here. Tnis to-
gether with the temperance move
ment ought to be considered good
news, for no place of It's size is so
full of corruption, and none should
be so free from it, as this national
Capital. Here, as i'll other large
cities, poverty and ignorance go
hand in hand with crime and deg
radiation; and there is so much of
the former! Washington has three
classes of citizens, with no inter-
mediate grades. The beau monde,
consisting of Congressman, Cabi-
net families, Diplomats, a few mil
lionares and scattering Of first
class hterateurs; the middle class,
made up of Government clerks and
well-to-do merchants; and the vag
abond, rongh-scuff, poverty-stric&-
en- wretches, who form by far the
largest of these three social states
The poor are ignorant, the igno-
rant are wicked, the wicked are
degraded. There are alleys and
back streets in <his city teeming
with iniquity. Germans, Irish, and
those known in Uncle Toms Cabin
as Glow whites" mix indiscrimi-
nately with the coarsest negroes.
White women live in filthy novels
with colored brutes, and colored
women with white brutes. The
former is oftenest seen, but the
latter Is not of nnfrequent occur
renee. What is to become of these
people it is hard to say. Our be-
nevolent institutions are numerous,
but they do not receive people I'M
conditionally, neither do the reform
schools nor work houses. People
must do other than moral wrongs
against themselves and each other,
they must be guilty OF something
beside living i'll dirt, sqU:ilor and
disease and infamy couteutedly-
they mast be sick, or wounded, or
starving, before the helping arm OF
public charity cor of public chas-
tisement are held out 70 them.
The peDny-lunch room recently
established III this city is flourish
ing finely. The usual meal for II
penny Ia IA generous bowl Of soup
and slice of bread, with us many
penny additions, in, the way of tea,
coffee, milk, cake, pie, etc, as Que
may choose to indulge III. 4 sim
gle penny is the extent of the price
OF any single article. The estab
lishment is feeding hundreds daily,
and many poor working people are
taking permanent board there.
Ben Butler said during the extra
session that he had a hat full of
bricks in reserve to hurl at and in
the present Congress; and be threw
out one OF them a day or two ago
"a scriptural brick, as his brother
Congressman laughingly called it !;
for it is no common thing to hear
bluff, rough Butler quoting scrip
ture. The occasion of it was the
presentation of a memorial from
the Norfoll, Conference of Unita-
rian ministers of Massachusetts,,
earnestly protesting against tue
passage of the Bland Silver Bill as
derogatory to the honor of the
country, and requesting all of the
Massachusetts members to vote
against it. After the memorial was
read, Butter asked for the Bible
from the Speakers desk, marked a
passage and requested that the
clerk should read it. 1t was a part
of the second chapter of John, the
last sentence marked being, "The
zeal of thine house hath eaten me
up"
Bertha Won Hillem has been TAX