The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-07
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON D. G. Feb. 4, 1873
The war Of Temperance reform has reached
our city at last, and most surely it is needed
here. II is only TO be hoped that We shall
be washed clean from this dreadful curse
that is upon US. Francis Murphy, whose
name has become almost synonymous with
temperance is here at work in the cause.
He gave his first lecture to an immence
audience last Sunday. This mans head
and face shows his characteTitics TO the
very letter. The small round head and
somewhat receding forehead tell of slight
intellectual force while the heavy jaw
speaks of the will that has made him what
he is. He draws remarkable crowds, which
fact is largely due to his own emational
Irish nature and temperament. His abili-
ty as dramatic orator is unsurpassed.
The national " voman's temperance asso.
citation people are also here and attacked
Congress yesterday with view of having
liquor abolished in the District of Colum-
bia. Should this step succeed the result
would doubtless be the setting up of sa-
looms just outside tha District limits and
extending the street car lines there to, but
even that would be an advantage over the
present state of affairs, i. would take the
liquor in a great measure out of the reach
OF the poorest classes who must abuse
themselves in this respect. The coloret
/ / nd Cd ot
ed TO strong drink and many a good edo
mestic work woman is unable TO get EN-
ployment, or rather to keep it, because o
invariably going on a weeks drunk when
ever she is paid of-they cannot resis
J buying il when it is in their sight and the
) can get the means.
The penny lunch room recently estab
6 lished in this city is forishing finely. Th
usual meal for penny is bowl of sou
and a slice Of bread with as many penn
additions in the way of tea, coffee, cak'
/. pie ,etc., as one may choose to indulge il
0 A single penny is the extent ofthe price
" any one article. The establishment
= feeding hundreds daily, and many poe
working people are taking permaner
? board there.
}. Ben Butler said during the extra se
}, sion, that he had a hat full of bricks in r,
o serve TO hurl at and in the present Congress
q and he threw out one of them day or tw
% ago-a scripturel brick as bis brother Coz
=, gressmen laughingly called it, for it is I
y common thing to hear bluff, rough, Butl
IL quoting scripture. The occasion of it W
the presentation of memorial from Il
)t Norfolk Conference of Unitarian Mini
is ters of Mass. earnestly protesting again
70 the passage of the Bland Silver Bill
- derogatory to the honor of the country, al
requested all of the Massachusetts membe
'o to vote against 1t. After the memori
was read, Butler asked for the Bible fro
the speakers desk, marked a passage al
requested that the clerk should read it.
was part of the I'd chapter of John, t
a last sentence marked being "the zeal
N. thine house hath eaten me up"
,lf Bertha Van Hillen has been TAXI
We another walk In this city, accompllsnl
at one hundred miles in % hours witho
i'm sleep. The hall in which she perform
wv was crowded with spectators, many ply
ed clans, ministers and other professional &c
ed tlemen with their ladies being prese
i'll When the young pedestienne finished
h task, eleven minites ahead of time, 6
ne walked again around the track amid gre
nd applause, and was then crowned by
TO- members of the press with flowers.
or The second snow strom of the seas
EAR visited us last week, turnign into sleet a
er. rain before the day had far advanced.
7te more dandelins for US till spring fancy
Ks. we were beginning to think we should ha
ou them all the year.
of. RICHARD