The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-05-17
From Our Washington Cor
respondent.
AN INTERESTING MEDLEY Of NEWS.
Coxey'S Army and Religious Heresies,
Washington Beautiful City.
Old Pensioners.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May I, 1894.

DEAR JOURNAL Il have been
seeing your pleasant lace every
week, and intended to have sent
you another letter weeks ago, but
other duties prevented. You know
there's a certain place we read of
that is said to be "pavea with good
intentions l don't know how
many paving blocks | have sent
there, but feel quite sure there are
at least one or two with my name
inscribed thereon.
There have been two arrivals in
this little village within the last
two weeks which has created the
most intense excitement. The one
is that of Gen. Coxey and his army
the "Commonweal of Christ
about which will say more further
on and the other arrival is that Of
the lady with whom / boarded in
my Marietta hume, a certain Mrs.
B who has known meteor years.
have told you before that Wash
ington is beautiful city, but since
her arrival, it is more than beauti.
tul. 1t is gloriously lovely. The
foliage of the trees and shrubbery
has an added richness to It's beauty:
the sunlight falls upon me In. a
much more genial, home. like man
ner, and with sparkle Of joyousness
in each ray; the birds have new
and happier melody in their rongs,
and even the routine OF daily labor
bas lost itasprosiness and has apo
etc vein of pleasure running through
it now.
The Coxey army came, marched
up to the Capitol steps, were met by
the police with clubs, and then
marched away, and into camp upon
a vacant lot, where sewer opening
pours its filth into a canal, and in
this fragrant spot--one Of the city
dumping grounds-they are "enioy-
ing themselves. But they have
cleared up the ground very nicely
and seem to be content. IL the
meantime, other contingents are
coming hither to swell the Com
monweal" from every other section
of the housekeeping the South.
Georgia has sent none yet. Geor>
gia's citizens can fDd work at home.
This fact speaks volumes for the
South. There is less discomfort
there than in any other section.
Although the weather was very
untavorable on Sunday morning,
large number of the citizens here
went out to visit the "Commonweal.
ers' during the day. At ii o'clock
Carl Browne delivered a sermon to
the assemblage, taking the twentieth
and twenty first verses OF the eigh>
teenth chapter Of Luke Tor his text.
He talked mostly of Theosophy and
explained his theory of reincarna
ton. He says that when Christ
died His soul was scattered as was
his body, and a part of it has been
reincarnated in him and a part of it
in Coxey and that all the Commons
wealers also have a small portion Of
the same, and that the magnetic
soul of Christ binds them together.
But he does not believe in prayer.
He says all the alleged answers to
prayer are merely condolences. His
christianity is certainly curious
mixture to swallow.
| have discovered why the city OF
Washington is SO healthy and has
so much smaller death rate than
any other city Of our country in
proportion to its white population.
Its because there are 50 many phy>
sicians here. Itmight be called the
city of Doctors. While taking a
ride on the street cars en- Sunday
afternoon | counted orty-nine Doc
tors signs IN ten consecutive squares
and then I stopped counting. An