The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-04-15
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
Miscellaneous.

THE hank statements for ~the three
banks in Jackson, just published, show
deposits of $s5o,0Oo.
MAYOR DIAL of Meridian has deter.
mined to close all gambling houses and
suppress blind tigers.
The repair shops OF the Georgia Pa
cific Railroad at Greenville were de-
stroyed by fire last week.
GEN +. c. WALTHALL and family
have arrived home from Washington.
The Generals health has not been very
good of late.
The city council OF Vicksburg has or
dered an ordinance prepared levying a
tax OF 5000 each on all telegraph and
telephone poles in the city.
The board of supervisors of Warren
County inspected and formally accepted
the iron draw bridge over Big Black
last week. The bridge is $50 feet long.
GROUND has been broken for the erec-
tion OF canning factory at Oxford.
which will be pushed to completion in
order to handle the present crop con-
tracts for about $50 acres which have
already been signed by neighboring
| farmers.
MosT of the planters in Madison
County have finished planting cotton.
Farmers generally are planting less
cotton. Most of them are raising few
hogs, and great deal of attention will
be directed to hay crops.
MRS. ELIZABETH H. FITZPATRICK, of
Meridian, widow of Flood M. Kill
patrick, private of the Florida Seminole
Indian war of 1880, received pension
last week. The number, 377, indicates
that pensioners of this class are scarce.
THE stock law election recently held
in Washington County has been declared
legal by thecounty board of supervisors,
and will, on and after June 1, 1898. be
enforced in the First, Second, Third and
Fourth districts. In the Fifth district
1t will be put into effect January 1, 1894.
The hay growers held very satisfac-
tory convention at Jackson last
week The reports of several com
mittees were received and acted on.
They think they will be able to get
such rates on the railroads as will JUS
tify the shipment Of hay during the
coming season.
The postal receipts at the Natchez
office were $16,OsS for the year ending
April 1st This is an increase OF SO, 900
over the last rating made, three years
ago, and shows great increase in the
business of the city. Under the new
rating the Natchez postmaster will be
entitled to an increase from So, 400 ts.
81 500 a year.
THE board of supervisors have ordered
an election for local option in Bolivar
County, to be held April 21st. A strong
fight was made against it, but to no
avail. The fight developed the fact
that there were but 2,470 qualified elec-
tors in the county. This is quite fall
from the old registration, which showed
nearly 1900. The most remarkable
feature in the contest is that no i'll will
exists between the opposing elements.
WHITEcAPs, or Night Hawks, as they
style themselves, one night last week
, went to the house of Louis Moore, .
} colored farmer, near Slidell, called him
up and took him to the woods nearby
and gave him terrible whipping and
. ordered him to leave the country in "a
hours. He was tied to tree and gagged
and each of the half dozen Whitecaps
took turns in whipping him with a
horsewhip.
GRAND SECRETARY GEORGE T. Dill
| r. of tho 70 T olo n
f., having been appointed consul
general to Ecuador, has resigned his
r position as grand secretary, a charge
| that he had administered very advan-
tageously to the order and creditably
to himself. Walter S. Doty, of Grenada
! No. 6, has been appointed to fill the
vacancy, task for which he is highly
qualified, being an extremely bright and
jealous Odd Fellow
w. f. BYRD, so years of age, died at
Meridian last week. His death was
, hastened by the news of his brothers
John Byrd) misfortunes. who had his
house blown away in the recent cyclone,
and was himself badly injured, having
his back broken. John Byrd is 7s years
of age. W. F. Byrd moved from Ala
bama to Jasper County in 1860, and
was an estimable man and neighbor.
+ He leaves a large connection.
: j. L. LYNCH & Co., of New Orleans,
. have purchased tour-fifths interest in
the celebrated Robinsons Springs,
about fifteen miles southeast of Canton,
q in Madison County, and have arranged
a to spend $4,000 in improvements right
n away, which will make these springs
: among the most popular resorts in the
e South. The waters have been thoroughly
z analysed and have been pronounced
: almost infallible in the cure of all liver
9 and kidney troubles. s
9 A CURIOSITY in the way OF locomo,
y tive engine passed up the Illinois Cen
Q tral Railroad last week, en- route to the