The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1898-01-15
THE STATE PRESS.

not have ourwives and,sisters fig,
ure in court where lynching can Sc
satisfactorily settle the question:
1t says The man who aivoca
tes the abolishment of lynch law
and the trial of assault cases befor,
a jury in open court is either ,
hypocrite or u lunatic, and il
either case IS dangerous person
to be at large. No sane man will
deny the husband and father th,
right to protect his household
Should he catch a british fenc
in the act of assaulting one ot
his lady relatives, all will gram
he has the right to take the law
into his own hands. The Ammo,
tated Code of Mississippi gives
him that privilege. After the
crime is committed his rights have
in NJ measure diminished.
Whether the ravisher is burnec
at the stake, swung to conve.
nient limb, or cut up in two incl
pieces and fed to the buzzards Is
immaterial, further than his vile
carcass might kill the birds.
The cattle industry in Mississip
pi is assuming large proportions
The followiong clipping is from
the Meridian Post:
Yesterday Messrs. Lutz Bros
& Hawthorne shipped eight cal
loads of cattle, including one car
of sheep TO st. Louis. The ship.
ment was in charge of Messers.
John Lutz, Pierce Barnett, Chas
Davis and M. G. Hasselle. Ter
cars more will be shipped today
by the same firm and fifteen cars
OF cattle will go forward belong.
ing to Mr.. s. S Coleman. Thi.
makes about 200 head for orc
week. Thus Mississippi furnisher,
beef for Western consumers.
The Alcorn Democrat contains
the following:
Henry Moore returned Monday
from trip to London, bringing
with him thirty-five English par
tridges. lie started with ninety.
seven, tho remainder dying dur
ing the trip. They are beautiful
birds, costing about So each laid
down in Corinth and will be taken
to one of his farms near here and
turned loose. AS they multiply
quite rapidly it is expected that
the bottoms will be well stocked
in a few years.
Wonder what the Natchez De-
mocrat is up to. From any other
source but this able and sincere
editor, we would consider this
sarcasm:
The message was splendiably
written, and does credit to the
literary ability of the governor
From this point of view it will
compare favorably with any state
paper that has been uttered in
Mississippi, or any other of the
southern states, for a number OF
year past.
The Star gives the following
data of Meridian's December jug
trade:
For the ten days preceding Dec
ember %, Southern Express Com
pany here received about 5000
gallons in packages, representing
u cash outlay of $12,500. The
Southern railroad received over
$50 gallons, which may be valued
at $l,875 and to these two items
add expressage and freight of
81, ,725, and the total money sent
away from Meridian in those ten
days amounts to $16,200. Inclu.
didg the month of December
alone it is not likely that less than
$1,000 went out of Meridian for
whiskey and beer.
The Greenwood Commonwealth
is of the opinion that prohibition
in Mississippi does not prohibit:
The great amount of drunken
ness which has cursed this com
munity for the past ten days leads
us to which that every drop o1
whisky were in hell. 1t has con
vinced us that prohibition does
not prohibit, and that while we
suffer all the evil effects of whis-
ky drinking we get none of the
advantages arising from the sale
Of it.
The Franklin Advocate fears
danger to the legislators from the
capitol:
Don't expect too much oi
the present legislature. If they
all get back home safe and soun6
from the old rookery, called capi.
tol, they will have done we'll.
Everybody Says so