The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1898-01-08
THE STATE PRESS.

worth:
Colonel Saloman, an Englishman,
recently retired from the British army
In India, 10 now at the Asior House,
New York city. The colonel is in
tcrested with number Of London
capitalists in securing large tract
Of timber land in the South. These
gentlemen are interested in ship
building and can use the timber
found in Southern forests. They
will purchase an hundreds thousand
acres of timber land IL such can be
found. They propose locating on
tho land a thousand English ia
miles. A city will be LAID out. A
watercourse locationis desirable, 30
as to supply themeans Of transport
tation.
The Copiah Signal suggests the
following in the interest Of economy:
Could not our courts be iun on less
money? A double system seems su-
perlluous. Combine the circuit and
chancery courts, ard save half the
expenses.
The Brandon News thinks the
suggestion to reduce the price Of
marriage license from SO to s. should
not be adopted tho permission is
worth the price;
Somebody has suggested that the
legislature should reduce the price
of marriage licenses from SO TO 81.
We have no personal Interest in the
matter as we have been married
twenty years, but II does seem that
man who wants TO get married real
badly won't object to spending three
plunks for the required permission.
To reduce the fee would be to cut
down the already meager pay Of the
circuit clerk. IL anything Of the
kind is done, a part OF the work of
the chancery clerk, by virtue Of his
many Offices, should be transferred
to the circuit clerk, along with the
pay therefor, so as TO even the mat
ter up little.
Here is drawing card for Pass
Christian and one that should draw
well. 1t Is from the Beacon:
A gentleman at Pass Christian
stands ready TO give splendid site
to any one who will locate canning
factory at this place. All the ground
necessary will be donated.
The Canton Times has the follow
ing about DR.. McKay's orchard;
DryH. Il. Mckay has broken the
record on peaches from three year
old orchard in America. He ne.ted
after freight and commissions this
year over $4,000 from six acres in
peach trees, mostly the Elberta va
riety. Think Of it, 5000 per acre.
What is such land worth In Missis-
sippl, only "a hours iun from Chi
cago2 Other crops were grown on
the land while the trees were growing.
We saw the orchard and IL was o
sight to make lover of the soil glad.
1t is now plowed and narrowed to
the highest degree Of pulverization
and planted in spinach. The ground
IS scrapcd away from the roots to
beat and facilitate hunting the borer.
1t rs thing of beauty" Every
tree erect, low ard just alike,
The Hattiesburg Progress thinks a
whipping post law would decrease
lynching:
A bill has been introduced in the
Virginia senate TO revive the whip
ping post law. A whipping post law
Ia the south would have tendency
of decreasing the number Of lynch
ings and also the number Of crimes.
The Biloxi Review, while opposing
the removal Of the quarantine station
from Ship Island, (of course from a
Biloxi business standpoint, Is not
wrong in the following what it says
regarding the state board of health
and Cat Island:
1t IS stated that State Senator
Hardy of Lauderdale country intends
TO introduce resolution before the
senate in January to investigate the
gulf quarantine station with the view
Of locating how the fever got into
the state. We suggest he embrace
in the resolution the state board of
health and the Cat Island station.
We are convinced this will materially
aid in unravelling the mystery.
Editor Ballard, of the Tupelo Jour-
nal, and president of the Mississip-
pi State Press Association, which
convenes at Bay St. Louis in May,
4 says IN his last issue:
4 What's the matter with the Missis-
sippi Press Association taking trip
to Klondyke next August for a sum
mer outing? We notice the fare is
only $500 going, and the chances are
that the walking will not all be taken
yihiiER mp on the return.
'zins y on McHenry Harrison County
rtridges ont ont ofheen moved to Hands
ID pressed the triggl brimful Of good
we jump, and the 4
to the ditch.
sThen / discovered that, the Dis
ID set fire to the hay, and I i-McLaurin
was about time for me to- eb,, q. -