The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-03-25
NEWS FRO1 JACKSON.

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The travelling sergeant of th
penitentiary arrived from Yazo'
City with fourteen prisoners, al
of whom were sentenced to th'
penitentiary during the late tern
| of Judge Powell's court. Two OF
the convicts were women, and ont
of them gets twenty years fol
| murder. Two white men were
sent up for life for murder, bu
were not in this batch of prison
ers, having taken an appeal to th'
| Supreme court. Judge Powell
| famous anti-lynching charge tt
] the grand jury seems to have haC
d good effect in the community,
! the result of the term being four.
teen candidates for the pepitcn-
tiary, one for the gallows and q
few others mighty badly scared.
Announcement is made here
this evening Thursday that the
Morning Bulletin. the McLaurin
organ of this city, has given up the
ghost, and the four or five prin-
ters who have been employed on
the paper are left to "whistle for
their money" The Bulletin ap-
peared this morning with no name
at the mast head, as the editor,
and it is stated on the very best
authority that the printers would
like the best in the world to know
where Editor Sanders is sat, as
he has not been seen here since
Monday night. 1t has been known
here for some time that the Bulle-
tin was in financial trouble, and
its demise is no surprise to the
people of Jackson.
Jackson proposes to have a po-
litical meeting in the near future
on even bigger scale than was
had by the wlde-awake little city
of Winona, and will arrange the
programme so that every candl-
date on the ground for State Of
flee will be given an opportunity
to show himself to a vast audience
and to say few words in regard
to his platform. Jackson has no
hall that will seat more than six
hundred people, but she has an
old circus tent that did duty on
Bryan Day about year ago and
which will come in very nicely on
an occasion of this sort-an occa-
sion when every candidate will
solemnly declare he is one of the
original shouters for the Ntbras-
kan. The idea is to secure re-
duced rates on all the railroads
running into Jackson get a big
crowd here, and make day of it
sure enough.
railroad commission held an interest
ing and profitable meeting this after
noon. A number of the most promi-
nent railroad men, mostly superin
tendents and division freight agent,
were before the commission, having
been cited tes@show cause why the
rates on building material and native
hay should not be adjusted more ad-
vantageously to the people. Among
them were Messrs. d. Curran and L.
F. Steele, of the New Orleans &
Northeastern w. NJ. Rhett, of the
Illinois Central; L. Green and E. j.
Martin, of the Southern; w. c. Glib
son of the Mobile & Ohio; and w. R.
Haynes, of the Alabama & Vicks-
burg. The rates on builders material
in carload lots, were subjected to a
horizontal red@ctlon amounting to
something like forty-five per cent.
less than the present rates. A salts
factory rate was also agreed on for
hay that is shipped from one point in
the State to another, no matter how
many roads the hay may have TO
travel over. The matter OF switching
cars for parties who have no ware
houses of their own was also settled,
the railroads being ordered to make
the switches, regardless of house or
not. -Vicksburg Herald.