The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-05-13

ter a Pheasant session. CoIored Cotton
Factory Located in Jackson---Gulf and
Ship Island Road TO come to Jackson.
Jackson. Miss The Daugherst of
the Confederacy adjourned Thursday
afternoon. The next meeting will be
held in Vicksburg on the second Tues
| day in May. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year
Mrs. Stephen D. Lee of Columbus
| honorary president Mrs. Lizzie
| George Henderson of Greenwood, pres
| ident; Mrs. Mildred Humphreys of
| Greenwood, honorary vice president;
| Mrs. Collier of Vicksburg, vice presl-
dent; Miss Fannie Minor of Macon, re-
| cording secretary; Mrs. Moody OF Gre
NADIA corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Josie Frazier Cappleman of Okolona,
| historian; Mrs. l.. Brame of jackson,
| treasurer. Mrs. Henderson, the new
president, assumed the gavel, after
vote of thanks had been rendered Mrs.
Duncan, the retiring president Appro-
pirate resolutions touching the death
of Mrs. E. C. Walthall were adopted.
| Mrs. Kimbrough of Greenwood read
| private letter from Mrs. Jefferson Davis
offering to sell Beauvoir to the Daugh-
| ters of the Confederacy, to be used for
| any purpose they desired, for S25, 600.
| She said she had been offered consider
| ably more than this by northern syn
| dicate, but she was anxious that Beau
| voir should still belong to the south. A
resolution was offered by Mrs. Kim
brough providing for the appointment
| of a committee to urge the Legislature
| to appropriate the amount for the pur-
| chase The resolution was lost. A
further resolution was passed, however,
| stating that it was the sentiment Of the
body that Beauvoir should be preserved
| TO the south, but no plan for its pur-
chase was suggested. A reception was
given to the visiting delegates at the
| governor mansion.
The board Of supervisors of Hinds
| county are tearing the registration rolls
and the county poll books all to pieces,
and hundreds Of men who have hereto
/ fore considered themselves quahhed
| electors and entitled to vote In the pro-
posed whisky and primary elections
| find they have been reckoning without
their host The petition filed by the
whisky men contained the names OF
more than 800 men. So far the
board has examined into the standing
| of about six hundred of these, and finds
that two hundred are not eligible to
%rr
failed to pay their poll tax as required
by law. The board, will perhaps be
engaged all this week on this work,
and if the remaining beats turn out as
has the one examined, one third or
the names on the whisky petition Will
he taken off. This culling the local op-
tion election is also Of interest pollu-
callv. the executive committee having
ordered that only registered white
democrats should participate IN the
primaries. Just what candidates .wlii
be injured most or prosper most py thlS
wholesale erasrlre cannot be told as a
matter of course, but it will cut quite
a figure, one way or the other In the
campaign for all offices.
The governor granted number or
charters Friday afternoon, and whlch
were filed for record with the secre-
tarv of state Among them were the
following: Masonic and Charitable
Association, colored, no capital stock,
domiciled at Columbus. BrooksVllle
Milling and Ginning company brook
vile and Macon, capital stock 50, 900
emploved to make yarns from cotton,
gin cotton and grind grain. PIKE
| County Telephone company, capital
500, 600, domiciled McComb City,
Washington Arc Vapor Light company
of Grenada, capital stock yet to be de-
termined by the stockholders. Most
Worshipful Grand Lodge Of African
Free and Accepted Masons, no domlclle
or capital stock. An amendment GO
the charter of the town of Summit per-
1nits it to own and operate an electric
light plant. Every one Of the charters
except those for the benevolent orders
and the Summit amendment, bears the
governors famous free silver rider
Mrs. Helen D. Bell, Mississippi
ACCOMPLISHED librarian, left for Allan
IA Ga. to attend the meeting OF
the American Library Association,
which is scheduled to meet there on
Monday. This is the first time the
Association ever met in the south,
The Young Mems Business League
of this city has employed counsel to
assist the district attorney, Hon. A.
NJ Lea, in his effort to have the
temporary injunction made perma-
nent which restrains the county OF Co
piah from erecting an iron bridge at
Rockport. The case comes up for near
ing before Judge Niles on Tuesday next
and will be hotly contested, as the bus
iness men Of Jackson are taking great
deal of interest in the matter. The
conrt took a recess Saturday till Mon
dav when the case of the Memphis
firm VS. the Greenwood Oil Mill for
failure to fill contract as to delivery
of seed and hulls, will again be tax
en- up and argued to finish. The
grand jury returned thirteen addl-
tionaI tue bills
The salvation army has struck Jack
son with fife and drum, and large au-
diences greet them onevery corner
| where they make stand. This1s not
the first visit these wandering revival
lists have given jackson, by any means
and their earnestness has made them
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