The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-09-02

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mists and croakers are continual
ly crying. Men of brains woulC
not invest capital in a place of NJ
promise of future development
| That is commercial opinion
Pennington is solid and will be sc
! for many years hence.
| Wednesday morning about ]
O'Clock the citizens residing in the
vicinity of Mrs. Randall's hotel
were startled by thescry of Fire -
The small house owned by DIR.
Fountain and used by Max Maffe
as a barber shop was discovered
to be on fire, but the flames had
gained such headway that no as
sistancet could be rendered the
burning building, so those on
the scene turned their atten-
ton to the buildings adjacent, to
which, however no damage re-
suited.
1t is a most unfortunate cir
cumstance especially for Maffe
who lost his entire stock of bar
bel's paraphneralia. Some of
which, including a large French
plate mirror and Il mahogany
chair was very costly, to say meth
ing of fine collection of razors,
clippers, shears, etc.
The building was valued at $3.50. |
The only plausible theory ad-
vanced as to the origin of the fire |
is that some one must have care
lessly thrown a cigarette out of
window into some old paper and |
trash which afterwards became ig-
nited. The building and contents
are total loss, neither being in
sured.
The Board of Trustees of the
Pearlington school held a special
in the Masonic Hall Mon
day night, the 28th inst. Those
present were Asa Hursey, presi-
dent; &. d. Orr, secretary and J.
j. Favre, j. II. Galloway, NJ.
Geiger and NJ. F. Baxter, men,
berS.
The application of Prof. j. w.
Holden of Hamlet, Miss, TO take
the school upon its merits, with
privilege of selecting his assis-
tants was read and accepted. The
secretary was instructed to notify
The professor of the action of the
Board.
Prof. Holden is unknown to us
Out we have implicit confidence
IN the wisdom of the trustees and
we think we may safely venture
,he assertion that he is an able
educator fully competent and re-
liable. We wish him good luck.
The Lumberton Leader, bud
lei, bloomed, withered and died
within a week and from the Sli-
lell Brick. Editor Shanks in a
leader on Sidell gives some in
data concerning that
place and defends it from the
3alumny that seems to have gain
I'd widespread credence, regard
ng its moral and social condi-
ions and to which defense we add /
our hearty support. Some months
ago we accepted a position with
he Queen and Crescent and when ,
ehief dispatcher Armstead told us
hat we were to work nights at
5lidell, our courage nearly failed {
Is, so black had the character of
he place been painted. The
irst thought that secured to us on
eaving the chiefs office was that
We had better hunt up "A pawn
shop and invest in brace of six
shooters, a Kragjorgensen and
Cuban machete. We found the Z
place not as it had been described
1T all. On the contrary, quite a
moral and law-abiding community
whose people were as hospitable
and refined as can be found any
where. There are several saloons
but not half so much drunkness
rs there is IN some Of the "dry"
Mississippi towns Of equal popu-
lation. In fact most Of the sa-
looms subsist almost exclusively |
on Mississippi patronage. Hav-
ing been operator there we know
exactly how much is shipped into
this State and we Will venture the
assertion that is len times as
much as is consumed there. Sill
dellis not near half so black as 1t
has been painted. We place the
Brick on our exchange list and
trust that it may be "as solid as a
brick" wishing Prof. Shanks a
happy fruition of his most san
guine expectations.
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Mr.. Z. B. Hill, telegraph edit
or of the Detroit Journal, writes