Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-02-16

churches, aud get plenty of work, they
are more than willing to let the white
folks do the voting and hold the Offices.
But there is not qualified coored
voter in the State whose vote will not
be accepted as freely and counted as
fairly as that OF any white citizen.
This may not have been said with such
emphases when we were groauing un-
der alien rule, from 1868 to 1875, but it
is the rule today.
Socially, the Mississippi negro feels
very comfortable. He has his own
schools, his own churches, his own
hotels and boarding houses, his own
travelling apartments, with none TO
moest or make him afraid" lie doesn't
want to mix, and custom and the law
sustain him.
To quote from letter that | re-
Gently wrote to Hon. Patrick Henry,
NJ. G.: ''There is not State in the
Union more liberal, more just or more
kind to the negro than Mississippi; and
it will so continue; and there is not
race or class of people under the sun
more contented, more happy or more
prosperous than the negro population
of this State" j. L. POWER
The railroad commission is consider.
ing the recent deal by which the South
ern railway gobbled the NJ. q o., and
has asked the attorney-general for his
opinion. The statute reads: at shall
be unlawful for any railroad company
to consolidate with a parallel or com
peting railroad company, or to allow
its affairs to be in any manner managed
regulated or controlled by the same
person or persons who manage, rcgu-
late or control such competing or par
allel railroad company, under a penalty
of forfeiture of its charter and fran
chises, and penalty Of 10000 As
we read the dispatches, it was not a
consolidation" but bona fde sale
a square-out purchase of the NJ. s. O.
At conference of representatives Of
the State Teachers Association, Messrs.
&. I, Boyd, L. w. Bass, NJ. Ross, J. c.
FAINT and E. L. Baily, on the I'd instant,
it was decided to hold the next meeting
of the association in jackson, in the
hall Of representatives, May "a. An
elaborate program will be announced.
Several hundred teachers will be pres
ent. On the suggestion of the gentle
men named, the hall is to be decorated
with magnolias, in honor of the selec-
tion of that flower as State flower by
the school children of the State,
There were 5000 persons assessed for
poll tax in Yazoo county. Less than
200 paid The delinquents are mostly
negroes. Had they paid, the county
would have $4,000 more school fund;
but the children of the colored brother
will have the full school term, all the
same. And yet Indiana Crumpacker
and his gang say we are discriminating
against the coIored man; when the fact
is the colored man is discriminating
against the poll tax that he ought to
pay.
Supt. Dobyns extended courteous
invitation last week to the State off.
GERS, trustees and superintendcnts of
public institutions to oclocl, dining
at the Deaf and Dumb Institute on
Tuesday night, January II, the dinner
being prepared and served by the cook.
ing class of the institution. The oeca.
sion was social and culinary success.
and the guests will again respond in
force the next opportunity.
The Baptist Church of Jackson sig.
nalized the second anniversary of the
paStorate OF Dr. Yarbrough in a most
interesting way. When the BAPTIST
State Convention metin session in jack
son it resolved to pay $4,000 on the
church debt if the congregation would
pay the balance S., 900. That is what
they did on Sunday, February 8. The
church cost about S35, 900.
The editor of the IIattiesburg Progress
takes occasion to note that Editor Bell.
niger has returned from Georgia with
a poclletful of manufacturing indus
tries and proposes to unload them on
the magnetic city of Jackson" Of
course he is in earnest and honest about
the unloading, but the trouble is, Jack
son may refuse to carry the freight.
A commandery of Knights Templars |
was organized at Yazoo City on the 5th
nit. Grand Commander Rev. Sir John
A. Il. Jones was present; also members |
Of the order from Water Valley, Lex.
ngton and jackson. Several eandi. |
dates were knighted. A banquet closed |
the ceremonies, The new commandery
will take rank as No %.
The treaty rights of the Mississippi |
lhoctaws are to be adjusted by the
COURT of Claims-so recommended BY
he House Committee on Indian Affairs.
There are nearly 5000 delinquent for
'oll tax in Kinds county, and ST of the
,44O polls in Jackson failed to pay, and
/ good per cent, of the dellnquents are
If the white persuasion.
Sixty per cent. of the voting popala-
ion of Jackson county is delinquent
IN poll tax, SO says a telegram from
Scranton. The total that failed to paw
S 2,2S4, large number being property.
folders.
A new Presbyterian Church was dedi.
ated at Hazlehurst on Sunday, January
4, All the congregations, pastors and
hoirS of the town united in the service.
,ev. S. C. Caldwell is the faithful and
onsecrated pastor.
God bless the daughters especially
he Daughters of the Confederacy.
hey want the cornerstone of the new
apitol laid on the Sd of June, the
irthday of jefferson Davis. And it
oes without saying that the capitol
ommission will grant their request.
Hon. Walter S. P. Doty, Grand Secre.
ary l. o. 0. f., has removed his office
rom Oxford to Winona. The brethren