The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-11-01
Bay st. Louis Items.

Our country people still stay
away from the Bay, and in conse
quence country produce is high
and scarce.
There is something wrong in hen
dom. Eggs sell here at 80 cents q
dozen, and very few can be found
at that price.
Most of our summer residents
and visitors have returned to New
Orleans, but many yet remain,
waiting for frost in the city.
1t is very doubtful whether we
shall have circuit court on the 4th
day of November. Judge Hamm
is unbeard from on this subject.
The fever is rapidly abating, new
cases are rare, and only IL few old
cues remain. But it has been very
general, and some of them very
malignant.
Eddy Saucier has just launched
a beautiful yacht, nineteen feet
long, named the Matilda. She is
built for speed, and will try her for
tunp i'm the rauatta
Fish are caught in great abund.
ance and of every variety of lake
fish except Spanish %mackeral,
which for some reason do not haunt
our waters. Game is also becom.
ing abundant.
Col. Ben Lane Posey has had the
yellow feverforthe third time, which
is probably without a precedent in
yellow fever statistics. He had it
in 1857, in 1873, and 10Y again in
1873. He is now up, and at work.
Father LeDuc, the Catholic priest,
has had all the spiritual work to do
this place during the epidemic,
here being no protestant clergy
here. He has worked laboriously,
faithfully and ~tearlessly, as all
Catholic priests do in like circum-
stances.
Beef and mutton sell in our
markets at Is cents a pound, and IA
nan who wants meat must get to
market before sunrise, or he will
nd the market exhausted of all ,
mt bones, necks and scraps. l
omplained to the butcher, when ,
e charged me 121 cents il pound
Or soup meat-lIalf ~bOne-and he
offended himself by declaring that
c had to pay 10 cents a pound for
eef on the h0of. And this in the ,,
lidst Of a cattle country! 4,
Mr.. Delapp, the telcgraphrr and Il
xprcsS agent, is just convalescing I
'oln 4 bad case of the fever. His
lccessor in the telegraph office,
Ir. Faheen, is just taken down l.
it'll it. Mr.. Hamilton, operator at f,
hpt Menteur, also has the fever |.
ere. Col. flenderson's only son, T
)out 4 years old, was taken on :,
the 18th, and has severe
.se, but is better today, the 2Sth.
r. Blackman, "a section boss OH
e railroad, has the fever but is
well. Ii
The county Jail has been for sew n,
al weeks without a prisoner, and O.
ere is almost no crime in the sh
unity. There is, however, u very Ia
tereSting bastardy case under ex.
nination before Justice Sylvester,
lich may send the defendant to
i, Col. Ben Ian Posey ]prosecutes
e case for the female, and the PE
bic and Col. r. Seal defend
e accused. A fuller report of
is case will be sent you when it go
tT
concluded.
are specially blessed just now
the facilities of travel and trans
ration of freight. The Pearl
vers and the New Camelia pass IA
re four times a week twice EACH
.ng each way. This gives us ,
cap fare and freight to and from co.
W Orleans, and saves us from vii
railroad extortion, which is al \
st prohibitory OF local travel. per
, should all patronize the boats S
fight the railroad monopoly, sne
Is is money in our pockets to do met
1t seems that both these boats :.
template a continuance of their -
IS all the winter. SO mote it be. 7
--- VA,
Meteorological Observations. cosS
Dr. Moore's office at the Seashore. Pas