The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-06-20
BAY ST. LOUIS ITEMS.

Our five cent. omnibus has com
menced running, and riding is very
cheap.
The Sicilians have beat down the
price of opened oysters to l5 cents
II hundred, WITCH is undoubtedly
cheapy and the oysters are also
good.
Competition has brought down
the price of beef to 10 cents a
pound, whereas it was Is cents last
year. Altogether living is cheap
at the Bay.
There is a door, sash and
blind factory here that duplicates
New Orleans prices. 1t is not an
extensive one yet, but will fill all
orders promptly.
Our new circuit and chancery
clerk, Hubbard Saunders, has been
Frustrated by disease for more
than a month past, but will proha-
bly, be out next week.
The summer season opens rea.
sonably well. New faces appear
daily on the Boulevard, and new
carriages and horses are seen on
the evening drives. The prospect
is good for a pleasant summer.
One more "cotfee.house" has
opened its hospitable doors, but
strange to say that you cannot
get IA meal. or wen acup OF coffee
at any Of these "cOtfee-hOuseS.f
But they keep plenty of liquor.
We have had salt water in the
bay two months earlier this sum
mer, than we had it last summer.
The bathing is glorious, and we
wash away our heat and perSpira-
ton, if not our sins, by frequent
immersion i'll the waters of the
deep,blue sea
The fishes bite well, and the non
biters are caught with contrivances
made specially for them, 50 that
we have plenty of fishes. The
hard-shell crabs have gone mp
Pearl river and the river Jordan,
but the soft shells and paper-shells
stay with us.
We have had some good rains
recently, which have helped the
gardens muchly, but now they are
suffering again. Peaches, pears
and canteloupes have put in an
appearance. But this is an soft
year" in fruits, and we must be
content with little.
Our ice-house is again in opera
ton, and yesterday made large
blocks OF ice. j. T. Conley runs it
and Robert Stockton is salesman.
Both of them work with pluck and
perseverance and deserve ucces
1t ought to supply Il large part of
our seacOaSt with ice.
Mr.. p. 7. Hale, of New Orleans,
and Miss Gabrielle Cuevas, of the
Bay, married quietly about IA month
ago, and have just returned from
an extended bridal tour in the
West and North. They will SUN.
mer it here in the old Hale man
sion, a splendid residence, which
descends to him as heir.
The steamer Camelia now comes
and goes according to schedule
twice a week. She has at last
come down to common sense in
dispensing with the high.priced
French restaurant, and setting the
American style steamboat table,
where you can eat anything i'll
sight for fifty cents Il meal.
One of our Invest citizens is
Nicholas Blaize. AS "a diversion
le has ii fruit garden, and is most
successful fruit culturist. Now he
S going into bees and honey on a
considerable scale. The honey is
IS beautiful as it is spotlessly pure 1
nd sweet. 1t is made in patent .
'oxes, INT pound each, and sells
asily at % cents a pound. There
5 money in honey on our howery
Jast. !
1t is almost certain that the
lass factory will be located this
at the Bay, just below
1t is IA corporation +
opposed of New Orleans and II
'orthern stockholders. Ex-Gov.
lain, of New Orleans is president. =
o location could be more favora- 4
lie. Sand is abundant and excel n
mt, fuel and labor cheap, trans.
ortation also is cheap and varied. n
nd transportation and breakage 2,
re great items in the cost OF glass. al
Glass is gold" is an old adage, V,
nd a very true one, for it willneyer II
D out OF fashion or out OF use, aud 4
i'll always sell. This factory will
a good thing Tor the Bay. 1t
i'll bring in money and population, -
I'd employ labor. Our public
'irited citizen, A. A. UIman, gives
is corporation all the laud they W
led and he has labored earnestly pr
bring the factory here. l.