The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-04-11
BAY ST.. LOUIS.
The Town and its surrounding
Health, Fish, Oysters and
Fruit-WoOl and Shoe Fac
tOries-Etc.
Daniel bennett in N. o. Pic.

IOr1eS-EtCs
Daniel bennett in N. o. Pic.
A few days since we came iron
New Orleans to the Bay of 81
Louis, where we pen this article, T.
see the new wooden factory OF a
A. Ulman, aud to see the town an,
it's beautiful surroundings. Tn
facts which we have gathered NJ
are so numerous that we can only
give brief sketches of what we have
seen and heard.
BAY ST. LOUIS 200 YEARS AGO.
The Hon. j. +. II. Claiborne, ii
his fourth of July address delivered
at this place in 1876, said
"The Choctaws were IN the hablt
of visiting this coast from the same
inducements that bring visitors to
it now. Some of them remained
permanepAy, giving the musical
names TO our streams and localities
that many OF them are now known
b,. This place where we ire now
assembled bay of st. Louis was
called A -chouc poalOa, or Bad Grass
Place, in reference to very trouble
some burr which still annoys us.
This shore was for these children
of nature a paradise. The woods
abonnded with game, the waters
with fish. No enemies could APP
proach them by ambuscade. Their
aged and intirm felt as we now teel
the elixir Of the air, aud by these
murnuring waves ard in these fra,
grant groves the young warriors
wooed and won the dark-eyed
maidens of the tribe. 1t was saw
age life, such as Chateaubriand
has painted it in the glowing pages
of Attala-remote from man, IA pro
life forest, II tropical climate.
famed by eXhilarating breezes and
pertumed by the pines; and this
beautiful bay, offspring Of two
rivers, looming out into the depths
of the misty sea, beyond which lay
'the happy hunting grounds of the
blessed.n
DIberville anchored his feet in
Ship island harbor, nearly in front
of and twelve miles distant from
this place, in january, ITS years
ago. 'a't# '.'
BAY ST. LOUIS IN 1879.
This town now contains about
$500 inhabitants. Most of the res.
licences front Oh the Bay and the
Gulf Of Mexico. The line of resi-
denceS OH the Bay extends about
five miles from the railroad nearly
north almost to the mouth of Wolf
The line of residences front.
ing the GulfeXtend west about five
miles from the railroad. In front
Of these residences. Oh the Bay
md the Cult, in Il distance of about
.en miles, there are said to be over
hundred bath-houSes. While
'eople in July. in Northern cities
ire slmmrring in Il heat marking
100 by the thermometer, the
of the Bay of st. Louis are
Usually comfortable with the Their
nometer ranging below so degrees,
md at their bath houses below 80
degrees.
'LEEP, APPETITE AND HEALTH.
GIVING ATMOSPHERE. ." $40.
Persons with deranged and ir-
liable nervous systems, who come
. this place from malarious re-
ions, are charmed to find in this
ure atmosphere soothing qualities
'hich impart an inclination to
in the daytime as we'll as in
ne night. And the sleep is sweet
nd strengthening. The air seems
contain nerve-healing and nerve
uieting qualities,,that charm, com
'rt and faselnate the unfortunate
valid. -s
1t the merits Of these coast 7,
WINS as watering.places and as a
sort for invalids had been written
as faithfully as Florida has 3.
cen, these hotels and towns would ,
ave been filed years ago, summer
Id winter, with invaIids and =,
Ieasure-seekers from the South +
nd North, notwithstanding an oc- {
'sional yellow fever epidemic. ,
hese epidemics have been rare in !
Iese towns, the Bay of st. Louis +
from only three since this !
sease first appeared Oh this coast; :
70 of them very light. Those :,
no have visited these towns and 4
c places and health re- f
rts OF Florida say that the south !
II Mississippi watering-places are j
lstly more pleasant and desirable ;
an those of Florida. .
FISH AND OYSTERS. ,
Likea all the towns on this coast, o
h, oy sters, shrimps and crabs S
'ound here nearly the year round. b
Ie bOatmen open oysters fresh a
,m the oyster fields in front and II
he them to the houses every h
)rning, and sell them from % to S
cents a hundred. A good large b
dish. or five or six founders, just C.
ken from the briny element, are II
Id for 20 cents, and sott-shell Il
lbs 10 to 20 cents IA dozen, hard o
ellis at 5 cents n dozen. Chill. II
Ell catch crabs, buckets full of o
am ;t hiob tide with n Sfrinu III