The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-04-06

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"PiIsrim," writing from b.r.
tue Sioux City (Iowa) DaiIr ~. %
thus speaks OF our Immed;.,. ~'''
ton Sc
Scranton, Miss, March Is. 1885,
DUST III time Tor diuner. v 10oS'
has become an important ~a'ch
day with the invalid aud mysap OF
arrived at this most oe,. We
place. The principal item su'Iul
in the dinner, was The oysters t..Os,
from the DAY outside. NAV ma' ea
ton here that all this coss, Ten'
great oyster fishery. The q
beach slopes out very esad
and is the paradise of oysters ThllS,
attain a size aud flavor upknow lucy
the effete north. These ovxtS'. III
brought into the port IN are
schooners and "shuckedo for . ".i.e
ment in pals to New Orleans sup
points north. In our loisa. s"u
around the river bank thiS as.g
noon me saw a young Atric." ''et'
side a ''shuckery" opening ami ao %
ing the oysters by way of lon"1
Neither pepper, salt, nor vina@a.
were needed to lublicale sucb at"
fish as these. Aud what ouan,;.ian l
there are of them. Our landlo"I
an old lake captain, from St, J0a'
Mich, tells OF one neighbor who 6ss
"planted" 10000 barrels. Fro"a
tue size of the planting some iJs"
OF the crop a be had. Heretofor"
the oysters taken as they grew
wild were considered sufficient Inn,
the value OF these bivalves has ."
Increased OF late, that hereafter
something will he done in learins
them from planting.
PascagOula is all sorts of A nlacs
The middle town, the station !.
called Scranton, is the county seat,
aud no gun may be fred within 5Oo
OF the Courthouse. The
north settlement, Moss Point. ia
four miles from the Court house. on
the river, and is a saw mill town
seventeen saw mills cutting IN the
pine timber that abounds in Mi this
southeast corner of Mississippi. The
south settlement PaScagoula, is ut
the mouth of the liver on the Cult
coast, looking out to Ship Island,
is an Old-time Southern resort, the
New Orleans and Mobile people
coming out here to take the air aud
walk in the piney woods. That was
before the war. The resort bust.
grew Ensty, but just recently
livening up again. A grand hotel,
cost $4,000, is tumbllug III rufus,
and back in the woods are ruins OF
houses and white roses that are not
clambering over the trees,
showing where there has been sea.
side gayety and piney woods living.
The pines some close up to the
and alternately the breeze is
laden with the healing odOrs of the
.resinous leaves or the salt waves,
as the breeze that is never entirely
quiet blows in and ont shore. 1t
was a surprise to me to learn that
PascagOula has more tonnage ont.
than Mobile. This Is mostly
lumber, the mills here and further
up the river, furnishing cargOes tor
he scbOonels and great square.
legged ships that come here in bal.
asst. AS yet the larger ships lie at
Horn Island, four miles out, and
lumber is taken to them in
lighters. An appropriation for the
Improvement OF this, the only gulf
OF Mississippi, was made q
rear ago, but Sioux City people
will remember that the ruthless
land of Cleveland cut off that River
ind HarbOr Bill in its prime With
IS little regard to the improvement
# the Missouri at Sioux City as to
the PascagOulan's a deep
Vater channel for lumber ships.
we will hope for better
uck next time.
NOTES.
This is a grass country, aud has
good grass sod.
1t is also a fruit county, the