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capacity of 25,000,000 feet of lumber; two planing mills, a dry house with capacity for dressing 15,000,000 feet lumber each year. A steam brick yard (bricks dried by steam) with annual capacity of 0,000,000 brick. It has two shipyards; the principal one is that of Mr. M. Murtiuolich, where vessels of all kinds-yachts, schooners,ships or steamboats are built out of wood or iron. There are ten stores, six churches, a college and public and private schools.
Gulf Coast College, shown in the engraving, is an educational institution, most fortunately located. Being only one mile from	the Gulf there is all the
advantage of	the sea-breeze, aDd far
enough from the seaside to avoid the excitements which attach more or less,
o	pleasure resorts, and which necessarily, in the minds of numbers of choiars,	have a	tendency	to divert their minds	from their studies. The
.rive over the shell	road	to the	Sound is a very	pleasant one, which stu-
dents are frequently permitted to enjoy. The streets of Handsboro are 'aid off at right angles and nearly all are shaded by beautiful magnolias, >aks, cedars, etc., making charming drives and walks. No healthier place 'iian Handsboro can be found in the United States, and no more suitable ocatiou for an educational institution can be desired.
Connected with the saw mills are repair shops, and machines for inak-ng laths. pickets and shingles.
Handsboro has the only regularly established sugar mill on the 'oast. This plaut consists of a complete “steam-train” for converting the aw material into sugar. For mauy years cane has been raised by persons A’iio have made their own syrup. Cane does well here aud is cultivated to orisiderable extent.
Here are clays of superb quality. Not only for brick and pottery, but n this vicinity is found excellent tile clay, and clay for porcelain wares. A lorcelain factory in New Orleans obtains its supply largely From a bed of 'iay a few miles from Handsboro. Ochres of different colors, shades and. 'ints are also found.
TheTimbuctoo Medicinal Spring is in the subtiiT^ of the tow it^ value as a curative agent in kidney troubles, rheumatism. dyspe|ism. >i as a blood purifier is established. It flows through and from InMu-at strata of solid clay over thirteen feet deep, is absolutely free from any face contact. The water, is perfectly clear aud transparent. Having no smell, taste, nor anything disagreeable, it is unsurpassed! as a table water. Being free from organic matter, it is immediately absorbed by tho system, aud is a special boon for dyspeptics.
The water is almost chemically pure, while the solids therein contained are all of medicinal value. Joseph B. Leger of Handsboro, has solecontrol of this spring. His intention is to interest capitalists in it and organize a company to place the water on the market.
The surrounding land is admirably situated for a hotel site and can be bought a reasonable price.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
At Bay St. Louis tho writer made the acquaint-ance of ITon. Wm. Gaston Henderson, U. S. Collector of Customs in the Pearl River District, and a gentleman'of the old school. His home is at Hand>-
boro, situated on a superb site covering several acres, and in-the midst of a gr grove of magnolias, live oaks and other forest trees, it is a home which .nice seen i> soon forgotten. Judge Henderson was born in Caswell Countv. N. C. Descended I a long line of eminent lawyers it was but natural that lie should choose the law profession. He read under Judge R. M. Pearson. Chief Justice of the N. C. Supn Court, obtained license to practice, moved to Aberdeen. Miss., and for some time w partner of Col. R. O. Reynolds: subsequently moved to Okolona. and was engage-practice there for several years. At the breaking out of hostilities in istii he enli-in the Chickasaw Rangers, was elected first Lieutenant, served a vear. when In-elected Captain of Co. U. of Jeff Davis Legion: served under Gen’s. .1. It. Stuart Wade Hampton. From a severe gun-shot wound received in 18<i:t he went on cruu two years; was promoted by the Confederate Congress to the rank of Major. In he was transferred from the Army of Va. to Forest's Cavalry as Major, and I t. C nel of the Mississippi Regiment ; was awarded a medal and' placed on the ri .f hi for gallantry on the Held. Judge Henderson evidently is a man who has the com of his convictions, and did what he believed was right, and did it nohlv■.
At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law at Okolona. but rem< to Mississippi City in I8(«>; In 1870 he vyas appointed by Cov. Alcorn. Chancollo the First Chancery Court District in Mississippi. This apixiintment was unsoui but came from the solicitations of friends. He was reappointed bv Gov. Ames but disqualified.by the Reconstruction Act. tie resumed his profession at Mississippi ( In 1878 he was appointed Collector of Customs: reappointed bv President Arthur
w. E. ciiampmn.