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"UT 002*50	—	\	happenings	kississippi	city
AND VICINITY
1887
Biloxi Herald - reported ty corresoondent Urn. G. Walker
Handsboro -has.-orsani zei a^pr.phlbltiop society and will hold regular meetings tvice a month,	..
There have been large transfers of real estate at Long Beach lately, V.r, Wm^KcCaughn having made extensive sales.
Hon. Jefferson Davis has been slightly ill, but has happily recovered.
Betveen the Covan and Handstoro (Tegarden) roads, and tho track (railroad) and the beach, a few years ago, there vas but one house; now there are about a dozen.,with another dozen in prospect.	’
J. H. Liddle has purchased a six hundred foot lot on the beach adjoining the Finnegan property. He is taking active steps to have the ground cleared and several neat cottages erected thereon. They are for settlers working in the no.w c^nery^^pt^ry
The fence^around^the Courthouse is in an extr,ei?ely.^dilapidated condition, and should be tornrf'd6^^and"'i,eplacedi,*'by'a substantial*" picket or wire fence. As it stands now, or rather leans, with triers and weeds growing about lt, lt is a blot on the fair face of nature.
There is a gully on the Handsboro (Tegarden) road near the teach which. ^needs.Jjridging.
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Capt. Wm. Finnegan of IT. 0. is on a brief visit at the Tegarden Hotel.
The office'of the Western Union Telegraph Co. is now at,the, , operated by General Smedes.
A flat load of light railroad iron was received here Thursday for the pier«of«-the canning-factory.,. The toiler and other peraphenalia nertaining to the business have already teen received and placed position.	•—-—  .
There are two cases of typhoid fever at Handstoro.
Mrs. Jennie Purvis, a vell-knovn and respected colored citizen of this place (Fississippl City), died last Wednesday of the flux.
We are sorry to announce that much sickness and fatal at that, prevails in the district north of us, partaking of a nature of flux.