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And now it is said the rocregtlon of ,base ball is Jtp„be.-stoppad at Mississippi Cit^r on Sundays,‘“as threats*hav«~Oen^ttade to report the player8~to"the J,Gr 9 nfl”Jur.v. As these games have alvays been conducted in a quiet and gentlemanly manner we can see no reason for their suppression and the threatened action of the informer makes us exclaim in the language of Mrs. Mulcahey when she vas told that Maginnis had twins "vull, wull, vull, what next ?"
It is a matter of regret and complaint among the citizens of Mississippi„City and..Handsboro that the train which leaves Nev Orleans at night „doesno,t.,s,.top^here. At all other points on the coast people can leave home in the morning and return tho same night, but people returning here are compelled to leave the city at half post three or lay over all night. It is a great inconvenience to our home merchants and we hope the ever courteous Superintendent Dunn will take pity on us and let his night train make a halt here. *"
The granting of a license to Gen. Charles..E^.Smedes to retail liquor at Kississippi City, and the refusal to grant license to James Welsh, by the Board of Supervisors, is a matter which excites considerable comment here and does not put the Board up in a very good light. If the same count vas made for Welsh that was made for Smedes. Welsh is undoubtedly entitled to his license. The question vas raised on the morning of third day of the session, but the Board vere tired out. Doubtless Justice vill be done at the next meeting. Mr. Welsh is a man of the people, a progressive man, his money is invested in every interest which v/ill advance the people generally.
He has, and had, a sufficient number of names on his petition to secure him a license, and should have it. This is the opinion of the individual members of the Board, vith perhaps one exception.
The fleet which has been bedding oystjers in fro,nXj?f ..the...new factory has‘”scattered"andT gon'C'tojtheir sVverairport s.
Cantaloupes and cabbBges .are being shipped north from here in large quantities. Watermelons are plentiful^and cheap, figs and peaches are ripening very slowly, the scuppernong *cronr;.promises to be a big one.
A gang of fifty convicts began work on . the railroad...(Gulf_&J|hip Island) last Wednesday, at Red^ Creek near Perkin’s Bridge./working / towards .the .Coast- The gang vill‘"be"doufcled''during the coming week / and within thirty days a*.fP.rce.„pfat work grading the line.
Ben Duckworth, Esq., and family afe now located here and occupy Steve Cullen*s**cbtt age on the railroad J: rack. We welcome Ben to the terminus., Mr. Duckworth startedvup the country with a fellow dentist on Friday on a professional tour. When he gets his forcepts on lumberman's vinocular molar won^t there be-a scr-r-runch.
Taking a stroll up the teach the other	morning ve counted ^
a fleet of nine sail unloading oysters in front of the new canning grounds.
Mr, Harkness, of Biloxi, having completed the new building on the beach to be used as the office of the canning factory, JLs nov engaged in building at the Seashore Camp Grounds7~	w	...