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Mr. A. V.	beau	is	a	well-known and popular man in me piace.
ile has been engaged in merchandising for nian.y years. Mr. R. is tlie Clerk of the City Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
Among otlier prominent citizens are the following: Hon. G. W. Davis, G. W. O’Neil, Col. W. R. Stewart, E. S. Davis, II. F. Russell, Capt, L. Porte-vant, Dr. D. Newcomb, Dr. Bragg, Col. N. (’lark, H. Nil 1, A. D. Sheldon, Col. Grayson, J. B. Wiggintou.
Among those residing in New Orleans who have summer lioinqs.at^Ocean Springs am Hon. Wm. B. Schmidt, of the firm of Schmidt & Zeigler, A.^L McGinnis. Bishop jveener of the M. E. Church South, Messrs Weeks, Parkinson, Longshore, Kuhn, Hern-anld. and others. Thegroundsof Mr.Schtnidt are the largest and most highly improved in the place and are among the finest, on the Coast. Besides the improved grounds there is a park of several acres. The family residence is not pretentious but very comfortable and supplied with modern conveniences. It is lighted with ga:s manufactured on the pi ace'..
An artesian fountain gives a full supply ot water brought from a depth of 450 feet; a hydraulic ram forces the water over the place.
There are several fish ponds supplied with
green trout and other kinds of fish. The	jiox. iv. i$. schmidt.
grounds immediately around the residence are highly	improved	and	richly
ornamented with rare flowers, shrubs and plants.	At the close	of	the Cot-
ton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans,. Mr. Schmidt purchased T.lie-beautiful “Alabama Cottage,” the headquarters of that State, and had it erected at Ocean Springs, where it now serves the purpose of a Music Hall; Mr. S. is not only a very successful business man, but keeps abreast with the latest improvements in whatever pertains to matters where his interests are affected. He has adopted sub-irrigation and sub-drainage on his extensive grounds where vegetables and fruits for his own use are grown, and his table in the Crescent city when the season for their maturity arrives, is supplied with these products fresh from his own grounds. Helms the Scupperij.Qng grape, the pecan in its bestjest-at-e, and other specialties too numerous to mention in detail. Tliere are also a number of high-
ureu umuu uuws Kepi., jiiiu every uiurinug uie ooasc U’^.^raKes ire&A. to the city for the use of his family. The yield per acre of crops of tables raised is often phenomenal.
The Mayor of Ocean Springs isJDMX Cowan, Esq., whose ocoupati is one of the noblest in which man can engage. He is an experienced ■cator and is admirably fitted for the responsible position which he omip at the head of the Public School which he occupies. But for an accident his portrait would have appeared in these pages.
Hon. Parker Earle’s home in Ocean Springs, “Bay. View, ,>t., opinion of many persons, the most charming location on the wholj^poa It is situated on the eastern side of Biloxi Bay, less than a mile Sjftm ( Sound, and commands a view not only of the Bay and Gulf, but also of I
Back Bay of Biloxi. The uorth line his place is Fort Bayou. The sitimri is one of surpassing beauty.
It is not necessary to say that I’arl Earle is one of the most wide!' ' no horticulturists in the United Stk.„-s. has been the Presideutof the_Americ Horticultural Association for mu years, and was the Chief of the Ilortic tural Division of the Cotton Centenii and World’s Exposition at New Orlm in 18S-I—5. In 1885 he purchased pr> erty at Ocean Springs, and .during t greater portion of the time siuce th has made his home there. With his so he has an improved farm near the toi of several hundred acres. Much of t work done has been experimental.	T
farm is set in various kinds of	fru
Earle & Sons have fruit farms also at Crystal Springs, Mississip and at Cobden and Anna, Illinois.
Ocean Springs is an eligible point for a number of manufactti. mg ; dustries. A fruit-curing and canning factory well managed would, witho question, be a safe investment. Beginning with strawberries in the eai spring a succession of other fruits follow until fall and early winter. Befc strawberries are	gone,	dewberries	are ripe, followed by blackberries,	win
tleberries, plums, figs,	peaches,	pears, quinces, and grapes. And tho	sai
HOX. PAllKER EARLE.