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The State Legislature has chartered tvo ci— three railroad companies vho have undertaken to accomplish this great work. .The old companies were hampered by more litigation than was provoked by the celebrated case of "Jarndyce against. Jarndvce." the last legal tilt having been betw6en~the VIcfcscurg .& ...Ship,,. Island and the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroad Company.
The present Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company can, apparently, read its title clear to a good terminus at each end of their projected line, and a secured right-of-way to the sea and Ship Island, and the railroad will be completed when the bonds are all satisfactorily located.
When the road is finished, Mississippi may hnve upon her coast a new Pensacola, destined to grow into the prominence held at present by the busy and growing Floridian city.
The increase of the lumber business of^the const., you! d , al.pn/i serve to pay the cost of rumTihig'' a ra'iTroa'd^fror. the center of the State through its wide pine belt to a de-erwharbor near its seacoast, and, in this source, for -tfreTirst few years of its existence, would, apparently, be found the chief profits of the line.
County Seat
Mississippi City is now the capital or eounty-seat of Harrison County.	-•
It contains a resident population of from 1,000 to 1,200, and a summer population of probably lt800 or 2,003.	-
Like Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian, it is located on a narrow strip of land with a navigable stream in its rc.ir and the Sound before it#
Handsboro
The Bayou Bernard is behind or north of it. This bayou Tfoas not called after Bernard de la Harpe, but after a free colored patriarch, whose flocks and herds roamed along its banks.
Handsboro, a lively lumberrmCa-o4raPing f	a rile and a half
diStant, rs' one of the rpar^jnifrprhfi._nf Mi RBI?;?-. City.
This contains fs, a	w>” of stores and
residences, and a population of about 700.
Hotels Gulf View and Tegarden
There are some fine hotels near the sea-frmt of Mississippi City. The principal of these are the Gulf View and \	.	Ternrden.