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f'lSSIFT'PPI CITY HAPPENINGS
1892	- 1893 - 189*+
September 2W, 1892
As vinter lingers in the Inn of poring, so do many of our summer visitors still linger, loth to leave the coast nt this most beautiful season of the year. Of those regaining n large number vill leave during the coming veek. The opening of the city schools will call to their city homes a large number of families vho would gladly prolong their stay but for this reason.
Carriages of all sorts are daily put uoon flat cars, the boats are hauled out of the water and roofed over for the vinter, the live stock is carefully put in the stock cars, and the many trunks and packages which litter the denot platform, all combined, tend to show that the society season is on the wane.
Major Morgan has already begun the shipment of oysters at Beauvoir.
Among the many cranky amendments to Mississippi’s rotate Code is one that bars betting on horse racing or yacht racing. The boys are taking advantage of the interin, as the law does not go into effect until the 1st of October (1892), and the friends of Jack Harris have from £500 to &1,000 to out un on the event.
There vas a horse race took place at the track nbout a mile above Handsboro last Saturday. It was a qunrter&nile dash between a home-bred horse owned by Funroe Saucier named "Jack Harris” and the "Gray Eagle" owned by fcr. KcGinnis. The "Gray ^agle" was the favorite, but by one of the vicissitudes of fortune he lost the race, sni the bettors on "Jack Harris" are ready to put un another £500 a future.
It drew a large crowd from the coast and from Handsboro.
Several hundred dollars changed hands much to the chagrin of some of the bettors, and the satisfaction of others. As the law which prohibits horse race bets does not go into effect until the 1st of October many of our oleasure-1oving citizens took a hand in the game.
The school trustees having at their disposal funds for the improvement of the local school-house, have in contemplation much needed irsproverr.ents, among them being shutters to the windows and an addition of a comf or t a tie heater.
Quite a hang Df hands started in to work on Fonday morning on the' line of the horse railroad. The cross roads over which the read will run have been culverted end bridged and cross ties laid on Texas Street. The rolling stock is being re-lettered and painted to suit the place. The road is an assured fr,ct, and tarring an » earthquake will be running within the specified time. "Gee yaap: mule.
The orange trees which lost their leaves durinp the