Bayou State

A term frequently applied to the State of Mi i ippi. Bay'ou Teche, ( taish , ) in Louisiana . An expedition was directed against Brashear City on this bayou during the Civil War, 15th Jan., 1863, when the Confederate gunboat "Cotton" was destroyed by the Union forces, and their land batteries silenced. Bay'ou Tunica, in Louisiana , a village of W. Feliciana parish. Bay Place, in Arkansas , a village of Poinsett co. Bay'poor ( Vaypoora ), a seaport town of Hindostan. prov. Malabar, 7 m. S. of Calicut. Lat. 11° 10' N., Lon. 75° 52′ E. Bay'port, in Florida , a village, formerly the cap. of Hernando co., seated on the Gulf of Mexico, 170 m. S.S.E. of Tall a has see. Bay'port, in Wisconsin , a township in Ashland co., on Lake Superior. Bay Ridge, in New York , a village of Kings co. Bay River, in North Carolina , a village of Craven co. Bay'-rum, SPIRITUS MYRCIE, n. A spirit obtained by distilling the leaves of Myrcia acris. Bay'reuth, a city of Bavaria, cap. of circ. Upper Franc on i a, on the Red-Maine, 26 m. E. of Bamberg. Lat. 49° 57′ N.; Lon. 11o 40 E. It is a fine and well-built, but, of late years, a somewhat dull place. About 2 m. to the E. is the Hermitage , with its gardens, terraces, and park, formerly the residence of the celebrated Margravine of B. , sister of Frederick the Great, and authore of the well-known Memoirs. Manf. Porcelain, pipe-heads, linens, cottons, . Pop . 20,053. - B. formerly constituted the cap. of an independent principality the Margraviate of Bayreuth, which on the death of the last Margrave, in 1791, became merged into Pru ia. In 1810, Napoleon I. transferred B. to Bavaria, in whose po e ion it remains. Wagner erected an opera house, and established in 1878 a great musical school at B.