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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1869
Page
2
The Opelousas Railroad Company no longer exists and a new railroad route is planned to connect Texan with New Orleans. The proposed line is expected to follow the route previously surveyed by the other company. Louis Fisher warns patrons his store will be closed for two weeks during his absence, anticipating stock that may outperform rivals upon his return.
A fragmentary denunciation praises a marine detachment for routing ladies decorating Confederate graves at Arlington as a display of valor and asserts the officer will be honored for “services on the battlefield.” It mocks pacifist memory and foresees a future religious hero worship of military figures amid political shifts.
New York suffered substantial losses totaling 547 800 dollars due to fires within the month, highlighting ongoing safety and insurance concerns for the city and surrounding districts.
Public auction under parish court order in Calcasien Parish on Thursday June 24 1869 at the undersigned residence. Items include a cotton gin and gin house on the Despa Broussard property and 1156 pins of pieux fence. Terms require a first payment and the balance in notes payable to co tutors with eight percent interest. Olivier D Broussard Alphonsine Broussard co tutors.
An order from the Calcasieu Parish Court dated June 7 169 authorizes Administrator to sell the separate property of Emily Moss and the community estate, excluding burned cattle. Auction at Hickory Flat on July 14 1869 includes six land tracts totaling several hundred acres, the family plantation, and improvements. Also 55 head of cattle, hogs, sheep, two oxen and cart, tools, kitchen furniture, provisions at Abner Cole’s, and other items.
Sneatie and Upwal casers are to execute promissory notes payable to the Sealer Adm r or order with interest from due date, secured by two good solvent sureties and a special mortgage on the immovable property of the succession to secure payment. Internal Revenue stamps on notes paid by purchasers.
By order of the Honorable Parish Court of Calcasieu Parish a sale will occur at the courthouse door on Saturday July 10. Marie Armtrong as executor will auction off unsold estate property including a tract on the Nezpique bounded by Rostmond Guidry Nezpique Vi Martin and public roads and a second tract conveyed from Simon C White totaling over two hundred acres.
The document lists several land tracts with survey descriptors and acreage, including 180.06 acres in section 36 and 4, township 14, freedmen allotment, and a second tract of 286.15 acres in sections 29 and 5, lot 10, with patent numbers 9606 and 9074 issued in 1861. Dates appear as Mist and October AB, with locations including Baton Rouge.
A fragment describes credit terms of one two and three years from sale day with security in solido and parable to gazeth. Interest at 8 percent per annum from maturity until paid. sale date and conditions to bear private privilege. Names appear as DAVID J. D1 "REID, Juda with unclear date.
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