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ST. LANDRY CLARioN,
Here shall the press the people's rights maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain."
VOL. I. NO.5. OPELOUSAS, LA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1890. SUBSeRIPTION, $2 A YEAR.
THE CLARION.
Published Every Saturday by the
St. Landry Printing and Publishing Co.
(LIMITED.)
OPELOUSAS, NOVEMBER 8, 1890.
Opelonsas Union No. 451 meets every
other Saturday at 4 p. m., in Chacherers
Hall J. J. Thompson, president; S. M. Pe
ters, secretary.
The police jury meets next Monday.
All the Democratic candidates for
congress, in this State, were elected.
We had two frosts last week that did
no damage, but there was a killing
frost on Tuesday morning last.
As there was no opposition for con
gressman in this district a very light
vote was cast here last Tuesday.
Only 132 votes were cast for con
gressman here in Opelousas, and we
have been unable to get returns from
the rest of the parish. Most of the
polls were probably not opened at all.
The French accents are expected to
arrive in time for us to have some
French for next week. The delay has
been caused by the trouble in getting
the order filled at the type foundry.
We are reliable informed that Miss
-Adah Hollingsworth, a young lady
of Shreveport, La., who promises to
make a national reputation as a singer
will give a few more concerts at home
before leaving for the old world. And
.at the request of her friends in Opelou
sas, she has consented to give one here
at an early date assisted by our local
artists.
Sentences were passed in the District
Court here, on the 5th inst., as follows :
Adolph Hilliard, prison-breaking, 90
days in parish prison; George Wash
ington, larceny, 6 months in parish
jail; Wm. P. Roubles, embezzlement,
one year in the penitentiary; Gabe
Williams, assault with intent to com
mit murder, two months in parish jail
and $50 fine and costs and in default
of payment of fine and costs 6 addition
al months' imprisonment ; George Da
vis, larceny, 6 months in the peniten
tiary... Roubles has appealed to the
of a motion in arrest of jundgment. In
the Gilbert Anselm case for burglary,
a motion in arrest of judgment was
sustained and the District Attorney
appealed.
Reports from the elections at thc
North indicate that the Republicans
have been overwhelmed, that the next
House of Representatives will not only
be largely Democratic,, owing to the
great gain in Democratic congressmen,
but that States heretofore always Re
publican have elected Democratic gov
ernors and other State officers. The
Republicans by their audacity and
overweening confidence put the last
hair on the camel's back, in passing the
McKinley bill and in their threats to
pass the force bill. The people of the
North have at last tired of support
ing a party or rather a partiy adminis
tration that oppresses them. They
seem to be willing to try a Democratic
administration; and although the in
famous McKinley bill cannot be re
pealed by a Democratic House against a
hostile Senate and President, yet this
great political change is a warning to
the latter that the people are opposed
to the force bill, and that an attempt at
further legislative outrages may cause
the Republicans to lose every branch of
the Federal government in 1892.
BUSINESS MENTION.
[Notices will be inserted under this head
ing at:ten cents a line.]
ATTENTION TO WAGONERS.-Anyone
desiring to haul, will find plenty of
work by applying to J. Meyers & Co.
Wanted.-1000 bushels of corn. Will
excbange lumber of any description
for sae. Apply to J. T. Stewart, near
airoad depot.
The A-tak-a-pa Family and Planta
tion Remedies for sale by all Druggists.
If you want watches or jewelry
neatly repaired take it to R. Morn
hinveg, the live jeweler of Opelousas.
Watches, clocks, jewelry, and fine
diamonds at R. Mornhinveg.
If you wish to be fitted to a pair of
specks go to R. Mornhinveg's jewelry
establishment on Main St.
Pittsburglh coal at E. H. Vordenbau
men's lumb6r yard.
Call at Remi Mornhinveg's and see
his fine stock of Fall jewelry.
E. H. Vordenbaumen sells pine lum
ber at $12 per M ft.
Wedding rings of all sizes and styles
at R. Mornhinveg's.
The North has gone Democratic.
The estimated Democratic majority in
the next House of Representatives is
considerably over one hundred, or 221
Democrats to 105 Republicans and 6
Independents. The Republican loss in
that body is about 120. The Farmers'
Alliance carried Kansas. The Demo
crats carried 25 States and the Repub
licans 19. Pennsylvania, Minnesota,
New Hampshire, Nebraska and Wis
consin have elected Democratic gov
ernors, and New York, New Hampshire
and Wisconsin have elected Democratic
legislatures. The great victory is at
tributed tdo the McKinley tariff bill,
Speaker Reed's harsh and unjust
rulings, and the threatened passage of
the force bill.
Statement of Expenses for Wlit es
at the Criminal Term of the Dis-1
trict Court Just Closed.
Frank Glaude +-$ 2.50
Jos. Egland, nol. pros. 11.90
Meliciade Prud'homme cont'd 2.80
Allen McCoy nol pros 10.00
Ernest Soileau compromised 7.40
Syphroyen Meche 9.20
Jean P. Dogue 53.00
Denis Lajac and 0. Molitor cont'd 87.00
John Pundy continued 18.50
Fremont Fusillier continued 37.00
Armm.nd Deville nol pros 12.50
Allen McCoy nol pros 92.50
Joseph Z. Fruge continued 11.20
Joseph Z. Fruge mistrial 24.20
Joseph Z. Fruge a quitted 218.20
Gerasin Meche et4ls nol pros 43.60
Gerasin Meche et als nol pros 65.50
Abram Miller continued 6.60
Armand Fotet et als continued 10.60
0. Jaco Fontenot acquitted 26.20
Charles Barfield dead docket 20.50
Nuundo Thomas continued 25.90
Rost Guillory continued 11.40
0ne. Adams continued 2.20
Lou4 Jackson continued 32.50
J. HI. Cole acquitted 82.70
Sandville Fontenot nol pros 10.30
George Shorten continued 10.50
Lauren Jacques nol pros 12.60
Abl tt acquitted 21.80
AliFruge 12.00
Eli Jackson 16.10
H. D. Hargroder acquitted 52.30
George Davis convicted 2.10
Alex Senegal et als nol pros 18.20
Gabriel Williams convicted 61.20
Hilaire J. Guillory continued 44.70
Louis Brown continued 17.00
)ock Bird acquitted 7.50
Eugene Guillory continued 26.70
Marv Harrison continued 19.90
Willie Green mistrial 60.40
C. A. Ransom continued 72.60
Edgar Swindler acquitted 181.70
John Thomas 15.20
Francois Guillory continued 9.10
Francois Richard acquitted 15.20
$1621.10
If those here whose business it is to
nd out justice would imitate the
mphis, Tenn., officials whose good
work is related in the following dis
patch of the 28th inst. from that place,
our jail would be kept empty and there
would hot be many criminals at large :
At 3:45 o'clock this morning Chas.
Davis, James Dallas and Pat Glavin,
three Chicago crooks, robbed a jewelry
store of $400 w&Ath of watches, and at
4:30 a. m., were in the station house.
A preliminary examination was held
this morning, they were indicted by
the grand jury this afternoon and sen
tenced to eight years' imprisonment;
left for the penitentiary at 10:10 p. m.,
and will be inside the walls at Nash
ville at 5 a. m.
The Times-Democrat gave the peo
ple to understand that the money that
the lottery proposed to give for the
levees ($350,000 a year) would build us
a magnificent levee system all over the
State. How is it, then, that the United
States appropriation of $200,000 for
tie front south of Red river, of $500,
000 for the Tenas front, of $200,000
for the White river front (which pro
tects the Tensas basin), amounting in
all to $900,000, nearly three times as
much as the lottery proposes to give
for the whole State, will not do the
work in those localities? Can you buy
more material or pay for more work
with a lottery dollar than with an hon
est dollar.-New Delta.
Editor St. Landry CLunox-Dear
Sir: I notice in your issue of last
week a communication from "A Con
tributor to Public School-Building
Fund," who desires to know what has
become of the "committee of twenty
five," and the funds already raised by
that committee, etc.
I am glad to see that some one is
taking an interest in this matter, and
I take great pleasure in enlightening
"A Contributor" as far as I am able to
do so.
The committee of twenty-five is not
dead, neither is it sleeping. We are
still tugging away, up stream, and
against a pretty strong current too.
It seems next to impossible to get our
people to take a proper interest in this
all-important nmatter.
Our committee long since came to
the conclusion that it was folly to at
tempt to raise a sufficient fund by lit
tle picaylne entertainments to erect
anything like a decent structure, and
we further concluded that the easiest,
best, and surest way to raise the money
was by taxation.
In accordance with the sense of the
committee, I drew up, and began to
circulate the following petition the
latter -part of June last :
To the Mayor and Councilmen of
the town of Opelousas.
Whereas, The town of Opelousas is
absolutely without accommodations
for the public schools established there
in-the teachers of said schools being
required to furnish rooms at their own
expense, which are altogether inade
quate; and
Whereas, Such a state of affairs is
a galling reflection on the intelligent
citizens of our town, indicating a most
humiliating degree of indifference and
apathy to the great cause of popular
education, which is the only founda
tion upon which man can erect the
structure,of an enduring civilization;
and
Whereas, We the undersigned citi
zens feel a keen, and realizing sense of
the importance of this subject;
Therefore, We humbly petition
your Honorable Body, to submit to
the tax-payers of the town of Opelou
sas, for their ratification, or rejection,
an ordinance levying a special tax of
24 mills on the dollar, on all taxable
property within the corporate limits,
until the required sum (which shall
be fixed by your Honorable Body)
shall have been raised.
Very respectfully, etc.
The above petition speaks for itself.
It already bears the signatures of many
of our leading citizens, and will be
submitted to the council for, action
before the close of the present month.
Owing to pressure of business during
the last few months, I have been un
able to push this matter through any
more rapidly.
A great many tax-payers have not
yet been asked to sign, but they will be
waited upon in due time. I am pleas
ed to say that not one has yet refused
to sign.
In regard to the whereabouts of the
money already raised, I will state that
it is deposited in safe hands, and is
drawing 6 per cent. interest.
And now, in conclusion, I would
beg of every citizen, and particularly
the ladies, and the press to co-operate
,uh us in this good and noble work.
Very respectfully,
CIAaRMAN COML. OF TWENTY-FIVE.
MELVILLE, LA., Oct. 30th, 1890.
Editor St. Landry CLARIOx :-I have
just returned from a visit to New Or
leans, where I attended a meeting of
the Stockholders of the Louisiana
Printing and Publishing Co., (New
Delta), and also held a conference with
the managers of the paper in regard to
the prospects of getting it out as a
morning paper. They informed me
that they were laboring under great
disadvantages in consequei"- of the
nonfulfilment of the promises of aid
made to them at the convention held
at ] aton Rouge in August last. At
that convention it was made the duty
of each delegation to solicit subscrip
tions to the capital stock of the paper
in order to enable it to come out as &a
first class morning journal, and each
delegation pledged themselvesand their
constituents to the payment of a
stipulated amount for that purpose,
$59,000. Now I am informed that out
of the $59,000 only about $13,000 has
been paid up. They inform me that
Melville is the only community in the
State that has paid up the full amount
pledged, while many communities
have not paid a cent.
As a member of that convention I
pledged one thousand dollars to the
capital stock of the paper from the
town of Melville, a village of less than
three hundred inhabitants, and whose
entire taxable property does not exceed
$40,000. There is not a man in the
place whose taxable property amounts
to $10,000, and very few that are worth
half that amount, while many of the
parties that have subscribed for stock
in the Delta are men who have to resort
to daily labor to obtain their daily
bread; and yet we are the only com
munify that have paid up the amount
promised, and the amount pledged
$300 per capita, was four times greater
than that pledged by any other com
munity in the State.
This should bring the blush of shame
to the cheek of every anti in the State.
You are not asked to donate a dollar, but
only to invest in a business enterprise
that has every prospect of yielding you
a handsome return for your invest
ment, besides helping the great and
noble cause. Every organized move
ment must have recognized leadership,
and the New Delta was adopted at the
Baton Rouge Convention, as the offi
cial organ of the Anti-Lottery frater
nity throughout the State, and should
receive the fullest support from every
anti in the State. Once it is set on its
feet as a first class morning journal it
will supersede the other two old cor
rupt lottery organs, and become the
leading newspaper in the South, and
its shareholders will receive a handsome
dividend on their stock. Moreover
upon the success of the New Delta
very largely depends the success of the
anti-lottery cause. Now I implore
you to urge upon your readers the im
portance of aiding the paper, and mak
ing it the "New York Herald" of the
South. Yours truly,
D. W. HELM.
RAILROAD LANDS.
Mr. Editor-For the benefit of quite
a number of your readers in this par
ish, and that they may the better un
derstand the matter I propose to give
a concise history of the claims of the
railroads to lands in this country.
On the 3d of June, 1856, Congress
passed "An Act making a grant of
lands to the State of Louisiana, to aid
in the construction of railroads in said
State." Among the proposed railroads
to be aided was "The New Orleans, Op
elousas and Great Western Railroad,"
which was projected to run by the way
of Morgan City (then called Brashear,)
and Opelousas, to Burkeville in Texas.
This railroad was built as far only as
Morgan City, and as section 4 of said
Act provided "* * * and if
said roads are not completed within
ten (10) years * * the lands
* * shall revert to the United
States." All the lands involved in said
grant, between Morgan City and Ter
as, on the expiration of said (10) ten
years, (June 3, 1866,) became subject
to entry by actual settlers under the
general land laws of the United States ;
and the rights of settlers attached nat
urally to the lands on which they re
sided.
The Land Offices in Louisiana had
been consolidated, and the Land Office'
at New Orleans opened for business in
July, 1867. Applications on behalf of
the settlers to enltea their lands was'
made to the Office by myself and oth
ers from and after 1867, and as often
were they denied under instructions
from the General Land Office, that of
fice claiming that the reversion provi
ded for in section 4 of the granting act
was not an absolute reversion, but
must be supported by a law repealing
and declaring forfeited (to the settlers)
the lands covered by the act, This was
done by the Act of July 14, 1870: "An
Act to declare forfeited to the United
States certain lands granted to the
State of Louisiana to aid in the con
structing of a railroad therein," which
said act after reciting the forfeiture
provided : " * * These lands shall
hereafter be disposed of as other public
lands of the United States." The lands
thus having been restored to its own
ers, the people, it was then thought
there would no longer be any difficulty
in the matter of the settlers getting
paper titles to the lands already their
own by virtue of their settlement
thereon. Applications poured into the
Land Office; the Register being im
pressed with the justice of these claims
received them and issued his receipts
for the applications; but the Office
was forbidden by the General Land Of
fice to allow entries, that Office hold
ing, that the lands jnbraced in the
gratt of June 3d, 185 must be recon
veyed by the State of ]ouisiana to the
United States before tion could be
allowed. The date this reconvey
ance is believed to h been in Janu
ary or February, 1888 nd the lands,
although actually an gally subject
to settlement entry, not subject
to be again disposed to a railroad
company by Congress til after such
reconvevance. The no selection
of these lands by thel e or the rail
road company. Thez, a withdrawal
of the odd sections, alone in the
granted limits, but- in the "In
demnity Limits ;' withdrawal
being unauthori w was abso
lutely null, es far as the
lands within the , ity Limits "
were concerned,
i March 3, 18J1~ passed "An
Act to incorpoPacific
Railroad Co . U. S. Stat
utes 16 to 573. there was
granted to the,- s, Baton
Rouge and 'i d Com
pany, on the. the rail
road should bei - hin five (5)
years all the l sections
along the line eL - for twen
ty (2. 4 ileo whe pro
way of Baton> &1gs toVicksburg, with
a branch froM some point above Baton
Rouge, crossing the. Mississippi river
and going to Marshall, Texas, to con
nect with the Texas Pacific railroad.
Congress being in a very amiable mood
and evidently believing that this rail
road company had been since 1803 a
joint owner with the people of the lands
in Louisiana, and to reimburse said rail
road company for the odd sections
wrongfully sold by the gerape ent
since 1803, provided in said Act of
March 3d, 1871, that an "Indemnity
Grant " of all the odd sections within
ten (10) miles on each side of the gran
ted limits should be allowed to said
company, from which to select odd
numbered sections in lieu of those dis
posed of within the granted limits.
The New Orleans, Baton Rouge and
Vicksburg railroad was never built, not
a dollar was expended, in 1876 its grant
expired by limitation, and its charter
was forfeited by legislative enactment
in 1881. Some of the former officers
of this defunct corporation sold, for
one dollar, to the New Orleans Pacific
Railway Company the grant of land
which would have belonged to the N.
O., B. and V. railroad company had
they built the road before March 3d,
1876. The dollar which was the con
sideration of this sale was more than
the true value of the grant; but the
N. O. Pacific company (which had the
railroad partly completed already) had
the audacity to file said sale in the ar
chives of the Land Department, and
the Secretary of the Interior not only
allowed it to be so filed, but in 1883 al
lowed the said N. O. Pacific company
to select the lands embraced in the
grant to the defunct. N. O., B. and V.
railroad company, not alone in the
granted lands but in the "Indemnity
Limits " also. It is well here to notice
that there was no provision of law au
thorizing the withdrawal of lands in
the Indemnity Limits, nor could they
be selected until the loss in the grant
ed district should have been ascertain
ed. This loss has never yet been
ascertained.
The sale by some of the former offi
cers of the N. O., B. R. and V. railroad
to the N. O. Pacific company, being
absolutely null and of no effect, and
being so looked upon by all except the
executive officers of the government,
said N. O. Pacific railway company ob
tained in 1887 the passage by.Congress
of the Act of February 8th : "An Act
to declare forfeited to the United States
the lands heretofore granted to the N.
0., B. R. and V.-railroad company and
for other purposes." It is eharitable
to suppose that this Act could not have
passed Congresshad not its title been a
fraud and the real purposes of the Act
concealed thereby. It did forfeit the
lands from New Orleans to White Cas
tie, where since 1849 the United States
had had no land, but it gave the N. O.
Pacific railway company for a railroad
completed five years before, and built
without any land grant in view, all the
odd sections each side of the railroad
twenty miles wide from White Castle
to Texas, 230 miles, and an "Indemnity
Grant" to all odd sections for a width
of ten miles on each side of the grant
ed limits, thus perpetuating the great
injury done to the settlers along the
road by the grant to the N. O, B. .
and V. railroad of March 3d, 1871. No
fair minded man can contemplate with
out indignation this outrageous inva
sion of the people's rights. Thus was
an attempt to be given away, without
any return, a strip of land 30 miles
wide and 230 miles long, over four mil
lioeu acres, homes of 160 acres each for
25,000 families, embracing in this par
ish alone 108,000 acres.
It is claimed that this Act of Febru
ary 8th, 1887, is unconstitutional, be
cause first, its title was a frand,'and be
cause it gave all this land without any
consideration. Thus is it seen that
previous to the Act of February 8th,
1887, this claim of the Now Orleans
Pacific railway- company to these lands
had absolutely no foundation in law,
nothing to support it but the unlawful
acts of executive officers of the Land
Department.
Contrast the reception by them of
Mr. Wheelock's purchase for one dollar
of four million acres of land, with that
of the Homestead or Preemption Ap
plication of a settler, himself one of
the absolute owners of the soil. Mr.
Wheelock is politely asked to come in,
the regular business of the Department
suspended until this sale can be recor
ded in a prominent place and.the lands
selected by the railway company, while
the settler is coolly and curtly notified
that his land is claimed by the N. O.
Pacific railway company.
A selection was again made under
the Act of 1887, in October 1889. This
selection, like the one of 1883, cost the
railway company two per cent on the
price of the land, $16 for a section in
Indemnity Limits, and $32 for.a sec
tion of 640 acres in the Granted Lim
its. Why was this selection: of 1889
made? Was not the making of said
selection an admission on the part of
said company that before the Act of
February 8th, 1887, they had no law
ful right to the land?
Now no selection within Indemnity
Limits could be made until the loss of
odd sections within the granted limits
had been ascertained. This has not
been done, and as a consequence the
selection within Indemnity Limits is
null and void, and under the general
land laws of the United States a settler
who goes on this class of lands cannot be
deprived of them by law.
In August, 1887, the Hon. Secretary
of the Interior decided that the selec
tions within Indemnity Limits were
null and void, and ordered that the
lands should be restored to settlement
entry, and he caused to be published for
30 days in the New Orleans Picayune
the following notice:
United States Land Office, New Orleans,
La., Oct. 22, 1887.--Under authority and di
rections from the General Land Office, by
letter dated Oct. 13, 1887, notice is hereby
given that all lands situated in the New
Orleans land district heretofore withdrawn
for indemnity purposes .under the grant to
the New Orleans Pacific Railway Compa
under the act of March 3, 1871, are restored
to the public domain and open to settle
ment under the general land- laws, except
such as may be covered by approved selec
tions-i. e., approved by the Commissioner
of the General Land Office and the Secre
tary of the Interior.
Applications to make filings and entries
on such unapproved selections will be re
ceived at this office on and after the first
day of December, 1887. No application or
filings for the lands in question can be en
tertained previous to said date.
THOS. J. BUTLER, Register.
J. MASSIE MARTIN, Receiver.
This action was based on the decision
of the Supreme Court of the United
States in the case of Northern Pacific
Railroad vs. Guilford Miller.
This notice thus published was an in
vitation to all duly qualified persons to
go on the land, and it has not yet been
revoked, and as no lawful selection with
in the indemnity limits has been made
it follows that such lands are still open
to settlement.
Senator Gibson has introduced a bill
to confirm the rights of the settlers to
these lands and allow the N. O. Pacific
Railway Comjany to take other lands
in lieu of those taken by the settlers.
The Railway Company will do well to
support this bill, as it will be a final set
tlement of a question which otherwise
may last for years.
GEORGE O. EuLs.
NOTICE.
IEONVILLEz NOV. 8th, 1890.
Parties having claims against the estate
of Dr. Jos. Collet, will present the same for
classifiation. Those indebted will come up
and settle, and thereby save costa.
MICHEL ROBIN,
Administrator.
Notice of Admrinlptration.
ESTATE OF :CONSTANCE BORDELON.
No.- PPOBATE DocrETi DIssRICT COUrT,
PARIsa or ST. LAiDuY.
Whereas, Valery Duplechain, of the par
ish of St. Landry, has applied by his peti
tion to be appointed administrator of the
estate of Constance Bordelon deceased,
late of the parish of St. Landry;
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given to
all parties interested, to make opposition,
if any they have, by filing the same in
writing in my office in the town of Opelon
sas, in tep days from the present notice.
CHAS. M. THOMPSON,
nov8 Clerk.
NOTICE.-Land Office at New Orleans,
La., November 5th, 1890.-Notice is hereby
iven that the following-named settler has
fled notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Judge or
Clerk of District Court, at Opelousas, on
MondayDecember 15,1890, viz: Leandre
Bordelon, who made Homestead Entry
No. 8274 for the si of NE114 section 36 Tp 4
8R 1 W. La., med. He names the following
witnesses to prove his continuous residence
upon and cultivation of, said land, viz: E.
H. Donato, Theophile B. Fontenot, Israel
Deshotels, Oliver Deshotels, all of St.
Landry parish, La.
CHA& C. PALFREY,
nov 8-t Register.
NOTIUCE.-U. &Land Office, New Or
leans, La., October 16th, 1880.-Complaint
having been entered at this office by
oreten Frgee against Curtis W. Decker,
for abandoning his Homestead Eptry No.
10081, dated Dec. 28th, 1887, upon the N} of
NEI4 and NWS of NW1I4, section 22 Tp 6 8
R 2 West La, Meridian in St. Landry par
ish Louisiana, with a view to the cancella
tion of said entry: the said parties are here
by summoned to appear at this office on
the 31day of December 1800, at 12 o'cloek
m., to respond and furnish testinony con
cerning std alleged abandonment.
CHA8, C. PALFREY,
nor4t Register.
NOTICE.-Land Office at New Orleans,
La., October29th, 1890.-Notice is hereby
given that the following-named settler has
filed notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Judge or
Clerk of the .j ict Court at Opelousas,
on Monday, December 15th, 1890, vi::
Joseph Below, who made Homestead
Entry No. 6515 for the N% of NE1I4 and N%
of NW114 sectibn 9 Tp 6 8 R 1 W, La, med.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and culti
vation of, said land, viz: Henry Edmond
Soileau, Jean Baptiste F. Rougean, Benja
min Louis Jacques Fontenot, Henry P.
Fontenot, all of St. Landry parish, La.
CHAS. C. PALFREY,
nov 8- t Register.
Public Sale.
Attention is called to the fact, that I will
sell on very favorable terms, on credit, on
Saturday, Novemnber22d, 1890, at the
Vacherie belonging to the estate of David
Courville sr., at prairie Soilean, parish of
Calcasieu, a valuable tract of land and sev
eral vacheries of stock cattle and horses,
with brands of same.
DAVID COURVILLE, JR.,
novl 4t Administrator.
NOTICE.-Land Office at New Orleans,
La., October 23d, 1890.-Notice is hereby
given that the following-named settler has
filed notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and that said
p roof will be made before the Judge or
Clerk or the District Court at Opelousas,
on Wednesday, December 10th, 1890, vis:
Thomas Velllon, who made Homesteaad
Entry No. 7927 for the NW1I4 of NW114 sec
30 tp 5 srl w and E4 of SE1I4 see 24 and
NE114 of NE114 see 23 tp 5 r 2 w, La. med.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and culti
vation of, said land, viz: Ozeme David, Me
ance Vidrine, Hypolite Thomas, Augustin
Villere, all of St. Landry parish, La.
CHARLES C. PALFREY,
nov 16t R4ter.
FOR SALE AT $2 PERd AC E.-
I Large Tracts of Land TRAVERSED
BY TIHE TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD, in the parish of St. Landry, between
Melville and Palmetto stations. These
laffds have been recently surveyed and are
heavily timbered with valuable cypress
and ash timber. Apply to the undersigned
at Opelousas, La. THOS. H. LEWIS.
Order of Court.
The different terms of Court in and for
the 13th Judicial District, are hereby or~ir
ed and fixed as follows, to-wit:
FOR ST. LANDRY.
A criminal term beginning Monday, Feb
ruary 2d, 189L.
A civil term beginning Monday, April 6th
1891.
A civil term beginning Monday, Septem
ber 28th11891.
A criminal term beginning Monday, No
vember 23d, 189L
FOR ACADIA.
A criminal term beginning Monday, Jan
uary 5th, 180L
A civil term beginning Monday, March
th, 18091.
A civil term beginning Tuesday, Septem
ber 1st, 1891.
A criminal term beginning Monday, No
vember 2d, 189L
The clerk of this court is hereby directed
to forward without delay a copy of this or
der to the clerk of court in the parish of
Acadia, who will post and publish the same
as usual, and the clerk of this court is fur
ther directed to Post a copy thereof in his
office and at the courthouse door, and also
furnish a copy to the St. Landry C Mxoxr
oct2 .T.LEWIS ,Judgelh Diset.
Sheriff's Sale.
HYMAN LICHTENSTEIN & CO. VS. Wu.
A.JFLYNN.
No. 14,712 DISTRIcr Counr, PARISn oF ST.
LAxDRY.
By virtue of an order of the Honorable
the Thirteenth District- Court in and for
the parish of St. Landry, State of Louisi
ana, I will sell at public auction, to the last
and highest bidder, at ihe warehouse of
William A. Flynn at Washington, La., on
Saturday, November 8th, 1800,
at the hour of 11 o'clock a. nm., the following
described property attached and seized in
the above numbered and entitled suit, viz;
One lot of groceries consisting of vermi
celli, coffee, tea, olives, flour, grits, rice, su
gar, sides, etc.
One lot of hardware consisting of nails,
corn mills, sheet zinc, hay forks, spades,
shovels, hoes, harness, trace chains, well
buckets, horse collars, etc.
Three sewing machines, one lot of cotton
ties, cotton bagging and twine, one lot of
crockery and glassware, one lot of women's
shoes, one lot of children's shoes, one lot of
infants' shoes, one lot of misses' shoes one
lot of men's shoes, one lot of hats, one lot of
oil cloth coats, cans of cool oil, insurance
oil, syrup, jugs and jars, coffee mills, oil,
one lot of oddsin shoe case, one lot of Star
plows, Avery plows, stove fixtures varnish,
Spanish brown, Spanish white, yellow ochre
and other miscellaneous articles.
Terms-Cash.
T. S. FONTENOT,
Sheriff of the Parish of St. Landry.
Opelousas, Otober 25th, 1800. 3t
Public Sate.
ESTATE OF CHARLES W. LEWIS.
No. -
PSOBasT Docrar, DIariscr Couvr, PAIsrs
or ST. LANDaX.
By virtue of an order of the Honorable
District Court in and for the parish of St
Landry, there will be sold at public aus
taoni, to the last and highest bidder, by the
undersigned administrator or some duly
qualified auctioneer, at the Courthouse, in
Opelousas at 11 o'clock a. m., on
Friday, November 28th, 1890,
the following described property belonging
to said Estate, to-wit:
1. Three-fifths undivided interest in and
to the following described tract of land
situated in prainrie Mamouth, parish of St.
Landry, consisting of eight liundred at
pents more or less, having a frontiof ten
arpents by a depth ofighty arpents,1ound
ed on the north by the heirs of Marcel
Daire, on the south by lands of Olibe Man
uel, J. B. V. Veillon, Apolinaire Lafleur
and Marius Manuel, on the east by land
formerly publie and by the Joseph Guillory
tract, and on the west by bayou Nezpique.
2.One steam engine, sugar mill and
boiler.
Terms-Cash.
M. D. LEWIS,
oct25 Administrator.
HENRY KAHN. LAZARE LEVY.
Kahn & Levy,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
-AND-
Cooamission mthants,
111k 118 Poydrs St.,
P.O. Box 105oG. EW ORILEAAN LA.
Best attention paid to parchaMin Goods
oIall .i. Consigmnts of P*u
a all Country Produce rptcPl so
licited. octtt
A. J. BERCIER,
SDenxtist,
O fiae, cornerLand6y and Unici Wtr .,
next toJ. Meyer.d Co.
octlyl QPZoUrc~sa$ LA.
Publio Sale.
ESTATE OF DAVID COURVILLE BR.
No. 5031 Paosaru DoemC , DIsraicr Coun-,
PARISH o ST. LAxsar.
By virtue of an order of the Honorable
District Court in and for the pariah of St.
Landry, there will be sold at public auc
tion, to the last and highet~ bidder, by the
undersigned administrator or some duly
qualified auctioneer, at the last residence
of the deceased in prairie Faquetaique in
said parish, on
Tuesday, November 25th, 1890,
the following described property belonging
to the estate of Davld'Courville sr., deceas
ed, to-wit:
A certain tract of prairie land situated in
this said State and parish, in Faquetalque;
containing fifty arpents, bounded on the
north and eastby lands of Dorsin P. La
fleur r., south by homestead entry of Sca
vola Gourdney and west bp4fids of Benja
min Courville being same land acquired
from Pierre Jte. Manuel in this present
year.
2. A certain tract of prairie land situated
in this said State and parish, in raqueta
ique, containing fifty superficial arpent
bounded on the east by lands of Valmont
Pierre Duplechain, west by lands of Cleo
phas Courville, north by land of the estate
figuring as item five (next described) of the
inventory, and south by lands of widow
Jean Bte. Duplechain.
3. A certain tract of woodland situated
in this said State and parish, in bayou des
Cannes woods, east side, containing seven
ty superficial arpents, more or less, bound
ed on the east by lands of Valmont Pierre
Duplechaiu, west by Cleophas Courville,
north by Joseph Fusilier pere, and south
by item four (last above described) of the
inventory.
4. A certain tract of woodland situated'
in this said State and parish, on the west
side of bayou des Cannes woods, contain
ing fifty superficial arpents, bounded east
by Joseph Fusilier pore west by railroad
lands, north'by land of David Courville Jr.r,
and south by item seven (next described)
of the inventory.
5. Another tract of woodland situated
in the same neighborhood in St. Landry
parish, containing fifty superficial arpenta,
bounded east by Cleophas Courville, west
by railroad lands, north by item six (last
described) of the inventory, and south by
item eight (next described) of the inventory.
6. Another tract of woodland situatedin
this said State and parish, at same place in
bayou des Cannes woods containing fifty
superficial arpents, bounded on the east by
lands of widow Francois Marcantel, west
by railroad lands, north by item seven (last
described) of the inventory.
7. Another tract of woodland situated in
this said State and parish, in bayou des
Cannes woods, containing fifty superfical
arpents bounded east by lands of widow
F rancois Marcantel, westby railroad lands
and north by item eight (l described) of
the inventory, and south by item ten (next
described) of the inventory.
& Another tract of woodland situated at
same place in this said State and parish
containing about thirty-four superflsal ar
pents, more or less, bounded east by lands
of Christian D. Smith, west by raiaud,
lands, north by item nine (last desrlbed)
of the inventory, and south by lands of
Onezime Fusilier and railroad lands.
L! The last five tracts of hind deserib
ed were acquired from the United States,
as per patent No. 0924 issued Oct. 7th, 180
9. The undivided half of the ginhouse
with all the machinery, ginstand, gristmill,
cotton press, and all tools belonging to the
same. The undivided one-fourth of aepr
tain vaveri ho _o a : os~
and owned in common with Sevoi*ne er
The undivided half of twenty-four sheep
owned in common with Sevene Miller. The
undivided half of twelve head of wild
beeves owned In common with D. P. I..
fleur. One lot of thirteen wild beeves and
three cows. About thirty head ofgentle
horned cattle.. One yoke of black oxe~s,
Blac) and Morico. One yoke of black ox
en, Stag and Morico. One work ox R.e
et. One gentle mare mule, Fly. Ony eh
tie mare mule, Jane. One dun Amerean
gentle buggy horse, Baille. One bay gentle
buggy horse, Steel. One wild mare and two
colts. About ten head of gentle hogs. One
two-horse wagon and harness. One heavy
ox cart One new top-buggy and harness.
One old top-buggy. Wheelbarrow plows,
farming impemens, carpenter tools, eorn.
sheller, scytes, new winchester rifle, two
clocks, Smith & Wesson pistol, new sewing
machine, toilet and mirror, tbles, armoire,
chairs, a large lot of besads and bed
ding, blankets and sheeting, .oo g store
and fixtures, the undivided one-thi of a
rice crop in common with Lastleo
about three acres of rice in "the field, sout
two hundred bushels of corn, and many
other articles that will be exhibited on the
day of sale.
Terms and Conditionsa--For the mova
bles, except the vacherie, all adjudications
of ten dollars and under payablle cash on
the day of sale; and of all adjudications
above ten dollars, one-third payable csas
on the day of sale, and the balance psyable
in two equal early installments from day
of sale. For the immovables, the purchase
pricethereof payable in three equal
installments fom the day of sale. C.t
purchasers to furnish their notes payable as
aforesaid, with two good and solvent sre
ties to the satisfaction of the administrator,
the notes to bear eight per cent per anumn
ayable to the administrator oder, and
ten per centas attorney's fees to beadded in
ase of suit to recover payment- of mid
notes or any part thereofi The laud. to
remain specially mortgaged and vendor'.
privilege retained thereon in favor of said
estate till full payment of said notes and
interest or any part thereof
The vacherie, one-sixtr of the purchase
price payable cash on the day of msle, and
the balance in two equi yearly Install
ment. from the day ot sale.
DAVID COUVILL, 3..,
oct,5 5t ,Administrator,
NOTICE.
Land Office at -ew Orleans, La.
October 4th *.
Notice is hereby given that th following
named settler Las fled notice of his Inten
tion to make Bral proof in smppqrt of his
claim, and thatsaid proof will bo made be
fore the Judge, or Clerk of District Cort,
at Opelousas, La., on Saturday, November
29th, 1890, viz:
Israel De.hotes,,
who made Homestead Entry No. 8, for
the south east section 88 T4 8 K$ W,La.
meridian.
He names the following witnemes to
prove his continuous reatee aw and
cultivation of sMid land, vli:
B. Fontenot Leandre Bomdelon,
Gulory rnpe Paul Fontenot, all eof S
adr a0. PALM
NOTICiLE.
land Office at N Orlewns
ol e reby sevs that the fowing.
named settler has ed notice of his iten
tion to make nael proot in se rt of his
claim and that sid proof wil le made be
dor g the Judge or Clerk of Dlartrtt Oourt,
at Opelogsa , on Teday, December
hd made Homestead tr No. 7s, for
eE . of tE and W MS of gN Y z see
ou sTp4 4: s -w mWi, dLa,
He names fthe f itnsse to
hiscontlnuousM id e upon and
ultivation o, saidlan vi: Washington
W.nn, Henry Hen , nural Carson,
T.ILWillams,U all Of SL La.. .