St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12
ESTATE OF JAMES JACKSON HICKS.

By virtue of an order of the honorable Pro-
bate Court, OF the parish of st. Landry. there
will be sold at public auction, to the highest
| bidder by the undersigned auctioneer, at the
last residence of the deceased in Vile Plate
prairie parish of st. Landry, on TUESDAY,
November, 22d, 1881, the following dies Grlbed
property belonging to the estate or James
Jackson Hicks, deceased, towit:
l. The plantation situated in Vile Plate
Prairie, parish of st. Landry, containing one
hundred arpents of prairie land, together and
including all the buildings and improvements
thereon, bounded north by public land, east by
| land Of widow Pierre Vidrine. south by lants
belonging to the Estate, and west by other lana
of the Estate.
D one tract of prairie land lying south and
joining the above described plantation. TO-
gethcr with the buildings and improvements
| thereon bounded north by the aforesaid plan
tation, east by widow Pierre Eidrlne. sonth by
Mrs Annie Thompson; +. Dare ana Honort1
| Miller, and west by William Tate, containing
about ninety-eight arpents, measuring seven
3D.. tract of prairie land lying west of and
adjoining the plantation, containing about
! forty-seVen 33I1O0 arpents, bounded east ny
the plantation, west by FRANCOIS Brigg, NORTH
by public land, and south by William rate
| thereon.
4tll. The undivided half of tract of one
thousand and seventy-tive acres ana S0ll0o OF
an acre of land, purchased by deceased jointly
| with A. E. Arnold, at tax collectors sale.
December 10th. 1874, bounded north by Bayou
Cane, east by land of Richard Swan, west by
litIu VI Icitl AhdlSy, Ho''li. W
situated at Point Don Manuel, parish OF ST.
Landry. (The other undivided half will he
sold at the same time and place and on the
same termS)
5. A certain tract of woodland situated OH
the confines of Vile Plate Prairie, parish OF ST.
Landry containing one hundred and seyeii
superficial arpents, more or less, bounded north
by Joseph Z. Fontenot, formerly and now
Azelie Guillory, east by Charles Lebas. Mrs
J. J. Hicks and others. south by HOnore Miller,
and west by T. Vidrine c. Teal and Others.
g. \ tract of land situated at Bayou Chi@ot-
measuring two hundred arpents, ponhde.t
north and east by public land, south by lands
of A. Lazaro, and west by the Chicot swamp.
being the same purchased by deceased at tax
collectors sale, November Sth 1873.
7th. Sth, &c. Three yoke of work oxen, M
teen head of horned cattle, one s0rrel horse
, one bay mare, one bay mare and colt, one Sra!
mare one dun mare, an old wagon one ie'
composed of three harrOws one culhyator, one
bul-tongue and four old plOws; one saddle and
bride. an old broken carriage; four OK clalns
four old yOkes and one yoke staple; one oio
- spade and two shovels, one oats cutter, one
! old corn-sheller, one lot of about thirty mead o.
hogs, one grind-stone, one pair old steeiyara:
and two cane knives; one lot of plOw harness
!. and single trees three seythes and cradles ant
one ordinary plow; one lot old carpenter
tools, two iron wedges and one fro: sever
" pairs hinges one bedstead, one table: on
desk one lot books, four pictures and on
demiiohn one lot of lint cotton baled, 81
pounds one lot of lint cotton baled, welghln
) 1495 pounds, picked with the shells, stained
) one gold watch, one revolver, one trunk
3 Terms-Cash.
N GILBERT L. DUPRE.
I'd Oct. 22d, 1ss1-5t Auctioneer-