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The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-11
Personal.

| Miss Nellie Haw and Miss VIRGINIA
Gardiner, of Grand Coteau, were the
guests of Mrs. r. NJ Littell this week.
returning home Thursday.
Mrs. w. A. Robertson spent severn,
days in town this week.
Mr.. III. Castleman and wife, of Allan.
ia, Ga, were in town this week.
Senator Willis Prescott and Can't. l..
ID. Prescott, of Washington, visited onr
town on Thursday.
Senator Dnson was in town on We'd
nesday and gave us a pleasant call.
Rev. j. F. Raymond, who is now at
his old home at Aigueperse, France,
has kindly sent us files of late Paris
newspapers. Many thanks.
| Mr.. Raoul Mouton and sisters, OF
Lake Arthur, after spending several
days with friends here, left for home
last Monday.
Our stirring confrere of the Crowley Y
Signal, w. w. Duson, Esq, was in
town on Wednesday.
Mr., A. L. Stagg, Of Whteyillt, was
on our streets on Wednesday
Mr.. Dubusqu6 D6jean is on Il visit to
friends at Lake Arthur. Judging from
his frequent visits to that place one
| would suppose that there is something
prettier than the lake to our young
friend in that neighborhood.
Mayor w. A. Flynn and DR.. F. L..
Brown, of Washington were in town a
few days ago.
District Attorney NJ. C. Elstner and
Clerk j. b. Beattie, of Shreveport, and
Marshal Jean Vigneaux, Of Lafayette,
have been in town all the week. Judge
BOarman will arrive in time to open
the regular term of the U. S District
and Circuit Courts on Monday
Mr.. Leopold Goudchaux, of Big Cane,
was here on Tuesday
Mr.. +, FL. Vonderbaumen, of Lafa-
yette, was in town few days since
Mr.. L.. Schnerb, of Church Point, was
here on business last Tuesday.
Capt l.. S. Havard, of Big Cane,
was here on Wednesday and ''took in''
the ''Storm Beaten land apparently
weather beateD) show that night.
Our venerable friend Col j. G.. Giles
pie, celebrated his 74th anniversary on
the 9Th, and received the congratnla-
tions and good wishes of many friends
on that day. Two others of our fellow
townsmen were born on the same date
several years later-viz. Mr.. C. N.
Ealer and Mr.. F. Delarue bat as one
of them is in the matrimonial market
we fOrbear giving ages.
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The Clergy Recommend Ii.

and when its attacks are felt something mnst
be taken to completely eradicate the poison
from the system. DIR. Westmoreland's Cali
saya Tonic is the most efficient blood mesii-
cine in existence, and all disorders of the NJ
tai fluid readily succumb to its influence 4
minister writes: NASHVILLE, TENN
Gentlemen find need some tonic as an
appetizer, and also to fortify my system
against inalarial influences from having
tried ii myself, and from the testimony of
others who had tried it, in whom [ can rely,
know of nothing SO good as DR.. Westmore
lands Calisaya Tonic. Please express me
three or four bottles to the above address.
and eblge Yours sincerely,
VIM HENRI STRICKLAND,
Pastor Edgefield Baptist Church
Buy Dr. Westmoreiand's Caisaya Tonic of
f. e. Bailey, Opelousas, and Blake & burke,
Washington La
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Meeting of the State Agricultu-
ra1 Society.
N. o. Times-Democrat.

!
The Louisiana Agricultural Society will
hold its fourth ANIMAL meeting at Arcadia, in
Blenyile parish, Jan. % % and "a. Two ses-
slons will be held daily at which subjects OF
| interest to the farmers will be discussed. The
second days session will be held at the Ex-
pertinent Station at Calhoun, La, where a
| barbecue will be given BY the North louisa
ma Agricultural Society
| Special invitations are extended to every
| alliance, union, Wheel grange, farmers clnb
or other agricultural association of any kind
IN the State, they being invited to send dele
gates to this meeting, SO that it will fully and
| truly represent the planting and farming i'll
| terests of all Louisiana.
| The meeting ought to be u success and we
believe it will be. great deal of interest
| has been aroused in Louisiana Of late in agri-
cultural methods, and this is especially true
! of the Northern portion of the State, where
| the meetings of the North Louisiana Agricul-
tural Society have brought about great out
pourings of the farmers, with several thous-
| and of them assembled at Calhoun at one
| time. III that now called results in placing
| the farmers and planters Of Central and Sou
thern Louisiana in closer and better commtl-
nication with their brethren in the Northern
portion of the State, it will perfect an orga nj
zation OF great aid and assistance to agric ul-
! ture. If the farmers fully cooperate and
work together they can accomplish wonders
and we hope, therefore, that the meeting of
| the State society, in one of the northern par
ishes and the conference between it and the
North Louisiana Agricultural Society at Cal
honn, will bring the two closer together and
| enable them TO work harmonlously in this
great cause
We have already seen the beneficial effects
of such organizations i'll the improved agrl-
cultural methods adopted, in the greater va
riety in crops, in fhc better yield per acre,
and the larger profits Of farming; and every
body in Louisiana, whether engaged in agri-
culture or not, win see with satisfa faction the
better organization of the agricultural inter
eStS
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Correspondence.
HAAsyILLE, La, Jan. 6,

HAAsvILLE, La, Jan. 6, 1890,
EDITORS COURIER:
The new year broke in on us warm aud
showery. 1t is probably only once in a long
life time thatpoue has The pleasure of witness
ing winter season so fine aud pleasant as
this one has been up to date.
And so much work has been done towards
making the crops of this year that it seems
with fair geather in the future the farmer
would surG' have easy sailing.
Your corfnspondent has in the past week
visited the growing towns OF Bunkie and The
oda. Both of these young places arc stirring
and driving forward.
Laud has been plowed and put in excellent
order for growing corn and cotton. The sugar
men and planters have, | am informed, as a
rule their fields ready for putting in plant
cane. Every appears to be industriously
engaged at some occupation, determined to
do and make something. Some fear is enter
tanned. should we have cold snap, that the
frnit bnds will be killed Some Of our peach
trees have bloomed out this early in the year.
During the New Year season some Of the
young people of this and adjoining localities
have enjoyed social and dance parties Good
cheer has prevailed all around.
Hoping the COURIER may have u pleasant
year, am,
Yours, ILLINOIS.
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JUDICIAL NOTICES
District Court Parish Of ST. L0naIY, No. 1856
Olivia Guidry, wife, VS.. Arthur Castillo, hus
band.

This is suit, brought by the plaintiff here
in, Olivia Guidry, against the defendant Ar
thur Castillo, her husband, praying for iudg-
ment against him in the full sum of Nine Hun
dred and Eighteen 60Il00 dollars, with olo
yearly interest from judicial demand, less a
credit Of Five Hundred and Eighteen dollars
and fifty cents, paid her rs per d0ttcm,en p0ie
men made her on the 30th day of September,
A d., 1889, by act before Jules Gil, Esq, No.
tary Public, and also to dissolve the cOmmn-
nifty of acquets An1 gains heretofore existing
between them. nhis case WIS regularly tried,
after answer filed by defendant, aud on the
trial OF said suit, it having been proven to the
satisfaction Of the Court, by competent proof
and because the law and the evidence being
in favor Of the plaintiff herein, and against
the defendant, Arthur Castillo, husband.
hereby ordered, adjudged and decreed that
said Olivia Guidry wife, do have and recover
Judgment against her husband, Arthur Cas-
tile, defendant herein, in the full sum of
Nine Hundred and Eighteen 6Ol00 dollars,
with D olo per annum interest from judicial
demand, less Il credit of Five Hundred and
Eighteen 50 roo dollars (S5lS.50 paid her as
per ddhen en- Placement, as per act passed he,
fore Jules Gil, Notary Public on the Both day
of September, A. ID. 1899.
That the community Of Acuuets and gains
heretofore existing between plaintiff and de
fendant herein be annulled and dissolved. and
that plaintiff herein do have full power and
control over all property owned by her. free
and apart from the control and administra-
ton of her said husband and that plaintiff
herein be decreed to be the owner of the fol-
lowing described property, viz:
lst, A small plantation with all the build
ngs and Improvements thereon, situated in
that part of st. Landry parish, known as
Coulee Croche, bounded north by land of Viii
liam Smith, south by public land, east by pub
lie road leading to Lafayette, and west by
public land; also two bay mares annette
and "Della, aud one heifer "Pifiet; and it
is ordered, adjudged and decreed that dofen-
dant herein pay all costs of this suit before
signing the words on the 18th line I'd page
"and dissolved interlined and approved.
Done read and signed in open Court at
OpeIousas, La. this 9TH day of December, A
ID. 1889.
tSgned) L. I. LEWIS,
Judge 18th Jud. Dist La.
Filed Dec. Z, 1899,
ii. E, EsToRGE, Dy elk
A true Copys I'll. E. EsToRGE, Dy. elk
State of Lonisiana-Parisl of st. Landry
hereby certify that the above and forego-
ing is duly recorded in my office in Mortgage
Book No. % p. 265.
Witness my hand and seal of office at Opel
ousas, La, this 10th Dec, 1889
jan4'90. Louis P. EQUALIZER, Dy. elk.
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PhiIogone alias Philomene Smith, wife, vs..
Gabriel Nerault, husband.

This is % suit brought by plaintiff herein +,
against her husband, Gabriel Nerault, pray
ing for Judgment against defendant, first in
the sum of seventeen 50ll00 dollars with 5 oIo
per annum interest from judicial demand, and
also to dissolve the community Of acauets
and gains heretofore existing between them.
This case came up regularly for trial, and on
said trial, the plaintiff herein, having shown
to the satisfaction of the Court by competent
proof that her suit is well founded it is for
these reasons, and because the law and eyi
dence is in favor of plaintiff PhilOgone, alias
Phiomene Smith. wife, and against her hus-
band, Gabriel Ncrault, defendant herein.
hereby ordered adiudged and deereed: that
said plaintiff do have and recover Judgment
against her husband Gabriel Neranlt, defen-
50Il00 dollars, with s eIo per annum interest
from judicial demand until paid
That the community of acquets and gains
heretofore existing between plaintiff and de
fendapt herein be dissolved, and it is ordered
that defendant pay all costs Of suit.
Done, read and signed IN open Court, at
0pelousas, La, this 9TH day of December, A.
ID. 1889.
Judge 18th Judicial Dist. OF La.
Filed Dec Z, 1889.
Fl. E. EsToReE, Dy. elk.
true copy.
II. E. EsToRGE. Dy. elk.
State of Louisiana-Parish of Sc. Landry.
/ hereby certify that the above and fOrego
ing is duly recorded in my Office in Mortgage
Book No. q, page 266.
Witness my hand and seal of Office at Opel
ousas, La, this 10th December, 1889.
jan4'90. LOUIS 2. LoUAILLIER, Dy. elk,
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It's a Mighty Cold aDay

In JANUARY when Pe.ru-na fails to Keep you
warm. When the clustering blasts of winter
envelop your body in their icy embrace, and
seem to freeze your very marrow; when you
shiver and shake with the cold chills that
creep over you and pierce you TO the very
bone; then it is that you will find, if you try
it, that there is nothing SO comfortably warm
ing. - so mildly invigorating as this same
Pesfu-na. AS "a stomach medicine aud tonic
it has no equal, and needs only to be tried to
prove it's efficiency. For record of what Peru
ma can do for ills peculiar to ladies send for
Dr. Hartman's ellis OF Life, sent free by the
Peruna Medicine Co, Columbus, o. To keep
the liver, kidneys and bowels regulated, Man
a-lin should be taken at the same time. 81 u
bottle. For sale by Z. e. Bailey. druggist.
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IN safe Investment

Is one which is guaranteed to bring
you satisfactory results, or IN case OF
failure return Of purchase price. On
this safe plan you can buy from our
advertised Druggist bottle Of Dr..
Kings New Discovery for Consnmp-
ton. II il guaranteed to bring relief
Ii every case. when used for any affec-
lion of Throat, Lungs or Chest, such as
Consumption, Inflammation Of Lungs,
Bronchitis, Asthma Whooping Cough,
Group, etc, etc. 1t il pleasant and
agreeable to taste, perfectly safe. and
can always be depended upon. Trial
bottles free ait F. .. Bailey's
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- E. LoEB7S
NEW STORE
New, Fresh, Good and Cheap Groceries
Keep it up! | am with you
KEEP RENEWING ! KEEP A-SELLlNG
On Very Small Margins,
IS THE MOTTO OF SUCCESS.

offer now, on its success:
Dry salt shoulder meat at 81 to 51c
Best flour from $3.50 to SG.25 per bb.
Dry salt sides at Z, y aud nc.
Lard in tierces at 7lc per lb.
Picnic hams at Il to 7ic lb.
Sugar-cured ham iMayiower) ut Is to l74c.
Breakfast bacon Dove brandy at l2a to l5c
Open kettle sugar, IA lbs. for LOO.
White clarified sugar, II lbs. for one dollar
Snow-white sugar, 70 lbs for one dollar.
Tomatoes, four cans for 25c.
Deviled ham, Armour's, 4 cans for 25c.
Baking powders, 5 aud l0c. cans.
Irish potatoes, choice. 50 to $22.25 per bbl
Dairy butter, 22a to 25e per Id.
Creamery butter, finest, 90 to 35c lb
Ladies' fine toilet soap. 5, 10 and l5c cake.
A selection of fancy candies that will temp
any one with a sweet tooth, selling at Is
90, 25, 40 and SOC per Ill.,
Soap, $l.75 by the box. 3 bars for I0c.
Starch, and 3lc per Id,
Cider vinegar. Genuine Louisiana syrup.
Calf chocolate. Black pepper, zoe ID.
Rio coffee 5 lbs for 81, good family.
g :" prime, 2244 to 25c.
Cordova coffee, fancy, 25 to 27ac.
Lead pencils, good quality, l2 for l0e.
Cinnamon, AlIspice, Biueing, Pass books
Letter paper, Foolscap, and
Best shoe backing ut fabulously low prices
s. Il. LOEB,
Lalaune building, corner Court and North sis
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A Hint 90 tI1e Wise. Etc.

We are happy to announce to our readers
that The Mayor of our city has finally grown
hibited by owners of esnerty as to their side
walks, aud that heIo ssed notice 81 be
served uf n thensturned they did not put
these walks in put itc6ndition as required
by the towg4qhl ,efnee on that subject. 4, that
they vi, ~ repaired at their expense: This
is q 4nh1S--7n the right direction, and though
r IT tardy, it is none the less Welcome
he Charles Commercial.
When will our town Solons enforce the or
dinance on sidewalks here
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j Lasa4ose, merchB}t, desires to inform tbs.
public, that hrsfuecf. lit for the most success
ful preparation that has yet been produced
for coughs, colds and Group. 1t will loosen
aud relieve a severe cold 10 less time than any
other treatment. The article referred to is
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. 1t is medi
cine that has woIr fame and popularity en- its
merits and, one that can always be depended
upon. IL is the only known remedy that will
preyent Group 1t must be tried to be appre-
ciated. 1t is put up in SO cent and 81 bottles
Far sale by all merchants
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
District Court, Parish of ST. Landry No. l4578
Citizens Bank VS.. L.J. Smith, Testamentary
Executor. Ell ais.

BY virtue Of an order of seizure and sale
issued out of the District Court, in and
for the parish of st. Landry, in the above
entitled suit, and to me directed, will pro-
ceed to sell at public auction, to the high
est bidder, at the front door of the Court
House, in the town of Opelousas, parish of
st. Landry, on SATURDAY, the lst day
of February, 1890, at Il o'clock o. M, the fol-
lowing described EAEoperty, to-wit:
A certain plantation situated in the parish
Of st. Landry, in this State, measuring twenty
arpents front on Bayou Courtableau or Opel
ousas by forty arpents in depth, bounded on
the upper side by the village Washington and
on the lower side by another tract in dispute
between appearers and others, the said plant
alton being established and cultivated as a
sugar estate, together with all the buildings
and improvements thereon, a saw mill and all
the horses and cattle, carts and implements
Of husbandry, being the same property mort
gagged to the Citizens Bank by William Offutt
ct ais by act before T. Seghers, Notary Pub
lie, of date the 5th March, 1885, and being
same property acquired by Ebert CAN'T by
act passed ON the 10th December 1869, as ap-
pears by process verbal of sale of that date ;
and also 2z7 1.-TWO hundred and seventy -seven)
shares of capital stock of the Citizens Bank
OF Louisiana owned by said Ebert CAN'T, de-
ceased
Seized in the above entitled suit.
Terms and C0nditions.-Cash.
L. FONTENOT,
December 2S, 1889. Sheriff.
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The management has secured the Ia
test successful Farce Comedy entitled
aTown Lots,' which is pronounced
everywhere the funniest comedy ever
seen The company is composed of
artists of well known regulations, head
ed by the popular comedian, Ross Snow,
and the charming soubrette, Elois Will
lard. They carry all properties and
trick scenery necessary for the piece.
New music, songs, dances ana special
ties have been added, and itHyou wish
to eDioyaa pleasante evening as see tbs, j.
at the Opera House nextNild moudy,
Jany. IS. Reserved seatsbrougt'n sale
at Jacobs news stand. lng Of
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The solid South consists of two parts, the
solid white voters and the solid black voters.
But what do the blacks gain-what have
they gained by this solidity9 Nothing, ex.
cept hero and there pestoffiee or some other
petty Federal place flung to them by their
Republican friends as a bone is flung to Il
dog. It is time for the eolored voters to con
sisler their situation and to abandon the false
course which has brought upon them, as many
of them assert, maltreatment in the South
but, what is far more serious for them, indit-
ference and contempt in the North, and in
the house of their friends. New York Herald,
Ind
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NO. 16.
JUDICIAL NOTICES
DUBLIC SALE.
Probate Court, Parish Of 81. Landry No, 495i
ESTATE OF JULES LAGRANGE.


BY virtue of an order of the Honorable the
Probate Court in and for the parish of Saint
Landry, there will be sold at public auction,
to the last and highest bidder, by the
undersigned tutor Or any duly qualified auc-
tioncer, at the last residence of deceased in
Prairie des Femmes, in the parish of st. Ian
dry, Oh IFEDNESDA z, February l2, $780,
the following described property, belonging
to the estate of Jules Lagrange, deceased,
late of the parish of st. Landry, to-wit:
/. One tract of land situated in Prairie des
Femmes, St. Landry parish, measuring SO
(ffty) arpents or acres and bounded north by
lands of Lee, south Alcee Marks, east Tr6-
vile Lagrange, west Joseph A. Sicily.
2. One marc mule, one bay mare, one 3-year
old creole colt. one sorrel horse, eleven head
of horned cattle, one lot household furniture,
one harrow. two pairs wooden collars and
traces, hog.
Terms and Conditions.-All the movable
property to be sold for cash, and the immov
able property to be sold for one third cash,
and the balance payable in two equal annual
mstallments from day OF sale, each INSTALL
ment to bear eight per cent annual interest
from maturity. Ten per cent attorneys fees
to be added i'll case of suit to enforce collec
tion of said notes, special mortgage and ven
doris lien and privilege to be retained on the
land sold, to secure payment OF said purchase
price interest and attorneys fees.
JOSEPH LAGRANGE,
Jan. H. 1890. Tutor.
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The excursion train that left here
Tuesday morning pulled out with be-
tween 90 and 100 passengers, and took
some 200 more on board at Lafayette,
and on reaching New Orleans had in
creased the number to about 1000.
They return this evening.
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CONVINCING Proof.

In many instances it has been proven that
Is. B. 3. Botanic Blood Balm), made by Blood
| Balm Co., will cure blood poison in its worse
phases. even when all other treatment fails.
A. 2. Brunson, Atlanta, Ca, writes ~ had
"a running ulcers on one leg and on the 9TH
| er, and felt greatly Frustrated. | believe |
actually swallowed barrel of medicine, in
vain efforts to cure the disease With little
hope | finally acted on the urgent advice of a
friend, and got bottle of b. b. Il. | expert
| enced u change, and my dependency was
somewhat dispelled. | kept using it until
had taken sixteen bottles, and all the ulcers,
! rheumatism and all other horrors OF blood
poison have disappeared, and at last | ain
sound and well again after an experience of
twenty years of torture"
Robt Ward, Maxey, Ga, writes: "My dis
ease WAS pronounced tertiary form of blood
poison. My face, head and shoulders were a
| mass OF corruption, and finally the disease be-
gan eating my skull bones. My bones ached
my kidneys were deranged, | lost flesh and
strength, and life became a burden All said
must surely die, but nevertheless, when l
had used ten bottles Of B. B. u. | was pro-
nounced well. Hundreds Of sears can now be
seen OH me. | have now been well over
twelve months
N. o. States Ali the governors of the Sou
thern States who attended the funeral ccre-
monies Of President Davis, expressed the
opinion that this city was the proper place in
which to lay at rest the remains of the dead
chiettain. They realized the fact that New
Orleans besides being a metropolis is espe
cally Southern city and that here Il grand
monument to Mr. Davis would be seen by
people from all quarters OF the globe. In view
Of the fact that it is more than probable that
New Orleans will become the final resting
place for the remains .of the honOred leader
OF the Lost Causc, and that all the Southern
States have pledged themselves to assist in
building the monument to mark that resting
place, there is every reason to believe that in
IL very few years New Orleans will be able to
boast OF one of the greatest monuments of the
world 1t would be well for parents through
ont the South to interest their children in the
movement and encourage them in the colec
tiou of small contributions to the fund. Ev-
ery nickel, dime and quarter will help to
swell the grand total.
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We bad the pleasure of call this
week from Mr.. b. M. Hnlse, represent
ING the Merchants and Farmers Bank
OF Shreveport, La, who is prepared to
negotiate loans with dispatch on cotton
and sugar plantations, for . term of
years. at ten per cent. Mr.. Hulse will
he IN Opelonsas for several weeks, and
parties desiring loans, small or large,
Will find him 1t Judge Moore's office, on
Bellevue street.
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Who was your great grandfather ?
The Detroit mich Journal desires to
receEse, by postal card, the address of
all living male and female descendants
Of Revolutionary officers and soldiers
Of l776, and, when possible, the name
and State of the ancestor. Wonder if
w. IL Brearley, proprietor of the De,
trOit journal, is contemplating u raid
upon the national treasury
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EDUBLIC SALE.
Probate Court, Parish Of 81. Landry, No. 499
ESTATE OF JOHN EAGLIN AND WIFE.

Probate Court, Parish Of 81. Landry, No. 1893
ESTATE OF JOHN EAGLIN AND WIFE.
BY virtue of an order of the Honorable the
Probate Court in and for the parish of Saint
Landry, there will be sold at public auction,
to the last and highest bidder, by the under
signed administrator or any duly qualified auc-
tioneer, at the residence of Joseph Vital Ea-
glin, near Grand Coteau, parish of st, Ian
dry on TVEDNESDA Y, January %, 1890, the
following described property, belonging to
the estate of John Eaglin and wife, beth de-
ceased late of the parish of ST. Landry, to-
wit :
One sorrel mare, ono 2-year old mare colt,
one bay mare, one black mare, one sorrel colt,
five COWS and five calves, one bull, one wagon,
one old buggy, one shot gun, one lot of trace
chains one branding iron, one cross-cut saw,
one black horse, about 300 pounds OF wire,
one clock, household furniture, &c.
Terms-Cash
JOSEPH VITAL EAGLlN,
Jan. II, 1890. Administrator.
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Theodore Guillory, who was convict
ed of manslaughter in our District
Court few weeks ago and sentenced
to the penitentiary for six months, has
been pardoned by the Governor