Pc. a la minute des presentes demeuree en la Garde et possession du
dit notaire soussigne.
CHS. MICHAUD.
Nre. Pc.
Par devant les notaires publics en la province du Bas Canada residens a
Quebec soussignes.
Fut present M. Francis Bellet demeurant en sa maison, rue sous le Fort, en
cette ville, lequel en vertu de la procuration ci-dessus et precedentes
pages reconnait et declare avoir vendu et vendre a M. Thomas Lee du dit
Quebec, la nommee Rose, negresse, denommee et designee en la dite
obligation, pour prix et somme de cinq cents livres de vingt sols et de la
lui delivrer incessement le dit Sieur acquereur declarant la connaitre et
l'accepter, et a paye les dites cinq cents livres au dit Sieur vendeur en
billet de la dite somme, ordre du dit sieur Bellet, lequel acquitte, la
presente vente le sera aussi, Quebec, neuvieme septembre en l'office de M.
Dumas, Notaire, l'an mil sept cent quatre-vingt seize et ont signe,
lecture faite avec les dits notaires
FRANCOIS BELLET
THOMAS LEE.
CHS. VOYER,
N. Public.
A. DUMAS.
Not. Pub.
[See page 200.]
THE ICE-SHOVE. APRIL, 1874
WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY - A SAD SPECTACLE
"At the very moment of its departure, and when the entire city was
rejoicing in the longed-for event - at the very time when the glad news was
flashing over the wires to Montreal and the West, that Nature's barrier to
the uninterrupted navigation of the St. Lawrence was so slowly floating
away - we regret to say that the ice-bridge of 1874 was making itself
memorable yesterday to Quebec in a shape more formidable than its perverse
tenacity or its injurious effects upon trade. It was rioting in a perfect
orgie of destruction, crushing man's handwork in its passage like so much
frail glass in the grasp of a giant. At 3.20 p.m., when the glad
announcement passed from mouth to mouth that the ice was moving, it began
its destructive work. The scene was at Blais Booms and the immediate
neighborhood, where the Government steamers Napoleon III and Druid,
the Gulf Ports steamers Georgia, Miramichi and Hadji and a large
number of tug steamers and other craft belonging to the St. Lawrence Tow
Boat Company and other parties were in winter quarters and have been in
the habit of so doing for years on account of the superior facilities and
safety offered by the place. Nearly a hundred craft of all kinds,
steamers, ships, schooners, and barges, were here congregated, moored in
many instances together and extending over a line of nearly 300 yards. The
floating ice as it came down, struck the outside craft - a sailing vessel,
we believe - driving it against its neighbor, the Georgia, and then
hurrying both of them against the others, jamming them against each other
and against the wharves in inextricable confusion and causing a tremendous
amount of damage, if not irreparable loss. Some were stove in, filled with
water and sunk, only leaving their bows or masts above water to mark where
they had gone down, while others disappeared from view altogether.
Fortunately no lives were lost.
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