Thus closes my notes for the month of December and also for the year just passed and gone and now numbered with the things that were. Whether the Almighty will spare me to chronicle the daily events of the incoming year is more than I know but trusting in Him I shall enter upon the pleasing task, which is useful as a reference and may be profitable to those who have an interest in me.
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Tuesday, December 26th, 1865
To day I am still at work at the Warehouse. The propeller Royal Arch arrived from Galveston with 500 sacks of salt on board consigned to James Wrigley. The salt was discharged too late to attempt to put in the warehouse. At night between the hours of 12 & two some infernal incendiary applied the torch to Col. Wrigley's large and very excellent warehouse consuming the entire building with about 324 Bales of Cotton besides a large lot of furniture & various other things. The loss by the conflagration will be at least 50,000$. Thus sweeping from Col. Wrigley the accumulation of years of toil. Weather variable & warm with occasional showers of rain.
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Galveston Flakes Daily Bulletin
ReplyDeleteJanuary 10, 1866
The whole amount of cotton destroyed by the late fire at Liberty was 324 bales. We regret to see, among the losers, the names of Messrs. Hithcock & Co., (40 bales,) and Ranger & Co., (23 bales.) The heaviest loser was J.W. Grace, 144 bales. The warehouse, belonging to Col. Wrigley, was valued at $6000. -- Civilian.