The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-15


DEATH OF AUGUSTUS KN1eHT.-At4 O'Clock
last Wednesday morning Augustus Knight,
one of the best known and most generally
esteemed colored citizens of Ascension par
'sh, died at his home on the Waterloo plan
tation, near lfsl New RIVER lane, and was bur
Jed nezt day in the graveyard Of the Mt.
Bethany Baptist Church, Iberville parish,
J, near the Ascension line. Mr.. Knight was
taken sick with the measles only short
time before his death and the early and
fatal termination of the disease was unox-
pected even by those who attended at his
bedside during his prostration. The news
of bis death was severe shock to all who
knew him, and particularly to those who
had received no previous information of
his illness. Augustus ight was about
?o years OF age, though no one not cogni-
zant with the fact would have supposed
pun to be more than a5 or 49, He was a
handsome man, kindly in disposition, gen.
erous to fault, model of courtesy and
poiiteness, and while really unlettered and
i1literate, his choice Of language was such
that ne might have passed for graduate of
Pne OF the best colleges in the land. It is not
TOO much to say that there is scarcely
man is this parish, white or colored, with
wider circle of friends and admirers
among all classes of the people, or whose
loss would occasion more general or ain.
cere regret than his. The writer of this
brief obituary had known him a dozen
years and while we deeply deplore the task
which Is forced upon US of announcing his
death, we feel a mournful pleasure in testi-
tying to the manifold virtues of the de-
ceased and to the high opinion in which he
was held IN the community where most of |
ms lifetime was spent. Mr.. Knight leaves
widow, son by former marriage four
brothers and two sisters to bewail his m
timely demise. His eldest brother ia i,
England, two others are in Illinois. and
the fourth lives in Indiana. The elder
Pf the surviving sisters is Mrs. FL
bridge Macarthur of Bay st. Louis, Miss.
and the younger is the wife of Mr., Rudo,nh
b. baqule OF Donaldsony1lle. These six
are the survivors of thirteen brothers and
sisters, all OF whom exhibited the admirable
traits OF character and displayed the evil
aences OF good breeding and native worth
which distinguished the lamented subject
OF our present sketch. Deceased was a
of Pride of Ascension Lodge No.
10, Knights of Pythias, and his brethren of
Lhat lodge unite with his relatives and
other friends in sincerely mourning his loss
May the sod rest lightly upon the mortal
remains Of Augustus Knight and may bis +,
spirit ind repose in that haven of eternal 9
rest which his faith as q Christian taught 6
nm to believe was the reward of those who
cad upright lives and follow the precepts =
# the golden rule on earth. :,
newspaper published in Judge F. s
ioodes district recently published the fol- p
owing sighting paragraph: tt
One OF the leading lawyers of the Terrebonne u
or or Tao signed the call for Judge Goode was al
le state, he had made the poorest Judge" vi
In the same issue of the paper renro- r;
ucing this apparently i'll natured rehec- to,
on, are published four decisions of the
apreme Court il cases appealed from pl
ldge Goodies court, and in three of these at
g rulings of the lower tribunal are sus- ",
ined. This would seem to indicate that le,
g distinguished official named is quito as we
'od Judge as he is a lawyer, and we ais
We no doubt large majority of the peo- to-
of the Terrehonne district will give ex- to,
ession to this opinion at the coming en-
ction, despite the efforts of certain mol his
clans to the contrary. The CHIEF takes Mi
assure in attesting to the high reputation Sn
Ich Is borne by Judge Goode i'll this sec da,
IL of the State -