St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-12-20
Neurology.


several old friends, and it gives us pam
to have it to do.
On the morning of Monday last, 18th
inst, at the hour of 2:10, Hon. Joseph
NJ. Moore of this place, died at the resi-
dence of his son-in- law DR.. Geo. n.
Pratt, on Prytania street in the City OIL |
New Orleans.
He was born on the 23d of Sept. 1923,
in the parish of St. Landry, and at the |
suitable age was sent to jefferson Col !
lege in Pennsylvania. How long he |.
there remained or whether he graduated |
we are not informed. He returned to
Opelousas and began the study OF the
law in the law office of Caleb l.. Swayzc.
In due course, he was licensed as an at
t0rney, and Immediately thereafter en-
tered upon the practice of his profess
sion as a partner of his instructor.
In a very few years thereafter he mar
ricd Miss Annette Wartellc, daughter OF
Mr.. Pierre Wartelle issue of his mar
riage with Miss King. In the provl-
dence of God, she was taken from him,
and in 1870, he married his second wife,
Miss Ella Overton, younger daughter OF
Hon. John III. OvertOn issue OF his mar
rage with Miss King. This wife sur
wives him.
In 1872, he was elected to the State
Senate in the district composed "1 the
parishes of St. Landry and CalcasIrh'
but was counted out by the hcpubi1cAn
party-he being identified with the
Democratic, and having been the nolni-
nee of that party. He was subsequently
run by his party for Congress in the 9th
| District of La, and by his personal pop
ularity and influence, did much to re
duce the overwhelming Republican ma
| jority in the District. Was Il membcl
of the Confederate Convention, and was
Justly distinguished by his Jealous Ia
! bors in the interest of his native State.
| For many years he was chosen as a dele
gate to the parish, district and State
nominating conventions, and was, un-
der the present State Constitution, elect
ed by the General Assembly as one OF
the Judges of the Court of Appeals, III
which capacity he served for the term
of eight years. He thereafter returned
to the Bar and renewed his practice.
His health began to fail him and but
for his great circumspection and moder-
alton, he would have passed away Ions;
before he did. He left Opelousas in the
latter part of the winter, or. early part
of the spring of the present year, tor
treatment in New Orleans. All was
done that could have been. His gentIr
life was spared to his family and friends
through several months of debility,
emaciation and suffering, until the 18th
inst, when he passed away, to JOIN the
"innumerable caravan that moves on To
the mysterious world His remains
reached here on Tuesday last by the )
o'clock p. M, train of the Morgan Road.
The customary religious ob>eTvances
were held at the Episcopal Church in
this place, of which he was a member,
and large and sympathz'ng coEconrSe
of his old friends and acquaintanc fol-
lowed his emaciated corpse to the grave
in the Protestant Cemetery.
! Roland Allen, a native of St. Landry
a good and peace-loving man, died neal
Cheneyville in the parish of Rapides, Oh
the morning of the 18th inst, leaving d
wife and several children and IL long
list of life long friends and acquall-
/ tances to lament his demise. We have
known him from early boyhood, and il
, ever he did wilfuIly wrong act, or
t sought to harm any human being, We
never heard of it. He was good plant
er, good husband and father, who, hu
for his quiet and unambitious nature
would have succeeded we'll in his sphere
of usefulness. At the bed of the
! sick, he was just all that sympathy, at
, tention and kindness could make of ;
, man. We tender our heartfelt condo
? lence to his large family, and terventlN
: pray for the everlasting peace and res
, of his soul.
Father Abadie of Grand Coteau, pass
ed from among US, and from the ole
l field of his signal usefulness, on The
morning of Tuesday, the 10th inst, a
the advanced age Of IS years, as we arr
informed.
! This soldier of the cross, messenge
of God to SHINING man, preacher of thu
, everlasting gospel, exemplar among
men, and interchangeable instructor o
children, located in Grand Coteau abou
the year 1885, and began the glorious
career he has been SO long deputed t.
run. How much he has done to expant
7 thought, to enlarge the scope of posi-
BILE usefulness of his eleres, how yer,
much to purify the moral atmosphere O.
Grand Coteau, and how much to throw
the far reaching beams of religion int
the darkness of sin, we may wonder at
J but God alone knows.
Some Say ALI is Right.
| Rnt in 1CoIinp over thn aSpectS O.