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6 44 1 am Dying, Egypt, Dying !” The accompanying well known and beau tiful poem, as was stated in the last num ber of The Great Kennesaw Route Gazette, was written by General W. 11. Lytle, of the fed eral Army, who was mortally wounded in the battle ot Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863. Os his death, the Nashville American, a few days after the battle said : He, with hundreds of his loyal soldiers, has consecrated with his life-blood the soil of Georgia to the Republic. Let us solemn ly pledge ourselves that the State thus bap tized by blood so dear shall never pass from the possession of the I nion. It is our her itage and the heritage of our children forev- ' er, signed to us in the name of freedom and . sealed with the blood of patriots. 'rhe Western and Atlantic Railroad is rich in picturesque and historic scenery, and in memories which are glorious to the American people. It is a mournful dis tinction, however, which it possesses of rim ing almost immediately through the edged' the battle ground where the author of this beautiful lyric received his death-wound in battle. I am dying, Egypt, dying, Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast, And the dark Plutonian shadows ( lather on the evening blast; Let thine arms, O Queen, enfold me! Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear; Listen to the great heart-secrets, Thou, and thou alone, must hear. Though my scarred and veteran legions Bear their eagles high no more, And my wrecked and scattered galleys Strew dark Actium’s fatal shore; Though no glittering guards surround me. i Prompt to do their master’s will, I must perish like a Roman, Die the great Triumvir still. Let no Ciesar’s servile minions Mock the lion thus laid low; ’Twas no foeman’s aim that felled him— ’ I'was his own that struck the blow, — His, who, pillowed on thy bosom, Turned aside from glory’s ray — II is, who, drunk with thy caresses, Madly threw a world away. Should the base plebian rabble Dare assail my name at Rome, Where my noble spouse, Octavia, Weeps within her widowed home, Seek her; say the gods bear witness— Altars, augurs, circling wings— That her blood, with mine commingled, Yet shall mount the throne of kings. And for thee, star-eyed Egyptian! Glorious sorceress of the Nile, Light the path to Stygian horrors With the splendors of thy smile. Give the Caesar crowns and arches, Let 1 is brow the laurel twine; J can scorn the Senate’s triumphs, Triumphing in love like thine. I am dying, Egypt, dying; Hark! the insulting foeman’s cry, They are coming! quick, my falchion! Let me front them ere 1 die. Ah! no more amid the battle Shall my heart exulting swell Isis and Osiris guard thee! Cleopatra, Rome, farewell! Over forty battles were fought along the line of, or within cannon sound of the A\ estern and Atlantic railroad. Touching the Road Lightly—“ You are the manager of the road ?” “Yes, sir. What can I do tor you ? ” “I see you are cutting ra tes to Califor nia.” “les, sir.” “Well, I called to see if I could get a pass. I didn’t like toa.sk you for one when the rates were up- —don't like to be hard on you, you know —but now that they’re way down, of course ’taint asking so much.” THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE. SCHEDULES —BETWEEN — Jacksonville and Atlanta, Via QUEEN and CRESCENT ROUTE, AND Cincinnati and Louisville. READ DOWN. I READ UP. North-bound. | FROM JACKSONVILLE. | 700 pm 700 pm Lv JACKSON VILE SF & W Ar| 700am10 30 pm I 8 02 pm 8 02 pm “ Callahan, “ Ar 6 10 am 9 50 pm 10 15 pm 12 30 am “ Waycross, “ Ar 3 45 am 7 57 pm ! 5 35 am Ar. SAVANNAH 11 Lv 4 32 pm 4 1.0 am 4Lv ALBANY “ “ 10 45 pm . . 551 am . “ Andersonville “ “ 859 pm 840 am 540 pm “ MACON “ “ 645 pm 11 51 am 842 pm “ Jonesboro “ “ 332 pm G 47 am 12 40 pm 9 35 pm Ar ATLANTA “ Lv 2 45 pm 6 00 am 1 30 pmdi 00 pm Lv ATLANTA W&A Ar 2 25 pm 5 51 am 222 pm 11 55 pm “ Marietta “ Lv; 1 36 pm, 505 am 241 pm 12 14 am “ KENNESAW “ . “ 1 17 pm 447 am 3 07 pm 12 40 am “ AUatoona “ “ 12 49 pm 4 23 am 4 46 pm 2 25 am “ Resaca “ “Il 07 am! 2 53 am 5 30 pm 3 01 ami “ Dalton. “ “ 10 32 am 2 22 am 5 46 pm 3 17 am “ Tunnel Hill, “ “10 15 amj 2 06 am 603 pm 334 am; “ Ringgold “ .. . . “ 957 am 1 50 am 629 pm 400 ami “ Chickamauga “ .. . . “ 929 am 1 25 am 638 pm 415 ami “ Boyce (Cin. Sou. June.) “ “ 920 am 117 am 700 pm 430 am!Ar CHATTANOOGA “ Lv 855 am 100 am 6 35 pm 8 00 am Lv CHATTANOOGA Q& C Ar 9 30 am 5 50 pm 650 pm 810 am “ Boyce (Cin. Sou. June.) “ .... Ar 910 am 525 pm 2 45 am 2 28 pm “ Junction City, “ Lv 1 10 am L 50 am 256am2 37 pm “ Danville “ “ 12 48 am4l 25 am 405 am 331 pm “ Lexington “ “ 11 43 pm4o 25 am 6 50 am 6 00 pm Ar CINCINNATI “ Lv 8 47 pmj 8 05 am 6 30 am 6 45 pm Ar LOUISVILLE “ Lv 9 05 pm! 8 00 am Pullman Palace Buffet and Mann Boudoir Buffet Sleeping-Cars daily between Jack sonville and Cincinnati without change. Upon the above schedule, first class Dav Coach daily between Jacksonville and Chattanooga without change and without extra charge. Polite porter in attendance. 9.05 p. m. South-bound train from Louisville, connects at Junction ( ity with Pullman Buffet and Mann Boudoir Buffet Cars for Jacksonville, Fla., without change; and 7.00 n. m. North-bound train from Jacksonville has Pullman and Mann Boudoir Buffet rtleep ing-Cars via Albany, Macon, Atlanta and Junction City to < 'incinnati without change. First-Class Eating Houses—meals at seasonable hours—in Union Passenger Depots. Pullman Palace Buffet or Mann Boudoir Buffet Cars leave Jacksonville at 7.<’o p. m. daily, for Cincinnati without change, as per following calendar. Large figures repre sent Pullman Cars; small figures, Mann Cars. APRIL, 1886. MAY, 1886. _ JUNE, 1886. JULY, 1886. SIMI TlWl Tl F S S'M TiW T F SrSiM; TiW i T Fl S S )| TW T f’S - _ _______ __ | 1 • 1 J l2 3 • • 1 i 2 3 4 5.. I .h 23 4: 5; 6 1 « 010 2 3 4 0 6 7 S ir 7 8. 010 11 12 4 5 6 7! 8 9l 1n 11 12 ! 13 ,14 15 16 17) 91011 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 Lq 10 l 18'19!2()!21 22'23 24 16 17; is 19 2021 22 20 21 • 22 ; 23 24 25 26 18 19120 21 22 23 o ] 25 26.27 28 29 30 .J 23242526 27 2s 29 27'28'29 30 25 ->7 28 29*30 41 •4.4. • ■4-4- 4. 430 311 1.. . .11.. I. .1.4.. IJ. 4.. .. Pullman Palace Buffet or Mann Boudoir Buffet Car- leave Cincinnati at 8.47 p. tu. daily, for Jacksonville without change as per following calendar. Large figures repre sent Pullman Cars; small figures Mann Cars. I APRIL, 1886. , MAY, 1886, JUNE, 1886. JULY, 1886. S Ml TlWl Tl Fl S Si Ml TiW T F S BMTiWTiF|B S MT Wi T| Fl 8 1 _1 i—l_|_ _; ; . __ i _ • • •• • 4 2 3 .... .4 1 .. .. 1 2 3 4 5 1| 2, 3 4 b i 9 JL' - J 4' 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 to 11 12 4 5 6 7i 8,9 jlO !io 3 141 9 1,1 1112 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15116 17 ' S l 21 V 2321 1,117 18 ! 19 2 " 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 j 25 ; 26 2/ 28,29 : 0 . . 23i24 25! 20 27 28 29 27 28 29 3< 25 26 27 28| 29! 30 31 I- 4. 4. 4 . J., I. 4,.|| 30] 3il. 4 | | Excursion round trip rates from Marietta to Allatoona and return, 75 cents. Allatoona. is the place whereon was located the fort to which General 1 Sherman signaled from the top of Ken nesaw mountain, near Marietta, “Hold the fort, for I am coming,” whence comes the famous gospel hymn. Cautious Concerning His Health — Kind-hearted woman to tramp —“I can give you a piece of hot mince pie.” Tramp—“ Hot mince pie for breakfast! Hot mince pie on an empty stomach! Do you think that a man in my preca lious financial condition,madam,wants to be burdened with a doctor’s bill in the dead of winter? Not much. Gim me a couple o’ soft boiled eggs, and I’ll bring in an armful of wood.” The Western and Atlantic railroad runs more passenger trains over the same rails than any other railroad in the South. An Exciting Glove Contest—“lsaw an exciting glove contest last night,” remarked the snake editor, as he took off his number eleven ear-muffs. “Where was it” asked the sporting editor, with great interest. “I don’t see it in the morning papers.” “No. I was the only newspaper chap there.” “ 1 hat’s good; we’ll have a scoop on it.” “A clean scoop. Are you ready for the details?” “Yes; go ahead.” “It was in Atlanta.” “All right—got it down.” (“On Whitehall street.” “On Whitehall street?” (In surprise). “Yes, on Whitehall street. In a~store. A I eachtree street woman was trying to get a number four glove on a num ber seven hand. Oh, it was exciting.” Ihe sporting editor turned wearily away. Only via the Western and Atlantic railroad and Marietta you can go with in one day’s ride of Georgia’s highest mountain—Mount Enota—4,Bo2 feet high. 44 The General.” This famous locomotive is still on the Western and Atlantic Railroad pul ling a train. She is one of the “old issue;” but is retained in service, al though her capacity is rather limited when compared with the big “ten wheelers” and other more modern lo comotives which the ever wide-awake Western and Atlantic Railroad Com pany now possess. It is a matter of national knowledge that the “General” was captured by 22 Federal soldiers, in disguise, April 12, 1862, at Big Shanty, and the at tempt was made by them to escape with her and burn the bridges on the W. & A. R. R., etc. Their chase from Big Shanty to a point near Ring gold and the capture of the entire pur ty are well known facts. It is not known, however, that the “General” was almost under fire of the Federal batteries at the great bat tie of Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864. When the battle began during the early morning General Johnston sent up a train load of ammunition, etc., to the Confederate lines at the eastern base of Kennesaw Mountain. The am munition, etc., was unloaded and car ried to the front as quickly as possible, but the engine and train were detained at that point, by order of General Johnston, to carry back the wounded at the close of the battle. During the entire morning the “General” and her train stood at the point where is now the station, Elizabeth, and some of the Federal bombshells, flying over the Confederate entrenchments, ex ploded almost in her neighborhood. In the afternoon the wounded soldiers from Featherston’s division and others in that portion of the field were placed aboard the train and the “General” brought them down to Marietta and thence on to Atlanta. The “General” was also the last W. & A. R. R. engine to leave Atlanta when Hood’s army evacuated it, and it was thought just before she left that it would be impossible to take her away; but they managed to get her safely out and she went southward with a train load of refugees, war ma terial, etc. Sam Jones, the great revival preach er, lives on the Kennesaw Route, 26 miles north of Kennesaw Mountain. “Oh, yes,” said madame, after the usual domestic racket had got itself well underway. “Oh, yes, you gentlemen want your wives to be angels!” “Not at all, ” replied Mr. Dusenberry, wiping the dish water from his head and face; “ not at all —we don’t want them to be angels at all; we want them to be ladies.” And then the row began all over again. Judge met a young friend who was going to Jackson. “ What business will you embark in?” asked the Judge. “I have not decided as yet, but will try to make an honest living at something,” was the reply. “My young friend.” spoke up the Judge, “you are going to the right place to succeed, for there wil] be no opposition in that line.” * Ml t . Tidal observations on the eastern coast of America have acquired a new importance since the Coast Survey has confirmed by recent observations the older suggestion that there are tidal fluxes in the Gulf Stream.