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Vol. IV.
Lily Dale.
Twas a calm, clear night, and the moon’s
pale light
Shone soft o’er hill and vale,
When sad-hearted friends stood around the
death-bed
()f my poor, sweet Lily Dale !
Chorus.
0, Lily! sweet Lily! dear Lily Dale!
Now the wild roses wave o’er her little green
grave,
’Neath the trees in the blooming vale !
Like a fair flower white, on that sad, still
night,
Swept by some icy gale,
On her couch of snow, in her beauty bright,
Lay my dear, sweet Lily Dale!
Chorus.—
“1 go,’’ and she smiled, as we wept o’er the
child,
“To that sinless, happy vale,
Where a kind hand shall wipe all pain fiom
the brow
Os your poor, dear Lily Dale!”
Chorus.—
The moon went down ’neath the forest
brown,
And the stars grew dim and pale,
And the death smile wreathed the white,
cold lips
Os my poor, lost Lily Dale!
Chorus, —
Where the flowers bloom o’er her lonely
tomb,
Neath the trees of the leafy vale ;
Sweetly sleepeth in peace, while the bright
birds sing
My loved, my dear Lily Dale !
Chorus.—
Where General Lytle Fell.
The following letter, written to the
NashviUe American, will of be interest
to old soldiers:
“I see in your weekly edition an ac
count of a visit of Gen. Rotecrans to
the Chickamauga battle field,and that
the party have located the spot where
Gen. Lytle was killed. The writer of
this was a surgeon at that time, at
tached to Maj. Robinson’s battalion of
artillery, C. S. A., and picked up the
hody of Gen. Lytle after the charge
of the left wing of our army under
Hood. I carried the body back to the
held hospital on Chickamauga creek,
made a coffin of an old piano box and
buried it on the banks of the historic
river. Some time afterwards I was
sent by Gen. Bragg to disinter the
hody and convey it through the lines
to the Federals at Chattanooga.
“Gen. Lytle was lying, at the time
1 found him, a few steps south of the
road leading to Lee and Gordon’s
mills. He was about thirty paces in
front of his line, and by his side lay a
small flag.
A humorous dare-devil —the very naa.n to suit my purpose. Bulweh.
OUR “FREE ADVERTISEMENT” NUMBER.
“The general was struck by two
bullets, one striking him in the mouth
and the other in the throat. He
must have been killed instantly, and
also must have had his mouth open
cheering his men, as none of his teeth
were knocked out. I think I can
locate where I found the body to with
in a foot. The spot was about three-
ATLANTA, GA., JUNE I, 1889.
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Agent of Opposition:—You ladies brag on how easy the
ride is over the W. & A., and how nicely it gets you there.
Give me a push, a- d I’ll show you how gracefully our road
swings you along, and how nicely she lands you.’’
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The Ladies:—“My! my ! And does it always land you
that way? Since we see it we know that we will have to
make our skirts of leather before we quit riding over the W.
& A., and join you.”
quarters of a mile from Lee & Gor
don’s mills.
“I was acquainted with the general,
having received much kindness from
him at a time when I was a prisoner
of war. On thanking Gen. Lytle for
his kindness, he told me I could repay
him by burying his body if I ever
found it on the battlefield. That was
in March ; in September of the same
year I paid the debt. Yours respect
fully, E. W. Thomason.
“Gordon ville, Tenn., May 8,1889.”
Important Decision,
Rendered by the Supreme Court of Florida,
As to the Fixing of Railroad Rates by the
Legislature and the Railroad Commission.
Pensacola, Fla. —The supreme
court of Florida has rendered a decis
sion of vital importance to the public
and to railroad corporations. The
board of railroad commissioners created
by the legislature of Florida in 1887
fixed the rates for the Pensacola &
Atlantic Railroad company, which
the company asserted were too low to
enable it to earn enough revenue to
pay its operating expenses and refused
to adopt the rates fixed by the com
mission. The State of Florida, at the
instance of the commission, brought
suit against the railroad to recover
the penalties provided by statute and
obtained judgments in the lower
court for several thousand dollars.
The railroad company appealed and
the supreme court now reverses the
judgment of the lower court, holding
that a reduction by the legislature or
commission of rates of railroads to a
point too low to permit them to earn
operating expenses is a privation of
property without due process of law
and without just conpensation, and is
confiscation and in conflict with State
and Federal constitutions.
This is the first decision of the kind
by a court of last resort.
Cartersville, and, in fact, the whole
of Bartow county have awakened to
the fact that they are in the midst of
one of the .greatest iron and manganese
centres in the world, and that they
have but to take the necessary steps
to secure the manufacture and conver
sion of the raw material of iron, man
ganese and cotton to the finished fabric
at their own doors; that they have but
to utilize these bounteous products of
nature, to promote their own growth,
from which effort will spring a city
which will bid fair to rival any of her
Southern sister towns. — State, Town
and, County.
There is not a road leading out of
Atlanta which presents such a variety
of beautiful scenery within its first
fifty miles, as does the Western & At
lantic. This is why it is the favorite
road to all who wish to spend a day or
two out of the city going but
a short distance,
NO. 11.