The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-03


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man iIat wu uuV Nil lu mind.
lIc fr,pI, gave up bis tbcc som. to
go TO tlo war, jmham, l'IIIy and
Robert Woakloy, three of as mobile
boys a- ever went out to dp battle
for what they honestly thought ua-
right Lieutenant Bills Patton tell
at Shiloh, galhntIy leading his com-
panyof the Sixteenth Alabama rcgi-
mtut, Robert Wcaklcy fell at
Selma. Ywomorc gallant and noble
spirits were not i'm I'll the Confcd
oracy. and when the annual tribute
OF the May flowers are gathered and
strcwu over their graves on the
gentle banks of the dancing waters
of Sweet water, on no humble graves
, in the whole South will the tribute
t he more worthily bestowed. Pre-
cious boys, how much | wish my
= pen was able to do their memories
Justice, for ] love them as my own
| children. Braham, the oldest, after
fighting gallantly through the war,
was spared, though wounded several
t times, to get back to Florence and
= commence his old business of mer-
chandizing.
D So soon as Governor Pattor was
:. through his term as Governor, he
: was called to take charge as Prosi
: dent, of the railroad from Chatta
+ nooga to Meridian, a distance o
IT three hundred miles. This road ha
d nine Boston capitalists at its head
n and they called on the Governor tt
II make the tenth, and take entir
Is charge Of the whole concern. Sixt,
e miles are already completed, aud tn
Ie whole now under contract, an,
n working from both ends--and yo
le can bet your bottom dollar that
l. sold Bob lives a year or 50, that tn
It, smoking horse" as your Mr.. Brow
e, er calls it, will be galloping ovt
&c from Chattanooga to Meridian thre
It. or four times a day. Now yo
if would say that certainly this
II, enough for one young man of abol
IS, three score and not quite the ten
&c undertake, but small matter liz
We this, is only enough to give him
ne good appetite "for breakfast" II
ID, has been called to take charge Of Il
as North and South Road from Dccat,
,et to Montgomery, distance Of OF
Ms hundred and eighty-three miles, al
he has let the whole out to Sam Ia
ate and his associates, to be built al
tly fully equipped by the 1st Of Decor
a Der, 1871, at sum of five millio
at, of dollars, and the company h
old ample resources to make good {
tic their contracts. These two roa
Ia will cross at Elyton, Jefferson cou
'ou ty, Alabama, and will 60 far to d
if velop the rich mineral productio
itF of Alabama, especially iron, co
tel marble, limestone, and thousa
lice and one other things that it is L
ade now necessary to enumerate. A
ord permit me here to say word
be, Elvton. This is bound to be a c
rk- of no mean pretentions, andif | h
AS few spare dollars | would like
-ov- lay them out there or thereabot
Ik, This is hurried sketch of a few
ard, the noble projects this good old II
in has on hand. / say few, for
as a would no doubt, II the Mlssisssl
ink, river was in Alabama, undertake
the leveeing. And he is dead certain
tion have hand in building the Sou
ion, ern Pacific Railroad. Such il
was short but very imperfect sketcl
oper a man who is humbly but SUI
he building up and developing the
'und sources of a great State, and
ar in whose work is not fully apprecia
edit. but whose life will be done jus
WED to by the historian, who, in
heels years win have come to max,
II up the history of the land of "her'
.rslty resf" Yours truly