The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-09-07
AL. LEVI HOYL is DEAD.
,popDAWSON'S FOREMOST CITI-
zENS PASSES AWAY.
.uJife Comes TO a Close After Many
Years of Usefulness. a Tribute
to a Good Man.

vars of Usefulness ATlouIe
to a Good Man.
Another one of Dawson's prominent
,i+2ens has joined the inEumerable host
~ rba other side i the grave.
Co.onel Levi c. Hoyl, at 2 O'Clock in
the morning, Thursday Sept 1st, quietly
nassed up to his reward.
Colonel Hoyl was born in McMinn
oonnry. Tennessee, December 18th, 1929,
rofuoeed to this section OF Georgia dur
inc the war, settled in Dawson at tne
,ose of the war and practiced law here
until his deate. He was married to Miss
MI. r Ozier, near Cuthbert, Aug. 8.
ia A loving, devoted wife, foul
manly sons and an accomplished daugh-
+or in the immediate family, remain to
mourn his loss.
Few men have had their distinctive
characteristics more intellectually pho
touaphed in the mind of a community
than the man who passed from us Thurs
day. Indeed, he needed no outside sun
hOht thus to Infix his image in the soul.
anu
50 benignantly beaming that no one
coDld be with him for a half hour and
not receive the impress. 1t was not the
exuberanCe of naturally hopeful and
cheerful disposition; neither was it at
liability, nor wit, nor conversational pow
er. II was rather that simple, calm be-
nightly that few men possess.
Colonel Hoyl was man among men
of cultivated manners; of broad and dis
eliminating intelligence; we'll read in
English literature; and Wlthal, and above
all, of excellent judgment; accustomed
to balance subjects in his mind till he
could command view of them from
every possible standpoint and thus de.
termine their merits. His calm and
modest demeanOr was fitting mirror to
the eye Of that infexible integrity and
christian principle which governed his
but on the other hand modestly and al
must sensitiVely avoiding the honors as
well as the responsibilities of office, vet
his marked common sense and broad
and intelligent views of all subjects won
for him the sutfrages of the district and
placed him Tor season in the senate OF
the commonwealth. In this position he
very soon became an acknowledged and
recognized leader; his clear and dis
eliminating opinions, his uniform can
dor ana his magnan1mOus integrity and
public spirit placing HIM in the fore
tront-PTimus inter pares-as the sJlon
Of the chamber.
Probably no one in the community
was ot,ener called upon to act as umpire
in cases of disagreement or difficulty be-
tween other men, especially when these
differences involved serious pecuniary or
ScaI consequences to the parties. And
he had the singular skill, not only to so
apprehenG the opposing elements as, IN
most cases, to judge correctly, but or
dInaIlly to SO unravel and present the
merits vi the case as to convince the OPP
posing parties of his correctness.
Ills christian character was consistent
and Ieyerential and, in all its outward
Development, blameless betokening the
most sincere and hearty faith in the sac
Ellce and mediation of Christ and of de-
pendence on Him alone for salvation.
dis views generally, in matters pertain
Ing to religion, and not less to social and
civil affairs, were hopeful and sunny,
rendering him in his family and else
"AeTe uniformly cheerful and a most
genial companion aud friend.
How did Roger Sherman voter" in
CURED Mr.. Jefferson once as he entered
tne nall of congress while a question
Was being taken, anu, it is said, he re-
corded his own vote on the same side
without knowing much OF the merits of
the question itself. This was a high
Tribute TO the good sense of the Connec-
0cut shoemaker and proved him to be
man Tor others to steer by.
II is not Improbable that our Savior
had reference to the same thin in NOR
ais when de told His disciples that they
were cities on HILL" The idea seems
W oe something more than mere con-
spicuousness. When the GreSsG Teacher
uISI pronounced this memorable com
Palsou OF a good man with eonspicu-
Gus city his eyes may have been looking
~ Tie ancient town of Saphet, which
sIood upon lofty elevation, high above
'ue waves of Galilee. 1t was in full
SIsuI ana seen from afar. 1t was as if
ne nad said, Eye are like yonder city of
0@pAet, set upon d hill" That city is
a9."ayS there, always in one place, lifting
40 80 "Alte domes to the morning sun and
iL. 'si back his evening rays from i S
n'SA oatJLements It is an object to
IKE me compass by, an object by which
VIC traveller from Syria ana from Leba-
-0U may guide his steps. The fisher