Show DAY of decoration day last tuesday was less the result of a plan than a to eich to find so ganv gathering at the cerop tary all with flower and moved to tin tribute by the same sor remembrance several choice floral designs had been received rom tho east or the proves of mrs ferry and N B ite and the bearers who bad earned mr ferry to her list renting place came in A body and laid bouquets and a beautiful cross upon the mound the children of colonel placed a large anchon of flowers ako a massive arca upon their fathers grae and all through the enclosure were little knots of people wreathing with love and ten derne s the mounds of their dead during the last year many have been laid away lo 10 ret in our quiet some have been taken suddenly some by lingering hosease Man were dlan and man hearts aching for love they bore to the silent sleepers who there morning of the resurrection it was a tubule of 83 that ind upon each grave a bunch of flowers so that not one of the many who sleep there was fori gotten flag marked the ernes of the soldiery sol diero and the little children ere constantly bringing freh flower from the hillsides hill sides irmund about ten 0 clock the rev mr iiii opened the leading ot appropriate scripture fal lowed by a fiew remarks rem irks to that day in mav when at the close of the war the lidies of a town in mi siss ippi e shered on the buttle ground and with impartial han with froah flow ers the giavis alike of rate and fedi il from thit incident wen tout the influence which brings us aa a nation once every year to consecrate one day in Count rys dead until not only those who for lib ei ty but the loved ones from our fire sides the wife the little child all receive on this day sano i gift of remembrance he closed bis by reading cin appropriate poem of sarg we sleep but not forever afler prayer was mi II 11 ill re id by request a beautiful poem of BA aid taylor as a tribute to the memoir of her who was called i om ua ga sud dently lust october iho choir then saag in the by and bv and after the benc dai tion colt net arry made a lew remarks ng that so far the services of he day had commemorated alie love of the home and the and as koiv over the length and breadth olf th land on i national int liem was leing sung over the graves wao bad given their lives for liberty let 1 adjourn to tho craves of our soldiers and there all unite in singing america iab us aia che graves of three soldiers one a cammi officer and two the banks one a federal and the other a confederate both bad died for the one cuu e home and country ibe assembly then adjourned to the grave of col nelbon and sang my ountria oun tri tia of ahw sweet land of liberty 1 hence to the graves of the boldien sol dien singing at each one veido of the same hymn after which the compan quietly dl persed M |