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8 ELIZABETH. THE MARBLE CITY OF GEOR GIA, AT THE BASE OF HIS TORIC KENNESAW MOUNTAIN. With the Most Superb Atmos phere in America. From .4 Pointer we copy the follow ing : Names sometimes carry with them an attractivenes.' from association which commends their bearers at once to your favor. Whether of a person, a mountain, a river or a State, the rule holds good. The Western and Atlantic railroad authorities therefore made no mistake in this respect when they named the new station recently opened on their line, immediately at the foot of the famous Kennesaw .Mountain, “ Eliza beth.” Not only is this name one which has been held in honor and esteem, and treasured as sacred in the hearts of men since the Scriptural era, but in our own day it is borne by one who, though quiet and retiring in disposi tion, is known throughout Georgia as being the type of true, gentle, noble Christian womanhood. To her companionship it is not bad taste or exaggeration to say her hus band, Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, is due a large measure of his remarka ble success in life. Marrying him when he had been,as a young attorney in the mountains of Georgia, practicing law for six months, and had collected only eighty dollars as she result of his work, she discerned in him the powers of one who could make himself great. The history of Georgia, ami to some extent that of the nation, show that slii* was not mistaken. The high mor al as well as intellectual standing, prove the mother’s home training as well as the father’s indomitable will and brain powers. It was therefore, as we have above indicated, a graceful and proper trib ute paid by the Western and Atlantic Railroad management, when they hon ored the new station which is being opened on the highest and most charm ing point on their line, by calling it by her name. Two miles north of Marietta and twenty-two northwest ot Atlanta, im mediately at the foot of the far-famed Kennesaw Mountain, the American Marble Cutting Company, during the summer of 1885, began erecting the largest marble mill in the South, if not in Ameriea. 1 his is now about •completed. Four hundred feet long and forty-five feet wide are the dimen sions of the main building. The oth er buildings are of commensurate size, 'fhe huge chimney is one hundred and twenty feet high. This company has bought the sole patent right to the most wonderful marble cutting machine in existence Under its operations a rough marble slab becomes a marble mantle or table top within twenty minutes, all except polishing. A marble block, also, in thirty minutes is made into a water bowl, needing merely the sand-paper polishing. So, other shapes desired, it soon produces them. The company, with a wise fore thought as to the future, bought one hundred and sixty acres of land lying immediately along the Western and Atlantic, and not far west of the Ma rietta and North Georgia Railroad, only about a mile above their junction near Marietta. The huge factory is alongside the Western and Atlantic Railroad’s track on the east, and a THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE. SCHEDULES —BET WEEN J" ack soruville <&d JLtlenita Via QUEEN and CRESCENT ROUTE, AND Cincinnati and Louisville. - ■ y - , READ DOWN. zm b.i sx ■ 1* *w- ■ READ UP. -- FROM CINCINNATI. -v .i f— bouth-bound. Nortn-boußu. 8 05 am 8 47 pm Lv. CINCINNATI, Q. & (J Ar 6-50 am 6 00 pm 10 25 am 11 43 pm “ Lexington, “ Lv. 4 05 am 3 31 pm 11 25 am 12 48 am “ Danville, “ “ 256 am 237 pm 11 50 am 110 am “ Junction City, “ “ 245 am 228 pm 5 25 pm 9 10 am Ar. Boyce (Cin. Sou. Jc.), Q. & C “ 6 50 pm 8 10 am 5 50 pm 9 30 am Ar. CHATTANOOGA “ Lv. 6 35 pm 8 00 am 1 00 am 8 55 am Lv. CHATTANOOGA, W & A..........Ar. 7 00 pm 4 30 am 1 50 am 957 am “ Ringgold “ “ 603 pm 334 am 206 amilO 15 am “ Tunnel Hill, “ “ 546 pm 317 am 222am10 32 am “ Dalton. “ “ 530 pm 301 am 253am11 07 am “ Resaca “ “ 446 pm 225 am 423am12 49 pm “ Allatoona “ “ 307pm12 40 am 505 am 136 pm “ Marietta “ “ 222pm11 55 pm 5 51 am 2 25 pm Ar. ATLANTA “ Lv. 1 30 pm 11 00 pm 6 00 am 2 45 pm Lv. ATLANTA, C. R. R Ar. 12 40 pm 9 35 pm 6 47 am 3 32 pm Lv. Jonesboro “ Lv. 11 51 am 8 42 pm i 00 am Ar. JACKSONVILLE, SF & W Lv. 700 pm 9 40 am Lv. MACON, C R R Lv 5 40 pm 4 07 pm Ar. Savannah, “ “ 8 40 am 4 32 pm Lv. Savannah, S F & W Ar 5 35 am 7 57 pm ....’.. “ Waycross, “ Lv 12 30 am 9 50 pmj Ar Callahan, “ “ 8 02 pm 10 30 pm Ar .Jacksonville “ Lv 7 00 pm Pullman Palace Buffet and Mann Boudoir Buflet Sleeping-Cars daily between Cin cinnati and Jacksonville without change. Upon the above schedule, first class Day Coach daily between Chattanooga and Jacksonville without change and without extra charge. Polite porter in attendance. South-bound i FROM LOUISVILLE. _ \ _ I North-bound. 9 05 pm 8 00 am Lv LOUISVILLE, L&N Ar 6 30 am 6 45 pm 1 05 am 11 25 am “ Junction City,Q&C “ 240 am 223 pm 855 ani| 100 am “ Chattanooga, W& A.. <• 635 pm 800 am 245 pm 600 am “ Atlanta, CRR “ 1 30 pm 11 00 pm 645 pm “ Macon “ “ S4O am 10 50 pm “ Albany, BA W “ 400 am 3 45 am “ Waycross, S, F A W “ 10 15 pm 7 00 am Ar JACKSONVILLE, S. FA W Lv 7 00 pm i 9 40 am Lv MACON Lv . I 5 40 pm i 4 32 pm “ Savannah “ i 8 40 am Connecting at Junction City with the Pullman Buffet and Mann Boudou r Buffet Cars, lor Jacksonville, Fla., without change. First-Class Eating Houses —meals at seasonable hours—in Union Passenger Depots. Pullman Buflet or Mann Boudoir Cars leave Cincinnati at 8.47 pm daily, as per fol lowing calendar. Large figures represent Pullman Buflet Cars; small figures, Mann Boudoir Buflet Cars. FEBRUARY, 1886 MARCH, 1886. APRIL, 1886. I S|M| T W T| F S SIM|T]W T~ F S STMUfIWi T| Fl S - i ' ' j • 1 2 3 4 | 5 6 . i 2 3 4 5 6 . 1.. ..L 1 2 3 71 8 <j! io 11 12 13 7 8 910 ii 12 13 4 ■> o 7 8l 91 in n 1516 17 18 in 20 14 15 io it 18 19 20 ii 12 13 14 15 ig 17 2122 23 24 25 26127 21 22 232 42 5 26 18 19 20 >122 23 24 28 .. .. 28 29 30 31 23 26 27 28 - . . I- J- -I- -I- ■ - - ■ -I- -I I .|| |. .I. . . . I Atlanta, and Jacksonville, Florida. VIA DANVILLE ROUTE, —TO— CHIC AG O. READ DOWN. RA.AD UP - STATIONS. 1 ’ Uth ' b, ! Un, £ North-bound. 340 pm Lv CHICAGO C&E IRR ' ? ’““Al-10 50 am > 41 pm “ Danville “ “ (j 43 am 935 P m “ Terre Haute E & T-H R R “ 750 pm ar » “Evansville L&NRR Lv 1 00 am ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘’ - 9;) am “ Henderson ’ “ “1230 am 7 30 am “Nashville NC & St. L 6 55 pm’ ’’' ‘ ’ ’’ 1 ullman I alace Buffet Sleeping-Cars, Chicago to Nashville, without change. Spend half of your life in making friends; the other half in robbing them, gain a reputation so that you may live as though you did not possess one. These are maxims that every neophyte upon the stock exchange should master. The first twenty-five years of life we are taught morality. The second twenty-five we try to forget what we have learned. The third twenty-five we preach it toothers. After seventy five years we begin to practice it. branch track has been run from the ( other road to it. • The rough marble is brought down the Marietta and North Georgia Rail road from the famous Georgia marble quarries, which are near 'fate, about fifty miles north of Marietta. The supply is inexhaustible, the mountains being full of it and the valleys being under-laid by a stratum of solid mar ble which diamond drill boriug for eighty feet down has found no end to. Talk of dreams of dwelling in mar ble halls, why the reality is here in practical reach. Marble, marble; cheaper than granite, and with ma chinery which fashions it for you at a cost —no, at a cheapness —which “ as tonishes the natives” and bewilders the foreigners. The tourists who sweeps down the Western and Atlantic Railroad, the historic battle-fields line, from his pal ace car window views with interest the ; hills at Ringgold, Rocky Face, Resaca 1 ami Allatoona, whicii have been made sacred by the blood of heroes and famous by the grand achieve ments of American soldiery. H * also gazes with mingled feelings of delight and admiration at the majestic Kenne saw Mountain as it towers toward the clouds, far above the Western and At lantic track which skirts its northern and western base. Here around its sloping sides nearly sixty thousand Confederates, and one hundred and ten thousand Union sol i diers engaged in almost a daily dearh grapple during the entire month of June, I<S64. Not a day but marked some movement of importance; notan hour but the roar of cannon or the in cessant, bickering skirmish fire enliv ened the air and stained the ground with blood ; not a week but a battle was chronicled which carried woe into hundreds of households. From their lofty perch on Kennesaw Mountain the Confederates could enjoy (?) an unobstructed vision over the vast and imposing panorama which nature and war jointly spread out be neath them. The movements of regiments, brig ades and corps through the woods for full line, or detached attacks upon i their works, were completely under their eyes. Skirmish firing, platoon firing, and even artillery firing could sometimes not be heard at their lofty eyrie, but they could all be seen. But let us turn away from war and its scenes of terror. The great Ken nesaw Route <»nce had more of these “ attractions” than it wanted. The tourist views them only in memory : but here, near the base of Kennesaw Mountain, be sees the em bryo of not only one of the greatest in dustries in America, but also of one of the most beautiful cities which Geor gia will call her own. Is it scenery that is desired ? Ken- I nesaw Mountain and its surrounding hills gratify the wish. Is it health ? The altitude of 1,150 feet above the sea, atmosphere as superb as New Mexico s, perfect drainage and pure water, all ask you, “ why should you die till your century is out?” Is it proximity to all the material essentials for prosperity and happiness? Well, coal is laid down here at $2.50 per ton, hard woods are abundant, the county produces 12,000 bales of cot ton per annum. Marble is so cheap that they are macadamizing the streets with it, and you are only one hour's 1 ide fiom Atlanta, with which you 'are connected by ten schedules per day each way over the Western and Atlantic, and commutation tickets are very cheap. The wild mountain scenery of north ern Georgia is now being brought into easy reach of the tourist, the capital-