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ist and the health seeker, by the ex
tension of the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad, whose double termi
ni are at Marietta and Elizabeth, on
the Western and Atlantic. Its wealth
of minerals and hard woods is incal
culable ; but to the weary invalids its
wealth of pure water and surpassingly
superb atmosphere, is worth more
than all the marble, gold, iron and
hard wood of which it boasts.
The United States census report
shows that this is the healthiest section
in America, in the matter of pulmo
nary diseases. It has not in winter
the intense cold of the lake region and
the Rocky Mountain section, nor has
it in summer the warm, damp atmos
phere of the South in general. The
wooded mountain sides catch up the
moisture, and the south winds, freed
of this burden, pass on gently over
the highlands filling space with the
most glorious, exhilarating and heal
ing air which the lungs could require.
It can readily be seen, therefore,
that with the building of a fine hotel,
as is contemplated, at Elizabeth, the
searcher after health or pleasure will
find this and its elder and beautiful
sister, Marietta, the “ Gem City of
Georgia,” the most charming resorts in
the Southeast. They have within
themselves more advantages, and are
within one to four hours ride of the
most picturesque scenery or the cen
ters of health, capital and refinement
in Georgia, and both can be reached
without change, by sleeping cars which
run from the Ohio river to Jackson
ville. By all means, therefore, as you
go to or return from Florida, stop at
Marietta, and from there go up to
Elizabeth and historic Kennesaw Moun
tain.
The San Francisco and Northern
Pacific railway is principally owned by !
Col. Peter Donahue, and runs from
San Francisco to Cloverdale, 84 miles,
At one of the stations, not long ago,
an elderly gentleman got off the cars
to take brief observations during the
stoppage of the train. The assistant
at the station rushed out and made a
regular baggage smasher’s attack on a
trunk, which he slammed about with a
reckless disregard of consequences.
The other man inteposed : “Young
man, won’t you break that trunk?”
The young man turned a withering
look upon the old gentleman and im
pudently inquired ; ‘‘ What’s the
matter with you ? Do you own this
trunk?” “ No, sir,” came back in a
tone that evinced much indignation,
“ but I’ll have you to understand, sir,
that I own this railroad.” AsCol. Don
ahue moved back to the train the limp :
young man reclined against the station
for support.
MORAL.
Railroad employes should be polite
to everybody, an angel might be
around.
“ I see ihat a Chicago landlord has
shot a boarder for joking about the
butter,” remarked the judge. “ That
must have been a queer kind of but
ter,” responded the major. “Why?”
“That it was not strong enough to re
sent the insult itself.”
Between the acts in London —“ Ah,
Sir Edward, I see you are to lecture.”
“ Yaas ! ” “ What subject ?” “ Char
acteristics of Hamericans.” “ Why,
you’ve never been to Hamerica, ’ave
you!” “No, but I had a cablegram
from there. I can read the character
of the Hamericans in their handwrit- <
ing, y’ know.” :
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE.
SCFTKIDTJLES
—BETWEEN —
Jacksonville and Atlanta.
Via LOUISVILLE and NASHVILLE R. R.
AND—
Cincinnati Louisville
Nashvillle & SLLouis.
READ DOWII. READ UP.
South-bound. STATIONS. North-bound
8 20 pm 8 15 am Lv CINCINNATI, L & N Ay 6 40 pm 6 35 am
12 30 am 12 35 pm “ LOUISVILLE, “ “ 220 pm 220 am
2 24 am 2 30 pm “ Elizabethtown, “ “ 12 30 pm 12 24 am
4 50 am 5 00 pm Lv Bowling Green “ “ 10 25 am 10 00 pm
700 am 725 pm Ar NASHVILLE “ “ 745 am 720 pm
715 pm 710 am Lv ST. LOUIS L & NKK Ar 805 pm 740 am
12 45 am 12 45 pm “ Evansville “ Lv 1 55 pm 1 30 am
205 am 1 55 pm “ Henderson “ 140pm12 30 am
530 am 540 pm “ GUTHRIE “ “ 930 am 850 pm
7 30 am 7 50 pm Lv NASHVILLE N C& St L Aril 45 am 0 40 pm
8 40 am 8 50 pm “ Murfreesboro “ . Lv 10 25 am 5 33 pm
10 00 am 958 pm “ Tullahoma “ “ 855 am 415 pm
1 05 pm 12 50 am Ar CHATTANOOGA “ Ar 5 20 am I 10 pm
115 pml 1 (in am LTCHATTANOOGA" AV & A Ar 4~30“am 100 pm
1 31 pm 1 17 am “ Boyce, “ Lv 4 15 am 12 50 pm
1 40 pm 1 25 am “ Chickamauga, “ “ 400am12 38 pm
1 54 pm 1 38 am “ Graysville “ “ i 3 4(5 am 12 25 pm
2 07 pm 1 50 am “ Ringgold “ .. . “ . 3 34 am 12 12 pm
224pm2 00 am “ Tunnel Hill “ ' .. . “ 317 am 11 50 am
240 pm 222 am “ 1 alton “ . “ 301 am II 40 am
313 pm 2 53 am “ Resaca “ “ 225 am 11 07 am
3 48 pm 3 25 am “ Adairsville “ ...... 1 49 am 10 33 am
4 54 pm 4 23 am “ Allatoona “ . . . . “ 12 40 am 9 27 am
5 31 pm 4 47 am “ Kennesaw “ “12 14 am 9 01 am
5 50 pm 5 05 am “ Marietta “ “11 55 pm 8 42 am
0 37 pm 5 51 am Ar ATLANTA “ “ 11 00 pm 7 50 am
0 50 pm 0 00 am Lv ATLANTA C R R . Ar 9 35 pm 7 32 am
7 39 pm 0 47 am “ Jonesboro “ Lv 8 42 pm 0 47 am
829 pm 730 am “ Griffin “ “ 750 pm 553 am
10 50 pm 940 am “ Macon “ . . “ 540 pm 335 am
310 am 1 30 pm “ Millen “ ... “ 12 00 n’n 11 15 pm
555 am 407 pm Ar SAVANN AH “ “ 840 am 8 10 pm
6 42 am 4 32 pm Lv SAVANNAH S F&W Ar 5 35 am 7 40 pm
10 20 am 7 57 pm Ar Waycross “ Lv 12 30 am 1 40 pm
12 10 pm 950 pm “ Callahan “ “ 802 pm 225 pm
100pm1030 pm Ar JACKSONVILLE “ “ 700 pm' 1 40 pm
Pullman Palace Sleeping-Cars between Cincinnati and Nashville, without change.
Train leaving Nashville at 7.50 pm has Pullman Sleeper to Atlanta without change ;
also day coach through without change and without extra charge.
First-Class Eating Houses. Meals at Seasonable Hours.
The above line may be justly termed THE HISTORIC BATTLEFIELDS’
ROUTE OF AMERICA, the passenger traveling this route, passing through or near
the famous battlegrounds of Murfreesboro, Tullahoma, Chattanooga, Chickamauga,Ring
gold, Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face, Resaca, Allatoona, (“ Hold the fort; for 1 am com
ing!”) KENNESAW MOUNTAIN, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Griswoldville and many
others, nearly as famous.
NO OMNIBUS TRANSFERS.
ALL TRAINS RUN INTO UNION PASSENGER DEPOTS.
~30 ams 750 pm Lv NASHVILLE N C&St. L .... Ar 020 am 040 pm
8 40 am 8 50 pm! “ Murfreesboro “ ... Lv 5 05 am 5 33 pm
10 00 am 958 pm “ Tullahoma “ .....“ 325 am 1 15 pm
I 05 pm 12 50 am Ar CHATTANOOGA “ “11 45 pm 1 10 pm
115 pm Tot Tam Lv”(Jil ATTANOOGA "W A- A . Ai- 11 31 pm 1 00 jmi
1 31 am I 17 am “ Boyce “ Lv 11 13 pm 12 50 | m
1 40 pm 1 25 am “ Chickamauga “ .. . “ 11 04 pm 12 38 pm
1 54 pm 1 38 am “ Graysville “ . . “ 10 49 pm 12 25 pm
2 07 pm .1 50 am “ Ringgold “ . “ 10 30 pm 12 12 pm
2 24 pm 2 00 am! “ Tunnel Hill “ “10 19 pm 11 50 am
2 40 pm 2 22 am “ Dalton “ “ 10 02 pm 11 40 am
3 13 pm 253 anr “ Resaca “ . “ 923 pm 11 07 am
454 pm 423 am! “ Allatoona “ . . “ 745 pm 927 am
531 pm 447 am! “ Kennesaw “ “ 705 pm 901 am
550 pm 505 am “ Marietta “ . . “ 047 pm 842 am
6 37 pm 5 51 am Ar ATLANTA “ a 22 22? I 22 am I
0 50 pm 0 00 am Lv ATLANTA C R R Ar 12 40 pm 7 32 am
739 pm 047 amj “ Jonesboro “ Lv 11 51 am 047 am
10 50 pin 940 am! “ Macon “ “ 840 am 335 am
5 55 am 1 07 pm 1 Ar SAVANNAH “ Lv .._ . .. 8 10 pm
0 42 am 4 32 pm Lv SAVANNAH S. F& W Ar 7 40 pm
10 20 am 7 57 pm Ar Waycross ‘ l ...... Lv 4 40 pm
12 10 am 9 50 pm “ Callahan “ “ 2 2.) pm
1 00 pm 10 30 pm Ar JACKSONVILLE il u i_- 1 40 I,IU1 ,1U
...... .. Lv MACON C R R Ar 8 16 am
i “ Waycross S. F & W “ 10 45 pm
Ar Callahan “ 11 802 pm
1 “ JACKSONVILLE “ “ 700 pm
Train leaving St. L. at 7:15 pm daily, has Pullman Palace Sleeping-Car, through
without change S'.. Louis to Nashville. Train leaving Nashyille at 7.50 pm has Pull
man Sleeper to Atlanta without change; also day coach through without change and
without extra charge.
The deepest boring yet made is at
the village of Schladebach, near the
line between Leipzig and Corbetha. It
has been made by the Prussian gov
ernment to test for the presence of coal
and was bored with diamond drills. Its
depth is 4,560 feet, its breadth at the
bottom 2 inches, and at the top 11
inches. It has occupied 34 years to
bore, and cost a little over $25,000.
The temperature at the bottom is 118°
Fah.
Kennesaw Mountain.
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From the Atlanta Intelligencer, June 23d,.
1864.
One of the most magnificent views
to be seen on earth is thescene exhibit
ed from the summit of the Kennesaw
Mountain. From its base a valley on
all sides spreads off in billowy like sur
faces, rolling higher and higher until
it is lost on the south < n the blue out
line of the southeastern sour of the
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Alleghanies, on whose crest the white
line of houses and occasional spires of
Atlanta are plainly visible. South
ward, beyond that regular line, a
smooth, blue cone lifts its head high
above all the ridges within view, and
overlooks the eminences of all the
country. It is Stone Mountain, that
barren hill and wonderful curiosity
that arises like a huge loaf, and though
over twenty miles south of the crest
where Atlanta rests in her beauty, it
seems as though it was a helmet sitting
on the brow of this giant ridge.
Eastward, and but a few miles from
the base of the Kennesaw, the lovely
village of Marietta gleams out from
amid the luxuriant foliage which em
bowers it like an emerald setting
weaved in a cluster of diamonds. In
its desolation it remains beautiful. Its
arbored shades look as inviting as
when the exquisite forms of beauty
and the attractive eyes of lovely and
loved women, and elegant people
charmed the visitorto remain and lux
uriate amid its endearments. The de
facing touch and destroying presence
of an army are evident on its face.
Its citizens gone, its magnificent homes
deserted, its regal residences desolate,
its church bells quiet, its halls aban
doned and its music silenced, it re
mains but a warlike citadel on the
plain. The echoes of war, the fitful
signal of the clanging, spurred drag
oons, the challenge of the sentry, the
snort of the warhorse, the shrieks of
the steam engines, the rumbling of
trains of cars and long lines of wag
ons, and the shouts of teamsters ami
workmen, swell aloud on the air at in
tervals, and then (he oppressive si
lence becomes more intolerable than
the noise was before. The destructive
finger of war is laid on the village,but
it remains beautiful in its ruins. North
eastward from the slope of the moun
tain the billowy hills wave into the
dim, misty outline of the crests whose
thin blue brows stretch to the Cat
skills on the Hudson. The Blue
Ridge, with all its strange contourand
fantastic on.lines, fades before us into a
cloud, and into the impenetrable
depths where even distance does not
“ lend enchantment to the view,” by
robing the “ mountain in its azure
hue.”
Brush Mountain casts up its shaggy
head before us, and like the hump of a
camel sits a ragged monster barrier, on
whose sloping face an army defends
the pathways that lead to the goal of
our enemy’s ambition. At its feet a
smiling, peaceful valley shines its fhir
face, and laughing in the sunlight its
•green fields and treasured homes re
flect back the scorching rays of the
bright sun, shining like the glorious
gems that they are to the husband
man. Far off to the northward their
bosoms are bared to grow’ the wealth
that fills our graneries and storehouses
with their golden grain. The limit is
bounded by the hills along the Etowah.
Skirting the horizon, their broken
backs are misty and dim. Sometimes
a dull red or barren sandy spot on the
iron hills gleams out on their sides or
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