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The Kennesaw Gazette,
” PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH.
Devoted to the Material Interests and Attractions
for Tourists in the Mountainous Region of
Northern and Northwest Georgia,
REACHED BY
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE:
Western and Atlantic Railroad:
Under the auspices of the Passenger Department,
BY
THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
A. L- HARRIS, MANAGING EDITOR.
-A.tlan.tEb, Gel., Sept., 188 S.
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tisements will be inserted in The Kennesaw
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tion every month, and it is safe to say
that it is read by more people than any
other paper in the South. Great numbers
are distributed in Atlanta, to citizens and
travelers, by the publishers and officials of
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Owing to the non-arrival of our reg
ular, first-class paper, we are obliged
to issue the Kennesaw Gazette on
an inferior article of paper this month.
It shall not occur again.
Publisher’s Notice.
Ihe success that has attended the
publication of the Kennesaw Ga
zette, and the gratification it affords
to our thirty thousand readers, induce
us to still further improve it, which
will be apparent in the October num
ber which will abound in matters of
great interest to the traveling and gen
eral reading public. Among other at
tractions will be an illustrated synop
sis of the Atlanta campaign. An ar
ticle exhibiting the climatic features of
Kennesaw North Georgia, and many
other features of great interest.
An extra large edition will be print
ed. A limited number of advertise
ments will be inserted.
Convenient Schedules.
The best schedules which have ever
been made between Atlanta and Nash
ville both ways are those which are
now in effect. Business men can
transact all of their affairs in Atlanta,
and can leave the Union Depot in At
lanta at 5:55, p. m., on Western and
Atlantic passenger train No. 19, and
arrive at Nashville at 6:20 a. m., in
time for breakfast. Those desiring to
come from Nashville to Atlanta can
leave Nashville at 8:20 p. m., after
supper, and arrive in Atlanta on West
ern and Atlantic passenger train, No.
12, at 7:25 a. m., in time for break
fast, and in this manner the entire day
can be spent in Atlanta or Nashville
and the run is only made during the
night.
“Bill Arp” lives in Bartow county,
only about a half dozen miles from
Cartersville, on the Western & Atlantic
railroad.
Sam Jones, the evangelist, lives on
k the Kennesaw Route.
IN MEMORIAM.
Gen. B. F. Cheatham
DIED
AT NASHVILLE, TENN.,
1:30 A. M., September 4, 1886.
A division, and afterwards corps
commander in the Confederate Army
of Tennessee, taking a prominent part
in all of the great operations of the
“Chickamauga” and “Atlanta Cam
paigns,” between Chattanooga and At
lanta, along the line of the Western &
Atlantic railroad, he established a rep
utation as a wise and lion-hearted sol
dier,
After the war, as a citizen, he was
held in honor and esteem.
As his mortal remains are laid to
rest in the bosom of the State he loved
so well, and in whose defense and for
whose cause he risked his life “on
many a bloody field,” we but echo the
universal sentiment, in the words:
Peace to his ashes, and honor to his
memory!
The Climate of Marietta.
From a little circular, showing the
advantages of Marietta,Ga. ,as a health
resort, issued by Dr. H. P. Gatchell,
of that city, the following extract is
made:
“Situated as it is on an elevated
plateau at the foot of grand old Ken
nesaw Mountain, eleven hundred and
fifty feet above the level of the sea;
with a soil of a sandy, gravelly clay,
resulting from the disintegration of
the granite rocks of the Blue Ridge;
with a natural drainage, and a perfect
freedom from malarial influences;
with water that is pure and soft; with
a health-giving mountain air, and with
a great number of sunshiny days in
which to live out of doors, walking or
driving over the many and varied
roads leading from the city, Marietta
offers superior inducements to the
health or pleasure-seeker.
The winter climate is of the right
temperature to give that feeling of
vigor, without which no permanent
gain in health can be made; while the
summer climate is exempt from the
extreme heat that characterizes the
lowlands of, the South; with nights
that are cool and refreshing, and an
atmosphere that is considerably less
than the average humidity.
Table showing the mean tempera
ture for a period of seven years :
Winter months 47.5
Spring months 60.8
Summer months 74.6
Autumn months 62.0
Table showing the mean humidity
for the same period:
Winter months 66.4
Spring months 61.3
Summer months 67.1
Autumn months 67.5
Table showing the death ratio from
consumption and pneumonia to the
hundred thousand people:
California 321
Texas 213
Colorado 128
Florida 231
Minnesota 144
New Mexico 118
NORTH GEORGIA 115
A comparatively dry air is desirable,
in both warm and cold weather. Damp
ness aggravates the effect of both heat
and cold; damp air, combined with
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
heat, is always more debilitating than
air of the same temperature which is
dry. The atmosphere of this region is,
therefore, considerably less than the
average humidity.
Surgeon G. K. Wood, U. S. A.,
says that the injudicious course of send
ing consumptives to the hot, low and
moist coast, and the islands of the
Gulf of Mexico should be abandoned.
In diseases of debility, the remedies
are tonics and stimulants. What is
more debilitating than affections of the
lungs ? And what is less tonic than
heat and moisture ?
Prof. A. L. Loomis, M.D., of New
York cky, emphasizes the importance
of giving careful attention to the early
manifestations of phthisis, and begin
ning systematic treatment before the
disease has become established. In
writing of his experience with con
sumptives, he states that the best re
sults, when evidences of consolidation
were present, were obtained in those
who stayed from one to three years in
a mountainous region. He also favors
a medium altitude.
Now, to sum up some of the advan
tages possessed by Marietta, we have —
A pure, bracing atmosphere, with a
majority of sunshiny days.
A climate free from malaria.
A hotel equal to the best, and at
one-third less cost.
A climate that is endorsed by many
leading physicians.
To the tourist who visits this “ Gem
City ” for the first time there will be
much of historical interest in and
around the city. His first visit will
no doubt be to our “Silent City of the
Dead,” the National Cemetery; after
which he will make successive trips to
famous old Kennesaw, for relics of
the late war; to Pine Mountain, where
the Bishop-General Polk was killed;
to that mountain which was apparent
ly lost on the plain and was christened
“Lost;” to Kulp’s Farm, noted for be
ing a battlefield cf no little interest;
to Cheatham’s Hill, which takes its
name from the Confederate General
who commanded his force on its sum
mit; to Big Shanty, where the engine,
the “General,” belonging to the W.
& A. R. R., was stolen in 1862; and
to Allatoona, where occurred the in
cident that inspired the author to com
pose the now well-knows Gospel hymn,
“Hold the fort, for I am coming,” as
well as to other places of hardly less
historic interest.
Any further information as to the
healthfulness of Marietta will be cheer
fully furnished by Dr. 11. P. Gatch
ell, Marietta, Ga., who makes a
special study of climate, and its rela
tion to diseases of the throat and
lungs.”
The North Georgia “Crackers.”
There has been a good deal of com
ment, of an unfavorable nature, on the
“North Georgia Crackers,” and the
wonder has been expressed over and
over again that with all the elements
of natural wealth in the section around
them, they have not utilized any of
those, and have continued the primi
tive sort of life which their fathers
have lived for the last fiftv years.
This is a harsh comment when the
true facts are known. The country is
mountainous, and is crossed at one
point and another by swift streams
which in the winter time are frequent
ly dangerous to cross. The products
of the country being mostly grain or
fruits, Irish potatoes or cabbage, and
(while the very best of their kind) have
been of such a nature that when the
inhabitants had to haul them from six-
ty to eighty miles to the nearest mar
ket, it cost about as much as a wagon
load of corn, for instance, was worth
to get them to market.
In other words, if a farmer started
from up in Fannin county to some
point on the railroad with a load of
corn to sell, the amount of this which
his horses would eat from the starting
point to the railroad station and back
again would be a considerable portion
of it. Add to this the weight and
space which was taken up by the fod
der or other such provender which
was carried along to help feed the
horses, and it is no wonder, there
fore, when we look all these facts in
the face, that the North Georgia moun
taineer, from the very force of circum
stances, was compelled to content him
self with raising such products of the
earth as would support his family and
to get along with what was around him
as nearly as possible.
Now, however, that the Marietta &
North Georgia Railroad has been push
ed forward into the very heart of this
mountainous country, the entire pop
ulation of North Georgia will be within
scarcely more than a day’s ride, at
most, from some railroad station, either
on the Western & Atlantic or Marietta
& North Georgia railroads, or the At
lanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway.
This will not only enable the inhab
itants to market the products of their
farms and’orchards, but will also ena
ble them to develop the mines of ore,
marble, copper, lead and such other
mineral treasures as the country is
wonderfully wealthy in.
It may here be remarked also
that one very evident reason which
has prolonged the existence and occu
pation of what is known as the “moon
shiner,” has been the condition of af
fairs above described.
The inhabitants had to have money
with which to purchase clothing and
and the other et
ceteras which make up the necessities
of life, beyond those which they could
raise on their farms; and it was much
easier to make a few bushels of corn
into whisky and haul this in a barrel
to a railroad station than it was to haul
the corn itself over the rough moun
tain reads, across rapid and sometimes
dangerous streams, and all that cov
ering a trip of many miles and of sev
eral days journey.
The “moonshiner” will, in a few years,
to a great extent disappear, not be
cause of Uncle Sam’s stamping him
out by his “revenue minions,” as the
“moonshiners” doubtless consider them,
but because of the railroads, those in
troducers of civilization, which have pen
etrated the mountain fastnesses where
the “moonshiner” has held full sway,
and have removed the necessity for
the existence of his “ moonshine whis
key.”
In other words, because, of course,
it is now almost as easy for him to reach
a market with a load of corn as it was
a few years ago for him to reach a
railroad station with a barrel of whis
key.
Therefore, the railroads are not only