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6 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. SUBSCRIPTION: S1 a year; six months, 50 cts. A limited number of acceptable adver tisements will be inserted in The Kennesaw Gazette, which publishes a very large edi 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 the Western and Atlantic Railroad ; and at other points where The Great Kennesaw Route is represented. For space and terms ad dress ®ljc Bennesdw ©ajette, Box 57 Atlanta, Ga., and you will receive a prompt response. 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