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Psalm CXLV.
1, David praiseth Clod for His fame. 8,
for His goodness, 11, for His kingdom, 14,
for His providence, 17, for His saving mercy.
DAVID S PSALM OF PRAISE.
1. I will extol Thee, my God, 0
King; and I will bless Thy name for
•ever and ever.
2. Every day will I bless Thee; and
I will praise Thy name for ever and
ever.
3. Great is the Lord, and greatly
to be praised ; and His greatness is un
searchable.
4. One generation shall praise Thy
works to another, ard shall declare
Thy mighty acts.
5. I will speak of the glorious honor
of Thy majesty, and of Thy wondrous
works.
6. And men shall speak of the might
of Thy terrible acts ; and I will declare
Thy greatness.
7. They shall abundantly utter the
memory of Thy great goodness, and
shall sing of Thy righteousness.
8. The Lord is gracious, and full
of compassion ; slow to anger, and of
great mercy.
9. The Lord is good to all; and
His tender mercies are over all His
works.
10. All Thy works shall praise Thee,
O Lord; and Thv saints shall bless
Thee.
11. They shall speak of the glory of
Thy kingdom, and talk of Thy power.
12. To make known to the sons of
men His mighty acts, and the glorious
majesty of His kingdom.
13. Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and. Thy dominion endureth
throughout all generations.
14. The Lord upholdethall that fall,
and raiseth up all those that be bowed
down.
15. The eyes of all wait upon Thee;
and Thou givest them their meat in
in due season.
16. Thou openest Thine hand, and
satisfies! the desire of every living
thing.
17. The Lord is righteous in all His
ways, and holy in all his works.
18. The Lord is nigh unto all them
that call upon Him, to all that call
upon Him in truth.
19. He will fulfil the desire of them
that fear Him : He also will hear their
cry, and will save them.
20. The Lord preserveth all them
that love Him : but all the wicked will
He destroy.
21. My mouth shall speak the praise
of the Lord : and let all flesh bless
His holy name for ever and ever.
The little “Riverside Route,” as
the Rome Railroad is called, is not
only one of the most popular in
Georgia, but is also lined with beauti
ful scenery. Shortly after leaving
Kingston, on the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, it reaches the valley of the
Etowah river, and from there to Rome
it is almost continuously in sight of the
river. The scenery which is shown on
a succession of magnificent farms and
the beautiful river, one never grows
tired of. Os the Rome Railroad al
most the same thing may be said as of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad, that
“it is the biggest thing for its size in
Ameriky.”
Stop at the beautiful Whitlock
House, Marietta, the “gem hotel” in
the beautiful “Gem City” of Georgia.’
Only via the Western and Atlantic
railroad can you get to the healthiest
county in Georgia, ii not in America.
The E. T., V. & G. Railway’s
Caved-in Tunnel Under
Missionary Ridge.
Work on the E. T., V. &G. tunnel
under Missionary Ridge, is still pro
gressing, and it is thought that it will
probably be finished within a very
few days. In the meantime, the E.
T.,V. AG. trains, between Chatta
nooga and East Tennessee Junction,
near Chickamagua Station, on the
Western A Atlantic R. R., run over
the Western A Atlantic and connect
with the E. T., V. A G., at that point.
It is pleasant to notice such mag
nanimity as the Western A Atlantic
has shown in this respect, and the edi
tor has frequently heard the Western
A Atlantic’s management compliment
ed for its action towards the E T.,
V. A G. R. R.
By the way, while upon this subject,
we have had called to our attention an
instance of how smart the passenger
agents of the present day are in keep
ing abreast of the times in turning ev
erything to account for theirown lines.
A party came into the ticket office
of the Western A Atlantic Railroad,
at the union depot in Atlanta, and
wished to buy a ticket to some point in
Texas. The regular fare was quoted
and he asked if this could not be shaded,
but received a negative reply. He then
said that he would go to the East Ten
nessee office and see if he could get a
better rate, and if he could not, he
would come back and go over the W.
A A.
He returned within an hour and said
he could not get a better rate quoted
than had been quoted him by the W.
A A. ticket agent, and that he told the
East Tennessee folks that he wanted to
go over the W. AA. R R. if there
was no difference in the rate. He was
then informed that they could sell him
a ticket over the W. A. A. R. R. He
said he supposed there was some mis
take about is; but they assured him
that there was not, and he came back
to find out from the W. A A. ticket
agent how such a thing was possible.
When he was informed that an East
Tennessee ticket from Atlanta to Chai
tanoaga would take him over eight
miles of the Western A Atlantic Rail
road, from East Tennesssee Junction
to Chattanooga, his comments were
rather funny ; but he bought his tick
et from the W. A A, agent all the
same.
Railroad Casualties.
That was a very sad accident which
the East Tennesse, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad train had while running over
the Western A Atlantic track just out
side of Chattanooga on the 15th of Sep
tember, which resulted in the death of
engineer Buckley and fireman Farris.
These two clever men will be missed
in more senses than one by their asso
ciates as well as by the E. T., V. A G.
R. R. Co.
One peculiar feature of the accident
was that although it was supposed that
the engine was knocked off by a cow,
which it struck while running at a
very high rate of speed, yet, really, the
engine did not leave the track until it
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
had passed three hundred yards beyond
the point where the cow was struck.
It is possible that the end of the pilot
i was bent, and as this was of iron, it
struck some cross-tie or portion of the
ballast which was higher than is gen
erally the case, and that by this means
the engine and train were thrown from
the track, the postal car being hurled
over fifty feet from where it left the
track.
The difference between the pattern,
etc. of the pilot which is generally
used by the Western A Atlantic and
that by the E. T., V. A G., has some
times been noticed. The framework
of the W. AA. pilot is of wood, and
the slant forward is very gradual;
whereas, that of the E. T., V A G is
said to be of iron, and slants downward
more rapidly.
Had the pilot been of the W. A A. 1
pattern, it is possible that the cow
would have been thrown upward and
lodged against the end of the engine,
or have gone off to one side, and even
though the pilot had been damaged,
there would not have been strength
enough in the wood-work,as there was
in the iron, to have caused the engine
to have leaped upward and left the
track.
However, this is a matter of seme
speculation, and it is to be hoped that
we may be spared the recital of such
horrors in the future.
The second day after this accident,
the E. T., V. A G. trains had another.
An E. T., V. A G. freight train com
ing at a rapid nite of speed overtook
an E. T., V. A G. passenger train,
and ran into the rear end, damaging
the sleeper slightly, and knocking off
the headlight of the engine, breaking
the freight train into two or three
parts, and throwing several cars off the
track. Fortunately, however, there
was no serious damage done, and the
track was soon cleared.
The Western A Atlantic Railroad
does not claim to be a ‘‘great system,”
but claims to have more attractions
for the tourist than some “great sys
tems” several times its size, and offers
more advantages in the way of smooth
road-bed, sure schedules and union
depot terminals, than its “great sys
tem” competitors. It depends upon
its natural as well as artificial advan
tages, and equally with its honesty of
dealing with the public, for its patron
age, and its past record is the best
guarantee of its future course.
One of the nicest hotels in the south
east, for fall tourists and invalids to
come to, is at Grovetown, on the Geor
gia Railroad, about fifteen mileseast of
Augusta. The hotel Rosland is “a
daisy” in every respect. It is sufficient
recommendation for Grovetown to say
that a portion of the family of Mr.
George M. Pullman, President of the
Pullman Palace Sleeping Car Com
pany, has, during the past couple of
winters, spent several weeks at this
point.
Sixty-eight different kinds of miner
als and ores found on the line of the
Western and Atlantic railroad.
Charleston.
The historic “City by the Sea,”
whose defences underwent bombard
ment from Sir Peter Parker’s war ships
during the Revolutionary War, and
which afterwards underwent bombard
ment from the batteries of the beseig
ing Federal army, for almost the en
tire four years of the Great Civil War,
and which is now the centre of attrac
tion for scientific men by reason of the
great earthquake during about the first
of September, has more interest with
in itself to tourists than probably any
other city in the southeast.
Forts Sumter and Moultrie, Morris
Island, Janies’ Island and Johns’ Is
land, Castle Pinckney, the beautiful
Magnolia Cemetery, and all the still
remaining types of former civilization
in the South, afford abounding interest.
This is getting to be quite a resort
for winter tourists to come to and spend
at least the early portion of winter and
spring. They should remember that
from Cincinnati to Charleston there is
only one change of cars, if they take
the sleeping car line which runs from
Boyce to Atlanta, over the Western A
Atlantic Railroad, making close con
nection in the union depot at Atlanta
with the Georgia Railroad train, which
has a through sleeping ca. to Charles
ton
The schedules over the Western A
Atlantic, Georgia and South Carolina
Railways are proverbial for their reg
ularity and certainty, and passengers
not only have a pleasant and safe jour
ney, but also pass through scenery and
points around which there are some of
the most famous associations chronicled
in American history.
Hardly a mile north of the western
end of Kennesaw Mountain is the resi
dence of Mr. G. W. Hardage. This
house was the head-quarters of Gen
eral Leonidas Polk, just before he was
killed by a cannon shot on Pine Moun
tain, June 14, 1864. After his death
his body was brought down to this
place, and, for some couple of hours or
more, lay in an ambulance which stood
under a magnificent oak tree which is
still standing in front of the house.
Thus this unpretentious little country
home is sanctified by the most sacred
memories of the warrior-Bishop of the
Confederate army.
If you are going to travel between
the northwest and Atlanta or Florida
you should by all means go over the
Western and Atlantic Railroad through
the wild and historic scenery at and
near Allatoona Pass, and amid the
Allatoona Mountains. The Western
and Atlantic Railroad passes through
scenery which must always be im
pressive to lovers of the gospel as it
penetrates the mountain fastnesses at
and near Allatoona Pass, and every
lover of the stirring song, “Hold the
fort, for I am coming !” should travel
through the scenes where the moun
tain signals were exchanged just be
fore the famous battle of Allatoona.
Marietta is the sanitarium of North
Georgia.
i The Kennesaw Route is the quickest.
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