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Vol. 11.
The-Good Old Days.
On this page we give a picture of
“Aunt Nancy” —a typical “Mammie.”
This we have secured by special con
sent of the Western <£' Atlantic Rail
road Company for whose Marietta
folder it was prepared.
“Aunt Nancy” is no imaginary
character; but is still living, and is
beloved by all those whom she helped
to rear, and who still, when they get
sick or otherwise in need of nursing,
send for her.
We make the following extract from
the,Marietta folder:
“In the language of one of our most
cultured Georgia writers:
“This charming little city has long
been the health and pleasure resort of
the affluent denizens of the seacoast in
the heat of summer. Before the war,
when the old noblesse of that aristo
cratic region counted their broad acres
by the thousands and their slaves by
the hundreds, it was the fashion to
spend at least a few weeks in Mari
etta either going to or returning from
the Virginia Springs or Saratoga.
“ In those days money was dispensed
like water, and the big brick hotel,
which had been erected to meet the
ever increasing influx of visitors, was
jammed from cellar to attic.
“ Stylish equipages swept along the
streets, the churches were crowded with
the elite of the State, and mirth and
gayety held high carnival for weeks
and months every season.”
“In these days also there were, in
almost every family, trusted servants,
who had been raised up from the cra
dle, to special attendance in the house
holds of their masters, and between
whom and their owners’ there existed
a strong feeling of mutual affection
which gave the lie to the many tales
concerning the imaginary horrors of
slavery.
“These were also the days when al
most every wealthy or well-to-do fami
ly had among its number of• slaves a
‘ Mammie,’ as the children called her,
who was an aged, or at least an elderly
colored female, into whose hands the
children were placed almost equally
with those of the mother herself, and
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OUR ANNIVERSARY NUMBER.
for whom the
children instinc
tively enter
tained almost
the same tender
love they did for
the mother her
self.
“To her their
storie« of child
ish adventure
were told; to
her they carried
their grievances
and from her
lips their child
ish hearts were
made glad by
words of com
fort and cheer.
“God bless
the memories of
the dear old
‘ M a m m i e s’.
The writer con
fesses that oft.
times a tear has trembled in his own
eye as he has recalled the day when
‘ Mammie’so tenderly cared for him,
she who has now passed away from the
scenes which her presence made so
precious to childish hearts.”
We could write a small sized volume
about the tender feeling which existed
between the dear old “ Mammies” and
the children to whom they were as a
second mother; but time and space
will not allow. One of the best insti
tutions of the old times was the affec
tion which was cherished for the
“ Mammie” in each family of wealthy
’or well-to-do people. The old times
have passed, and the old “ Mammies”
are passing away ; but their memory
will always be one of the tenderest in
the Southland.
“The Fast Freight Line.”
The Western & Atlantic railroad
and the connections with which it
works may be, with emphatic correct
ness, termed “ The Fast Freight
Line” to Atlanta.
Car-load shipments from Chicago to
Atlanta come through right straight
along on schedule of two days and twen-
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“AUNT nancy” —A TYPICAL “MAMMIE.”
tioon companies is not to absolutely
promise what they will do; but the
best evidences of their ability is to
see ii'hat they really do, and that this
is done is demonstrated almost every
day of the week.
There is a wonderful wealth of hard
wood timber in the section through
which the Marietta & North Georgia
Railroad runs. We do not remember
to have seen anywhere in the south so
luxuriant a growth of hard-wood tim
ber as is exhibited throughout this en
tire region. The prediction of the
"United States census of 1880, that the
manufacture of the cooperage industry
of this section was yet in its infancy
and that it was destined to reach enor
mous development in the region of
which the Marietta & North Georgia
Railroad is the center, was evidently
made by some one who had been
through that country. The hard-wood
timber which will be wrought into fur
niture and everything of which hard
woods are the base will be worth un
counted thousands of dollars to this re
gion.
The Kennesaw Route is the quickest.
ty-one hours, in
other words,
business ship
ped in car-loads
from Chicago
to Atlanta is
less than three
days in transit.
There is no oth
er line entering
Atlanta which
comes within a
day of this time.
From St. Lou
is, also, the
Western & At
lantic, with its
conn e c t i o n s,
makes on car
load shipments
about tiro and
one-half day*’
time.
Os course, the
rule with all
safe transporta-
The “Yankee Colony” at Mari
etta.
A Northern gentlemen was speaking
to us awhile back about the number of
people who had moved from the North
west and from the East to Marietta,
and remarked in a jocular way, “The
first thing you know the Yankees will
be in possession of Marietta.”
We desire to say to him and his
associates that the acquisition of more
of the same sort will be hailed with
a great deal of gratification and pride
by the people of Marietta and of
Georgia.
Instead of coming down for the pur
pose of carping at Southern customs,
and endeavoring to cheat the Southern
people, they have brought their money,
and tens of thousands of it at that, and
have invested it in enterprises which
are not only building up Marietta, but
spreading their benefits throughout
North Georgia.
They assimilate with the Southern
people, and there has gotten to be a
genial whole-souled feeling of co-oper
ation and mutuality of pleasant senti
ment which give promise of great re
sults for the future.
Marieta is on a regular boom, and is
said to be the best advertised town of
its size in America. It has substantial
backing for all the praise which is giv
en it; and there is no (dement which
promotes a greater part of this back
ing than the “Yankee Colony.” All
hail such pleasant whole-souled Yan
kees as these are who live in Mari
etta !
The Western A Atlantic railroad is
recognized as one of the greatest fac
tors in the practical reconciliation be
tween the sections which wore so es
tranged some years ago. It is a source
of great pride to the company that
upon its line is the “prettiest little ci
ty” in the south, and that from one
of its termini to the other there is a
continued succession of scenes which
appeal to the grandest memories of
American manhood and patriotism.
There are no through sleeping car
lines to Florida via Atlanta and Thom
asville except those which run over
the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
NO. I.