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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 A. humorous dare-devil—the very man. to suit my purpose. Bulwer. 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- ATLANTA, CA., JANUARY I, 1887. a ’<<x ■ Hjhvi V ‘ ’■Hk” win ■ra . Bbhßl*' jam - Wi Up- ~ -at t a: ■# 1 ■■■■ “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.