Newspaper Page Text
is mild and the summer almost beatif
ic. The road is in the very best con
dition, and the accommodations are on
a magnificent scale. The Western &
Atlantic R. R. Company has issued a
book detailing ihe points of interest,
which book is a graphic history of the
stirring events that took place along
the road in 1864, and which minutely
describes the many interesting features
of the route. Tourists have tried the
east; they have “done” the west; they
have finished Florida. Now to cap
all places, and to insure themselves a
trip of more than ordinary interest and
pleasure, they must “do” the Western
& Atlanta from Chattanooga to At
lanta.
Daily Times, Bethlehem, Pa.
“Tne Campaigns along the Line of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad”
forms the subject for a most interest
ing and valuable pamphlet of some 50
pages, issued by the above named rail
road. Besides the beautifully illumi
nated covers the book presents, on al
most every page, a finely executed
map or view of some battlefield or in
cident of the late war. The book
opens with a resume of the army op
erations between Chattanooga, Tenn.,
and Atlanta, Ga., and then follow
concise descriptions of each battle or
minor engagement which took place
in the territory between the termini of
this road. The book also contains ac
counts of many entertaining incidents
connected with the campaigns in this
section, some of which have never be
fore been published.. The statistics in
cluded in the work are also most valu
able. The book is decidedly fascinat
ing, and would induce anyone who is
contemplating a southern trip to visit
the region traversed by the Western
& Atlantic Railroad We doubt
whether any other locality is so rich
in historic incident and historic locali
ties.
Terre Haute, Ind., Gazette.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
Company has issued a folder giving ac
counts of battlefields and historic
scenes along the Kennesaw route,
which is one of the handsomest bits of
railroad advertising yet gotten out. It
is properly illustrated with photographs
and contains several valuable maps.
The Tinies, Fall River, Ks.
We have a beautiful, historical and
instructive folder from the Western &
Atlantic Railroad Company, of their
great Kennesaw route. It has battle
pictures and maps, portraits of promi
nent Union and Confederate generals,
and a concise history of Sherman’s
march and Johnston’s defense, from
Chattanooga to Atlanta. It costs one
cent and is worth at least twenty-five
cents.
Waterford, Pa., Leader.
We have received from the Western
& Atlantic R. R. a fifty-page pamphlet,
which, aside from giving the great
Kennesaw route special attention, also
gives a graphic description of the fa
mous battles fought along its line dur
ing the rebellion, which are decidedly
interesting. The pamphlet, to keep as
a work of historical facts, is worth
much more than many of the much
puffed histories of the war.
Binghampton, N. Y., Democrat.
Any one giving his address and en
closing a one cent stamp, can obtain
of Joseph M. Brown, general* passen
ger agent of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, Atlanta, Ga., a copy of
“Battlefields and Historic Scenes along
the Great Kennesaw Route,” which is
worth $1 of any man’s money. Send
and get a copy.
THE ATLANA CAMPAIGN.
Chase County Leader, Cottonwood
Falls, Ks.
The historical railroad of the United
States is the Western & Atlantic, run
ning from Chattanooga to Atlanta.
Along the line of that road was fought
the battles between the armies of Sher
man and Johnston, in what is known
as the Atlanta campaign. The pos
session of that road was necessary to
each army, and every mile of it was
fought so trying to drive
Johnston away from it and Johnston
trying to defeat Sherman’s efforts.
Along the line of the road are the bat
tlefields of Ringgold, Tunnel Hill,
Rocky Face Ridge, Buzzard Roost
Gap, Dalton, Resaca, Kennesaw,
Peachtree and many others. The W.
& A. have issued a very interesting
work called the “Battlefields Folder,”
profusely illustrated, giving a concise
account of each engagement that took
place along the 140 miles of battle
which lasted 119 days. The W. &A.
is one of the direct lines running from
Cincinnati and Louisville to Florida,
and any of our readers who intend
visiting that portion of the south
should go over that line.
Bangor, Mich., Deflector.
From the Western & Atlantic R.R.
Company we have received an inter
esting and handsome pamphlet of the
battlefields and historic scenes on their
line of road. It cariied us back to ’64,
when we went with Sherman from
Ringgold to Atlanta along the line of
this road. If we remember rightly the
road was not then running on schedule
time, and trains were frequently
switched off between stations. Brief
sketches of the “trouble along the
line” in those days that tried men’s
souls may be found in the pamphlet.
State Journal, Madison, Wis.
The Western <fc Atlantic Railroad
Company has issued a handsome folder,
descriptive of the many battlefields
along its line, together with illustra
tions of them by means of carefully
prepared maps. It also contains the
portraits of several of the prominent
generals who figured in the war, and
a vast amount of readable campaign
lore.
Northern Ohio Journal, Painesville, 0.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
Company has just issued a “Battle
fields Folder,” which is a credit both to
its enterprise and to its judgment. It
is profusely illustrated with fine en
gravings, aud liberally supplied with
maps of the battlefields and historic
scenes along the “Great Kennesaw
Route.” All of the letter press is in
teresting, and much of it is valuable
in statistical information.
Wilkin County Gazette, Breckenridge,
Minn.
We have received this week a copy
of the Kennesaw Gazette and the
Battlefields Folder, published in the
interest of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, the great Kennesaw Route.
This railroad runs through the most
historic portion of the south, passes
battlefields and through a most de
lightful country. Anybody contem
plating a visit to Georgia or Florida,
would do well to buy tickets over this
line. The main line from Chatta
nooga to Atlanta is 138 miles long.
Marietta is the sanitarium of North
Georgia.
The Kennesaw gazette.
Psalm XLVI.
1 The confidence church hath in God.
8 An exhortation to behold it.
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah,
A Song upon Alanioth.
GOD is our refuge and strength, a very
present help in trouble.
2. Therefore will not we fear, though the
earth be removed, and though the moun
tains be carried into the midst of the sea.
3. Though the waters thereof roar and be
troubled, though the mountains shake with
the swelling thereof. Selah.
4. There is a river, the streams whereof
shall make glad the city of God, the holy
place of the tabernacles of the most High;
5. God is in the midst of her; she shall not
be moved; God shall help her, and that
right early.
6. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were
moved; he uttered his voice, the earth
melted.
7. The Loud of hosts is with us; the God
of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8. Come, behold the works of the Lord,
what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9. lie maketh wars to cease unto the end
of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cut
teth the spear in sunder; he burneth the
chariot in the tire.
10. Be still, and know that lam God; I
will be exalted among the heathen, I will
be exalted in the earth.
11. The Lord of hosts is with us, the God
of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
The True Test.
J. G. WHITTIER.
We may not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down ;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For him no depths can drown.
But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
A present help is he;
And faith has yet its Olivet,
And love its Galilee.
The healing of the seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch him in life’s throng and press,
And we are whole again.
Through him the first fond prayers are said
Our lips of childhood frame;
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with his name.
0 Lord and Master of us all,
What e’er our name or sign,
We own thy sway, we hear thy call,
We test our lives by thine !
Wild Hogs Among the Cohutta
Mountains.
Some years ago, when the writer
spent the fall season at the famous Co
hutta Springs, east of Dalton, Ga., his
attention was called to the fact that
there were droves of wild hogs which
were generally quite shy; but occasion
ally very fierce, whose haunts were
among the Cohutta Mountains, a few
miles beyond the hotel.
They were the off-spring of a num
ber of hogs which had been taken up
by countrymen and turned loose
among the mountains to feed on the
chestnuts and other rich provisions of
nature, and which were intended for
slaughtering purposes at the proper
season. They, however, went entirely
wild, and multiplied to a considerable
extent.
In the fall the countrymen who had
turned them loose made it a practice
to hunt up and shoot some of these
hogs for their winter supply of bacon.
It was a matter of agreement among
them, which was‘lived up to very hon
orably —that none should shoot more
than a certain number.
Several parties had some thrilling
experiences with these wild hogs; but
no person is known to have been in
jured by them. It is said that there
was one drove which ran pretty" much
to itself, and a number of attempts
were made to steal upon them una-
wares, or otherwise to kill some of their
number; but without success.
At last one of the countrymen, who
had found the region where they were
most frequently seen, concluded that
he would try an expedient which, if
successful, would bring about decided
results.
Accordingly, he and his neighbors
built a very strong and high fence in
a sort of ravine, enclosing a space of
nearly an acre of ground. He then
began dropping corn in and near this
enclosure, one place having been left
open so that the hogs could go in and
out. They found the corn and began
coming tolerably regularly to eat it.
At last one evening he poured out
some two or three bushels of corn
within the enclosure, scattering it, how
ever, at the end opposite the open
ing. He also shelled an ear or
two of corn, and dropped the grains,
a handful at a time, from the outside,
in a sort of trail way leading into the
enclosure up to the point where he had
emptied the couple of sacks.
The hogs soon found the grain on
the outside aud began eating it and
rowding together, and going further
forward until soon all of the drove, to
the number of about thirty, were with
in the enclosure. After a few minutes
they found the large quantity which
was scattered on the ground at the up
per end of the large pen, and here be
gan what they doubtless considered a
famous feast; but like Belshazzar’s, it
was the last one they enjoyed, for the
countryman, having seen all of them
in the pen, went forward quietly and
put up the rails of the two panels which
were down, and within a minute or two
had the enclosure completely arranged.
After this was done, he went back
to one side and awaited results. The
hogs having eaten all the corn started
back to go out at their customary gate
way; but found that it was no longer
open. Supposing they had made a
mistake, they began running to the
other sides, to discover where to get
out; but no such place was to be seen.
They soon seemed to become aware
of this fact, aud it is said that their
fury was something almost beyond de
scription. The large boars would rush
first to one side then to the other with
shrill sounds of ferocious rage. At
last with one common impulse, the
whole drove ran back to about the
middle of the enclosure, and then rush
ed forward with tremendous rapidity
against the fence, as though to break
through it.
The shock was terrific, and, although
the fence was shaken like an aspen,
it did not yield. Again they retired
and a second grand charge was made;
but as before, the only result was
bloody noses and unwillingly acknowl
edged discomfiture.
The countryman who beheld their
actions stated that their fury was some
thing which almost frightened him,
and several times he thought they
would break through the fence in spite
of anything. After several unsuccess
ful attempts, however, they gave this
up and retired to the centre of the en
closure with squeals of commingled
rage and disappointment.
The next day several of the parties
at interest came up and shot the hogs, -
and after dividing them out, took
them to their respective homes.
3