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2 All Business and Always Cour teous. “Do you know,” said one citizen of Atlanta to another, “that those W. & A. people remind me of‘old Rip,’that is, of what Gretchen said about him?” “How’s that?” said the other, “you surely don’t mean the twenty-years sleep part of it, for they are about as wide-awake a crowd, on all occasions, as ever I saw.” “Oh, I suppose you know,” said the first, “there is nothing about them that is asleep; but, you know, Gretchen, in one of her talks about ‘Old Rip,' Io a neighbor, said that she could have some patience with him if he would just get mad and rail back at her ; but that he was so irrepressibly good-hu mored that she could not talk to him always like she wanted to. She would be met by his smiles and jokes, and it would break up her scold every time. “Now that’s the way with the West ern & Atlantic officers and employes, not only in their dealings with the gen eral public, but also in their dealings with rival railroads. They work like Trojans, and get a vast majority of what comes into this section, and, if they get blows they give back some a little harder every time; but they will in a business matter literally use a ftl low up, and at the same time be in a perfect good-humor with him, person ally. They don’t take their business scuffles into social intercourse; and I have sometimes seen people look on with a good deal of wonder at the joc ular manner and clever spirit with which they act towart. their competi tors socially. Some of their most en ergetic opponents get a regular knock down from them in business matters, and at the same time the Western & Atlantic management and boys will go to any length to oblige those very same men personally.” “Oh, they are a rare set, those West ern & Atlantic fellows are, and their competitors do not always know just how to take them. 1 was talking to one of the men in the freight office one day, and asked him why it was that he had just extended a courtesy to one of the employes of the other line with such apparent genuine pleasure. “‘Oh, why that’s part of our code,’ said he. ‘He is a glorious good fel low, and I know he would take pleas ure in obliging me with anything out side of business, and I will do every thing I can to do him a favor.’ It is pleasant to sec such a spirit as this shown in the transaction of business matters; and the Western & Atlantic is commended on all sides for being the leader in the matter of bringing about a genuine good-feeling between rail road men representing all interests, as between the railroads and the general public. The liberality of the company is al most proverbial in Georgia, and that is, after all, the main-spring, of a great part of its well deserved prosperity. The magnificent palace buffet sleep ing cars which pass over the Western & Atlantic Railroad are the only ones which reach Thomasville in the day-time. Dalton, Georgia. Dalton, like Jerusalem, as mention ed in the Psalms, is “beautiful for sit uation.” We scarcely know a city in the southeast which has more charming surroundings than Dalton. It has a happier combination than almost any other point. It is within a few hours’ ride of Atlanta, Rome and Chattanoo ga. It has, in Rocky Face mountains, some of the most beautiful, as well as some of the grandest scenery in Geor gia. The song of historic fame is sung by almost every rippling rill and hill side around it. It is in the centre of the mineral springs region of Georgia. Its people are hospitable and refined. It has nice hotels. It has splendid school facilities. It has just inaugur ated a system of water-works. It gets coal at less rates than Atlanta does. It is surrounded by a splendid farming country, and one which is full of min erals, and, by the Western & Atlantic Railroad, it is connected with the north west and southeast by splendid sleep ing car lines. It rests with the people of Dalton as to whether their city shall be one which will be very much sought by health and pleasure-seekers and capi talists. We trust that they will be equal to the emergency. We know that there are some in their number who have as much city pride and as much energy to the square inch as those of any other city in Georgia. Famous North Georgia. As proof of the value of the materi al resources of the country immediate ly by the line of the Western & At lantic Railroad, we will state that the iron which was used to a considerable extent in constructing the iron-clads for the Confederate government,during the war, was made at the famous Eto wah Iron Works, near Cartersville, Ga. This fine property has just recently been bought by a company of strong capitalists who will develop it shortly. Captain Bowman, the civil engineer who constructed Fort Sumter, also gave the Howard cement, which is the out-put of the cement works at Cement, Ga., on the Western & Atlantic Rail road, the highest praise of any cement which he used. Passengers leaving Cincinnati at 8:15 p. m., and coming via the West ern & Atlantic R. R., make connec tion in the Union Depot, Atlanta, at dinner-time next day, with the Geor gia Railroad’s “fast mail” train, which reaches Augusta and Aiken at bed time that night, and Charleston at breakfast next morning. Leaving Cincinnati on the same train, and coming via the opposition to the Western & Atlantic, they reach Atlanta fifty minutes after the Georgia Road’s “fast mail” train has departed, and have to lie over and take the lo cal train over the Georgia Railroad that night. Only via the Western and Atlantic railroad can you get to Fannin county, the healthiest county in Georgia if not in America. THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. Marietta (Ga.) Journal. THE AMERICAN MARBLE COMPANY. A Half Million Dollar Enterprise in Cobb. Elizabeth City, with its 140 acres in corporated, on the Western & Atlantic and the Marietta c(r North Georgia Railroads, one mile and a half above Marietta, is one of the busiest hives of industry on the continent. The estab lishment of the great marble factory there, by Northern capitalists, R. M. Pulsifer, president; George R. Eager, general manager and George F. New ell, cashier, marked a new era of pros perity in this section, that has greatly benefitted Cobb county and her peo ple. It gives employment to over 100 hands and scatters dollars among the merchants, boarding-houses, etc., and made the outlook of Marietta brighter in every respect. The shops are very extensive, and packed full of the finest and best machinery for cutting, saw ing, carving and polishing marble. None but skilled mechanics are em ployed, and, day and night, the ponder ous machinery is in motion. Electric lights make the shopsand surroundings bright as day for night work. Mr. J. W. Malloy, of Boston, is one of the principal stockholders and is the in ventor of some marble machinery that will save the work of thirty hands. Besides monuments and costly mantles, the machinery turns out beautiful and artistic vases, urns, etc., while marble slabs, for bureaus, dressing cases, ta bles, etc., are piled up in great profu sion. The marble worked by this factory is brought from the company’s quar ries at Tate’s, in Pickens county, on the line of the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad. Pure while and variegated marble is excavated in these inexhaust ible quarries, loaded on the ears and brought to the factory in huge blocks weighing twenty and thirty thousand pounds. At the factory is a huge der rick that lifts these immense blocks of marble from the cars as if they were toys and deposits them on the ground ready for the gang saws which cut them into slabs ready for the manipu lation by the machinery in the main building, transforming them into such shapes and designs as render them marketable. The Georgia marble being of such excellent quality is taking precedence in the market over other marbles. At Chicago, the former superintendent, Charles E. Nason, has established an office for the sale of this marble, which gives facilities for its speedy dis posal. We are glad to have such a magnifi cent enterprise in Cobb county and wish it continued and unprecedented success. “ The Golden Streets.” “ Canton is built upon a gold mine,” were the words of an old and ex perienced and intelligent miner to us last week, after he had been out pan ning a few shovels full of dirt on some of the back streets in town. He was led to say this by having found several particles of gold in so little dirt. This has been done here in town before, for not long ago several persons made con siderable money by daily panning on the branches and gulches in town, and the same thing can be done now. Small nuggets of gold are frequently picked up in town, but nothing is rarely ever said about it. Yes, Can ton is built on a gold mine. The mine can be bought too. — Cherokee Advance. The Western & Atlantic Railroad is known as the “old reliable.” Psalm XXX. I David praiseth God for his deliverance. 4 He exhorteth others to praise him by example of God’s dealing with him. A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. I WILL extol thee, O Lord ; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made ray foes to rejoice over me. 2. O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. 3. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave; thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 4. Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. 5. For his anger endureth but a moment: in his favour is life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 6. And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. 7. Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong; thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. 8. I cried to thee, O Lord ; and unto the Lord I made supplication. 9. What profit is there in my blood, when Igo down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee ? shall it declare thy truth ? 10. Hear, 0 Lord, and have mercy upon me, Lord, be thou my helper. 11. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast put off my sack cloth, and girded me with gladness. 12. To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O L( rd my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. Can This be True ? A gentleman, whose opinions are valuable, asserts that Dalton res s above a vast deposit of the finest coal. It stands to reason that there may be some truth in this assertion, for, fre quently in digging deep wells, eviden ces of the existence of coal at a great depth have been discovered. Who knows? Maj be our little city stands over black diamond fields rivaling the famous ones of Pennsylvania! Don’t be astonished if you jump out of bed some bright morning and find yourself a Croesus! — North Georgia Citizen. Passengers to Cincinnati can leave Atlanta via the Western & Atlantic R. R. at 1:40 p. m. and arrive at Cin cinnati at 6:40 the next a. m. They leave from the Union Depot in Atlan ta. If going via the opposition to the Western <fc Atlantic, they leave At lanta from the small station over a half mile from the Union Depot at 12:15 p. m., in order to reach Cincin nati at the same time that passengers leaving via the Western & Atlantic at 1:40 p. m. do. In other words, the time Atlanta to Cincinnati, via the Western & Atlantic, is one hour and twen ty-five minutes shorter than via the op position, besides the advantage of start ing from the Union Depot if you go over the Western & Atlantic. If you want to be sure of having a good and safe ride in luxurious cars on through schedules, the Western & At lantic is the road you are hunting for. It fills all the requirements, and the way its passenger business has increas ed, shows that the public have found this out. The Western <£• Atlantic Railroad is the only railroad in Georgia which has four daily freight schedules from one of its termini to the other. Conse quently, freight forwarded via the Western dr Atlantic, from the west to the southeast, if it misses one schedule has.a chanQg.at three othersjhe same day. This makes it emphatically a FASTFREIGHT LINE, and shippers have found it out, and are acting in accordance with their interests. The Kennesaw Route isthe quickest.