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The Confederate army fell back from
Marietta and Kennesaw Mountain, Ju
ly 3, 1864, in consequence of a Hank
movement of the Federal army to
ward the Chattahoochee River, which
imperilled the safety of Johnston’s
communications with Atlanta.
ACute Trick, or an Involuntary
Compliment to the W. & A.
The traveling public have long since
learned that their comfort and con
venience is better advanced by travel
ing over the Western & Atlantic Rail
road than when they travel via the
line of its competitors; but the best
tribute which has been paid it in this
regard in some time is by its own com
petitors who ticket their passengers
over the Western A Atlantic, so as to
enable them to make connections
which they cannot make if they keep
on over the line which has furnished
them with Western & Atlantic tickets.
For instance, a passenger in Jack
sonville, Fla., buys a ticket through to
Cincinnati, via Jesup and the line
which is short in mileage but long in
time. This train, if it makes its time,
arrives at Dalton a few minutes before
the Western & Atlantic which has the
through sleeping car, (and by the way
the only through sleeping car) which runs
from Jacksonville to Cincinnati.
Knowing that his train carrying the
passenger, according to the published
schedules, will arrive at Chattanooga
a half an hour after the Cincinnati
Southern train has left that point, on
its published schedule, the conductor of
train in which the unlucky passenger
is buys his ticket and puts him or her
off at Dalton, and has his agent to
purchase a ticket over the Western & At
lantic Railroad from Dalton to Cincin
nati Junction, (or Boyce) where the
Western & Atlantic interchanges the
through sleeping car with the Cincin
nati Southern.
The passenger thereby is made cer
tain of getting through to Cincinnati
in time—that is if the train he is on
gets to Dalton before the Western &
Atlantic train leaves, which, by the
way, is not always the case.
It goes without saying that if the
passenger had gone from Jacksonville
via the through car line, which runs over
the Savannah, Florida & Western
Railway, the Brunswick & Western
Railroad, the Central Railroad of
Georgia, the Western & Atlantic
Railroad and the Cincinnati South
ern Rail way, he would have been dead
sure of sleeping car accommodations clear
through; but as it is he has to take his
chances of getting accommodations af
ter he gets on the Western & Atlantic
train at Dalton, and this sleeping car
several times recently has been “chock
full.”
Os course, if there be ladies with
young childern, or invalids, they may
be subjected to some inconveniences;
- but, nevertheless, the line which no
doubt through its conductor persuades
them that the train is behind time that
evening and that it is sacrificing some
thing by sending them over the Wes
tern & Atlantic, so as to be sure of
their making connection, attempts to
persuade passengers that they have
used extra exertions to minister to the
passengers’ comfort; but the wise pas
senger will obey the old injunction,
“First start right,” etc., and take f/ie
through car line from Jacksonville to Cin
cinnati and thus be sure of having ac
commodations'through in a sleeping car,
instead of having to take his chances
at Dalton or Boyce.
But the funny part of the transac
tion is the involuntary tribute which
the competitors of the W. & A. pay
to it as being the line which passen
gers must necessarily go over to get to
their destination.
Advantage of Shooting a Man of
Your Own Size.
A very prominent officer was talking
to us about the picket fighting, which
was an every day occurrence during
the Atlanta campaign of 1864. He
said that there were features of it which
had some of the elements of the racy
in them.
It is stated that one day General
Johnston himself was at the front near
Pine Mountain, and was noticing the
arrangement of a skirmish line which
was just being thrown out. He sat
down on a log, and observed a couple
of pickets who were sitting on the other
end of, or very near, the same log.
They apparently, however, did not
notice his approach, and he overheard
a portion of the conversation which
was going on between them. One was
a man fairly beyond middle age, and
the other quite young for a soldier.
The elder was giving his comrade
some advice about the best manner to
conduct himself when on the advanced
lines: '
“Now,” said he, “always bear it in
mind that it ain’t a good thing to shoot
a man that’s not your own size. There’s
no sense at all in your going counter
to what I tell you. For instance, two
days ago I was out on skirmish duty in
the woods over yonder, and I seen a
man in front ot me a short distance;
and I sorter raised above the ground a
little and got a good sight on him, and
was just about to shoot when I hap
pened to notice that he was a good deal
smaller than I was, so I turned in an
other direction, and then I seen another
one that was exactly about my size; so
I brought my gun around and got a
good aim at him, and, them’s the boots,”
said he pointing down at the pair he
had on his feet.
There was no paraphernalia of lan
guage castaround the close of his story.
The inference was too clear to need
any explanation.
Has .Never Missed.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
company paid into the comptroller
general’s office, Wednesday, $25,000,
the amount due the State for rent for
the month of May. In the sixteen
years that this road has been under
the company, it has never failed to
pay the rental upon the last business
day of each month.— Atlanta Constitu
tion. ,
Dalton is “the mineral springs cen
ter” of Georgia.
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
De Jay bird’s Prodjecs.
BY UNCLE ’POLLO.
Oh, de jaybird lit on de ’simmon tree,
He winked his eye and he rubbed his knee;
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to eat it too!
He clar’d his throat, an’ he yell’d, ‘‘Jay!
Jay !”
Gwine to bake de hoecake, J inny,
Gwine to eat it too !
He faff’d, “I’s robbed de pattridge nes’
Eat some ob de aigs and hid de res,” —
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to cat it too !
Chorus—
Oh, Jinny, put de hoecake on,
Oh, stir de chunks up too,
O, Jinny, cook de hoecake done,
An’ brile de spar’ ribs too !
Ole bumble bee come a fly in’ by,
An’ tried to sting blue-jay in de eye, —
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to eat it too!
He made a dab down at his head,
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to eat it too !
But de jay-bird open’d his mouf right spry
An’ cotch Mr. Bumbler out on de fly, —
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to eat it too!
De sparrar hawk come a swoopin’ down,
When de jay-bird elsewhar’s business
foun’, —
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
(twine to eat it too I
He flew down to ole Mistus’ spring,—
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to eat it too!
He run an’ hid in de briar patch,
Oh, how dem briars his laigs did scratch !
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to eat it too !
An’ dar he met de ole black drake,
An’ wid him straight a fuss did make, —
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to eat it too !
But de drake haul’d back an’ knock’d him
flat,
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to eat it too!
He flopp’d up an’ he limp’d away,
An’ all he said was, “Jay, Jay, Jay!” —
Gwine to bake de hoecake, Jinny,
Gwine to eat it too!
President C. E. Harman.
Just as we are ready to go to press
the following telegram has been re
ceived :
Fortress Monroe, June 15.
“Harman elected by unanimous vote
President of the Traveling Passenger
Agents’ Association. Sidetrack again
victorious.”
The gentleman referred to is Mr. C.
E. Harman, General Western Agent
of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
and other roads in the Georgia Associ
ated Traffic Lines. Inasmuch as this
Association was made up of Traveling
Passenger Agents all over America,
this is a very high compliment to Mr.
Harman as well as to the Western A
Atlantic Railroad, which has trained
him up in the business. We congrat
ulate Mr. Harman and the road, and
also the Association in securing so
fine a President.
The Western & Atlantic is the only
line in the South running/our through
passenger trains per day each way, from
one terminal to the other. It, there
fore, offers advantages over all other
lines for tourists going to Atlanta,
Florida or the Southeast.
The Kennesaw Route is the quickest.
The Georgia Watermelon;
MORE WORK FOR THE W. & A.
From the banks of old St. Mary’s,
From the rolling Tyhee river,
From the shores of the Oconee,
And the classic Withlacoochee,
The Ogeechee, the Ocmulgee,
Briar Creek and OchloehoneCj
From the Flint and the Savannah,
Beautiful Altamaha and
Sunny Brunswick’s breezy hay,
Shortly comes the watermelon,
Comes the ( Georgia watermelon,
Laden with the sweets of southland.
With the syndicate’s permission,
Soon will come this luscious melon,
Pride of every native Georgian.
It will come from Chattahoochee,
Milledgeville and 11 atelier’s Station,
Buzzard Roost and Tallapoosa,
'Tuckahoe and Sugar Valley,
Double Branches, Coosawattee,
Nani’in, Nickajack, .1 aniaica,
.limps, Geneva, Marietta,
11 ickory Flat and < fkapilco,
Gully Branch, Mazeppa, Ophir,
Hard Cash, Plains of Dura, Jasper,
Long Pond, Two Run, 1 lannahatchee
Huckleberry, Perkins J unction,
Stop & Swap, Boston and Dixie,
Riddleville, Persimmon, Trickum,
Hardaway, McDade, Suwanee,
And from every little clearing
From Atlanta to the seashore,
Where there lives a Georgia cracker
In the pride of his half acre.
J.et it come, this watermelon,
This imperial (ieorgia melon
Stay it not as north it cometh,
Though the crop will be two millions,
Yet there’s room for millions more.
—Chic(t(/o Tribune.
The Western & Atlantic is one
Hour and forty-six Minutes
Quickest to*Atlanta.
Passengers leaving Cincinnati at
9:00 p. tn., and coming via the W. &
A. R. R. arrive in the Union Depot
at Atlanta, at 1:44 p. m., the next
day; and passengers leaving Cincin
nati at the same time, and coming via
the opposition to the W. A A., are
landed over a half mile from the Union
Depot and the centre of the city of At
lanta, at 3:30 p. m., which is one
hour and forty-six miniites longer than the
time via the Western & Atlantic, be
sides having an omnibus transfer.
Passengers to Cincinnati can leave
Atlanta via the Western A 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 & Atlantic, they leave At
lanta from the small station over a
half mile from the Union Depot at
12:20 p. in., in order to reach Cincin
nati at the same time that passengers
leaving via the Western A Atlantic at
1:40 p. m. do. In other words, the
time Atlanta to Cincinnati, via the
Western A Atlantic, is one hour and twen
ty minutes shorter than via the op
position, besides the advantage of start
ing from the Union Depot if you go over
the Western A Atlantic, and also, the
fact that the. only through sleeping cars
from Atlanta to Cincinnati run over the
Western A Atlantic. If you do n't go
via the Western A Atlantic R. R., there
fore, you will hare to change cars between
Atlanta and Cincinnati.
The Western A Atlantic is the only
railroad, running from Atlanta which
has through sleeping cars, without
change, Atlanta to Cincinnati.
What beautiful scenery, pure water
and salubrious atmosphere those en
joy who spend the summer at charm
ing, hospitable, Dalton, Ga.l
Magnificent scenery is viewed from
the summits of Kennesaw, Allatoona
and Rocky Face Mountains, directly
on the line of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, and all along the line. of the
Marietta and North Georgia Railroad.
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