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Vol. 11.
Nelly Gray.
There’s a low green valley on the old Ken
tucky shore,
Where I’ve whiled many happy hours
away,
A sitting and a singing by the little cottage
door,
Where lived my darling Nelly Gray.
Chorus— Oh Imy poor Nelly Gray,
They have taken you away,
And I’ll never see my darling any more,
I’m sitting by the river,
And I’m weeping all the day,
For you’ve gone from the Old Kentucky
shore.
When the moon had climbed the mountain,
and the stars were shining too,
Then I’d take my darling Nelly Gray,
And we’d float down the river in my little
bark canoe,
While my banjo sweetly I would play.
One night I went to see her, but she’s gone,
the neighbors say,
The white man bought her for his gain.
They have taken her to Georgia for to wear
her life away,
As she toils in the cotton and the cane.
My canoe is under water, and my banjo is
unstrung,
I’m tired of living any more;
My eyes shall look downward, and my song
shall be unsung,
While I stay on the Old Kentucky shore.
Mv eyes are getting blinded, and I cannot
see my way:
Hark! there’s somebody knocking at the
door.
Oh! I hear the angels calling, and I see my
Nelly Gray;
Farewell to the Old Kentucky shore.
Chorus— Oh! my darling Nelly Gray,
Up in heaven there they say,
That they’ll never take you from me any
more:
I’m a coming, coming, coming,
As the angels clear the way,
Farewell to the Old Kentucky shore.
If you want to go to “the centre of
the mineral springs region of Georgia”
you ought to take the sleeping cars
which run from Jacksonville via Al
bany, Atlanta and the Western & At
lantic Railroad to Dalton, or you can
make immediate through connections
coming from Charleston or Augusta
via Atlanta and the Western & At
lantic Railroad to Dalton. The scen
ery around Dalton is beautiful and the
climate 4 is extremely salubrious.
A. humoroug dare-devil—tlie very xxia.xi to suit nay purpose.
“SUMMER, VACATION” NUMBER,.
“Observation Rock.”
On the northwest side of the wes
tern crest of Kennesaw Mountain, or
Little Kennesaw, as it is generally cal
led, is a large rock, which rises very
prominently above everything around
it. It seems to be not a part of the reg
ular formation ; but to rest upon the
uneven surface. One standing behind
can look under it into the hill country
below. This is just slightly down the
slope from the backbone of the ridge.
It is called “Observation Rock,” be
cause, during the battles around Ken
nesaw Mountain, the Confederate offi
cers were in the habit of going upon
the top of it, and, with spy-glasses, ob
serving the Federal movements below.
On the day of the great battle of
Kennesaw Mountain General French,
whose division covered the mountain,
surveyed the mighty struggle from the
top of this rock. It is stated that while
he stood looking upon the plain below,
observing the blue lines of the advanc
ing Federals, and the rising smoke
from their batteries and infantry, the
Federal shells were flying above and
around him on this rock.
The view from this elevated perch
was a magnificent one. The Confed
erate batteries were on the summit of
ATLANTA, CA., AUCUST I, 1887.
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OBSERVATION ROCK.
the mountain, immediately behind him,
and the infantry lines were a few
yards below him.
“Observation Rock” is worthy the
attention of all who go on the summit
of Little Kennesaw.
Why the Nights at Marietta arc
Pleasant.
Kennesaw Mountain, less than two
miles distant, is about a mile and a
half or two miles long, and lies north
east and southwest, consequently, on
its southern side and western end it is
during the entire day absorbing heat
from the sun. The massive crags get
warm during the day, and at night
the entire side of the mountain which
has been exposed to the sun is giving
offbeat. This produces a vacuum in
to which the air flows from the south,
thus creating a breeze during every
night of the summer. This makes it
extremely pleasant at night, and, of
course, conduces very greatly to the
health of the little “Gem City,” and
makes it one of the most desirable
points in Georgia for people . wishing
to go for health as well as for beauty
of location, etc.
Dalton is “the jnineral springs cen
ter” of Georgia.
Bulwer.
Cyclorama of Battle of Kenne
saw Mountain.
Now that cycloramas are the order
of the day, we would suggest that there
is not anywhere in America a finer sub
ject than the battle of Kennesaw Moun
tain.
The point of vision could be located
on the bare rocks on the western end
of little Kennesaw, and from this
point one can look eastward and see
the country skirting the base of the
entire mountain. He could see Brush
Mountain, across which the line of bat
tle came. The eye sweeping north
ward would observe the great red banks
of the Western <fe Atlantic Railroad,
which was Sherman’s line of commu
nication to Chattanooga. Further
back in the forest, eight miles distant,
could lie seen Big Shanty; thence in
the distance the Allatoona Mountains
would tower up along the horizon.
Turning northwestward and west
ward, one sees Pine Mountain, where
the Bishop-General Polk was killed,
and the rolling forest-covered country
about New Hope Church. Then west
ward, Lost Mountain rising majestical
ly above the plain. Sweeping south
ward, the eye falls upon the valley of
Mud Creek and of Noses Creek, where
the Confederate line of battle succes
sively ran.
On the immediate south, several
miles distant, Cheatham’s Hill rises
above the plain, and the lines of the
most desperate fighting of the day ex
tended from Cheatham’s Hill north
ward to Kennesaw, and thence around
the sides of Little Kennesaw, which
would be at ouc’s feet, as it were.
This would be a grand subject for a
cyclorama, and we have no doubt but
that some shrewd artist will avail him
self of it.
Go to Catoosa Springs and spend
the summer. There is a greater va
riety of mineral water immediately
there than anywhere else, and there
are lots of pleasant people to get ac
quainted with. Through sleeping cars
from Jacksonville via Albany, Macon,
Atlanta, and the W. & A. R. R., to
Catoosa.
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The Kennesaw Route always ahead.
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