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BY D. B. FREEMAN.
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A MAID EX'S THOUGHT.
BY ISO A VOROING.
A maiden young, and lithe, and fan*,
Before her mirror Blands;
And swiftly braids her silken hair,
In smooth and glistening bands;
Then sudden stops, with earnest gaze,
She scans the answering face,
As if she’d read some secret there
“And her own future trace.
In mu rnnirsjsoft, and sweet, and low,
These questions of herself she aslts:
“Is it true, that bright dreams fade,
Still the brightest e’er the fleetest?
That loving hearts Hre oft betrayed,
By those whose words been the
sweetest ?
“Oh ! can it be that I’ll grow old,
Ugly, wrinkled and forlorn?
Oh ! mil it be that hearts grow cold
Whicb seem so fond in youth’s bright
morn ?
“Will I, too, brush the silvered hair
Back from a sad and furrowed brow.
Which in my youth is smooth and fair,
And a bears^novttrace of sorrow' now?
“Oh ! can it be ? I cannot think
Of sucb a fate as this for me ;
That I of such a*cup must drink,^
And yet —and yet—oh !it may be. _____
••If then, ’tie true, and come they must
These sad, sad changes unto me;
Tkuow in w horn to put my trust,
He’ll make m.r life what it should be.
AN ARKANSAS DUEL.
The Legislature of Arkansas held a
session shortly after the organization of
the Blate government. Everything ot
course, waß in a condition of halt-cha
otic transition. The “loaves and fishes"
of office had not yet been fully divided,
and monopoly was knocking noisily at
the door of the “public crib,” clamor
ous to be admitted. Intense was the
fury of partizans within the house, and
as fierce the excitement raging in the
community without. The members
mostly went to their places armed to
the teeth, and, besides the choice of
weapons, worn in their bosoms, or pro
truding from their pockets, each kept
an ample supply of revolving pistols
in the writing desk before him. There
were munitions of war enough in the
hall to have answered the purposes of a
small army.
Every evening after adjournment,
there was a general firing off and re
loading in order to have their “tools” of
death in prime condition for the emer
gencies of the morrow. [ was fre
quently startled from sleep at the hour
of midnight, by the roar of incessant
explosions, heard' fit different points in
the city. Many legislators also during
the day would be out practicing to learn
the difficult ait of cutting a tape string
at ten paces, or ot driving the center
out of a silver quarter, at twelve
The* used as their pisdol gallery a little
grove of tine trees, immediately on the
south bank of the Arkansas river, and
and not more than fifty yards from the
State house, where every report was
fearfully audible; and admonished cer
tain independent members of the doom
they might expect, provided their votes
were not cast in favor of the banks !
The derringer pistol and the bowie*
knife governed. Power resided in gun
powder ; and popular.ty hovered around
the points of naked daggers.
Among the most agitating measures,
calling into exercise the wisdom of the
western sages, was the institution of the
real estate bank. Its establishment
was strongly and steadily, but ineffect
ually opposed by a slender minority
All the wealthiest men in the State, all
the leading legislators took shares of its
capital stock ; and John Wilson, Speak
er of the lower House, was elected
President. As this person was one of
the chief actors in the tragedy, soon to
be recorded, a brief designation of his
appearance and character becomes nec
essary.
Every public man in the backwoods
had a sobriquet, bestowed on account of
some real or fancied peculiarity, by the
whimsical humors of his constituents.
Speaker Wilson was called “Horse
Ears,” from his possessing an accident
never before heard of in the natural
history of the species. When excited
by any violent emotion, his ears worked
up and down flexibly, like those of a
horse. A man of extraordinary looks,
nothing in his features of countenance
denoted the desperado, save a strange,
wild, twinkling expression of his infan
tile grey eyes, always in motion with
cold, keeu glances, as if watching out
for some secret enemy. He had fought
half a dozen duels with uniform suc
cess, and had been engaged in several
more off-hand affrays, in none of which
he had received even the honor of a
scar. Hence, as may be well supposed,)
his prowess inspired aim ist universal
fear ; and few were the dead shots to
be found in Arkansas, who would vol
untarily seek a quarrel with “old Horse
Ears.” As to the rest, ho was the
owner of a large cotton farm, rich and
influential, honest, liberal, and courte
ous in his manners; exceedingly amia
ble in his domestic relations, beloved
by his family and alored by bis slaves.
Such are often the inconsistencies of
human nature, which seems utterly in*
capable of producing unalloyed types
of either good or ev ; l—angels or
devils !
During the session, previously, speci
fied, there was a member of the lower
house, by the naqie of Abel Anthony,
in no way remarkable except for his
opjMfriuou to tb<e .banks and his sly,
quiet wit, addicted to practical jokes.
In the parlance of frontier technics, he
belonged to the category of “peaceable
CaUjoun
men,” having never in all his life be-*
fore had a moral recounter. He was
even deemed a coward, for be had been
known to pocket open insults without
so much as showing a sign of resent
ment.
One day the bill to provide 'for the
more effectual rewarding of wolf-slay.,
ers, denominated, in short, “the wolf
scalp bill,” came up for discussion.—
This had been a standing reform meas
ure from the earliest settlemect of Ar‘
kansas, and will probably continue to
be so long as the Ozark mountains shall
rear their black, bristling crests in the
western divisions of the State, or the
Mississippi swamps shall occupy so
large an area in the east. According
ly, whenever the wolf-scalp bill is
taken up, a tremendous debate ensues.
The contest then is no longer between
the ins and outs of power. Whigs
and Democrats alike overleap the iron*
lines of party demarkation, and begin
a general massacre of chancemedley.—
It is a battle—war to the knife, and
the knife to the handle—of every
member against every other, the object
being, as to who shall urge the most
annihilating statutes against their com.
mon foes, the wolves, because that is
the great pivot question on which
hinges the popularity of each and all.
The present occasion was the more
arousing, as there had happened lately
a laughable, but most annoying in
stance in fraud of the previous territo
■ rial law. It seems that a cunning
yankee, fresh from the land growing
“wooden nutmegs” had conceived a no
table scheme of rearing wolves of his
own; so that by butchering a hairy
whelp, at his option, and taking its ears
to a Justice of the Peace, he could ob
tain a certificate of “wolf scalp,” enti
tling him to ten dollars out of the
county treasury. It was said that this
enterprising genius had already in his
pe us a number of fine locking breeders
and expressed sanguine hopes of soon
realizing a handsome fortune !
Numerous were the provisions advo"
cated to prevent such scandalous eva*
sions in future. Among others. Brown
C. Roberts, of Marion, moved “that
each certificate of a genuine wolf-scalp
be based on not less than four affida
vits, and be signed by at least four
Justices, and one Judge of the Circuit
Court.
Abel Anthony moved to amend by
adding, “and by the Pres’dent of the
real state bank.”
This was intended by the mover
merely as a jest, to tbrw.w ridicule on
the complicated machinery of Roberts’
bill, and accordingly it excited a gen,,
eral smile. But very different was the
effect op Mr. Speaker Wilson, Presi
dent of the r< al estate bank. He saw
fit to interpret tho amendment as the
deadliest insult!
I glanced towards tho honorable
Chairman, expecting to see him enjoy
ing the joke ; but the moment I beheld
his countenance, I was absolutely horn
rified at its savage expression. His
face was of ashy paleness ; and there
on those thin, white lips, as if in dev
ilish mockery of malice, sat that grim,
snake-like, writhing smile, which mere
ly moved the curled mouth, spreading
no further, nor effecting any other fea
ture —that significant smile of murder,
so peculiar to almost the whole class of
desperadoes, when about to do some
deed of death. There was, however,
brief space for speculation as to physi
ognomic signs ; for hardly had the of
fensive words loft Anthony’s lips, when
Wilson sprang to his feet and imperi
ously ordered the other to sit down.
Anthony, manifesting no token of
either surprise or alarm, replied.mildly,
that he was entitled to the floor.
“Sit down !” Wilson repeated, and
this time in a voice like thunder.
“I am entitled to the floor and will
not resign it,” said Anthony, appa
rently without anger, but. giving back
a look of calm, immovable resolu
tion.
Speaker Wilson then left the chair,
drew his bowie-knife, descended the
steps of the platform, and slowly and
deliberately advanced through the hall
some forty feet, in the direction of his
foe—all the while that ghastly, horrid
smile, coiling up his pallid lips, and his
ears moving backwards and forwards,
with those strange, short, sharp vibra
tions which had won for him long
before the nick name of “Horse Ears.”
As Anthony was commonly consid
ered a coward, when the spectators be
held the far-famed and all°dreaded
duelist advancing upon him with upi
lilted blade, glancing aloft in the air,
as ready for the fatal blow, all supposed
the reputed craven would flee in terror
from his place. No one believed that
he was armed, or that he would fight
under any circumstances, or with any
odds of position or weapons. But in
this opinion everybody was mistaken,
and no one, perhaps, more than his in
furiate adversary- While that ferocious
man was coming towards him, he stood
calm aud motionless as a pillar of mar
ble. His color did not change one
shade. All his limbs were rigid as
iron. His only evidence of unusual
emotion was a copiou* efflux of tears !
At the sight of this we all shuddered,
for we knew ttie weeper would conquer
or pe isb. lu the backwoods experi
ence has demonstrated two unmistaka
ble tokens of thorough desperation
frozen smiles and hoUgushed tears ; and
tears may always be regarded as far the
most dangerous. Such a conclusion
was verified fully in the present in
stance ; for as soon as the Speaker ap
proached within’ten feet qt his weep
ing enemy, tho latter suddenly un
sheathed a bowie-knife from his bosom,
aud stepped boldly forward to the prof-
CALHOUN, GA„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 27. 1877,
fered battle. And then commenced a
struggle for life and death, the most
obstinate, bloody and frightfully pro„
traded ever witnessed in the south
west.
Wilson’s knife was long, and keen,
and so highly polished that you might
see yourself in the reflection of its
smooth, bright surface, as in the most
perfect looking-glass The image bo-*
ing an extremely small miniature, so
symmetrical was the rounding of the
fine glittering steel. On each side of
the flashing blade was a picture, the
fac simile of the other, wrought in exo
quisite gold enamel, of two Indians in
their wild, native oostume engaged in
mortal combat mek bewie knives.
The weapon of Anthony was ono of
the largest size of the c’ass, called in
that country, “Arkansas tooth-picks,”
the most murderous implement of de
struction, before which a human foe
ever quailed. Oq one side of its broad
gleaming blade was the picture of a
fight betwixt a hunter and a black bear.
The bear seemed to be squeezing the
man to death in its iron hug, while he
was fiercely digging at the monster’s
heart with the point of his knife.
Such devices are common on the arms
of the most notorious desperadoes on
the frontiers, and are the object of as
intense a pride co their owners, as were
the insignia of the most exalted chiv
alrv to the knights of the heroic ages.
For all men are poets; and the idea
seeks forevermore to render himself in
carnate in the material form—to speak
in knowing signs to the senses. De
structiveness will have its image as well
as its devotion.
Wilson made the first pass, a dbter
mined thrust aimed at the pit of his
antagonist’s stomach, while the other
dexterously parried. For a time both
parties fought with admirable coolness,
and with such consumate skill, that only
slight wouhds were inflicted, and those
in the head and face, whence blood
began to trickle freely. And still—
minous and awful visions—while the
contest raged, the opposite and charac
teristic signs of desperation remained
fixed, sculptured by the hand of horri
ble vengeance in either countenance. —
The cold smile, now converted into a
fiendish grin of immeasurable malice,
still lingered on Wilson’s livid lips;
and the tears still flowed, mingling
now with warm bloed from Anthony’s
black blaz'ng eyes ! The clatter of the
knives, thrusting and fending off, and
sharply ringing against each other was
hideous to hear, aud alone broke the
silence that reigned throughout the
hall.
At length, both foes, maddened at
the prolonged -obstinacy of the strug\
gle, and blinded by the gore from the
red gashes about their eyes, lost all
caution, coolness and equanimity, and
battled wildly more like devils than
living men. Each one more intent on
taking the life of his enemy than in
guarding his own, exerted every nerve
and muscle with a truculent fury that
struck the very beholdeis with icy fear.
Both parties were soon severely wound
ed in different parts of the body ; but
still there came no pause in the com
bat, till Anthony, striking a heavy,
overhanded blow, cut his adversary’s
arm half off at tli3 wrist S Wilson
changed his bowie-knife into his left
hand, and, for an instant, ran several
steps backwards, as if to decline any
further contest. He then stopped, aud
smiling more frightfully than ever—a
fearless infernal 100k —again rushed
forward. Previously, at this crisis,
when certain victory was within his
grasp, Anthony committed the folly of
flinging his knife at the other’s bosom,
which, missing its aim, fell with a loud
ringing on the floor, more than thirty
feet distant This error decided the
tremendous combat. Anthony was en>
tirely disarmed and at the mercy of the
tiger-man. Wilson darted upon him
with a hoarse cry of anger and hellish
joy—there, powerless to resist, aD*i yet
too brave to fly. One sharp thrust
ripped open the victim’s bowels, and he
caught them as they were falling, in
his hands ! Another stroke, directed
at the neck, severed the main artery,
aud the blood spouted out with a gurg
ling noise, sprinkling th ll robes, and
even the faces, of some members who
sat nearest the horrid scene.
The last act of the tragedy was
closed and the curtain of death drop
ped on the stage. Anthony without a
groan or a sigh, fell in his place, a
corpse, and Wilson, fainting from loss
of blood, sunk down beside him.
Up to this moment, although sixty
legislators were in their seats, and more
than a hundred lookers on in the lobby,
and jeweled bevies of bright-eyed la
dies in ihe gallery, still no one, save
those raging mad men, had moved; no
sound had disturbed the whisperless si
lence, but the clangors of their coucus
sive steel. But then, as both tumbled
on the floor, like lumps of lead, a single
wild, wailing heart shivering shriek as
if some other soul was parting with its
mortal clay, arose in the crowd of fe
males, and all was again still ; but
whether that deep cry of an orphaned
spirit was uttered by the maiden of
poor Anthony’s bosom, who had hoped
to-morrow to be his bride, or by the
beautiful little daughter of W ilsou, or
by some pitying stranger could never
be ascertained.
Wilson recovered, and is yet alive ;
and there is scarcely an inch square on
his face that docs not show its deep
scar, as a memento of the matchless
combat. He was expelled from the
house; bailed by a merciful Judge,
brought to trial, and acquitted. There
was never a jury yet in the backwoods
that would couvicta por&ou for slaying
another in a fair fight! For the de<.
perado is the backwoods’ hero whom all
men worship.
BLACK HILLS ATROCITIES.
A Volley Fired iuto a Tent inll of
Sleeping Men—A Plucky Mail
Carriers Gallant Fight.
Custer Citv, (Black Hills),Dec. 25,
1876 —The past week has been prolific
of Indian demonstrations,the first since
the 9th qf September last, when four
men were surprised while asleep upon
the very spot where your correspondent’s
tent now stands, murdered, and their
bodies horribly mutilated. Tuesday night
last a freight train, consisting of four
fourhorse teams and five men, on their
way from Cheyenne to Custer with flour
and grain, encamped on Indian Creek,
a little stream noted for its dangerous
surroundings, twenty-five miles south of
here. The wagons were corralled, the
mules turned out to graze, and the men,
grown reckless by the months of quie
tude that had prevailed,went to sleep in
their tent without posting a guard.
The night was bitter cold, and as the
last ray of light from the young moon
disappeared, a dozen Cheyennes, return
ing from their defeat at the hands of
Gen McKenzie,and embittered thereby,
silently crawled upon the sleepers, and
when in a distance of five feet from the
tent, poured a volley of pistol shots
into the canvas. Thus suddenly aroused
fiom slumber, the men were completely
at the mercy of their vindictive foes.—
Volley after volley rained upon thejteam
ster&;two of them were killed at the first
fire. The other three miraculously es
caped, and by making a wide detour,
succeeded in reaching Hot Creek, dis
tant six miles at midnight. A squad of
soldiers, augmented by civilians, at once
hastened to the locality, and found the
corpses of B. 0. Stephens of Salt Lake
and a German Darned “Fritz’’ of Color
ado lying in the tent, their bodies liter
ally chopped to pieces with a butcher’s
cleaver which had been taken from a
wagon.
The contents of the wagons lay in
piles upon the ground,having been emp
tied from the sacks,which were missing
The wagon boxes had been riddled with
bullets,and a large quantity of cartridge
shells were scattered over the giound.
The Indians and six horses were not to
be found.
The following day Frank Eclastadt, a
pony rider, started from Hot Creek for
lied Cloud Agency, with .• heavy mail,
and when a short distance out was at_
tacked by probably the same party of
Indians, as it numbered eleven warriors
with led 1.0 s:s. He galloped to the top
of a bluff and at once assumed the ag
gressive by opening a well directed fire
upon the savages, who circled around
him, and with yell and whoop gradually
hemmed him in.gnot, however, uutil he
had unseated two of the devils. The
situation becoming critical,he remount
ed his pony and made a dash to break
the line, but his horse fell with a fata!
bullet wound ere he had half made the
distance. Quickly recovering himself,
and with a revolver in each hand, the
plucky mail can it r continued the charge
on foot, and succeeded in breaking
through the cordon and escaped to a
clump of cottonw od that stood near,
strange to relate, unharmed. The In
dians did not pursue. The heroic mail
carrier continued his trip on foot, and
arrived in safety the following evening.
Large numbers of Indians were seen
on the bluffs around Indian and Hot
creeks throughout Wednesday,and late
in the afternoon they made a most de
termined attempt to stampede the stage
stock, which was enclosed in a large
corral. The men were well fortified how,*
ever, in a “dog fort,’’and repolled every
assault, but without inflicting loss upon
their assailants, who finally wearied of
the sport withdrew. Later in the day
the telegraph line w r as cut in several pla
ces. Numerous Indian trails have been
discovered in various localities since then
but no hostile act has been reported
The resumption of Indian attacks at
this ear'y and urreasonable time ol the
year indicates much trouble for miners
and freighters the coming spring nd
summer, unless the tide ol emigration
shall set in strong enough to intimidate
the savages. The latter will run no risks
if they can help it But driven to the
wall, the Indian is desperation personi
fied ; he knows no surrender ; he never
gives or expects mercy. This trait was
well ijlustrated near Deadwood la t sum
mer. A couple of prospecters were fired
at from the mountains. They started
ia pursuit, and while climbing the hill
one was killed His companion sighted
ti e Indian and fite ’/nflicting as ho;sup
posed, a mortal wouud, but to make a
sure thing of it fired again, when the
savage tumbled over, and the miner re
turned to camp. Ihe next day, accom
panied by a Methodist minister,be went
out to see the ‘'dead Injun. As they
were clambering up the acclivity the re
port of a rifle was heard, and the minis
ter fell a corpse. The miner hastened
forward, but ere he could reach his com
panion a second report reverberated
through the pines, aud the miner also
pas ed to his long home. The Indian
was subsequently found by miners, with
a bullet hoic through both thighs, and
another through his right arni; yet, dis
abled as he was. he fought to the bitter
end, and was passive ouly alter a bullet
had traversed his brain.
The Cheyenne route was the most
dangerous of last vear, it being infested
constantly with Uostiles Irom Laramie to
Red Canon. Three young men just from
the States were passing through Red
Canon, when the bluffs on either side
suddenly cropped out with Indians. The
boys sought alljthe cover they could find,
a small rock, it afforded no shelter,and
one of the number fell dead, while a
second was badly wounded in the shoul
der. The third, making a breastwork
of his two companions, kept up a fire
that the reds could not check. His
wounded mate saw a conspicuous spot in
the person of a sub-chief.standiug about
fifty yards away ; raising himself to his
elbow he drew a bead and fired with ef
fect, the Indian falling to the ground,
writhing in agony. The wounded white
boy, interested in the gyrations, raisec,
himself still higher, and while watching
the dying throes of his enemy reoeived
a bullet in his head, and fell back dead.
The surviving member of the heroic trio
placed one corpse above the other, and
thus fortified, maintained his position
unharmed 'or five long, weary hours,
when a freight wagon arriving the In
dians soampered away,leaving sixteen of
their number on the field. As it is well
known that Indians remove their dead,
the number necessarily left behind indi
cates that their loss must have been very
heavy.—• Correspondence New York
Sun.
Fritz's Troubles.
Fritz has had some trouble with his
neighbor. This time he determined to
apply to his majesty of the law, and ac
cordingly consulted a legal gentleman.
“How vas dose tings ?” he said,“Veil
a valler’s got a garden, and der odder
vallare got some chickens eat ’em up.—
Don’t you got some law for dot I”
“Some one’s chickens have been de#
stroying your garden ?” asked the law
yer.
“Straw in mine garden ? Nein, it was
vegetables.”
“And the chickens committed depre.
dations on them ?”
•‘lsh dot so ?” asked Fritz in astuu
ishment.
“And you waut to sue him for dani„
age* ?” continued the lawyer.
“Yas Gott lor tamages, uod der gab
bages and lettuce !”
“Did you notify him to keep his chick
ens up ?”
“Yaas, I did nodify him.”
“And what did he say V*
“lie nodify me to wipe mino shin off
down mine vest,”
“Iley ?”
Ml chickens, to run at
luge ?”
“Yaas,some vas large und s-me leedle
vallars,but dey bos sgratch mine garden
more as der safon dimes idch V'
“Well you want to sue him ?”
“Yass,l vant to sue hm to make von
blank fence up sixteen feed his house all
aroundt.vot der chickens don’t got ofer.”
The lawyer informed him that he
could not compel him to build such a
fence, and Fritz left in a rage exclaim 1
io g :
“Next summer dime I raise me shick
ens too, you bate I raise Aden shickens,
by hafens ! Wipe off your vest down.”
How the Shrewd Business Mail
Tides Over the Hard Times.
Times are hard, indeed, and money is
scarce ; but merchants and dealers make
them a great deal harder and money
much scarcer, so far, at least, as they
are concerned, by secluding themselves
from public gazs, as it were, and failing
to use every means within their reach
for doing at least a share of what busi
ness there is to be done. No matter how
hard the times may be,a certain amount
of purchasing must be done daily by al
most every family; aod the hard
er the times the more sharply
are buyers looking out for bar
gains. Aud a peculiarity of the case
is that in period* of great depression a
large portion of the 6inall trade is for
cash. Business men who fail to adver.
tise and thus make known what special
inducements they have to offer are there
fore certain to be passed by, while their
energetic and enterprising competitors
are picking up what money there is in
circulation. What, would be thought
of a former, who, having bought or
rented his place, ploughed his fields
and sowed his seed, would sullenly re
fuse to gather his crop because the
yield happened to be lighter than usual,
when, indeed, there was all the more
necessity for gathering what there
might be ? Yet that is precisely the
attitude in which a business man places
himself when he fails to advertise be
cause uiony is scarce and business dull.
Washington Star.
Ills One Bequest. —Brother Gard
oet, the colored philosopher, got into a
row at the market yesterday, he not on
ly had the worst end of tho fight, but
was walked io the station.
“Can’t dis yere truble be settled for a
million dollars?” he anxiously inquired
cf the Captain.
“No ; you will have to be locked up,”
was the answer.
“Dere is no escape for me eh ?”
“None. Those who enter here must
leave a’l hope behind ”
“Well sah,’’sighed the old man“dere’s
one favor dat I want to request of you.
If dat Jones,who got up the tight,comes
down heah to gloat over my misfortunes
as he will,doan’ you let him io. It’s bad
nuff to be kicked in the stummick and
hit ou de ear widout de victorious par
ty cornin' down heah, lookin’ through
the burs, an’ cablin’ out, “Behold the
mangled remans of Brudder Gardner.”
Just keep dat man away.'— Detroit
Free Press.
Western & Atlantic Railroad.
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
‘ * KENNESA W RO VTE.”
The following takes effect may 23d, 1875
Northward. No.i.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive Cartersviile 6.14 4 ‘
•* Kingston 6.42 “
“ Dalton 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 3
Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 ~
“ Kingston 9.56 •*
“ Dalton 11.54 “
Chattanooga 1.56 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m
Arrive Cartersviile 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton 11.18 “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
.eave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m
\rrive Dalton 5.41 “
“ Kingston 7,28 “
“ Cartersviile 8.12 “
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
I enve Chattanooga 5.00 a.m
ri ive Dalton 7.01 "
“ Kingston..... 9.0', ‘
“ Cartersviile 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 0G *\m
No. 17.
I .'ate Dalton 1.00 a.m
Ari e Kingston 4.19 *•
Cartersviile 5.18 “
'* Atlanta 9.20 “
ull nan Palace Oars run o:i Nos. 1 and 2
oci vee i New Orleans and Faltimore.
1 ullman Palace Cars run en Nos. 1 and 4
.et\.een Atlanta and Nashvilic.
1 ullm m Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
itweer Louisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Or
lears, A ibile, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Baltimore, and only one change to New
York.
P i sseng irs leaving .Atlanta at 4 10 p. m.,
arri\e in New York the second afternoon
ther after at 4.00.
Excursicn tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and At
lanta, at gieatly reduced rates, first of
June.
Parties desiring a whole car through fo
he \ irgima Springs or Baltimore, should
address the undersigned.
Pa' ties contemplating travel should send
for a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette,
conta ning schedules, etc.
Ask for Tickets via “ Kennesaw
outc.”
B. W. WRENN,
G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Rome Railroad — Schedule .
ON AND AFTER MARCH Ist, the evening
train (except Saturday evening), on this
road will be discontinued. The trains will
run as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leaves Rome dailj at 7:00 a. m.
Return to Rome at 12 in.
SATURDAY ACCOMMODATION.
Leaves Rome (Saturday only) at 6:45 p. m.
Return to Rome at ...9:00 p. m.
The evening train at Rome will make
elope connection with S. R- & D. R. R. train
North and South, and at Kingston with W.
& A. R. R. train South and East.
C. M. PENNINGTON, CenT Sup’t.
JNO. E. STILLWELL, Ticket Agent.
THE
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS
For 1877.
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