The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-11-24
Sweetwuter, Nov. 18th, 1870.
YoR TUE ENTERPRrsE.l
Gleanings from the Gate City.
ours truly, &c

. ATLANTA, November lst, 1870,
Mr.. EDIroR Your old friend is once
more seized with the disease termed "scr-
bendi," and will give fs}s,9ems to burn
or publish, as you please. Will begin
with great changes that have taken place
in the last five years. .'"
After the war, in 1865, dark, moulder-
ing ruins met the eye on every hand;
now, beautiful homes, elegant churches,
large and costly hotels, grand business
houses cover the once desolated city. 1t
seems indeed as if the enchanter's wand
had been here. Go up into the cupola Of
the Capitol, and for miles in every diree-
tion the beautiful city stretches herself;
and here we have the most gorgeous sun
sets ever behsld. rHrn.'
The State Fair which closed last week
was in most respects quite success-the
entrance was beautiful, the grounds we'll
arranged, the weather fine and attendance
large; although, five times the number
could not have filed the capacious city.
Many incidents occurred on the grounds.
l will mention only q few. A pickpocket
was shot through the heart, while in the
act of relieving another's pocket; twelve
Of the same kind were arrested and i'm
prisoned; little boy lost; another wound
ed; several cases of commissions; knight
in green ian emerald islander we presume)
by the name of Kenny, after taking sew
eral rings, was thrown from his horse and
almost instantly killed. His wife and
sister were looking on. A little boy of
four years, in suit Of velvet and beads,
with gracefully flowing plume flying in
the breeze, took two premiums. Near by
is the silvery lake and swiftly gliding
skiff long walk for admirers Of poultry,
stock, &c Agricultural Hall, spacious
building filed with various useful pro-
ducts and implements. One novelty we
noticed was paper wash bowls and buck
cts, highly glazed. Floral Hall was the
place of beauty in the way of fruits, (not
many flowers why is it y preserves, dis
plays Of jewelry, birds, carpets, rugs,
patchwork, embroidery in quantity, pi-
amos, paintings, Zone strikingly beautiful,
representing Ruth cleaning in the field of
Boaz,) sewing machines; one called the
Harper Machine struck our fancy its
straight needle, stitch on both sides, work
ing button hole by slight movement,
and, being invented BY Southern man in
Atlanta, give it paramount claims. .i a..
We have several celebrities in the city
in the way of ministers, and have had the
pleasure Of hear ing DR.. Wills, Presbyter-
ian, DR.. Warren, Baptist, and Drs. Har-
rson and Holland, Of the Methodist
Church. DR.. R. A. Hollands lecture on
eThe Sea of Gallilee," last. evening, was
the crowning pleasure. 1t was beautiful,
grundly sublime, His youth, his Charm
of manner, his faultless elocution an com.
biue to make him an orator. lie convey
ed us in Imagination over the ruins of
Betbsaida and Chorazin, thrice desolste
because cursed by our Saviour; pictured
tividly the leper who was healed by Je,
sus,. near the placid sea, nnrufled save BY
the occasional dip Of the heron's wing and
ducks which seemed to glide along with
out effort, as Il W the impulse Of dreams.
The village Of Nazareth, with its narrow,
crooked streets, low, fat-roofed cottages,
which still retain their primitive simplici.
Dty, as when our Saviour worked ut his
humble occupation, the son Of a carpep-
Ter, subject to bis parents, and who After
wards so iaistonisbed his neighbors and nc.
quaintances; Ruth, who gracefully bound
up BoaiYiheaftl In q bundle Of sheaves.
Peters failing faith while walking on the
billoxs; ehsist reBhking the winds; Gar,
den Of Gethsemane; Mary at the tomb;
each iofthesd scenes seemstito pass before
The enchanted audience, each sentence full
of beauty. Such word painting | never
|heazi ~ He seemed tQleaye rs spell-beundi
'SiitinG iplgrovss Of bsaqtifulIdnd fragrant
oloander lreAa, near hedges 6f brilliantly
Covering eaotls, looking Oh tlis beautiful
Gshesafet. | would ssy csll, 60. and
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