Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-12-05
Continued RambIes In pixies Land.

ED. JOURNAL Il left your many read
ers in Atlanta, the Hourishing capital of
the State of Georgia. Great manuf ,cturing
interests have sprung up here since the war,
including railroad shops, rolling mills,
blast furnaces, machine shops, foandries,
stove works, fork aud handle factories,
and even button factories, and other. not
mentioned. There Is blast furnace here
that has not been cooled down for nine
years, so the foreman told me. They run
night and day, Sundays included. Here a
pleases. One dollar per day is the wages
paid. They also have a supply store
whore everything is kept and sold to their
hands. But one pays more here than they
do elsewhere for goods. Cash is only paid
in sums Of fifty dollars or upwards.
There are many very fine residences and
business houses here-a great many more
in proportion than in any other city or
town that have visited in the south, with
the exception of Winston, N. c., and Chat.
tanooga, Tenn.
The proprietor of the house where /
stepped over night is n one legged Conlsd-
crate soldier, He told ME Of many inci-
dents Of the war among these he told me
that he was the only survivor OF Is men
that we're out in rife pli. He SAID the
Yankees had been throwing shells all day,
but did not seem to be hurting any one
until there was large sh ii struck
right ia their pit aud exploded, killing
every man in the pit with the exception OF
himself. His right leg was amputated at
the knee. This man IL Republican, a
solid Union man, and likes to see the Yam.
KEGS come South.
I will now take the train for Chatts-
nooga, Tenn. The most of the route is
lined with mountains and wild scenery.
Our train came near being thrown from
the track by large mass of rock and deb.
ris sliding down from deep cst. The
engineer discovered it Just In time to stop
the train. Delayed there FIVE hours before
the track was cleared Then they made
fine time till Chattanooga was reached.
When the train stoppoed at the depot
tueEe seciueu 10 De u CO.OTeu nOtet runner
for each passenger. put mp at the Ohio
House. The next day had look around
town until about p. NJ. when took the
Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Road for
Bristol, and other points.
Chattanooga is lively little city. The
manufactures here are about the same rs
found them at Atlanta. But there wns not
many of them running wheH l was there.
| visited the Union and Confederate Gem
eteries. They are fenced with barhed wire
and well taken care uf. The Grounds are
shaded with oak and hichory trees and the
grass is kept closely cut and everything
has 4 neat appearance. 1t makes one feel
sad to think how many thousands al our
brave boys sleep here, as well ~s at the
many other cemeteries in the South. The
Confederate Cemetery is equally we'll kept.
l will leave the readers of the old
JOURNAL here until my next, when will
take them over a trip through East Ten
nessee and from there back here, thence
home, which will wind up these brief
sketches Of section of country which
twenty years ago was quite familiar to
many OF the soldier readers Of the JOUR-
NAL. JACK.
Hoytsville, Ohio, Dec. 1. 's4.