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Thought Odors.
tfot what WO do, not what we say, speaks
(or us
fine souls here, or to tho Throne of
To
L ' g be fair, gods will abhor
The words a!J d acts
us if , hearts not
And men distrust, our are
light
er ^ secret aim, our hidden wish or longing,
Our silent thoughts of men or worlds
above— forces
These aro the tell-tale that corno
thronging
To point to ns as ones to loathe or love.
Onr thoughts are od^rs, and we cannot seal
them,
So close with actions but they will creep
out; •
delicately fashionel souls will feel
them,
And know them sweet or vile, beyond a
doubt.
good deeds fall dead if selfish causes guide
them,
Good words fall flat that but from lips
have birth;
And eloquent and noble seems, beside them,
The silence or inaction of true worth.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Withdrawn Correspondence.
by c. m. iiarger.
Morton Frazier belonged to the staff
of one of those ambitious western sheets
—the Garten Daly Gazette. To be
jure, he was only the Dobbville corres
pondent of the paper, but he was as
proud of even that slight connection
with its pages as though he had a snug
place iu the editorial chair.
Morton’s communications were always
headed by the editor (who was also
proof-reader, business manager, and
local rustler) “Dobbville Dots, from our
special correspondent.”
Morton had hard work to keep from
crying with admiration over that al
literative heading, the first time it
adorned his literary effort; but at last he
became used to it and it did not worry
him or unduly elate his susceptible heart
and brain. Ilis signature was “Wander
ing Mac,” and he was known by that
title almost as well as by his own name,
for lie had acted as the Gazette's
“special correspondent” for many years.
He went around to the little rural parties
and pleasure meetings with a wondrously
wise and knowing look upon his face,
as though the destinies of the nation de
pended upon his beck and call.
The editor of the Gazette hai im
pressed it upon him that the paper
must have the ne ws. “Everything, >>
he had remarked, in stentorian tones,
when one day Morton had tremblingly
entered the stuffy little sanctum at Gar
ten. “Everything hinges upon getting
the news, and getting it quick.”
This admonishmeht so impressed the
young aspirant for journalistic fame,
that a week after tho visit he miiled a
touching obituary of a seriou-ly ill
child, not expiected to live an hour,
to tho paper, trusting that the in
fant woald die before the paper was
issued. The child however, recovered,
°d _
a is alive today, a roistering lad who
delights to show that tender tribute to
hh memory (and it is a touching one)
ending; “The bereaved piarents lihvc
the sympathy of their scores of friends
in this, their great sorrow, but of such
is the Kingdom of Heaven .» The
the editor way
of the Gazette unbent him
•elf to rail at 3rorton after that “break”
m ade him more till thereafter.
care
°urtk of July in Dobbville, i:i 1878,
^ as an oc casion that still lives in the
tuemory ol those who were fortunate
enough to be citizens of tho town at
that ev cntful period. Not ouly the
Nation’s was
bivthd ay anniversary properly
celebrated, but a circus held forth upon
e prairie north of the Montezuma Ho
teL lUica two such great events coin
ci de, it i 3 enough to turn tho heads of
people.
K would have been hard to find
Hpier a
Mac.” nian lhat day than “Wandering
He hod been graciously presont
® vith two “comps”
for the circus by
e manager, who had found out
^ soon
’at Morton was, and when at
• seven
c octv he stepped into the parlor of
* e ^ r °thod, Miss Marion Reneal, it
"ith a perfectly self-satisfied air.
larion added to the perfection of tho
^ate S hw of his ( *°'i mind cate ly-blashing by allowing him to
gjj * ' cheek—yes,
Wore; she kissed him in return,
what more could a young man ask?
This particular young might
have man
asked for a repetition of tho per
form ance luid it not been that Roy, the
s pegiace brother,
camo tearing into
fooin just at that moment, with all
8 ‘ yc ' ar *°id vehemence.
> * 1 ’ ® a 7* 8 i 8 »” ho cried excitedly.
Crc 15 collar and clean shirt?”
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
“I don’t know. Up stairs I guess,”
was the impatient reply and ikea the
sis ted added:
“1 don’t know what ails Rry, today.
He has been getting everything of his
together in his room, It’s the Fourth,
too. ”
She looked inquiringly at her lover,
but he was a Inuring her face, and not
thinking of romping brothers, so there
was no answer there. Twice during
the evening did she speak of Roy’s
queer actions; once while the clown was
perpetrating some of his hideous jokes,
and once while she and Morton were
sitting on the piazza with arms en
twined.
The first time she had apparently not
been heard and the second she had been
answered with a kiss, so she was no
wiser thau before.
Morton Frazier thought of it though,
the next day, for the events of the night
were such as to bring tho circumstance
vividly to his mind.
About 3 o’clock on the morning of
the 5th, a fire broke out in the great
Rockwell block. More than $50,000
went up in smoke, The whole town
was out to see tho sight, and to help
lessly mourn the event. The Rockwell
blo«!c had been built m the “boom’’
days, twro years before, and though it
was out of all proportion to the town,
everybody was sorry to sec it destroyed.
4 4 W andering Mac” was among the
first on the ground, and as soon as he
had seen the fire w r ell under way lie had
roused up the telegraph operator and
sent this message, which appeared as a
“special’’ in the morning’s Gazette:
Dobbville, July 5th.— A terrible fire
took place hero this morning. It started in
Rockwell’s store and burned into Fry’s gro
cery; then into the insurance company’s
office. The flames leaped 40 or 50 feet iu
height. Everything is excitement.
The next morning revealed several
things worthy of mention in this narra
tion. The smoking ruins were sur
rounded by scores of men and boys,
busy discussing the cause of the fire.
And they told of the probability that it
was au act of incendiarism; that it
started in an out-of-the-way place; that
but one theory was held regarding the
firebugs; and their conversation always
came round to the mysterious word—
“Spearmen.”
Then somebody would explain that
the Spearmen was a body of rough boys
and young men who gathered in un
canny places at night to plan deeds of
misch.ef and meanness. Another
would add that the Spearmen had a
particular spite against Rockwell for
having them arrested once for a trivial
offence. A third had heard Roy Reneal
boast that he ovould “get even.” A
fourth had just found that Roy had not
been home the night before, and was
yet missing, though his widowed mother
and his sister were searching every
where.
All these scraps of information were
united into a complete history, and the
news went over town that Roy Reneal
had set fire to the Rockwell block to
“get even” with the proprietor for ar
resting the Spearmen, and had fled the
country.
Morton Fraz’er was in despair. At
ten o’clock he was met on the street by
the Western Union messenger boy, who
handed him a dispatch. He tried not
to look self- conscious as he read it, but
the effort was a failure. It said:
Garten, July 5.
Morton Frazier, Dobbville:—Send full
account of fire by mail at noon. Insurance,
loss, cause and everything. Gazette.
1 say Frazier was iu despair. He had,
of course, heard tho reports in circula
tion regarding his brother-to-bo Iloy,
and yet how could he blast tho boy’s
good name by sending the rumor to the
Gazette. He must docido quickly, for
the only mail train that could got his
letter to the papier in time for its next
issue left at noon, and now it wai part
eleven.
While ho sat in his office, pondering
over the matter, there was a great bat
tle fought between his great love for
news and his great love for Marion.
Added to the first was the stentorian,
“Wo want tho news and all tho news,”
of the editor, and to the second, the
fair features of his swcothcart. Which
should he obey, Cupid or Mammon?
He reflected that tho Daily Hazard , the
Gazette's rival, would “scoop” its
com petitor, unless he furnished the re
quired iuformation, and resolutely put
his pen to paper, and ground out a
heart-rending accoun- of tho conflagra.
tion and of tho ugly rumors that were
reported around the city, Tho nooa
train carried tho correspondence to Gar
ten.
When the train had. gone, he sat in
his office studying over the matter.
Had he done right' Perhaps the boy
was really innocent. If so, he had done
the worst thing he could have to harm
him; he had committed the sin that lies
at the door of every newspaper writer's
sanctum, the shattering of a fellow
being’s peace of mind and perhaps repu
tation, bv a careless word or phrase or a
bit of unsubstantial rumor, glowingly
written up.
As he pored over the matter there was
a tap at the door, and upon opening it
he -was greeted by Marion, her face
wreathed with smiles, and such evi
dently kissable lips that he ha 1 no
hesitancy in—well, it is not necessary
to go into details.
i 4 Oh, Mort,” she gasped, after a
moment, “where have you been today?
I wanted to see you so much.’’
Frazier remembered that he had not
been to the home of his betrothed, and
knew that it was because he doubted
her brother’s innocence.
“You don’t know,” she rattled on,
without giving him time to respond,
“how worried mother and I have been.
Roy was not to be found, and that hor
rid old maid, Miss Semert, came over
with the most awful twaddle about his
being suspected of setting the Rockwell
block on fire, and all that.” (Her lis
tener felt his cheeks grow pale, but
Marion did not notice it.) “Of course
we knew he was all right, and, sure
enough, he came in at dinner time. lie
went home with Uncle Rudolph out in
the country after the show last night
and only just got back. He took all
his clothes, for lie’s going to work for
Uncle Rudolph to earn some money, 1
was down town, and thought 1’ d tell
you so that you could say so to the
men.” There was a wistful look in the
girl s eyes that told how thoughtful she
was for her brother s reputation, and
how much she depended, upon her lover
to set things right.
As she took her departure, Morton
realized that he must do some quick
work. First, he must kill that cor
respondence, which was by this time in
the Gazette s forms ready to go to press.
Second, he must have some good excuse
to give the editor for doing so.
From what ho knew of the Gazette's
publication hour, he judged that he had
half an hour for investigation. Like a
madman he tore around the streets—an
animated interrogation point—asking
every man he met what had been heard
of the incendiaries. All started out
with the old story about “They say the
Spearmen but they were shut oil
with, “That’s all a lie,” and rushed on.
It was no use. He must simply with
draw the correspondence, When he
had hut ten minutes more he stepped
into the telegraph office and sent these
words:
Dobbville, July 5.
Gazette , Garten.—Don t publish Dobbviliz
correspondence. Roy R.neal is innocent.
M. Frazier.
The editor o-f the Gazette was too
good a newspiapier man not to ohey such
a summons even with the chance of get
ting “scooped. ” The correspondence
did not appear nor did the Hazard hav®
a word regarding the matter.
Two months after, a quiet wedding
took place at Dobbville and “Wander
ing Mac” and Marion were chief par
ticipants in the ceremony. In the same
issue of the Gazette that contained the
very flowery account of their marriage
(Morton wrote it) there appeared the
confession of a tramp arrested in a
neighboring city. He was dying, and
before breathing his last owned up to
having set on fire the Rockwell block,
having accompanied the circus.
Morton read the confession to hi*
bride on the second day of tho honey
moon, and told her the story of hi*
withdrawal correspondence.
“Oh, Morton,” said the lady, re
proachfully, “if that had been published
1 would never have married you.”
“I knew it, dear,” returned he, plac
idly, and I think the Gazette editor do
serves a piece of wedding cake for kill
ing it, don’t you?”
She did; and tho Gazette, force ad
journed for fifteen minutes the next day
to munch fruit cake, macaroons and an
gel food. — Yankee Blade.
Bud ami Bugs.
‘•Look at that beautiful young rose,
bud with a lot of old bugs 9warmiug
around her,” remarked Brown, as sever
al old boys were flirting with a young
lady at a ball.
“Yes, but those are gold bug3, so tbs
rosebud don’t mind it,” said Jones.
THE LEGISLATURE.
BELLS PASSED BY THE SENATE AND HOU61
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A bill to amend the act establishing
the city court of Newuau; to incorpo
the Thomasville and Suburban Railroad
company; to prohibit the sale of cotton
seed in Jasper county in quantities less
thau five liuudred pounds between Au
gust 15th and December loth; to regu
late the sale of liqu >r in Wilkes county;
to establish a dispensary liquors iu Oglethorpe
county for ihe sale of for medici
nal purposes, the grand jury to appoint
the seller; to prohibit the sale of liquor
within three miles of Union Baptist
Church iu Spalfiiug county; to create
the office of county solicitor for the
county court of Wayne, the solicitor to
be appointed by the governor; to change
the t.me of holding court m Screven
county; to incorporate the Citizens’ bank
of Eastman; to imend the charter of
the Fulton County Street Railroad com
pany; to incorporate the Catoosa Rail
road company; to incorporate the
Washington and Lincoln Railroad com
pany. A three-mile pioliibition bill for
Orchard dill; a hill prohibit the sale
of farm products after night in Spalding
county: a three-mile prohibition bill for
Teamon Baptist Church in Cabin’s dis
trict of Spalding county; a bill to iu
corporate the Paulding County Building
and Loan Association; to prohibit the
sale of intoxicating, spirituous or malt
liquors or bitters in any quantity within
four miles of upper and lower Coal City
churches in Dade county; to incorporate
the Union Point and Elbertou Short Line
Railroad company; to incorporate the
Woodvillc, Pen tie Id and Oconee Val ey
railroad; to incorpora.e the town of
Way cross and to corner additional pow
ers; to incorporate the Dalton and Ste-*
venson Railway company; to legulatc the
sale of liquors in Teliair county; to
amend the act creating a board of com
n.issioners of roads and revenue for Fay
ette county; to amend the charter of the
city of Athens; to authoiize the muuici
courts of the of Athens to im-
pose fines to the amount of *5*500, or to
sentence for a term of twelve months;
to amend an amended charter of Mays
ville, Ga.; to authorize the trustees of
the Second Presbyterian Church, Colum
bus, Ga., I« sell certain lands held by
them for church purposes; to amend thq
charter of LxFavette. Walton county.
A bill to incorporate the Montezuma A
Flint River Steamboat company; to au
thonze Fairburn to issue bonds to build
a school house; a stock law for Sumter
rounty; to incorporate the Bank of
Brunswick;to incorporate the Atlanta
end Seaboard Railway company; a bill
to give waier works companies or muni
cipal corporations the right to condemn
the right of way for mains; to give the
county dollars commissioners. day each while. of in McDuffie session; two to
a
incorporate the Commercial Bank of Ce
dartown, Ga.; to inc irporate the Satillo
1 ransportation company; to provide for
the payment of the insolvent criminal
eosts of the justices of the peace, nota
lies pub .ic and constables of Hancock
county; to proviae for the creation of a
board ot commissioners of roads and rev
euue in lellair county; to amend the
chaitei of the Albany and Baiubtidge
Railroad company; to amend the charter
o the Nortli and South Short Line
Railway company; to amend the charter
of the city of Greensboro: to authorize
the ordinaries of the counties of Ware
and Clinch to have the line between the
two counties plainly marked; to incorpo
rate the town of Jenkinsburg, in Butts
County; to authorize and require the
registration of all voters in the county of
Jasper; to prohibit stock drovers or
others from allowing their cattle to tres
pass upon the lands of another in Jack
son County; to amend the act incorpo
rating the Cherokee Wesleyan Institute,
located at Cave Sorinus: to jncomorate
puny; and to incorporate the town of Still
more for other purposes; to amend
an act prohibiting the sale ot intoxicating
liquors within one mile of Midway
Church, in Gwinnett County; to prohibit
the sale or manufacture of spiritmis
liquors within three miles of Nazareth
Protestant Methodist Church in Gwin
the nett County; to repeal the act reducing County";
work on roads in Johnson
Early to incorporate the town of Ililtou in
County; to prevent the running at
large upon the land of another, whether
enclosed or unenclosed, in the 998 dis
trict, G. M., in Randolph County, of all
Ellijay Street Railway Company; to
provide compensation for the clerk of
the Superior Court of Bibb County for
expenditures made by him in sending
certain records to the Supreme Court;
to amend the charter of the city of Dal
ton—another bill to amend the same
charter; for the protection of game in
the county of Glynn; to amend the char
ter of Adairsville, Bartow county; to
incorporate the Metropolitan Savings and
Loan company; to amend an act to in
corporate the Atlanta Mutual Insurance
company; to amdnd the charter of the
town of Guyton, Effingaain county; to
provide for the payment of insolvent
turnkey fees of the sheriff of Burke
county; to amend an act to consolidate
and amend the several acts concerning
the incorporation of Brunswick; to au
thorize the mayor and council of the city
of Forsyte to issue certain bonds; to
prohibit the manufacture or sale of spir
ituous, malt, or intoxicating liquors
within three miles of Summerous Chapel
Methodist church, in Murray county, to
provide for the funding of the bonded
debt of Clarke county; to authorize and
require the mayor and council of Cuth
bert, Ga., to levy and collect a tax for
educational purposes; to prohibit the
manufacture or sale of spirituous, malt or
intoxicating liquors within three miles of
Union Cumberland Presbyterian church
in Murray county; to prohibit the judge
of the county court of Putnam county
from practicing law in the trial of dis
demeanor cases; to provide a system of
public schools for the town of Social
Circle,in 'Walton county; to prohibit any
person or persons from catching fish with
seins and nets in the waters of Gunn
swamp and Sugar creek in the counties
of Telfair and Montgomery; to amend
the road laws of this state, so far as re
lates to Emanuel county; to amend the
charter of the town of Hartwell; to au
thorize D. Whilchel and A. W. Pass to
erect gates across a certain the road in Hall
county; to authorize mayor and al
dermen of Savannah to establish harbor
lines on the Savannah river from the
cross tides above to the sea.
1HLL8 SIGNED £Y THE GOVERNOR.
The Governor has fixed his signature
to the following bills originating in the
House: An act to amend an act to incor
porate the town of Jefferson, in the
county of Jackson f approved August
14, 1872. Au act to amend sections
2788 and 2783 (a) of the code so as to
include among the public holidays tho
19th of January and for other purposes.
Au act to amend the charter of the city
of Macon so as to provide for the im
provement of its streets. An act to
amend the charter of the city of Macon,
and the several acts amendatory thereof,
so far as to authorize the mayor and
council of the city of Macon to issue
bonds in the amount of two hundred
thousand dollars, for the purpose of
packing, paving and seweraging the
streets of said city of Macon. An act
to incorporate the Piedmqnt Loan and
Banking Company at Gainesville. An
act to prevent the running at large upon
the land of another, either enclosed or
unenclosed, in the 431st district, G. M.„
of Clay County, of all horses, mules,
cows, hogs, sheep, goats, etc.
An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous,
malt or intoxicating liquors within two
miles of Brawelle Academy in Morgar.
county, Ga. An act to prohibit the
killing and destroying of game in the.
oounty of Colquitt. An act to amend,
and change the charter of the town of
Hawkiusville. ‘ Au act to incorporate
the Ocean, Pond – St. Mary’s Short Line
Railroad company. Au act to better
protect the lands and farming interests
of the 78oth district, G. 31. in Schley
county, Ga. Au act to incorporate the
Dahlonega – Dawsonville Railroad Co.
An act to provide when transfers and
liens shall take effect as against third!
parties. Also these bills originating in
senate: Au act to amend an act, to
incorporate the Waycross and Air Line,
railroad. An act to declare all c e.ipes>
from the the penitentiary negligent, and to
require governor damage to proceed inimedi
ately to cohect the new fixed by
law for each escipe and for other pur
poses. An act to prohibit the sale of
spirituous, malt or vinous liquors by the
<mllon or large quantities in ti.e county
Harris, unless the seller shall pay a
tax of twenty-five dollars to the county,
anf ] obtain the written consent of two
thirds of the bona fide citizens, l'rc;hol(l
ers within three miles of the locality
where the same is sold. An act to amend
an ac q entitled an act to establish aboard
0 f commissioners for the county of Bibb,
<j e fi Iie their duties, and for other pur
poses. An act to incorporate the town
of Richmond in the county of Stewart,
A.n ac t t0 authorize and require the
ma y 0 r and aldermen of the city of Mil
ledgeville to elect three freeholders us
c jty assessors, to prescribe and define
their (]utic8 and for other j )U1 .p 0 scs.
A HUGE COMBINE.
A SCHEME TO CONSOLIDATE ALL THE BAG
GING FACTORIES OF THE COUNTRY,
dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., says:
The Missouri anti-trust law has precipi
tated the formation of another great na
tional combination. All the bagging in
tcrests of the l nited States will shortly
consolidate, under the name of the
American Manufacturing Company, of
New York. Warren, Jones – Gratz, of
St. Louis, head of the jute bagging trust,
are the P rim e movers in the new organi
zation. . It was stated Thursday that
a bout twenty different factories, at vari
ous P(’ ints . were to 1)e absorbed into the
American Manufacturing company, in
carrying out the present scheme,
BIRMINGHAM’S REPORT.
FOUR MEN KILLED—TWO BY ACCIDXNl
AND TWO MURDERED.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala.,
says: Death reaped a harvest in Jefferson
county George Estes Friday. During the morning
got caught in the fly-wheel
of the rolling-mill at Gate City, and was
beaten to peices. W. Benton, an em
ploye of the Pullman Car company, was
walking backwards behind a car in the
Georgia Pacific yard. The car was dis
connected and moving slowly, and he
Ilefe'l was trying to stop it with a crow-bar.
across the track and his body waa
cut in twain. Deputy Sheriff King Vann
was shot and instantly killed by John
Steele, a negro, aud four hours later hie
murderer was overtaken by a posse and
his body riddled with bullets. The mur
deputy was one of the most popu
lar officers in the county.
* A CnUs Determined Suicide.
Henry Hurlbutt, of Boscobel, Wis.,
pierced the ears and clipped the tail of
his pet cat, a very fine specimen of the
feline species. The animal immediately
fell to weeping, refused to eat anything,
and actually committed suicide by hang
ing itself with a rope that hung from a
hammock in Hurlburt ’3 yard. The cat
put its head through a split in the strands
of the rope, and when discovered was
stone dead, with its hind feet resting
upon the ground.— Picayune.