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VOL 16. No. 39. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. What is Claimed for the Beautiful Young City. Population, 2,500. Four churches, Methodist. Bap tist, Presbyterian and Episcopal. The Southern Normal Institute, with fine board of teachers, graded from first to Collegiate; First class telephone system, connected with ail towns, in the county, Ocilla, in Irwin, and Nashville, in Berrien, and many farmers of the county. Two railroads, the Atlantic and Birmingham, connecting with Atlantic Coast Line at Way cross, the Sea Board, at Fitzgerald, the I Georgia Southern and Florida, at "Cordele, and the Central, at Montezuma; the Douglas, Augus ta & Gulf, connecting with A. C. L. at Willacoochee, and boats, onJJcmuTttefc 'yiver for Hawkins ville and Brunswick. Two well capitalized Banks, earning dividends and officered "by men. Several Real fistate Dealers. Electric Light and Water Works Plant, from which all business houses ■and nearly all residences on the lines are water ed and lighted, owned by city. Two First Class Drug Stores. HOne $25,000 court house and jaih Twenty-two dealers in general merchandise. Six Brick Business Blocks, every room up stairs and stores down stairs occupied. Two Barber Shops. One Harness Shop. One Hardware Establishment. One Wholesale Grocery store. Ik One Gin and Grist Mill. HtOne Plaining Mill. Physicians and Surgeons. . , roi'SS* i .... L C>hh and Machine T^hop. i two Blacksmith Shops. ' One Chinese Laundry, pros* pective- »:•* ' & i/f I 'IK . One Bottling * ' One Fire Dpp&^^t-hose, c - ” w One First' Class' Millinery Es ■ lafblishment. . * One department store Millinery * EstablishihepL • two Furniture Establishments. Two M fiscal Instrument deal ers. * . ' •* , . One Tin and BicyclqjShop. •two Lively, Feed and Sale Stables. ' * Several Dealefstin Horses and Mules. ' Three Dentist Shops. One Fair Association —hold- ing annual Fairs. Several dealers in Buggies and Wagons. i One Baker Shop. One Ice Manufacturing Plant. One First Class Hotel. Several First Class Boarding houses. One newspaper and job print ing establishment, incorporated, with actual outfit worth over $6,000,00. _ J Organized Board of Trade. Douglas Silver Cornet - Band, eighteen pieces. Douglas Silver Cornet Band, Orchestra. Telegraph connections with the world. Direct routes to all points north, south, east and west, traversed by railroads over the A. & B. and D. A- & G. R. R ' and their connections. Douglas is situated in the midst of the most fertile and productive section of Georgia. Peopled by honest hard working farmers, in the enjoyment of health, wealth and happiness. . Come to the fair this fall unq we will prove all the above and as much more to bq only half the inducements why you should live in Douglas, in Coffee county, or any of her towns. The Douglas Weekly Enterprise. WHO WAS TO BLAME. The Pitiful Story' <# d# Treat* ment of a Young Husband. On March 10, 1898, a young man of good family w r as hanged for murder. Two years before he had made a run-a-way mar riage with a girl, whom he de vptedly loved. He was a well esteemed young fellow, whose life seemed full of promise. The newly-married pair returned to the girl’s home and were freely forgiven and kindly received. They began housekeeping near her parents, and all went smoothly until the young wife’s mother took a strong dislike to her son-in-law. At once, she be gan to make trouble between the pair. She told Dora that she had thrown herself away, she had married a man far beneath her, who would never amepnt to any thing. Slje coTfnseldd her to leave John and return to her old home. It is tme, the youpg hus band was not able ta give Dora the comforts she hacT had when she was a girl, but she knew his circumstances before she married him. Finially the wife was persuaded to leave her husband. She re turned to her mother, leaving to John the message that she still loved him, flut could not hold out against her mother’s pleadings and representations. A few r monthsafter the sepration a little child was born. John could hold out no longer. He went to his mother-in-law and begged her to let him see his wife and child. She refused. ‘‘You are not worthy of Dora, ” she said. “You shall not speak to her again,” He appealed to the law, but he was defeated. His wife’s tovTl, drank deeply, and while intoxicated, armed himself with a shotgun and went to the home of his wife’s mother. He de manded to see Dora and when sfje. came lo the door, he begged her tb live with him again. She was frightened. “I will ask mother,” she said, and went back into the house. He was standing, where ho could hear her ask her mother’s consent to her returning to him. He heard the mother refuse, with scornful, abusive about him and walking to a win dow he fired the fatal shot. The mother dropped, dying at her daughter’s feet crying: “Oh,God! He has killed me.” After the deed, he went into the woods about a hundred yards away, and stayed for two ’ days. When his vicum. was buried, he was so near that he could hear the service and the sobs of the family, After that, he went to his sisters house and slept there for three nights securely -hidden from his pur’ suers. He became an armed and des perate fugitive. For> three months, the bravest men In the county hunted him down, but they failed to take him. In De cember, he gave himself up to a friend, and was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. His wife attended his trial. She was very bitter against him. after he was convicted, he beg ged her to forgive him—and kiss him once before he died. She scornfully refused. During his imprisonment, he often spoke of his child with great tenderness. Je never uttered a reproachful 9 about his, wife, whom he seemed to love with passionate devotion. He professed religion, was baptized and died resigned and calm. . Ddta is married again, is notTiappy. -She istfull of re morse and. regiet: for the past.- John was buried beeide -his fa ther, mother arid sisters. I‘There is no one left to cherish bis memory but rfne sister. Who \tas% blame for this wrecked life „? -.Sunny South, Douglas, Ga., January 27th, 1906. TO HURRY UP THE RAWLINGS APPEAL. Attorney General Hart Will Appear Before the U. S. Supreme Court. Valdosta, Ga., Solicitor General W. E. Thomas has just returned from Atlanta, where he went to look after the Rawlings case. He learned that the records had been forwarded to the clerk of the United States Supreme Court at Washington, and he at once asked the clerk there to certify to a receipt, as is the usual mode of procedure. As soon as the certificate is received, he will move that the case be taken up for a hearing as soon as possible. He will be ac companied by'Attorney General Hart. Judge Hart will assist in arguing the case. J., G. .Rawlings has been threat .erfmg himself with starvation right lately. Since his boys Were removed from the cell with him he has not eaten much, and dur ing the last few days he refuses to eat almost anything. He told the sheriff yesterday that if he would put him with the boys again and would give him some thing good to eat, he would eat his meals as usual, but he is going to quit eating altogether, he said, if this is not done. There were several visitors at the jail, among them a young lady who tried to cheer “Old man” Raw lings with a belief in the here after. “While the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return,” she told him. “ThaC& good poetry, but it'sj Scripture,” he re-j tr ~ “WellLyou ought to i member the thief on the cross, she said; “you know, he found forgiveness at the last minute of his life.” “Yes; but he was only a thief, ” , said Rawlings; “and that was ; the first chance he had.” “God is good, and there is for giveness for all who approach Him in the right manner,” she said. “That sounds nice; but the Bible says: ‘Woe unto them that fall under the wrath of an aveng ing God,’ or words like that,” he replied. There is *a general idea over the state that Rawlings is an old man, but this is not true. He married when he was a mere boy, and though his oldest son is 22 to 24 years of age, Rawlings himself is only 43 years old. LEONARD MUST * «*' COME BACK. Young Rawlings Must Stay in Jail Here Until Case is Ended. Leonard Rawlings will proba bly reach the city Monday night from tue penitentiary, Judge Mitchell having passed an order for him to be returned here for confinement until his case is set tled in the courts. The order was granted at the instant of Attorney Cooper* who made a big kick about the boy’s being sent to the pen. Attor ney Cooper Is trying to find who is responsible for the incar ceration of Leonard in the peni tentiary, and says that if he can find who is liable for it he will file a suit for damages. The elder Rawlings has been “cutting up” again for the past two days. Sunday evening he was calling hogs at the top of his voice and he kept it up until far in the night. His yells could be heard six or eight blocks from the jail Saturday and Sunday night.—Valdosta Times. SAYS STORY IS A FAKE Milton Rawlings Makes Statement Through His Lawyer. If what Milton Rawlings says is true, he and the rest of his family behind the bars of the Lowndes county jail at Valdosta under sentence of death for the murder of the Carter children have been badly used. In a statement which he makes to the “world at large,” he denies stories published to the effect that he and his father J. G. Raw lings, had a scrap in their cell, and for this reason were seper ated. In his statement he denies posi tively that he and his father did and said as printed in the papers, and says that their argument was in regard to things that hap pened before they “were accused of thafr awful crime which some body else committed.” Today Attorney John R. Coop er who is now fighting for the lives of the old man and his sons, Milton and Jesse, in tlje supreme court of the United States, re ceived a letter from „Mrs. Raw lings, and in it was a written statement from Milton, denying the stories which have been pub lished concerning his row with the old man. Mrs. Rawlings declares that her husband and boys h(ave been I grossly misrepresented knd mis-! [quoiefTTn [Tie press, knd that they do no ecei .e proper treat ment in the Lowndes county jail. Milton says the statement that he seized a piece of iron with which to strike his father is absurd for the reason that no such thing was inside the cell. - Macon News. Please Don’t Intrude. It is often necessary for the force in this office to work at night, the engine and presses attracting considerable attention, and the curious, loafing ones that do not have to work as hard as we do for a living come into the office, pass around among the machinery making remarks and suggestions to the printers. This is an infraction of the rules. NO ONE is wanted in either of fice when they have no business there, and if they are not told as much it is only because we are sorry they have not sense enough to see that they are not wanted. Meningitis at Ocilla. News reaches us, in the way of a rumor, but which we fear is true, that severaS persons liv ing in and around Ocilla have been suffering with meningitis, that Mr, W. M. Henderson had two children afflicted, and that there had been three deaths from the attacks of the disease in the recent past. We have no confirmation of this intelligence, and it is hoped the fearful af fliction may soon be stamped out. Fine Jack to Lease. We will have another car load of mules and horses to-day, and among them is a fine, thorough bred jack, and some good farmer can make arrangements with us to keep him. He is not for sale. Corn, Brown, Martin & Co. FROM AUGUSTA TO VALDOSTA. Nevv Railroad Coming in This Direction. Editor Augusta Tribune:— 1 have been for years, casting “a wishful eye” over the splen did territory between Richmond County and Lowndes County, trusting that at some early day our own people woujd inaugurate and push to realization a move ment which would have for its object an air-line railway be - tween Augusta and the thriving city of Valdosta. Did you know, Mr. Editor, that during the last decade Lowndes County and twenty-two counties round about her increased in pop ulation over 145.000 souls? It is a fact. There is not in all Geor gia a more inviting section. It is growing—growing. In his customarily quiet but complete way, Mr. Allen W. Jones has outlined the Augusta and Florida railway. From Swainsboro, in Emanuel County, to Keysville, on the Augusta Southern, the road is in running order, and will be, in a reason ably short time, in like condition to Augusta. Mr. Jones will then rush the line to Vidalia, on the S. A. L.— thence to Douglas, in Coffee County—thence to Valdos-! ta. This a certain ty, will shorten the distance be tween Augusta and Valdosta 12G miles; between Augusta and Jack sonville, 100 miles. As already: suggested, it will thread one ofu of the most beautiful- one of the j richest < c < 1 wealth. ■ This road will m«n more to Augusta than wordsjfan express. It will place her in close touch with a well-to do, energetic, pro gressive people. To-day, all that country is a bee-hive. The Augusta & Florida Railway will traverse to a greater or less ex tent the counties of Emanuel, Montgomery, Appling, Coffee, Clinch and Lowndes. These five counties annually produce over 15,000,000 bushels of corn: 200,000 bushels of oats; 500,000 bushels of sweat potatoes; 400,- 000 gallons of syrup. They own 400,000 head of poultry, and gather into their cupboards 800,- 000 dozen eggs a year. They produce 60.000 bales of cotton a year making as a rule, both up land and Sea Island. The contiguous counties of Bullock, Tattnall, Telfair and Berrien constitute a quartet dif ficult to be distanced in any of the things which contribute to the prosperity and happiness of a people. These four counties produce annually 1,500,000 bush els of corn; 200,000 bushels of oats; 250,000 gallons of cane syr up; 400,000 bushels of sweet po tatoes. They own 250,000' head of poultry and take up h year 500,000 dozen eggs. They make 60,000 bales of cotton a year—; much of it Sea Island. The increase in population of these nine counties, the past de cade, ranged from 33 to 100 per cent. Mr. Jones, confident and re ! sourceful, prudent and energetic, i is pushing the enterprise along.! I refer to him personally, be- j cause whoever else may be work- i ing with him, he has proved him- j self the life and light of. a move- ■ ment that will result in a speedy i development of one of the garden spots of this great state* Martin V. Calvin. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 22, 1906. SI.OO per Annum. SEA ISLAND MEN CABLED TO MEET. President Harvie Jordon has issued a call for a convention of the Sea Island Cotton Associa tion, to be held at Valdosta, Ga., on February Bth, 1906, at 10 o’clock a. m. The Sea Island cotton planters of Florida and south Georgia were organized last November, and since that time the work has been enthusiastically pushed. Some of the important subjects to be discussed at the coming convention are as to the devising of a better system of holding cotton, plans for the producers and manufacturers of long staple cotton to get closer together, and the imperative needs of im mediate organization. It is expected that a large gathering will be present in Val dosta on the occasion named, aryj arrangements are afoot looking toward the securing of cheap railroad rates for the delegates. NO GEORGIAN IN THE SERVICE Senator Bacon Vigilant and Holds Up tho Consular Reform BUI. Washington, D. C. Jan. 24. — It is alleged that one of the rea-J sons why senators Morgan Bacon helped to kill the ciyil seiffl £lce features of V Consular reform bill was that r/vther Alabama or Georgia has a single appointee in the entire consular service. This fact was brought cut during the meeting in the foriegn affairs committee and which Secretaire Root was urging the senators .o oppose the bill. When Senators Bacon and Morgan declared theirfstatessfere without representation in the consular service, Secretary Root was forced to assent to the thruthfulness of their state ments. He said that he propos ed in the near future to consult with the senators and ask then to suggest eligibles for po sitions as consuls. Mrs. T. T. Barber, mother of Mrs. A. W. Haddock is in the city, visiting her children and her many friends. Her daugh ter, Miss Maggie, will remain here for some time attending , school. Mr. H. Leader has returned a business trip to Vidalia, Nichols and other places, and announces that he has taken charge of the Rabinowitz bnsi ness, recently purchased, in thjr latter place. An ad\prtisem<gß r informing the public of ag'-m.-ni will v war |L jSp The Industrial nufl Nashville Herald, versary nllmber,®wf : well edited and® T" ‘ wi' hstaniling HH of the editor by fl . j ers when most]®® promise is made,®® the next anniv® will be superior H® fore us. and. if itfl® a thing of marve ®||| cal beauty. SB® On all winte’H® Big deiiar® ® ■ •.f .. hat weTlflßgf ?>