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NEWS.
Leader mean? lJUsines S- See his big:
add, and then 5° see him.
Dr. and >lrs. Bryan are at home
again.
Have you reen Mr. T. B. Mar
shall about the timber lands?
The best bicycle on earth for cash
or on credit at Markey Trading Co.
See J. W. Williford for best
grade buggies $t low grade prices.
Now for water works and elec
tric lights. We tnay have them
before January let 1905.
Come and see E. P. Fillingem &
Co’s line of stoves. Cheapest in
town.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Baker have
returned from St. Louis and other
points.
Cash spent with us repeats itself.
Call for gold stamps:
J. F. OvKKSTItEET & 8110.
Dr. Hall says peace once more
reigns in Warsaw, Mrs. Hall is at
home.
Rev. A. S. Minchew and wife, of
Davis, Ga., were the guests of
Capt. Bill Denton, Monday.
E. P. Fillingem & Co., sell the
celebrated Kinlocb Paints, best on
earth.
Miss Lula Meeks, of Nichols, is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Bell,
this week.
For Sale for ijiij.oo-A 1 horse
wagon, cash or credit, Markey
Trading Co.
Look and Listen. No, come and
we will tell you. Davis-Rudolph
Company.
The Racket Store man is lonely
this week. His wife and the chil
dren are goue away.
Call on C. N. Fielding, for all
secret order emblems, in pins and
buttons.
New Brooms Sweep Clean. Da
vis-Rudolph Co. has swept high
prices out. Call and see.
“Competition is the life of trade”
and cut-throatism is the work of
the envious and incompetent.
We R prepared 2 sell U anything
for .cash, credit or installment.
Watch this house grow.
Markey Trading Co.
Yes, Maud, it is a fact. The
small-pox has dried up and escaped.
Only a few bumps and scratches
remain.
J. W. Wi.liford repairs and
makes shoes, harness, saddles, etc.
He has a first class workman.
Call and see him.
Misses Adams and brother, Horn
et* have returned from an extended
visit to friends and relatives in
Laurens county.
To show our appreciat ion of your
cash trade we will give presents.
Call for gold stamps.
J. F. Overstreet & Bro.
Vote for Tom Young for
Ordinary, at the Primary, and
your sweetheart will love you
more.
J. W. Williford wants to build
up a fine buggy trade and he’ll do
it by selling you a good buggy
cheap. Ward street, south side.
Miss Ilortesnse Briggs returned
from Athens, last Sunday. Her
many friends 're pleased to have
her with the” 'again.
Tom Young’s an old veteran.
Vote for him. Don’t turn the
old veterans out, until they
die, if competent.
Ordinary Tom Young is happy
again. His two daughters, Mrs.
Altman and Mrs. Gasque, are at
home, and the old house is full of
sun shine again.
E. L. Tanner, at the Bank, says
Mrs. Tanner has not arrived, but
hopes to have the house in order
when she comes.
Mrs. F. H. Williams gets the
Breeze now at Harville, Ga. Her
husband mopes around all day and
keeps bachelor hall at night.
Talk about special sales and
making runs of low prices, just c
us. Anything u want & the largest
stock in Douglas 2 select from.
Markey Trading Co.
Misses Anna Oxford, Annie Sib
bett and several ether yonng ladies
not nomed, was at New Hope last
bun day.
Misses Ida Mae and Minnie Mc-
Cormick were among aid friends
at New Hope last Sunday. In fact
Douglas was well represented.
The ball game between the two
negro teams, Saturday afternoon
resulted in a victory for the Doug
las negroes by a score of 12 to 2.
Just like Douglas.
Mr. B. H. Tanner has been try
ing for several days to tel! about all
he saw on the Pike, at St. Louis.
Anything that seems incredible he
he easily proves by Louis Vickers.
Vote for Tom Young for
Ordinarv. He’s too old to dig
and plow. His opponent is
not.
Rev. Mr. Blizzard, of Fitzgerald,
was in town last Monday evening.
Too much preaching recently
caused him to have to wear a rag
around his throat.
Mr. J. D. Lott, of Willacoochee,
was in town Monday, and moved
his date up to Jan., 1, 05, “for the
best paper ever published in the
county.” Mr. Lott is a solid man
man with good horse sense.
You’ll make no mistake in
voting for Tom Young for Or
dinary. He’s honest. He’s
been tried.
Among the Douglas delegation
to New Hope last Sunday were
Messrs Tanner, Porter, McCor
mick, Curry, Oxford, Gaskin,
Mrddox, Overman, Freeman and
others.
Our stock has not been picked
over and culled until you are oblig
ed to substitute anything you can
get for what you want. You will
find a full stock to select from at
the Leader Store.
WANTED, 200 BOYS.—To
Educate. A good school. Com
petent teachers. Healthy climate.
Low costs. For full information,
wwite to.
Geo. T. Chandler, Principal.
Rochelle, Ga.
Tom Young is the old Vet
eran’s friend, and helps them
get their pensions. Vote for
him and help him hold his
office, and your wife will think
more of you.
Louis Vickers brought home a
pocket full of coffee, in the hull,
from the World’s Fair, and his
friends have been supplied with a
planting. Everything else will
grow here and we see no reason why
coffee will not.
Mr. T. J. Wilkinson, represent
ing the Grace-Brantley Co., of
Waycross, Ga., was in town Sat
urday, and of course, came to see
us. Mr. W ilkinson is a good rep
resentative of one of the best known
firms in this section.
Hon. A. M. Knight, formerly
mayor of Waycross,» now Cashier
of the First National Bunk, of
that city, who has been sojourning
at Austell, Ga., for some weeks,
has returned to his home, and or
ders the Breeze, which followed
him in vacation, to make regular
trips to Waycross. When a man
like that prizes the Breeze so well
that he does not wish to miss a
number we know it is all right.
Capt. D. G. Purse, of Savannah,
sometimes, and Douglas generally,
has kindly sent us a copy of his
speech on Southern Emigration.
VVe note, also with pleasure, the
endorsement of this speech by the
northern press and the public in all
sections and we have seen some
high compliments in regard to same
by men of note. Capt. Purse does
a vast deal of work for which he
gets no credit, but his tireless en
ergy and level head is forcing rec
ognition from every quarter. There
are few men in the State, in fact
in the south, that are doing more
than Capt. Purse toward drawing
attention of the north to the vast
resources of the south, and we are
pleased to note the force that his
utterances on any subject are hav
ing with the outside world.
MR. STEWART WRITES AGAIN.
His Letter is Scathing and the Discus
sion Should Close.
McDonald, Ga., Aug. 1. —Edi-
tor Breeze:—l have just read with
interest the letter supposed to have
come from Mr. F. L. Sweat in
your last issue. I was expecting
the epistle, however, as I met a
prominent lawyer from Douglas a
fesv days ago and after discussing
the proposed increase of the Judge’s
salary and my letter in your paper
of two weeks ago and lie opposing
my views and criticising my letter
he told me (in the presence of two
witnesses) that he would reply to
it and he did so, but 10, and be
hold ! he has signed Hon. F. L.
Sweat’s name to it. Now that
leayes me in an awkward position.
I can’t reply to another over Mr.
Sweat’s signature. I have known
Mr. Sweat eight years and I know
enough about him to know that he
is too much of a gentleman to have
written that letter and I doubt
whether he ever saw it before
published. He acted too gentle
manly in withdrawing the measure
favoring the proposed increase, af
ter the people disapproved it to
now be favoring it and vilifying
one who opposed it. Why certain
ly it is something that sucks the
big tit of the City Court Octapus!
Some sorehead who possibly antic
ipated financial gain by the in
crease of the Judges salary! Some
thing that always lr’des out while
the smoke of battle is on and rush
es in after the battle is lost or won
and exclaims “I AM IT,” and
jumps on the big side ; something
whose diminutive soul intermingled
with a thousand of i.ts caliber
could be pushed through a needles
eye with complacency ! Something
that works in mysterious ways its
dirty works to perform, and then
after being defeated by fair means
in all political affairs tries to drag
in PERSONALS ! a cowardly mis
creant who strikes his antagonist
below the belt in the dark in
a political contest! I would re
ply to this letter by this unknown
something, but I was taught years
ago by experience to never molest
a hidden or unseen thing : We
went possum hunting one time and
after catching two or three possums
the dogs bayed something in a go
pher hole, we dug for about two
hours and finally found something
but it wasn’t a possum, but it was
something that made the dogs sick
and caused us to bury our clothes
two weeks. Now, I don’t want to
dig for nothing, so come out what
ever you may be and let’s see w'hat
you are and if you are something I
will reply to you but if you are what
I think you are and what the ma
lignant odor arising from your
cave or hiding place indicates I
will let you alone as I don’t want
to have to bury my clothes by com
ing in contact with you.
Very truly,
C. E. STEWART.
P. S. The assertion that I circu
lated the petitions and misrepre
sented the amount that the pro
posed bill would give the Judge as
salary and that I never cared and
was doing what I did as a slur at
Mr. Sweat, is a malicious lie as
black and foul as the mouth that
manufactured it.
C. E. S.
The explosion of a barrell of
whiskey in Keim’s saloon, at Fitz
gerald last week caused the burn
ing of the entire building. Whis
key causes much destruction.
Ware County’s Teacher’s Insti
tute has been in session this week
at the court house in Waycross.
Prof Hendricks, of Douglas, was
in charge.
Another bill of injunction has
deferred th 0 transfer of the B. & B.
railroad to the Atlantic & Birming
ham. Verily, the B. &B. haveth
a hard time in the courts.
No Signs of
Some weeks ago
the fact that Mr. Peavy, of
sus bureau of Washington, while lv
conversution with Capt. J. J.
Walker, of Ocilla, had referred til
the editor of this paper as the lynch
ing editor, because we had advoca
ted the lynching of any person
guilty of arson or rape. We also
mentioned that Harper’s Weekly
and other papers had done the same
thing, untruthfully, as we had been
pictured pulling a rope which hoist
ed a black man to the limb of a tree.
The incident referred to by the
gentleman named above and also
the paper, was the lynching of a
negro, near Doughs some three
or four years ago, by unknown
parties, said r.egro being charged
with murder. We said, in descrip
tion of the deed that we w’ere in
favor of lynching for rape or arson,
but not when a person was charged
with murder, and that the act was
condemned by the people of the
county.
So, when our article appeared a
few weeks ago, always anxious to
pick up any straw that can be used
against us, in any way, to ridicule
or injure us, the tallentad editor of
the Coffee County Gazette has this
to say :
“The above is very dangerous
doctrine, but fortunately it does
not come from a very dangerous
source. The old man seems to be
proud of the little notoriety he has
made by his bold stand against the
laws of our land, the constituted
authority of our state and the courts
ot our country. Ltt the young men
of our country beware of such ad
vise.”
No advice was given, but the
majority of the young men in Coffee
county and the old ones, too, will
defend their homes and their loved
ones. They have always done so
and will so continue. Lynching is
wrong, so are the crimes that call
for such action, even if committed
by the editor of the Gazette, and
as long as the law delayed swift
and sure punishment for the fiend
ish crimes, lynch law was the only
means of meeting out just retribu
tion. For the past two years the
Judges of the different courts in
the State have, correctly, brought
the rapist and incendiary to trial
as soon as they could be appre
hended and the result is that there
are less cases of death by lynching
in Georgia, than before,
We seek no notoriety, we do not
care to be classed among the
“dangerous,” or the notorious, and
have tried to live in such a way
that our character, courage and
public acts would bear comparison
without suffering with all such
characters as that of the editor of
the Gazette. If there is any doubt
concerning either a test or investi
gation will not be out ot place.
“The laws of “our” land nor the
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A Cyclone's Work at Mcitonald. m
McDonald, Ga.,*Aug. I.— A
cyclone struck our town lest Wed
nesday and completely wrecked our
beautiful church and it is doubtful
ijgir \
if it can be repaired so that it cjWL,
be used again. It was the most
beautiful church in this vicinity,
was built about seven years ago by
the late Mr. Warren Lott and stood
as a monument to the memory of
that good man.
It also turned Mr. J. S. Iliggin
bothom’s barns completely over
and tore down fences arid uplifted
trees in a promiscious manner. It
seemed to be for our benefit strict
ly as it came from a south westerly
direction and struck one edge ,of
town and went through and disap
peared and we have not heard of it
striking any other point.
Crops are better in this vicinity
than they have been for years ar.d
especially cotton and corn.
The Stewart-Sweat Controversy.
We are publishing to-day an
answer from Mr. Stewart to the
letter of Mr. F. L. Sweat, which
was published last. week. The dis
cussion of the subject has reached
the quitting point, assuming that
both are satisfied that enough has
been said. Mr. Stewart published
a letter three weeks ago, Mr. Sweat
answered it, and now this week
Mr. Stewart replies. In order that
we treat both gentlemen precisely
alike it would be fair for us to pub
lish Mr. .Sweat’s reply to the one
published to-day if he desires to
write one, thus giving each two
letters, uf:er which we ask the
gentlemen to excuse us for the
future, on this subject.
Water Works for Douelas-
Mayor Roan informs the Breeze
that the bonds of the town have
been placed in very satisfactory
manner, and that all impediments
for consummation of the object for
which the people voted have been
removed. Contractors to put in
water works and perhaps electric
lights, are now enroute to Douglas,
and before this reaches the people
they may be here. We shall have,
more to say in due time.
No, Rosalie, we did not go over
to New Hope church to e’ectioneer
but while there we felt the pulse of
the people, and it beat true and
regular.
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