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About The Douglas breeze. (Douglas, Coffee County, Ga.) 18??-190? | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1896)
DOUGLAS BREEZE. JXO. \V GREEK, Editor. E. S, SAI'I*, Associate Editor. GREEK & MAPI* Publisher*. Official Orgaffof Coffee County Adrertlduif Rates Reasonable. ■ UUCRIPTIOK |l A YEAR, IN ADVANCE PUIiLISHED WEEKLY. Entered at the Postoffice at Douglas Ga. as sec nd-class mail matter. FRIDAY, MARCH 20,1896. Volition on. Hood Will. The announcement of Dr. Wilcox for the Semite was the first political rustle that has disturbed the domestic serenity of Codec citizenship. With his entrance into the political field will commence a general stir and hus tle of sleeping aspirants to get their cluims to the people before the sun of popularity rises too high on the can didate world. The tocsin of the campaign for al’ the offices within the gift of the people lias been sounded, and the movement of the forces to and fro on the field and the rattling of the artilcry as it flies hither and thither seeking fur position will soon portend the imminence of conflict. Before long the vanguard will open up the musketry will break loose and the cannon will belch forth then firy charges and the war will commence in earnest. Friend will contend with friend, brother, with brother, father oppose son,neighbor against neighbor, home against home and the Devil will reign supreme and direct the forces on both sides. This is poli'ies. Is it not had that politics lias a lodging in our minds and hearts and lives, when politics ol this kind is such a menace to society and such an enemy to our homes? How unlike toe spirit of the Man who lived nearly nineteen hundred years ago and gave us lessons in gentleness and kindness and love and brotherly con sideration for one another. What is (litre in this wonderful science of poll ties that so entices us and wins us and holds us far away from the sweet rela tionship off the general brotherhood of man? Was the young Carpenter mistaken and did He proclaim wrong principles whereby we are to govern tlie conduct of our lives? Maybe we are wrong and are following the nat ural propensities wherein we were born. The truth is, we ought to quit all this fussing and fuming and fight ing over political matters and come together like men, express our choice in a quiet deposit of our ballot and returned to our labors without the usual hullabaloo which leaves us at enmity with our friends and neigh bors. Life is too short and serious to spend much of it in that sort of thing and the less we participate in it the better oil’ we shall be. The Breeze expects to figure in pol ities in a most conservative way this year. \\ o will advocate the democrat ic principles, for we believe them to he the best for the welfare of our peo ple ; and where the democratic party lias good men in (he race, we shall support its candidates with all the rea sonable force we can exercise; but in SO doing we shall trespass on the rights of no man who differs with us neither shall we insinuate on his motives or use unfair means to defeat him. The Breeze lias suffer ed enough already from these mistakes in past campaigns and wo would have the public to boar in mind that the present management is in no wise re sponsible for past management. W believe that every man has a right to his opinion as long as he is sane and honest, and we surely will not fall out with him because lie ditiers from us in politics. Let Coffee county have a decent and peaceable election this year, and may God help us to love our neighbors even though they differ from us in opinion. Oraiiil Jury I‘roblem. Next week the grand jury will be in session and it is extremely essential that some provision be made to im prove our public roads. The heaw rains tout recently have fallen have washed the roads into shreds, and the good work that was done on them in the fall is fast crumbling and dissolv ing into ruin. If something i s not done at once to keep up this work it will be just that much labor lost and that much expenditure of the county funds scattered to the four winds. It must be an evident fact to even graud juror who will have this matter under consideration that the old road law cf summoning the citizenry to one or two days work on the roads every year is little better than a farce and is wholly inadequate to the purpose. The truth is, the roads never have bean worked by this method and nev er will he. It is entirely a hack num ber, all out of date and ought to be put behind us. Indeed, italready has been abandoned and we cannot afford to take a backward step. The only question before the grand jury next week, is what new plan shall be adopted. Whether we should use our county convicts, employ a snperintendant and let him take up the districts one by one and use the funds as they were apportioned last year, or whether a general fund shall be created from the the amount allowed by law for this purpose, and a regular gang with a superintendantbe employed, is not for us to say, but for the grand jury to consider. One thing certain :whatever worthy plan may he adopted is going to cost something, and a tax will he required to meet the expense. The people are going to grumble if the tax is increas ed. This is ce tain : they always do object to anything that exacts cost. But if this jury is progressive and fear less in its duty, it will institute some plan to give us good roads regard less of present objection ; and in the years to come the people will acquiesce and bless them for their wisdom and courage. A general prohibitin rally will be held in Atlanta on the 27 Inst, in which Rev. Sam Jones, Dr. G mhrel of Mer cer University and Dr. Warren Candler of Emory College will take a conspic ious part- Ilisevident that prohibi tion will enter largely in the election of representatives tiffs year, and can didates will do well to hold the matter in mind. Coffee, as usual, will send a man favorable to tho measure. He (Mr. Turner) don't pretend to represent his dislriet. lie is represent ing Cleveland Dingley and the gold bugs. He iH against free coinage and free Cuba too. He’s a monarchist. — Jesup Sentinel. Go off, Editor Mili ken, and straighten up your own crookedness, and then cone back and talk about one of the wlfftiest men in America right. The Republicans and the Populists nro about to form a fusion ticket for the state house offices and the negroes, whose consent only would make such i combination possible, say they must have half the places on the ticket Bill Pledger, probaly the most influ ential negro in the state is to run for Attorney .Goner il, if the ticket is formed. Mr. John W. Bennett was recom ti.ed for solicitor general by the grand jury of Appling county by a majority of 20 to 3 over Mr. " r M. Toomer of of the Brunswick circuit. Mr. Bennett is quite popular in wiregrass Georgia, and if elected to the position will no doubt fill the office with credit to him self and state—Atlanta Journal. The Bulletin of Irwiuton,"Wilkison Go. says the school commissioners of that county are so ignorant that they don’t know the multiplication table, and the Bulletin lias made them a standing oflerof live dollars apiece to work out a common example in frac tions within twelve hours. The Manor Star is a bright paper just received in tho Breeze sanctum. It is published by M. E.Tison at Ma nor. V are Cos, Ga. lis politics is domocratic.it advocates sound money and will support dußiguon for the Senate. Douglas is greatly in need of express accomodations and there is plenty of business to warrant an arrangement by the proper authorities. Come, gen tlemen, accomodate the people. Capt. Cox of the Dade convict camp has been discharged because lie was too cruel. Now if the state will dis charge the lessees all will be well With Moody in Savannah aud Sam Tones in Atlanta the Devil will take up headquarters in Macon. At least the democratic convention is to be there. There is a Methodist preacher in C olloe county who docs not eat chick- j eu. The nineteenth century never ceases to develop anomalies. Moody in Savannah isn’t holding s candle light to Sam Jones iff Atlanta, i MINING UNDER THE OCEAN. Men Who Have to Dig and Delve Six Fath* omn Below the Surface. Thera is a striking oxample of man’s boldness in searching for wealth and his skill in securing it at Betallock, near Cape Cornwall, Alas ka. Betallock is a hold headland composed of huge masses of horn blende, masked by walls of slate, against which the Atlantio surges are constantly dashing. Tho perse vering efforts of man have at this point been more powerful than thoso of nature. “Kibbles” descend fathoms be neath tho sea, and ascend again with copper or tin ores, whioh are wheeled away to larger heaps, where women, hoys and girls separate various qual ities with tho systematic industry of workers in a factory. Everybody and overything—rocks, platforms and paths—is smeared with tho prevailing rod hue dorivod from n slight mixture of iron with oopper or tin ores, and then the very muddy stream flowing from the stamp mill to the sou has imparted to the beach, | tho breakers and the foam the same rubicund tingo. If ore is ooming up plentifully and of good quality, ev erybody is pleased, and far down to the gloomy depths of the mine, whioh Cornish legends people with spirits, tho nows that a now “bunch” of copper has been struck, or the old hole is growing richer, fills the workers with professional joy. As tho visitor creeps along tho passages into which tho light of day has nevor ontored ho hears compar atively little until, becoming accus tomed to tho darknoss, baroly illu minated by the flicker of lamps, he dimly distinguishes the stalwart gnome at work. Coming from the upper world amid tho din of hoavy stamps and machinery above and tho surge of the sea below, tho rat tlo of wagons on tramways, and the crowds of men and boys climbing up and down paths whioh soom to ho too steep for a goat, the modified si lence of tho lovel strikes one as un natural. In placos, however, the guide may ask the visitor to listen to a curious sound. It is the booming of tho waves above and tho grating of the stonos on tho sea bottom. Then ho is told, to give him oourage, that in some of tho recossos of tho first lovel tho oro has boon cut away until a roof of not more than six feot thick has boon left. First worked on tho face of tho cliffs only, tho mino de scended, level by level, until tho ex cavations extended for more than six fathoms inland, whilo the great est dopth to which it has been sunk is about 2,000 foot.—San Francisco Chronicle. Th© Geese Won. A gontleman once laid a wager with George IV that gooso would boat turkeys in a race, says Tho School and Homo. Tho king, think ing that suoli a wager was already as good as won, willingly made tho bot, and the gontleman was left to choose time and place and distanco. Being well acquainted with tho habits of tho birds, ho accordingly choso for the timo tho evening, just before sunset, and for tho plaoo tho road out sido tho city walls, and a mile for tho distanoe. The time came, and each appeared with his flook of birds, and tho raoo began. Long ere tho end came tho sunset, and im mediately true to their instincts, as soon as tho sun had quite disap peared, all tho turkeys flew up into tho nearest troo to roost, and no per suasion oould induoo them to budge an inch farther—and tho goose, whioh had boon slowly toddling on behind, quiotly caoklod in—the win ners. llefore He Stabbed Her. Soruo of the old follows wrote tragodios—dull, cold, heavy produc tions, every lino of whioh had been polished till what little soul it orig inally possessed had booon rubbod out of it. Such incidents as the dramas could boast wore drownod uudov floods of talk. If the hero wished to stab bis wife, ho stood still with uplifted dagger while he poured out a good 500 rhymed alex andrines, and while he rested after this tremendous performance the lady “got off’ her chest,” as actors call it, a like amount of verso in tho shape of an appeal about as passion ate and heart stirring as those beard in the law courts when a barrister is showing cause why a mandamus should bo issued. All the Year Hound. Didn't Like It. Tho abhorrence of respectable Brit ish persons for the synonym for "sanguinary” is almost as extraor dinary as its popularity with the lower classes. In days gone by O’Connell spoke of the'‘base, bloody and brutal Whigs,” and Tho Times, in reporting him, rendered it very ingeniously, with a view to exhibit bis bad language, as the “base, b and brutal Whigs.” No Nonneaw About Her. Skidds—Did she say it was so sud den when you asked her to marry you? 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IF. itssscj/, Praidmt: % J Dear Sir—Fiv? years airo I was w.irk- J f lngoti a fnn, getting S’.OO 00 rervear. / I I took a course in Telegraphy at votir l 1 Colleae on borrrwd money.' Immeiii- 1 f auly upon graduating, you secured tor J f me a situation a. telegrapher and s:a / 1 tion agent on the Ala. Grt. So. R. R. I 1 From that day to this my success has A M been onward and npward. To dav I J f am train dispatcher at a raiarv' of g \ Si-VO.OO per year. J. E. Cole. I PROFESSIONAL CARDS. GEO. R. BKIGGS. —ATTORNEY AT LAW— DOUGLAS, - - - - GA. Strict attention given to all business J Lee Crawley Attorney -at-Law VAYCItOSS, :::::::: GEORG IA Will attend the monthly and quar terly term of the City Court of Coffee It. G. DICKERSON, Attorney-at-Law, Somerville, : : Georgia, Will attend Superior Court in Cof fee county. Xu, J\ TIPPIR, ATTORNEY AT LAW Hazlehurst, : : ; : : Ga Will attend terms of City and Superior Courts of Coffee county All Legal matters.attended to promptly. W 31. Toomer A TTOItXEY-AT-LA IP, WAYCROSS, : : : : ; GEORGIA. W ill attend all terms of County and Superior court of Ooflee county. All legal matters attended to promptly. C. A. WARD Jk. F. W. DART WARD & DART. L and IP YEIIS, Douglas, : : : : : ; . . . . Will practice together’in all the court of Coffee county, except City court, and elsewhere by special contract. Prompt attention given to all legal matters. UR TP, IV. TERRELL, Vhysiciau and Surgeon. For seven years has made a special study of diseases peculiar to worn en and children, both in private and hos pital practice. Douglas, Ga. 0-26-95. W. F. SIBBETT. PHYSICIAN it SURGEON. DOUGLAS, Calls promptly answered day or nigh t. Dr. W A. Moore PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, WILLACOOCHEE, : : ; GEORGIA All calls attended to, day or night. W. M. Carter PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Vickren, : : : Georgia, All calls promptly attended day or night. Dr. J. A. Pugh Dentist. Headquarters Pearson, Ga. Branch offices, Douglas and Willacoochee. Per sons wishing work at other points write me. 1 am fully prepared to do any kind of work pertaining to the art. Crown and Bridge work a specialty. I will be at the following places on the following dates: Douglas, Ist to oth Broxton, 6th to 12th, McDonald’s Mill, 12th to 18th, Pearson, 18th to 24th, Wil lacoochee, 24th to 50th. JNO. M. HALL, —Ehysician and Surgeon— Wilcox, - - - Georgia. All calls promptly answered night or day. Charges reasonable. N. F. GOOD YET! Blacksmith and Wheelwright, DOUGLAS, - - - - GEORGIA I am fully prepared to do all kinds of work in my line. Such as making and repairing bug gies, wagons, road carts, timber cartr, etc., etc. HORSE SHOEING a special ty. I would be pleased to have the pa'- ronage of the pub’ic. Respectfully, 2-23-93-t.f IST. F. GOODYEAR, C. C. THOMAS, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, Way-cross, - - Georgia. Special attention given to practice in the City and Superior Court! of Coffee County. GUS L. BRACK, City Auctioneer. Douglas, Ga. Consignments Solicited. Full & prompt remittances guaranteed. Schedule on Douglas & McDonald R.R. Leave McDonald 11:30 “ Sweats Still 11:45. “ Lowthers 12:05. “ Moores 12:23 “ Downing 1:05. Arrive Douglas 1:25. RETURNING; Leave Douglas 2 :20. “ Downing 2 40. “ Moores 3:17. “ Lowthers 3:35 “ Sweats Still 3:55* Arrive McDonald 4:15. VKE MOsfiUa: * rpcord have > Hood's Sgrs .. :• for all BLOC&
