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DOUGLAS BREEZE.! JNO. W. GItEKK, Editor. E.S.SAI’I’, AsHoriulc Editor. GREEK & S.AI’I’ Puhlinhcr*. Official Organ of Coffee County Adverlirinx Rates Reasonable. BI'B'IBIPTIOS $1 A YEAIt, IX ADVANCE PLI HUSHED WEEKLY. Entered at the I’ostoffice at Douglas Ga. as sec tid-clana mail matter. FRIDAY, APRIL; 3, 1890. /‘arsimon imis l‘runentments. The grand jury of Coffee coucty lias scored another victory for stupid ity and parsimony. In fact, this grand jury has broken the record for stingi ness and adverse progression. If there were liberal, progressive men on this grand jury (and we grant that there were a few), they were hopelessly in the minority and had their efforts so handicapped that an intelligent, prog ressive movement was out of the quee tiou. In the hist place this grand jury will he noted on the records for doing nothing, and in the next place, what hey did do, out side of one or two recommendations, was absolutely hurtful to the county. The first insignificant performance recorded in this wonderful document of presentments is their disposition of the public roads of the county and the implements belonging thereto. One would conclude after reading the r< commendations that the county had determined to go out of the road business, after one tremendous expen diture of funds. Just observe: “We recommend that the road tools of each district belonging to the county be sold and the money be spent on the public roads where they have not been worked.’’ Just think of it! the road tools of the county to be sold anil all the money received therefrom to be expended on the roads in one year. We 1 leard one overseer say that his district had seven broken shovels and one old plow. .Sow, suppose that the other six dis'ricta have so much and all thc.-o forty nine broken shovels and seven old plows be sold and every cent of this vast fortune be expended on the roads in this year of our Lord 1890, what can man imagine more elegant than the state our roads at the end of this notable year? The next extravegance they are guil ty of is that of paying the Ordinary with his horse and buggy one dollar a day for twenty eight days he served the county with extra time. For a man capable of serving a large county like Coffee as Ordinary to be paid one dollar a day for himself and horse and buggy is penurious economy. And the greater shame is for ‘lie same grand jury who fixed this extra-Ordi nary price, to sit hack on their irre sponsible thrones and veto themselves two and three dollars a day for pass ing upon a * wo-for-a quarter set of grand jury presentments-a service not half so v double to the county as that rendered by the Ordinary and his horse and buggy. And mnvjwo have another brilliant stroke of economy from these Lords of mention : "We recommend tha* the City court of Coffee county ho abolish ed ami that our next representative use his inlluenco in that direction.” We oiler a reward of two pounds of Early Bird tobacco to each man onthat jury outside ofsix we can name, to give us any logical reason why he voted for that recommendation. What in telligent man would wish to abolish an inistution winch savetfhis county S2OO every day it is in session? and that is just what the City court does. Let us see: the f uporior court costs the county S3OO. dollars every it is in session. The City court including the Judge's sal ary less than S4O. a day. Every day the City court sits, precludes the nee- j esity or one more day for the Super* i ioi court. Now suppose that the City cot it holds 18 days in a veir-ai and this is aoout th man her-it saves the coun ty just SI,OBO. Furthermore, it dis poses of civil cases and important crim inal eases that a county court or a jus tice court could not try. It keeps tin jail clear, which in itself is a big item. If that man who shot that negro in Douglas the other night were caught and had to lie it> jail till the next Sti pe ior court, it would cost the county more than two mouths of City court Tha Superior court came tc Doug Hist week and found the jail clear. tilings aic to be con>i.iered ■H><-sid.'s. the convenience of such DHrt mtift not be forgotten. Cases are brought up and disposed of in a month, whereas in the Superior court! they would lie over for years. And yet this grand jury wants it a-; bolished. So much tire better for the j City court. Any thing this grand jury did or undid would bear suspicion and question. The grand jury of Appling, our sister county, only the week before., recam- j mended an artesian well for the coun ty site, anew jail, and an increase in the school fund. The same grand ju ry recommended for a City court. They were progressive men ; but our ’- well, we leave the subject with the people. Their actions weary indignation and fatigue disgust, Southern Wreck. The Southern road has had auother serious wreck, and yet a very mirac ulous one, in that no one was killed and but few injured. The passenger train jumped the track at Eastman one night last week and the first-class coach and sleeper turned bottom side up and rolled over in the streets <f Eastman with but little injury to the passengers. This time the Southern j officials claim that the wreck was caused by the mail agent throwing a heavy mail sack out of the car, strik ing the switch lever and throwing I the switch just as the train | was half over. Of course, the Southern never had a wreck in which the road was criminally responsible. There is always some extra-ordinary excuse hatched up for its terrible dis asters. Still this great rich corpora tion continues to have these i disasters. It has been so ever since we began to know anything of the road and it continues to be so. It is strange that the Plant System has so few of those wrecks when in truth it is operated under the same Providence and ruled over by the same Fate. Ibis is all bosh. The Southern road seems lott >u from Sfacon to Brunswick and when the management is reor ganized and some money expended on the road bed, it will he safe for people to ride on but not till then. Senator John M. Palmer of Illinois has paid our Turner a choice cotnpli j ment by Saying that he would make an idealjpresident. The idea caught i like whl lire all over the county and has been favorably commented on by nearly all the columns of the press. \Y by not? Turner is (lie ablest man in either branch of congress, bis char acter is pure and his stamina is sec ond to that of no man in the nation, not even to that of Grover Cleveland himself. A writer in one of the English, re views relates that during a conversa lion with George Elliot, not long be fore her death, a vase toppled over on tlu l mantlepieee. The gr at writer quickly and unconsciously putoujlicr band to stop its fall. “I hope,” said I she, replacing it, “that the time will come when we shall instinctively hold up the man or woman who begins to 101 l as naturally and unoonsciouly as we arrest a falling piece of furniture or an ornament.” A father wrote to an editor for instructions how to stop his boy from smoking cigarettes ond got the follow ing reply ; “We suggest bribery’ pur suasion, instruction or shutting offliis allowance. Then, if he remains obsti nate use rawhide on rawhide. Welt him until he is ready to hold up his minds and promise never to smoke another cigarette. If that does not work drown him. A drowned hoy is better than one that smokes cigar ettes.”—Ex. An inventor named,Welch has pro duced a clay shingle for house rooting, which lie claims can be manufactured at slight expense and is very durable. It is said that the machinery for mak ing these shingles is on hand 'and that contracts will soon be entered in to to supply them by the million. The House has passed a bill abol ishing “days of grace” on commercial papers in the District of Columbia. All of the states are falling into line a this matter of commercial reft r.n. Sam Jones has caught the spirit o' the "Heaven-fliers.” He preached on top tif the Eaui’able building a fw days ago. No doubt some of his lie ir ers were as uear Heaven as they will ever get. Vr. John A. B.othe of Cobb county has formally announced that be w ill b a candidate for messenger for the next house of representatives, the place by the death of Mr. J. K. Smith of Coffee county.—Ex MILLIONS IN THE !C£. Antediluvian Beast* With Ivory Tacks locked In the Frozen North. Wealth is -waiting for the man who shall have courage to essay a certain hold exploit. It is not gold, nor silver, nor yet precious gems, but ivory—the finest ivory in tho •world. Mines of it exist, in which aro stored quantities of this valuablo substance well nigh inexhaustible. This is no idle tale designed to in flame the imagination. It is cold fact, resting upon indisputable au thority. Let the most adventurous spirit take advantage of the infor mation -which is given by the fa mous Lieutenant Schuetze, who was sent by the United States govern ment to bring hack to this country the bodies of De Long and his com panions after the Jeannette disaster. Those ill fated men, it will be ro membored, perished of starvation and cold in tho Lena delta. The Lena rises in eastern Siberia and flows northward to tho Arctic ocean. To the northeast of its mouth there is a group of islands known as Now Si beria. It is on those islands that tho ivory mines aro to bo found. The Lena, however, has not one hut many mouths. Its delta covers an area of 5,000 square miles. This j frozen region was thoroughly ex plored by Lieutenant Schuetze in his search for tho bodies. Later bo vis ited them again, bringing several thousand dollars’ worth of gifts, which were sent by Undo Sam. Thus ho secured their confidence, and they spoke to him of many things which they never had com municated to any other stranger. They even told him about tho ivory minos and showed him some tusks. Tlioy woro mammoth tusks. The ivory mines are deposits of the tusks of mammoths that lived in that region thousands of yoars ago. All over northern Siberia tlioso huge animals roamed in vast herds. Tho climate at that time was compara tively mild. Hut there came a sud don change. Fierce xvinter swept over the land—a winter permanent and destined never again to resign its sway. Tho mammoths sought shelter in tho valleys, wlioro they huddled together until,overwhelmed by snowdrifts, they lay down to die beneath floocy avalanches which were finally transformed into solid ice. This ice, composing glaciers, was swept through gorges toward tho Arctic ooean, carrying tho buried creatures. Thus buried in ice, tho mammoths were likely to be preserved for an indefinite period, Such, in fact, was the l-osult, and to this day jt occa sionally happens that the thawing of a mass of ice by tho short summer’s sun reveals tho carcass of ono of the gigantio beasts, its meat still fresh enough to ho fed to dogs. Such a thing occurred in 1799. The mounted skeleton is now in the Imperial mu seum at St. Petersburg. The animal was a small ono, comparatively speaking, being only 9 feet high and 10 feet long. 'When tho Siberian natives had conio to know Mr. Sohuotzo xvell they told him about tho ivory deposits in New Siberia. Tho islands of the group, they said, were “built on mammoth bones.” Subsequent ob servation by tho lioutenunt con firmed this statement. Mammoth ivory, ho it understood, is more highly valued than any oth er kind. It is worth $4 a pound in tho crude. The tusk of a big fellow will measure 14 feet in length, and will vreigli four times as much as the tusk of a largo elephant. The mar ket demand for ivory is now sup plied to a great extent from Siberia. The mammoth tusks are carried enormous distances overland to roach tho nearest railways. This kind of ivory is known as “fossil” ivory, though that is a misnomer.— Now York Journal. A limy Chair an Indian Made. Edward Kutckam, an aged resi dent of Amity ville, N. Y., living on tho old family homestead at East Amityville, has in his possession an old armchair presented to his father and mother, Edward and Jane Kotck am, by an Indian named Henry Rus sell, when they first went to house keeping in 1787. This chair is about tl feet high and weighs about 150 pounds. Tho back is very straight, with slats running lengthwise. The seat is very low, and is made of corn husks, xxhilo the arms, legs and back arc made of hickory. It is a cherished legend of tho family that when General Washington was ou Long Island he stopped at Uncle Ed ward's all night, and that this arm chair was used hv him most of the time he staid at the Keteham home stead.—Furniture Trade Review. Dante's Wife. Gemma Donati, Dante’s wife, was a dame of portentous physiognomy and a deep, tragic voice. She hen pecked him severely, a fact which perhaps explains tho absence of her name from his writings. Reward of Modesty. Everybody commends the modest man and rushes ahead and takes the seats away from him when there is a crowd getting aboard the oar,-* bomervdle Jwiirual. flm ' r th£t f \ makes the whitest j e finest pastry, is milled from the choicest winter wheat I! j | that grows. It is IGLEHEAR r’s SWANS DOWN Flour. It is the ■ King of Patents. Try it. Cheapest, be ll cause it produces the best food and the most. Ask your grocer for it, and notice the brand wr when you buy / IGLEHEART EROS., EVANSVILLE, IND. R. V. 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BRIGGS.' —ATTORNEY AT LAW — DOUGLAS, Strict attention given to all business J Lee Crawley Attorney-at-Law VAYCItOSS, :::::::: GEORGIA Will attend the monthly ana quar terly term of the City Court of Coffee. li. G. DICKERSON, Attorney-at-Law, llomevville, : : Georgia. Will attend Superior Court in Cof fee county. Xj. J\ tippin ATTORN E Y AT LAW Hazlehukst, : : : : ; : : Ga Will attend terms of City and Superior Courts of Coffee county AH Legal matters attended to piomptly. W M. Toomer A T'TOIIXEY-A T-LA IT, WAYCROSS, : : : : ; GEORGIA. Will attend all terms of County and Superior court of Coffee countyi All legal matters attended to nromntly. C. A. WARD Ja. F. W. DART WARD & DART. L J STYEJiS, Douglas, : : Ga. 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. JJR. W, IV. Tl£ lilt ELL, Physician and Surgeon. For seven years has made a special study of diseases peculiar to women and children, both in private ard hos pital practice. Douglas, Ga. 0-25-95. W. F. SIBBETT. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DOUGLAS, Calls promptly answered day or night. Dr. IV. A. Moore PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, WILLACOOCHEE, : : : GEORGIA All calls attended to, day or night. W. M. Carter P YSItTAN AND SURGEON. Pickren, : : : Georgia, . All calls promptly aßeutTeci. diy" dr night. Dr. J. A. Pugh lien lint. Headquarters Pearson, Ga. Branch offices, Douglas and Willacooehee. Per sons wishing work at other points write me. I am fully prepared to do any kind of work pertaining to the art. Crown and Bridge work a specialty. 1 will be at the following places on the following dates: Douglas, Ist to (ith Broxton, Oth to 12th, McDonald’s Mill, 12th to 18th, Pearson, 18th to 21th, Wil lacoochee, 24th to 30th. .IXO. M. IIAIX, —JL'ftijsicimi and Stnujeon — Wilcox, - - - Gkoruja. All calls promptly answered night or daj'. Charges reasonable. NTf. GOODYE’E Blacksmith and Wheelwright, DOUGLAS, - - - - GEORGIA > <~ > < I am fully prepared to do all kinds of work m my line. Such as making and repairing btif • gies, wagons, road carts, timber carts, etc., etc. SHOEING a special" ty> I would be pleased to have the pal* ronage of the pub’ic. Respectfully, 2-23-93-t.f IST. F. GOODYEAR, C. C. THOMAS, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. Waycross, - - Georgia. Special attention given to practice in the City and Superior Courts of Coffee County. GUS L. BRACK, City Auctioneer. Douglas, Ga. Consignments Solicited. Full A prompt remittances guaranteed. c Mule on Douglas & McDonald R.R. Leave McDonald 11:30 “ Sweats Still 11:4a. “ Lowthers 12:05. “ Moores 12 :23 “ Downing 1 :05. Arrive Douglas 1 RETURNING; Leave Douglas 2:20. “ Downing 2 40, “ Moores 3:17. “ Lowthers 3:35 “ Sweats Still 3:5a. 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