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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. YOL. X. GREAT REDUCTION SALE OF ALL AT AT GREATLY * REDUCED PRIGEB ■& O - titOc** I- A 9C5 that will soon be rolling in, A BIG LOT CROCKERY and GLASSWARE, AND Household and Kitchen leqci i>a, wAJ He describv. You will t>, is so^ mt t&. from Vl __ _ __ _ ■ Big' Lougias"store. DOUGLAS, A. SATURDAY, JULY 29,1899. Trade Day In Douglas. 1 he merchants of Douglas have selected Al (il ST' 18TH for a 1 RADE DA'S , ami a day of fun, ami the people are coming from all over the country to be here. The merchants will sell Goods at Reduced Prices on That Day, and the prizes will bring the people : For the preittiest lady—married or single, a line silk dress. For the first man or boy who climbs the greasy pole, .fij 40 For the fastest runner in a foot race, - - z 40 For fastest running horse, 5 ix> For the prettiest baby, two years old 'and under, Fine Trimmed Hat., For Colored People. Douglas merchants know that the colored people trade, and that Coflee county colored people like fun, so thse prizes are for them : For the most stylish dressed pair in the Cake Walk, - - For the fiirst one catching the greasy pig - - - 2 50 The Breeze Free to Teachers. Every School teacher in Coffee county can secure subscription to Breeze tree of charge, if he or she will write us short newsy letters from their immediate section. We want nothing but the NEWS, no essays, but short pointed para graphs, deaths, murders, marriages, socials and other interesting items of a newsy nature. Mention your own school and keep us posted. Never mind about experience, do your best, and when your “news notes,” come out in print the er rors will be corrected. If you want a picnic, “big day Friday,” or anything for benefit of your school, write us about it. When in Douglas your headquar ters, if your name is on our staff, is at tins office, gentleman or lady, and your mail may be sent in our care, during your visit. Now, let every young lady and gentleman teacher in the county, (only one at a post office, neighbor hood or district) consider them selves our correspondents, send in their names, (not for publication) and communications at once, be fore some one else does, assume some short non deplume, we will have the news, you will la; doing your vicinity good, and the Breeze will be brighter and better. +*■ SEND US YOUK NAME and address, together with the names and addresses of a number of your friends who are interested in any sort of poultry, for a FR EE sample copy of Tiie Gkokkia I’out.THY Hkkadp, anew, up-to date and interesting monthly poul try paper. Send to The Gkoikjia Poultry Herald, ' Blakely, Ga. Heaviest Watermelons. The heaviest watermelons brought to this office up to date are as fol lows : J. A. Anderson, - - -4.) I. like Cannon, 46 T. M. Fletcher, - 46 Daniel Meeks, 75i At the end of the season tlie per son bringing in the heaviest melon will recieve a receipt for a year’s subscription to the Breeze. Sea son closes August 15th. Public Meeting. A meeting of the citizens of Douglas is called to convene at the court house next Monday night, July 31st, at 8 o’clock, to take steps for the improvement ot the town anil school facilities. Everyone who has the interest of the town at heart is asked to be present. Many Citizens. t wo negroes robbed |. E. Ogie tree near Bainbridge last week and afterward raped his wife in his presence, alternately. Both fiends came pretending to purchase goods, as the store and dwelling are con nected. More lynching. The tax rate on insurance agents lin Georgia of if per cent on pre j liiiums received has been reduced to i 1 per cent by the tax committee. City Council Proceedings. City Marshal’s Office. Douglas, Ga., July Ist, 1899. T* the Honorable mayor, and al dermen of the City of Douglas, Gentlemen. 1 have the honor to submit to you, my semi-annual report, end ing July Ist, 1899. 1 find by vouchers, that former Marshal, K. X. Callahan, collected street tax for the Ist quarter, $57.28. Gus. L, Brack, City Murshal IH!W To city of Douglas Dr. Cr July Ist, To street tax eol’il 2nd quarter - (17 50 “ By street tax vouchers, 07 50 " To specific tax ex'ct’n, 23 50 “ 23 50 " To fines, etc., 12 00 “ By ** “ vouchers, 12 00 “ Tosan’t’y funds col’c’d front county, 3 00 “ By sanitary vouchers, 3 00 “ AdvTr’m tax ex’c’t’ns, 5 19 “ “ “ vouchers, 339 “ By am’t. to ballance, 2 10 / $112.09 112.09 “ To ballance on hand brought down. $2 10. Kespcctfully Submitted, Gus. L, Buack, City Marshal. Office of City clerk, Douglas, Ga. To the Honorable mayor and aider men of (.lily of Douglas, Gentlemen. 1 have the honor to submit to you, my semi-annual report ending July Ist, 1899. I find collected by former clerk, A. C. Sweat. Collected by A. it. tiwent. Dr. Cr. Special tax, - - - H3t!4 Advalorum tax, - - 20 30 Dog tax, - - - - 100 By, vouchers, - - - 111.00 1809. To city of Douglas. Dr. Cr. July Ist, To special tax, II 00 " By vouchers, 5 (XI " By bal. on band, 0 00 122 00 122 00 No. of orders drawn by A. C. Sweat. Nos. from Ito 45 total 298 10 Nos. 4(1 to 5(1 by O. Rudolph, “ 89 21 Total 387 31 O. Rudolph, City Clerk. Office City Treasurer of Douglas. To the Honorable mayor and aldermen of City of Douglas, N. F. Goodyear, city treasurer report. 1899. July Ist' To City Douglas, Dr. Cr. " Hpecilic tax - 13109 “ Street tax 12128 “ Fines and cost 30 35 “ amt. appr’t’d for si. funds 193 80 “ By vouchers general fund 130 74 “ “ “ St. tax 220 04 “ “ “ Fines, cost 112 80 " “ lifts, on st .f<ls. 52 65 “ 11 bal. on band 14 89 537 12 517 12 Douglas, Ga., July 6th, ’99. Council meeting called by J. J. Walker, mayor. Aldermen pres ent, W. F. Sibbett, 'l'. J. Davis, I’. Sellers and C. E. Caker. Health committee reported that folin Manning was not doing the work satisfactorily that he was em ployed to do. Said committee in structed the clerk to cause John Manning to pay his taxes and allow him pay for what he had done and tlie marshal to look titter the cause hereafter. Moved and carried that A. W. Haddock he relieved of street tax for 1899 for fixing street west of Madison street to said A. W. Had dock’s house, also U. Sellers be re lieved of all street tax for 1899 for work to he done on Sellers street from Gaskin Avenue west to Pearl street. Reports of the clerk, treasurer and marshal was read, it was moved and carried that said reports be sub mitted to the finance committee for investigation and turned over to the clerk for publication. Meeting adjourned until Thurs day night, next. O. Rudolph. J. J. Walker. Clerk. Mayor. Telfair Enterprise : “A man in Randolph county killed his mother in-law the other day because she persuaded his wife to quit him. Some men wouldn’t knock the old lady out for a little thing like tliat- Soiite of the republicans up north are raising a howl about the resignation of secretary Alger. It’s all in the family and we shall have nothing to say. NUMBER il Georgia Wheat. The wheat convention held in Macon last week demonstrated the tact that wheat can be raised, and actually was raised this year, at a profit in every section of the state. North Georgia, south Georgia, Cast Georgia and west Georgia all pos sesses large areas of land which un der proper cultivation will give yields ot wheat that would be sat isfactory in almost any state of the Union. 1 lie winners of the prizes offer ed by the Macon Telegraph for the best yields <>l wheat, in spite of very unfavorable seasons, made good records. One hundred and forty-eight bushels of wheat on four acres and over forty bushels on one acre tire fine showings, but we predict that both will be beaten in Georgia next year. Ihe interest in wheat growing in this state was never before so lively or so general. This year more Georgia farmers than ever before have wheat ot their own raising. Most ol those who raised wheat this year will raise more next year and there will be many recruits to Georgia’s wheat army. Ihe county ol Spalding comes out of the contest for tlie Macon Telegraph wheat prizes with flying colors, having won three out of a possible four. 1 his shows what middle Georgia can do. It has been a common belief that north Georgia is the only section of the state where it pays to raise wheat. I'he wheat convention and the competition for the Macon Tele graph’s wheat prizes have shown that this is a talse notion and tliat Georgia has far greater possibilities for wheat culture than has been generally supposed.—Atlanta Jour nal. A bear, weighing 250 pounds was killed in Pulaski county recently. Mathew Sweat, of Pierce coun ty, and old and esteemed citizen of that section, is dead. The “kissing bug,” a bug that attacks you only on the lips has been apprehended in Waycross. Robert Ingersoll, the famous lecturer and unbeliever is dead. He laid suffered with heart disease for five years. The mormons are in Wayne county, but the people down there are on to their racket and will leave them very much alone. Five Italians were lynched at Lallaueh La., last week for killing Dr. Hodge. Dr. Hodge bad shot a goat belonging to one of the Italians. Nashville, Berrien county, long without a railroad, is now threat ened with two lines. Berrien is one of the best counties in the state, and Nashville deserves good rail road connections. John Turner and bis wife, ne groes, killed a widow woman, white, near Birmingham. The ne gro woman lias been caught, but the man is still pursued. Judge lynch is ready. A seven year old boy shot and killed bis step-father for beating hi sister at Birmingham, Ala., last Saturday. He did right. Men who marry widows with children should treat them as children, not brutes. Eastman Times Journal: The Douglas Breeze is waging a warm tight against the mormon mission aries in it’s territory. Right you are, Brother; they are about as big a nuisance as the “faith cure” cranks, and are calculated to do about as much damage. Heat ’em hot, and keep a heatin’. Senator Morgan of Alabama has created a sensation by authorizing an interview in which he virtually declares against the domination of Bryan for president, v