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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. VOL. X. Ml AIMIBIH, \ ’• ' Will Be the Next BtC TMCf BAY AT AND BEAD Yv r ATSON 5 S BIGDOUGLAS STORE Will Be Headquarters for the Best| Cheapest 4 DRESS IlflOl, SHOES AND I* • CLOTHING. BIG PUN AND CASH MONEY I INDISTINCT PRINT | PRIZES : .. "* I - 1 Ihe Prettiest Lady, a Silk Dress The Fastest Running Manor Boy, 2 50 Ihe Fastest Running Horse - - 500 Greasy Pole Climbing, - 250 And Pretty Baby Show, Fine Hat. For 'll!© Colored Folks: A Five Dollar Cat<e Walk And a Greasy Pig Catching. Let Everybody Come and tHave Fun! ♦ Speciai Dry Goads Bargains * FOR THAT DAY! Nice CeFd Dress Lawns, 10 yds 25c All 10 and IS Remnants sc. C Fme r r P Percales, 5c Propretor. - i Kverythiii |_ n|it y SW ft S HiNQYfess Goods, Slippers, Shoes, Hats reduced in Price for that Dav, Y, A TIGr. 18 th Tell Yon& 11 Yount WATSONS MCI AN and SURGEON, •Hr our ton, Georgia. jr. tSßzh WATSOH’S V Big Douglas Store. Dry f Y ftv . DOUGLAS, GA. SATURDAY, AUGUST ft, 18!)!). Trade Day 111 Douglas. The merchants of Douglas have selected AUGUST' iSTII for a TRADE DAY, and a day of fun, and the people are coining from all over the country to be here. The merchants will sell Goods at Reduced Prices on That Day, ami the prizes will hi ing the people : For the preitliest lady—married or single, a fine silk dress. For the first man or boy who climbs the greasy pole, $2 50 For the fastest runner in a foot race, - - 2 50 For fastest running horse, 500 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 Coffee county colored people like fun, so thse prizes are for them : For the most stylish dressed pair in the Cake Walk, - - $, 00 For the fiirst one catching the greasy pig - - - 2 50 Scalded to Death. The boiler at the mill of C. W. & R. G. Meeks, of this county, bursted about four weeks ago, and Mr. Willibe Meeks was budlv scalded. Last Friday, after a months suffering he died, leaving many dear ones to deplore his sad fate. lie was buried on Saturday, at the Meeks church. The bereaved ones have our sympathy. Deer Not all (ionc. John Greer, who has been travel ling around in the county a good deal lately, tells us that several deer have been killed recently out about Shepherd, and that parties w r ere chasing some Friday of last week. We have not seen any of the hides or meat, but these hunters are informed that when w’e were a hoy we were fond of venson. We think the lady we board with likes it now. We’ll see her and let them know. SEND US YOUR NAME and address, together with the names and addresses of a number of your friends who are interested i'n any sort, of poultry, for a FREE sample copy of The Georgia Poultry. Hkradd, anew, up-to date and interesting monthly poul try paper. Send to The Georgia Poultry Herald, Blakely, Ga. No Salvation Without Work. Rev. A. 15. Carradine, who lias preached thousands of sermons on woks and knows the Bible as well as any, and whose name is seen in nearly every song book you pick up, as author, composer, etc., has the following to say on works: “God has ordered it that the soul, after conversion, becomes its truest, big! est, and best self by working to save other souls. It may he a broad or narrow sphere, in the pul pit or at the home, it still remains tlie same—to lead others to Christ is to bless and develop our own souls.” 'The man that sits still never ac complishes anything in worldly or spiritual life. Heaviest Watermelons. The heaviest watermelons brought to this office up to date are as fol* lows : J. A. Anderson, - 44 Luke Cannon, 46 T. M. Fletcher, - 46 Daniel Meeks, At the end of the season the per son bringing in the heaviest melon will recieve a receipt for a year’s subscription to the Breeze. Sea son closes August 15th. Six Hundred and Thirtr-nine Coons. Zed Lew is, a negro man working at Pace’s still, in this county, savs he has been in this county eleven vear and he has killed 649 coons in that time. He.is a splendid coon and possum hunter , andvaught four coons, one possum and a wild cat last Friday night. The Price of Cotton. Hubbard Brothers <& Cos., well know cotton merchants, in their last weekly report of the market, make the following statement: “In laet cotton seems to have found its level, above or below which it will only move as good trade or a super abundant yield may force it.” The current price of the staple at the home markets is now from 5i to cents an a basis of mid dling, and if these gentlemen are correct in their surmise it is on this basis that the farmer in the future must figure'his crop. It is the unanimous opinion of those who are in the best position to know that in Georgia at least cotton cannot be made except at a loss at these figures unless there is a radieaD|epature from the present system l *jGopping. This fact is becoming more gen erally recognized by the Georgia farmers themselves, and the success of the wheat growing movement inaugurated last year is due in no small measure to the growth of the feeling that there must be a wider diversification of crops, if the farmer is to escape ruin. The financial results of the last wheat crop in this section insures a wider cultivation of the cereal next season, and it is altogether prob able that wheat growing is firmly established in middle and south Georgia now and that it is only a question of time when the bulk of the Hour consumed here will be home raised. This is a long step in the right direction, but after all it is only a step. It has been demonstrated that meat can be raised in this section at a much lower figure than if can be imported. The same thing is true of hay and other forage. When Georgia farmers raise their own flour, corn, meat and forage, tlicy will begin to be in a position to contemplate 5 cent or cent cotton with some degree of equa nimity. ' When they are able to furnish the cities of the state with their butler, vegetables, eggs ami chickens, cotton will become a crop of value to them. With rotation of crops and rais ing of live stock, the amount of commercial fertilizers used can he materially reduced and the fertility of the lands improved so that it may be the cotton crops will he a source of income even at the low price instead of a steady drain on both the capital of the man who raises it and the land on which it is raised. —Maeon Telegraph. The Mormons in Trouble. A special from Covington, Ga., says that a mob of fifty masked men made away with three Mor mon elders who have been proselyt ing in Jasper county. The story is to the effect that the three elders visited the home of William Cun nard, near Newton Factory, Jasper county, and endeavored to persuade Mrs. Cunnard to join the church. While they were at the Cunnard home fifty men masked and on horse back came up and asked the elders to accompany them. They refused to do so, and while they were parleying Mr. Cunnard pro cured a rifle and aided the mob in taking the Mormons. Several shots were exchanged and in the excite ment Mrs. Cunnard had her jaw shattered. The mob finally secured the elders and rode off with them. Nothing has been seen of them since. The elders were driven out of two towns in Jasper county early in the week. The Breeze wants a correspon dent in every district. We are not publishing a paper for Douglas alone but for the county, and we want every man, woman and child to know the Breeze is for all of Them. NUMBER 12 A Costly Error. One of the lawyers says that a client of his is the hero of this story, and that it happeued here within a year or two, relates the \\ orcester Gazette. A man from the assessor’s office went into the store of a Hebrew merchant in the pursuit ot his duties. The two had slight acquaintance, so that the as sistant assessor did not think it necessary to explain his business, lie was rather surprised when in answer to his question, the store keeper proceeded to dilate on the value ol his stock. “De finest in any sthore of de size in de city. It isn’t vort a cent less than ss<xxi.” Suppose I put it down at that, then,” said the assessor’s man. “Do it. Do it,” said the pro prietor. “I er von’t inaig no mis take.” So the assessor’s man did it. There was lameptation in the store when the tax bill showed the proprietor that lie wax taxed on ss°°° personal, and he rushed over to the assessor’s office with all pos sible speed. “Mat is dis? Vat is dis?” he askqd, excitedly. I haf 110 bersonal /but de sthock in my store. I’m a liar if it’s vort SBOO. Come down and look it ofer.” They told him that the records showed that he had given the fig ure to the ussisstant assessor. His hands went up to hie head in horror: “My goodness, my good ness!” he shouted. “Vas dat your man? I tought he vas from Brudstreet’s.” Tbe lixcelslur Medicine Ctmpnny. Ihe Excelsior Medicine Co’s, remedies, Ketterer’s Excelsior Blood Purifier and Carter’s Hop ping oil, are pretty ; well known here now. Mr. J. 11. Hamilton and Mr. Ketterer were here last Friday and Satunday and adver tised it well. It has also been placed on sale at the City Drug Store, Sibbett’s Drug store, and at E. S. Guthrie .V Co’s. These are two ol the best remedies on the the market to-day, and if they had been made in Boston or New York and gi veil some high sounding name, with the curative powers they possess, their sales would be greater than any otf -. As it is, however, th* former as a blood medicine, the lat eras a liniwaic*, are becoming very popular and the sales run high. In addition jfo these well known remedies the Ex celsior Medicine Company carry a full line of drugs and druggist’s sundries and will sell wholesale as cheap as you can buy the same goods in New York or Philadel phia and save the freight to cus tomers. Besides having good men on the road, they have experienced pharmacists and cotnpoßnders who rush orders, pack carefully and compete with any establishment in the South. The Waycross correspondent of the Savannah News is about the best that paper has in ’Southern Georgia. Army officers complain that the censorship at Manilla keeps the truth from the United States gov ernment and the people. A number of people were stricken by tlie intense heat in New York last week, some fatally. There were some sunstrokes in Georgia, but none fatally. The Ogletree rape and lynching business will afford more tinder for republican fires of hatred. Aud the cry is still, “git yer rope, git yer rope!” About five of ’em pasted in their check* on account of the Ogletree raping. Justice must be done though the heavens fall. “Git yer rope.” Thirty-seven cases of genuine vellow fever reported at Sol diers' Home, at Hampton, Vis People are leaving there^flMßgjj|Hj