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VOL. X.
At Gaskin’s '
'*f TWEMTE
My Big Douglas Store is now sell"
ing for This BIG Campmeeting
All Styles Men’s Fine Clothing,
NEW FALL DRESS
GOODS FOR LADIES
AND OH ILDREN.
Fine black Dress goods for Fa!! Suits,
FINE Brocaded Dress Goods For sep
arate Skirts.
HUNDREDS OF SHOES FOR LA.DIES AND CHILDREN.
Mew Lot Ladies Fine Trimmed Hats
Pretty ready mad.© salts for Little BOYS
Fine Silks for Skirt Waists and Skirts.
MENS AMD BOYS FINE
CAMPMEETING SHOES.
Fill TOWELS, SHEETINGS AND TABLE LINENS.
use mmMsxvmm ie 1111111.
ALL THE NEW STYLES IN WOMEN’S COSSETS.
THE PRETTY THnSTO-S 11ST BELT BUCKLES,
FIX BP FOR CAMP
MEKTINE
By Buying Some of My Fine
Furniture aid Crockery
unci GLASSWARE.
Xv© got tli© Prettiest Tilings ever
Xlronglit to Douglas, and sell tliem
less than tlie Stt
mm%L wm& wramm
The Bigger the Stock the
BIGGER THE BA RGAIN.
mm where
You can get what you want
WITHOUT PAYING CROSS-ROAD STORE
PRICES.
BIUUJ WJtTSOH,
transpot.
tetlon“ m VTiase^vC^Furnitureami Crockery, Bank B’ld’g., Douglas, Ga.
DOjUGLAS, GA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER i). 18911.
GENERAL NEWS.
Cri.nina! and Ollier Items Brought to our No
tice by Wire from all Paris
of the World.
Fite Columbus Ledger intimates
tluir .Mark Manna lied from the
United States to avoid the attack
of the kissing bug. It extends con
gratulations to the bug.
Clerk ot the House of Repre
sentatives visited Atlanta last week
and prepared the calender for the
approaching session of the legis
lature.
Seven cases of yellow fever
were reported in Key West last
Saturday. A rigid quarantine has
been put on. New Orleans lias
one, and all western routes are
quarantined.
The chairman of the Populist
party of Massachusetts has issued
a circular declaring that no nomi
nations would be made in that
State this tall and that, democratic
nominees would be endorsed.
Five of the Darien rioters were
convicted last week of riotous con
duct and will he sentenced as soon
as the cases of others under indict
ment are tried. The jury was out
just fifteen minutes.
Mrs. Fannie Thurman, of Atlan
ta. aged 18, whose husband was
lolled two months ago on the
Georgia Railroad, was found dead
in her room last Friday morning.
Grief was the cause
The farmers’ National Conven
tion convenes at Baltimore, Md.,
on October 3d, and will continue
in session until the 6th. lion.
Allen \V. Groover will represent
the Eleventh district.
Exchange : “John McLean, has
been nominated for Governor of
Ohio. He is an all-round good fel
low.- ’ That’s right, he makes tur
pentine in Coffee county and keeps
posted by reading the Breeze.
His post office is Wilcox.
The war department calls for
more troops from Georgia, and has
opened a recruiting office in Atlan
ta. The Breeze would advise all
Southerners to leave the army
alone until after the next Presi
dential election.
The cotton gin lias begun its
deadly work, and the first victim
for the season is reported from
Cochran, Ga., Mr. Oscar Petty,
became entangled in a gin last
Friday and was so badly mangled
that he died in a fey minutes.
Th report that soldiers in the
field will be allowed to vote as
they please, in the coming presi
dential election is all myth. The
soldiers may vote as they please
but the administration will be care
ful to appoint a board that will re
turn their votes as it pleases.
Two-thirds of the volunteers
from the South for the Phillipine
Islands massacre are democrats, if
anything. So these calls for more
troops tends to weaken the demo-,
cratic party, not the republicans.
You don’t hear of so much volun
teering from republican states.
If the administration at Wash
ington are in need of more soldiers
to carry on the Phillipine foolish
ness, let the white republicans of
the North and the black repub
licans of the South furnish the
targets for the Phillipine bullets.
The solid South needs her soldiers
at voting time, and McKinley
knows it.
It will he remembered by our
readers that an article was publish
ed in these columns some weeks
ago, giving an account of a citizen
of Colquitt going to Atlanta to
have the doctors examine his ear,
and that a piece of lead had been
taken from it. The man’s wife
now admits that she poured hot
lead in his ear. The fool is living
with her as if nothing had hap
pened, too!
Last Monday morning a drunken
man knocked at the door of Mrs.
Mary Reed, in Columbus, and ask
if a certain person lived there, he
was answered in the negative,
when he became angered, question
ed the lady’s veracity and cursed
and abused her. She became fright
ened, fell in a swoon, and died in
a few minutes. That man ought
to hang, and we are pleased to
state that he is in jail with fair
prospects of that fate.
MXddox news notes.
Maddox, Ga., Sept. ,j, ’qq.—Miss
Sarah Gilmore, of near Lumber
City spent a few days this week
with the Misses Maddox.
Miss Lila Currv, of Ila/dehurst,
spent Sunday and Monday, with
Iter cousin Miss Janie Curry.
Mr. l orn Stowers, of Cora, Ga.,
is in our community again.
Rev. \\ . J. Maddox is attending
a meeting in Telfair this week.
Miss Mamie Girtinan returned to
her home near Graham Sunday, af
ter spending a few days very pleas
antly with the Misses Girtman.
The Sunday school at Cooks
gCool house is still progressing!
Vioi.et.
Get Fixed For
Camp-meeting, Everything
tor ladies, men and children’s
wear at Brad Watson’s
Big Douglas Store.
Waifs from Willacoochee.
Willacoochee, Sept. 6 a
number of our citizens went on the
excursion to Savannah last Mon
day.
Peas, peanuts, cane and potatoes
are doing well since the excellent
rains of last week. Cotton has
been cut short by the dry weather,
but the farmers are not at all
gloomy, because they owe less for
supplies.
Mr. Daniel Roberts who had the
misfortune to lose his barns and
other buildings in his horse lot, by
fire a few weeks since, is rebuikl
ing.
Prof. Overman opened school
here last Monday. On account of
damp weather the first day’s at
tendance was rather small.
Roberts Church school now lias
thirty-seven pupils.
The Leliaton, and the Roberts
Church schools will, perhaps, be
consolidated for the spring term
which begins . next January. We
hope to see this plan successfully
crtried out, and the patrons should
lose 110 time in building and fur
nishing a house, spacious and com
fortable, to accommodate the
125 pupils within the bounds of
this school.
Garrant News Notes.
Garrant, Ga., Sept. 4. —We have
been blessed with light showers
and crops are looking better.
Brother W. B. Courson, who has
been very sick with fever for five
weeks past is recovering.
A protracted series of meetings
will be commenced at Friendship
church, near Garrant on Thursday
night, Sept. 7th, and may contin
ue for a week or more, conducted
by our pastter, Bro. G. B. Allison.
All are invited.
Occasionly I see where some one
claims to have been saved by their
own works. I can safely say I can
not find in the scriptures where a
sinner was saved by his works or
my promise to that effect. Read
31st verse, 9th chap., of John, then
read 6th chap., John from 27th to
58th, verse and see.
11. Ei.lis.
Important Point Made.
Southeast Georgian : “The con
tested election case in Coffee coun
ty is finally settled, and settled in
favor of the Populist nominee for
representative, Elijah Tanner.
While the legislature was in session
last fall the democratic nominee
went to Atlanta and asked to he
seated but was refused. Now that
the case has been settled a writer
in the Atlanta Journal raises an
interesting question. He says:
“Coffee county had no representa
tion last year and not a bill came
up for consideration that would be
of interest to the voters and tax
payers of that progressive little
county. And now the interesting
question arises as to whether or
not Mr. Tanner is entitled t> hi:
per diem for last year’s gen Tuih
assembly. True, he did no work
and not even attended the session
of the legislature, but he was the
duly elected member from Coffee. ’|
NUMBER 17
Beautiful Thoughts.
Victor Hugo wrote in his old
age :‘• I feel in myself the future
life. lam rising, 1 know, toward
the sky. The sunshine is over my
head. Heaven lights me with the
reflections of unknown worlds.
ou say the soul is nothing,
the result of bodily powers, why
then is my soul the more luminous
when mv bodily powers begin to
iail? Winter is on my head and
eternal spring is in my heart.
“The nearer I approach the end
the plainer I hear around me the
immortal symphonies of the world
which unite me. it is marvelous
yet. simple. It is a fairy tale, and
it is u history. For half a century
I have been writing my thoughts
in prose, verse, history, philosophy
drama, romance, tradition, satire
ode, song—l have tried all. But 1
feel that 1 have not said the thorns
andtli part of what is in me. When
1 go down to the grave 1 can say
like so many others : “I have finish
ed mv day’s work,’ - hut I cannot
say ‘1 have fiaished my life.” My
day’s work will begin the next
miming. The tomb is not a blind
alley, it is a thoroughfare. It closed
in the twilight to open with the
dawn. 1 improve every hour be
cause I love this w orld as my fath
erland. My work is only begin
ning. My work is hardly above
its foundation. 1 would he glad to
see it mounting and mounting for
ever. 1 lie thirst lor the infinite
proves infinity.”
Notice.
Willacoochee, Ga., Sept. Ist, 1899.
There will be a bill introduced hi
the next session of the General As
sembly of the State of Georgia to
repeal the high license whiskey law
of Coffee county, as passed by the
General Assembly, October 2nd! 1879
amended August 18th, 1881, and further
amended September 4th, 1883—and to
create in lieu thereof a dispensary for
the town of Willacoochee, Georgia.
j K. A. Hendricks,
I Jefferson Wilcox,
Committee. \ K. S. Ford,
j D. E. Gaskin,
{ J. li. Overman.
0/iskill’s Spriug Camp Meeting.
Gamp meeting will commence at
Gaskin’s Spring on September
1 3th, 7 p. m., and from the lights
before us we expect to see a large
crowd of people present. Many
have told us of their intention of
coming, and we have received let
ters from parties abroad who de
sired to come, asking for informa
tion, which was given with pleas
ure, as to routes, accommodations,
etc. Mr. Gaskin has not been
idle in preparing for this annual
gathering, and saws and hammers
are making the welkin ring out
in that direction. He has been
making more room for accommoda
tion of visitors, besides has built a
shelter capable of keeping under
cover forty or fifty buggies at one
time. Forty-five or fifty stalls
have been made for taking care of
horses and other improvements are
going on.
(letting In the Pall (iaods.
Last week when Mr. Oliver Deen
was in Savannah lie mixed business
with pleasure, and used part of
his time in making selections of
beautiful dress goods, homespuns,
worsteds, and other useful and
wearing grades of ladies’ dress
goods. The goods have been
received, marked and placed on the
shelves. We know of no store in
town that. lias a better selected
stock of dress goods than T. S.
Deen & Son.
Special Announcement.
Between the first of Septemper
and the 25th of December the
Breeze will issue two heavy edi
tions, to advertise every man in
the county and put the paper before
the people. Advertisers can make
terms for both editions. The paper
will be composed of sixteen pages
and over 10.000 copies will be
printed. We want every mer
chant, naval storesman and other
business inan of the county repre
sented, and we shall make arrange
ments at once to make these edi
tions particularly interesting and
attractive.
We should like to have a
sketch of every locality in the
county. It is our intention to
make these two papers cover the
field, and show to people abroad
what Coffee county really is. We
shall send 1000 copies to ex-Gov
ernor Northern for circulation
throng 1 the emigration agency, so
that h >ine-hunters can be brought
this way. Space will be limited,
however, and advertisers should
not wait too long to contract for
i space. **•,