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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. **•,