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VOL. X. DRESS 1 The New Silks, m NEW CLOTHING. . The New Shoes, Are all in at Brad Watson’s Big Douglas Store. Fine Billets and comforts. Fine waterproofs, flannels and outinos. FINE FURNITURE AND CROCKERY, All Kinds of Hats, Tranks and Satcliels, are in At BRAD WATSON’S BIG DOUGLAS STORE. I Still Stick to the Loaf Priced iPlatj On which my Douglas business was started, and I sell the best Checks, Calicoes and Yard-wide sheetings for the old price of only Five Cents a Yard. Dry Goods u the Bolt Rt Wholesale Prices. Brad Watson’s Big Douglas Store. dUDjDpijgias, Georgia. THHBFOUGLAS BREEZE. DOUGLAS, GA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1899. Broxton. Rroxton, Oct. s—The5 —The gins are in operation, and doing good work. But have to haul water from wells in the yards to keep busy. Mr. Joel Harper is building on the Waresboro road near the church, and it is rumored that he has gone to bring in its Mistress. Mr. Bud Jowers had a tree to fall on him last week, and the doc tor says he will not recover, as his skull is crushed in upon his brain. The dry weather has opened most all the cotton, and it will soon be picked out. Mr. John McLean, of Wilcox, was in town last week. The river is so low that our mer chants can’t get their freight very promptly. A large congregation assembled at Reedy Branch last Sunday at tending the General meeting. \\ e must correct an error of our last letter. Mr. J. Lott’s daughters, Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Googe didn’t accompany him home from the north, but are to come later, and pay a visit to their parents. Our school is small, owing to push with work, prospects are good for a good attendance very soon. The Epworth League meetings are growing more and more inter esting, though not so well attend ed by the masses. Sunday school each Sunday afternoon, is well attended. “A wedding in Broxton,” so they say. Mrs. Tom Jones accompanied Miss Lalla Curry to her home in Hancock county, last week. Broxton has a jeweler’s shop at present. Dr. Kirkland, of Kirkland, Ga., is spending a few days in Broxton. Mr. J. A. Jones has a position as clerk in Florida, and lias gone to work. Mr. Dan Lott, of Lott Bros., is confined to his bed. We hope to see him return to business soon. Broxton. Willacoochee. Willacoochee, Oct. s—Col.5 —Col. Price recently of Sylvester, Ga., is now a citizen of our town. He comes as a young lawyer of ability and culture and hopes to share the legal business of the county, and to this end is fitting up a neat office on the corner formerly occupied by Mr. Shaw. Drs. Wilcox and Gaskin per formed a difficult surgical opera tion on Mr. Cross last week. The patient was placed under the influ ence of an anesthesia and the op eration soon completed. He is resting well and will soon recover. The protracted meeting at the Roberts church three miles south of town, is well attended, and promises much good to the com munity. The good people out there always do things right. Fall gardens are about ruined, for lack of rain. We have plenty of water in wells but the surface is very dry and dusty. Burglars attempted to enter the dwelling of Mr. Bostic on the night of the 39th. They were discovered by Mrs. Corbett who was sleeping in an adjoining room, in trying to awake Mr. Bostic she made some noise and the intruder ran off. Ten more new pupils joined the High school this week and Prof. Overman is about to realize his ex pectation as to numbers. Quite a number of these pupils come in from the country on buggies and on horse-back. The auction sale of Vickers & Gaskin is drawing quite a crowd from the country, their sales have been large, and the other merchants have made big sales. A trades-day is the next thing for our town. We gladly endorse and heartily commend your timely suggestion of the name of Col. F. Willis Dart for the position of solicitor general of our circuit court. Too much cannot be said in laudation of Col. Dart as a citizen and of his ability as a lawyer. That he is eminently qualified for the office no one can question who has known him as intimately as this writer. Asa man of sturdy up right, moral manhood he is equally unquestionable. For honor, patri otism and devotion to principle he certainly has few equals—no supe riors. No man in the district could possibly reflect a brighter ha lo of purity about the office or dig nify it with a nobler manhood. His sincerity of purpose impresses you, Ins atiability wins you. his de votion to duty gives you confidence. He is not a politician and hence does not seek the office. In our judgement he is the very man the olfice should seek and have. X. Only One Remedy. Lditor \\ illmtns, of the Green ville (S. C.) News, than whom (as a rule) there is no brighter, abler editor on the southern press, in an editorial on lynching says : “There is hut one urguement against allowing the law to have a chance in judging the guilt of the assaulter and that is bringing the modest, timid victim into court to tell her terrible story of suffering and sorrow. This can be obviated to a great extent in one or two ways; when her evidence is given, the court can be cleared of all but those connected with the trial, or she can he brought to court to identify the accused and then her deposition can betaken at her home by officers appointed by the court, in presence of the attorney for the prisoner.” Now, that is terrible rot to come from such a smart man, and we really believe Brother Williams must be off on his vacation. South ern men are not going to submit to such ordeals even as the News sug gests for their wives and daughters. There is only one way to stop the I vnehings, and that is to stop (lie outrages. There is only one way to give the brutal fiends a legal trial, and that is to legalize lynch-, ings in such cases. A1 lother sort of talk is bosh.— Dalton Argus. Will Not Forskae Her Barents. “It happens often that the East- Side girl of New York is the sole support of the family,” writes Charles T. Brodhead in the Sep tember Ladies’ Home Journal. “She works harder and just as cheerfully as ever, and turns every cent into the house as fast as she makes it. She assists with the household duties before she leaves in the morning and when she re turns at night. The few articles of clothing she manages to get are made over and over again, patched, darned, and cleaned many times. In the winter she suffers from lack of proper clothing. She walks to her work every morning—it costs too much to ride—through sunshine and storm, and back again at night. So she trudges on, month in and month out; and when the quiet young truck-driver who lives around the corner asks her to marry him she regards him seriously and says : “Honest Mike, I’d like to marry yer, because yer know I like yer, and ye’re on the level, but me ole man and me ole woman ain’t in it anny more for workin’, and if I left ’em they’d be in the soup. No, I don’t stand for no game like that.” “So lie goes away, and she grieves; but her conscience is cleur—she is doing her duty.” Notice to Debtors and Creditors. Geoboia—Coffee (lounty. All persons indebted to the estate ofH. L. t’au llt late of said county deceased are requested to come forward and settle al once. Those having claims aitainst said estate are requested to prorent same, duly made out, in terms of the law, for settle ment. October 2nd, 18tJ9. Jno. Paulk, Adm’r. H. h. i’uulk. Shot Himself While hunting. The Breeze is pained to learn that while hunling one day last week, Master near Sumner, Ga., in some way fell from a fence, his gun fired, wound ing him so severely that his right hand had to be cut off. It is also said he was hurt in one foot, it is supposed in falling from the fence. Mrs. W. W. McDonald and children have returned home from a pleasant visit to relatives in North Georgia. NUMBER 21 Items From Octlla Dispatch. 4m Messrs. Jack, Henry and jali \ ickcrs, of Coffee comity, ited their brother, Mr. Elijah vA J era last week. ■ Miss Minnie Culbreth, a beuoß till and accomplished young lad?S of Ilahira, who has been teaching school in this vicinity, returned home Monday, to the regret of hen many friends. Mrs. Lillu Alexander, wife of Col. Alexander, of Nashville, di*d at her home Sunday at 6p. m. She leaves a husband and three small children to mourn her death. Mr. Elijah Vickers, who has been suffering with a sore leg, which he thinks was caused from being poisoned, in the war, some 37 years ago, had his leg amputa ted last Wednesday by Dr. Hen dricks, of Lenox, and Dr. Askew, of Nashville. Mr. John J. Faulk has tested his little cob and big cob corn, and the little cob is on top. As stated iu the Dispatch some weeks since, Mr. Faulk determined to see which kind ol corn was the most profita ble. The big cob corn looks like it would make the most, and not a tew believed it would. Five or six rows ol the big cob were plant ed side by side with the little cob and given the same fertilizing and cultivation. The rows were one hundred and seventy-three yards long and Mr. Faulk pulled a row of each kind and shelled and weighed it. Result: Little cob, no pounds; big cob, 94. Proceedings County Uoaiuiissioucro. Court of County Commissioners convened Monday Oct. 2nd, 1899, vith a full board. Flans and specifications of the bridge at Raccoon ford over Seven teen Mile Creek were read and adopted. The bridge was sub mitted for bids the lowest hid be ing !js 1.20 per running foot. The commissioners refused to accept it. Repairs were reported to he made <m the bridge over Satilla on the Fearson road. J. W. Roberts was appointed to meet commissioners from Berrien county to inspect bridge over Alap aha Wednesday. Bridge at Bridgetown was re ported in a bad condition. Bridge was asked for over Sev enteen Mile Creek in the eastern part of the county. No actionjwaa taken. Accounts were examined ami or ders given on the treasurer for White Primaries. Inless there be ti material change in sentiment among the people, white primaries will he the mode in Georgia next year of selecting candidates for office. The object is not so much to eliminate the negro from participation in our political affairs as to do away with tie ex pensive, demoralizing campaigns that precede every election in which the negroes have a right to vote. In this connection the Tel fair Enterprise says: “White primaries is a consum mation devoutly to be hoped for, and the people at large would like to see the matter take definite shape. A candidate who is afraid to risk his chances of nomination in a white primary is to be consid erable trepidation. Let us elimi nate the purchasable negro vote from politics and our legislators will be more representative men.’’ —Ocilla Dispatch. Forest fires on Sunday and Mon day, burned a long trestle on the Way-cross Air Line railroad be tween Douglas and Ashley’s, a lot of turpentine box-es for J. M. Ash ley, and fencing of the neighboring farmers. The prolonged drouth has parched all vegetation to the extent that it is almost impossible to check the fires, especially in the swamps which burn to a depth of eighteen inches, when all the sur face is apparently quenched, the dry grass underneath is burning and formed by the winds soon catches out again. It is claimed that the fires originate from sparks from the engines on the railroad. Mrs. Samuel Quincey and little grand child of Levyville, Fla., is visiting her son CoL j. W. Quin cey and family.