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THP. 11 ("'ITTfrT A Q Dl)pp7T| . -ii. JL. jLmmtttf jL. JtL .! M H XJ VOL. XL 'FAUFfP ft p,atlP¥ 11. It. It ul j 1L Grill llv JLsELLLGj) j sifsiG SERBIA. Of i I III® f Hl* fi iIHN \ik 'id i y m %/ (& 'feat a! Li liS feiP b w U 513 '<& • Muiaj Loaned to Codon Shippers on Appro red Seenrifa. Experienced and Expert Handlers of Sea Island Cotton. (laiiaiacUireTs of Higl) Grade Fertilizer. LMDilLifliuiL • iiAU r' UlwUillilllLil, J. P. ULMER, WAYCROSS, QA. Anything 1 in the Burial Line Furnished, Horn a Pine Coffin to a Steel Casket, on Short Notice. STATE LICENSED EMBALMER. Will go anywhere within One Hundred miles of Way cross, Embalm bodies for shn ment or take charge of funerals. Order through responsible parties by telegraph or telephone. THE ULMER WAGON, ONE HORSE, $28.00 J. IN UL.MEI R, • 8 WAYGB3SS, fil um ed :r w-ip. i iii I tags! “Star” tin tags (shov.l , : cm::!; si..-,: ; print' .1 on under side of! teg). “Horse Shoe,” “J. TANARUS.,” “Good Truck, ” “Crop's Ifov.-,” and | “Drummond” Natural L- at Tin Xo::s mv of cr. i. a 1 value in secur- i ing presents rmuitionoii h-.iavr, and may he assoil.ed. Everyman,! ■woman and child can find someth!: g on the list that they would | like to have, and can ha, .- •tile. sU Auf-dS O | TACP. 1 Vfatcnßox 2.‘> 2 Kuife, one blade, good stew. 2T 3 Sc.rsors, 4 Child Set, Kn! f c, For 1: and Spool? 25 5 Salt and Pepper Sot. one each, r,;nd niple plate on wild a metal HO 6 French Briar "Wood Pipe..... 25 7 Razor, hollow ground, fine Englieia steel 53 8 Butter Knlie, triple plate, best q ui.hty Si*. 9 Sugar Shell, triple plate, best quality 60 20 Stamp Box.stevliiie silver Vo 11 Knife, “Keen ILutUT,” two blro'-s 73 12 Butcher Knife, “ Keen E-utter,’* b In blade 75 13 Shears, “Keen Kuitor.”B-!uob 75 14 JSut Set, Cracker end fi Ihcks, eii\er plated jn 15 Base Ball, “ Ar/ovint'cii,'- 5 best quality.{.‘‘O 1G Alarm Clock, trit.r 1 ’. 150 17 Six Gennine Rogerb* Ti-arpoono, : plated goods FO 78 "Watch, nickel, r-tern wind and sot •<> 19 Carvera, good steel, buckbfi-n imf?'I f “-*A'ti) 20 Six Gennlre Regers’ Table SpooL -, best plated goods 250 21 Six eaeii. Knives and Fords, buck hern handies tSO THE ABOVE I‘FFRH. EXPIRES NQ’/EMBER 30th, WOO.-. &5-BEAR IN anvil fhn. a dime’s worlli of STAR PLUG TOBAQCO . veil I lo.st longer and rJlortl more pleasure than a dime’s wortii of any ether brand* MAKE Send tag3 to CONTINENTAL TOBACCO GO., St. Lewis, Me, LargestahdHostCohpleteSuggylactqry on Earth Write fois Prices an* -~-j - ■:. - 5 v : v - s ■ Q-.iP. Cooes A~e The .■■- . Cur? PRICE THS LOWEST / •i? Sn^ .pAKitY. b^°l ‘ 3 w 1 TAGS, a C 2 Six ra-eT’, Genuine Rogers’ Knives and } ••. * c.t plated goods 500 & ;.b ‘z. 8-dny. Calendar, Thermometer, S Ji ;i••meter 500 l : t leather, no better isade 500 J 15 i level ••' r, automatic, double action 32 a Ol .: caliber GOO S CD '(>'■!. et. not playthings, but realtools 050 I i'o-lef. Set, decorated porcelalu, very; J une fi r, '| p- l iemhigion Rifle No. 4,22 or S3 caliber HUO'j k'9 V-.'e.fc:: sto-f\ !*• ailrcr, full jeweleu. .1000 I Jl) Dress Suit, leather, handsome I n ible 1000 a 31 Sewing Machine, first class, with all $ attach :nt St a 1500 5 22 Revolver, Colt’s, SB-caliber, blued 6 r'.‘ Rifle. C'oir.T. id-siior., 22-caiiber If 00 3 .1 Gubar ! Waaim rosewood, inlaid.| ' h Mandolin, very "ittlidesoini*. ...2000 | -hi AVincficster Kei.bating Shot Guu, 12 o:ge. 2000 a. Ib obigton, hammer ■•-o < Gun, B' or J 2 gauge 2000 38 Tricycle, standard make, ladies or g)tit* j. : 2500 29 Sbo r Gen. Ren lingual, double-barrel, iiamrucrless ‘0 Reglr.a Music Box, DOUGLAS, GA., SATURDAY, AUG. 25th, 1900. AMONG THE EXCHANGES. Interesting- Items Gleaned From Our State Papers. | Dooly county's taxable increase * for i 900 is .$ i.| i. n .|. I The Ocilla Public School will I open the first. .Monday in Septem j her. Fifty brick masons are at work pj-n the Dublin cotton mills, and more are nestled. I* 'Hie “fence or no fence” problem is worrying the minds of the peo ple of Dooly county. Irwin county’s taxable increase for 1900 is $70,596. Amount of j tax in default $8*925. Dodge county held her primaries last week. A heavy vote was I polled and good men nominated. Mr. Allen Smith, living near the I line of Ware and Coffee carried a barrel of new syrup to Waycross last week. Parties living near the (Ikefcmke swamp, a few miles below Way cross, report having seen several large bears recently. Cordele’s. new artesian well has been finished and furnishes 500 gallons of good pure water per minute. Lucky Cordele. The populists of Pierce county vcill bold a mass-meeting at Black shear on Thursday, August 30th, to nominate'county officers. Mr. J. A. Jones, of Waycross, recently returned from New York seriously ill. He is of the well known firm of Jones & Thomas. The Tifton correspondent of the Macon ‘Telegraph says Mr. W. B. Parks, of i’y-Ty, has been shipping pears by the car-load for the past two weeks. Mrs. J. M. DeVane, of Tifton, is dead. She was a popular, Christian lady, loved by all who knew her. She leaves a husband and six children. Waycross is enjoying sweet po tatoes. Farmer J. C. Clough dug ten bushels from three rows an acre long. They were fine, and sold readily at 20c per peek. And now it turns out that Coffee county is not the banner county in the tax increase business. Well, Coffee was ahead and some of the Others overtook her, that's all. The Breeze notes with pleasure that all the South Georgia papers have the State-Fair-County-Kx hibit fever. The disease will spread we hope until every section is in terested. A young man named Brenner, who got: to fooling around another man’s wife, (Whaley last: week in Atlanta, and even attempted to shoot the husband,) was .made to pay a fine of $50.00 The Chairman of the Prohibi tion party in Dodge county offers j $50.1,0 reward for the arrest- and conivction of a white man in that county for selling whiskey, and SIO.OO for a negro doing the same. W The Brunswick Times and Bruns wick Call, an evening and morning paper, have consolidated, fund now appear in eight-page form as the I “Brunswick Times—Call.” .The improvement . thus formed will doubtless benefit the City by the Sea. Ocilla Dispatch: “Congress- I man Brantley will begin a canvass j oi the Eleventh district about. Scp | tember Ist. Tills is not necessary, though of course the people would i iike to hear the tbljipiant 'young orator and discuss the issues of the ’J Over in Iyyviit county last Mon day week*, 'iii the City court, a I vdbtnan was fined s,;o and costs for | keeping a lewd house, and in Doug- I las last Monday another woman | received the same fine for the same ! business in the same kind of a court. \ That rruist be the regular fine* - The Cordele Sentinel appear-, in anew typographical dress. Du ring a storm on August ,jth. a huge ! tower fell on the roof of the print- P demolishing it ;mV eip a fellow DEPLORABLE MISTAKE. A Colored Man Takes the Wife of a White Man to be his Wife, and is Seriously Cut by the Hus band's Brother. So many cases of outrage and depredation are being daily report ed that the mind of the man who is responsible for the safety of a wife, sister m- daughter is full of suspicion am: easiness, and on this identical account a respect able, well liked colored man is near death’s door, in Douglas to day. Last . Sunday morning the wives of John.-Chandler and John Tavlor, two well known colored men, went down about Pearson to be gone all day, and expected to return Sunday afternoon, but up to 9 o’clock had not returned. John C handler, becoming uneasy about the absent ones, asked some friends to go down the road a piece with him to meet hfi wife and her sistev, which they did, stopping at some colored friend’s house about two miles from town. In order to record the account of the affair as we have heard, it is necessary to state that Solicitor < )steen and \\ ifie had gone down to Clinch county, below Pearson pre viously, and were also expected to return Sunday night. So it hap pens that Sol. Osteen and brother in one buggy were.passing about the time John Chandler arrived at the house, with the wives of the two Osteens following in another, buggy, some, fifty yards in the rear..# John was informed by some in mate of the house mentioned that a buggy with two ladies was pass ing, and he hurriedly ran across the wood to the road and jumped up on the rear of back axle of the buggy, frightening the two Mos dame Osteens so bad that they screamed. Thinking the ladies were his wife and her sister (for both are nearly white) John said: “don’t be alarmed it is me,” but they continued to scream. The two Osteen brothers in the front buggy heard the " screams of their wives and running back to them saw the negro standing on the axle asked : “what do you mean, you fool?” The negro' replied that “one, of the women in the buggy was his wtfe.V “No she is not,” replied Sol: Osteen, “She is my wife,” and at the same time run up and tried to puli. John down off the buggy. At the same moment the other O men ran up and began cut ting John will) his knife, and was about to cut his throat when his brother cried out, then recognizing who the negro was, “(put, quit, this is |ohn Chandler—John what do you mean!” “I thought it was mv wife,” was the answer .-.s he sank to the ground. John was frightfully cut, three or four places to the hollow, and when Dr. Sibbett reached him al ter he was brought to town, wa. breathing through a stab-hole in the back. It was all a fatal, *fcad mistake, John was expecting his wife and her sister, at that time and by that road, therefore when the buggy carrying the white-ladies passed he was sure it was the ones lie was looking for. So it was with the Osteen brothers, had they beard and recognized John’s voice, as as tbs v did too late, Sol. Osteen would haiic known it wms a mis take, for he knows John to he a" polite, orderly, i'n-his-place man, blit running back ‘when their wives screamed, and seeing a negro hold ing on to the back part of the bug gy they had only an idea of defend ing them from the clutches of an imaffinsrv demon. It is a hard matter to sav who is to blame, while the affair is one of the;.-*, re gretable ones that happen once or twice in a life time. Death of Thomas Wilcox. Sr. The ’-old citizens of the county j are dropping out by degrees, and : we are..called on this week to tell jof the death of one of the most j widely known and respectable den : izer.s of this section, j- lie was father of Tom Wilcox, ! Jr., of this place, and lias con ; neclions over the county. He was about* 70 years of age, and had* i been somewhat ’ feeble for some j time, still his death was a shock, [and the cause of regret. We are no ii position to say more about jrff:.- este tiled citizen not being ac ■JjHinted or posted, but we know ■hW. |W.be bereaved ones have our B.yrfepathv. | Death of a Child. The Breeze, is pained to learn of the death of tlie-little son of Dr. Jefferson Wilcox which pccured last Friday morning, 17, at Willa coochee. Little Jefferson, Jr., was only a little over two years old, was exceedingly bright and interesting, and his death is a sad blow to the effect donate parents, who have our^sympathy. Row at a Bawdy House. • Solomfm says a lewd woman's house is the road to hell, and he don’t miss it far, for there’s many lost souls in hell to-day who have gone that way. Joe Arnold, a young man, and Ponder McLendon, a married man, met at the house of Catherine Dawson, down on the old McDonald railroad last Friday night, and after a few prelimina ries and some disputes, probably caused from mean whiskey and still meaner women, Joe Arnold shot and killed Bonder McLendon. Registration Books are Open. John Bussell’s Store, Kirkland, l’ost office, at Pearson. Post office, at McDonald’s Mill. Parker & Meek’s store, Nichols. Post office, at JMclyen. Post office, at Broxton. Post office, at Phillips Mill. Post office, at W-illacoochee. Clerk's office, in Douglas. Post offie#, at Bridgetown. Books Will remain open until first ot September. Please dont neglect ,to your name full and clear. Tugs. L. Paui.k, T. C. V * ; Even Denied an Asylum in Hell. An editor difed and wended his< way to where he supposed a warnijj welcome awaited him. The devin met him at the threshold: “For years thou hast borne the blame for many errors that the printers made in the paper. \ onr paper has gone, alas! for the sl. that has often fail ed to come in. Men have taken the paper, never payihg for it, and cursed you for not getting out a better one. Thou hast been called a dead beat by the passenger con ductors when thou hast, shown thy annual pass to envious gaze. All these thou hast borne in silence. Thou canst not enter hero,-” ’and; “fired” him away. ‘'Heaven is his home, and besides, if we let him in here he would be continually stirring tin a racket by dunning his delinquent subscribers, for hell is full of them.” This is to You, Friend. We like to accommodate our friends, and would be more liberal in business than we are if we had the nieaAv, but on that line we are short. We have accounts now, ' in amounts ranging, from $5.00 to $50.00 against nilliiy for whom we have worked, for job work, adver tising, etc., that we are needing. We have pressing debts, paper bills, insurance and other items that call for money from us now, by (he first,, and we must have (lie money from some source. You know whether you owe us or not, and ii you do, help, us now—we helped you. If you can’t pay all you owe us, pay some, and it willJ kelp. You will feel better, and and will know that you have done all that ail honest man could do, otherwise you ( will not. Pearson Paragraphs. Pearson, Ga., 8-22-1900. —The; weather is hot! hot! They say our local campaign will be hot, and if that, makes it any hotter we dread it. At last, an idle week with the farmers of this community, but our turpentine men are rushing their work. Mr. J. Butler, a you*gman who was active in the turpentine work in this vicinity last year, died a few day-ago in Binvinghani, Ala., after lingering seWra! days with typhoid fever. B^request of Mr. Jno. McCaskill the remains were sent to Fuyottevi/Je X. C., for bur ial. lie was i brother of our neighbor, \lp Jno. McCaskill. The bereaved f. rmly has our pray ers and -y'L.'jk* h b-.s Mrs. \\4oon '-tills, of Fernundi na, Fla., W~- in our midst, visiting friends ami. rC.drives. She will Igo home next ek. Miss l!iunjtADyaS, little brother I and Tll k Sink! of McDonald, vis ited us Sunday. ft fs always pleasant with us to meet Miss ! Minnie. / E. T. John Herrin, o\er at Tifton, continuer to make a good paper. "ot-.b 1 if , s incss ccntcH iff **' v-*® ■ : 1 ' i B sN 4 " ?.-/• 1 -'-'V, M : 1 \ 1 i os-H,, > - , A'’ i-ic ■ ■ wH wt \ 9 ■ ■ 1 ''' ”■ ! 1 '> u ■ ires', etc., 1 >1 ih'B. 1 * and tin- ’ will be 1 r,m 9 - vy .\n -1 in this - - : I'. "i to I he u fif L iliiam anl9 ! ; x:fe^Aig-''P bccooiin;; the cotton a. ; : of the -1, Ihi ocl ion. .Already H9HH9| imiid an I:| i-l 1 i-datc lni\ in 1 ii.n cil \ , hi-adHSHBEH of ihe anees-,lul businc999Hpr energy ami a a projeetof such fail Inis been formed, any an invi tation to the citizens Es.fffte county to be present at j t|ie meeting to Be held on bth, and an JnterestL’Tan : a |9 M 19 t': ■ ' 9 ■m 9 ai a I • •9* :. I■, - 1 . ISIPPiPiPgjM i 1 v. o: 1 i.l fie irnpo- 11: a I the -avin-.;' ill rat 1 I hal m' 1 9 I ine O, Fit/gereld, I o . I, i 1 li. com a '. ‘tfjj Ide Iho -1 to ~.-!l good ■ ,'?/>’*! I! 1 eurn doing to-day. * ■fi' It will he hat a 1-• I h ■-: 1 find lh<l:ui9Vy^ an o' - ol ! 1 1 -.; alld fi w. de99H9 mol iii'.' in Ihi - pa-lfV >9&v9| •'oil I 1 coa • an.! I cade. \vvt^9999 ' a,'- . i,... to 1 a getting the cream ■ ! ioi.i (hi-, set I ion 011 - lor sic: had 110 C0M 9999 -j when the Air Line Is 999 H ' * Fitzgerald the fight z4ye cities for tby trade 1 pbettfc will he lively, because \V9| e .*1 v re Id an inch wi9 and Fitzgerald fd iu-thy her steel. wffl Ai re’s a lively time ahea9| Waycross Merchants. 9 J ai hunts down at \Vaj9| still ready to pay- for you to go an 9 1 999 them. When peop9 inducements for you9 /■aide ,/y mean business. Yo 9 *!niglit go farther and.do worse, ol you might not go so far and dfl /■till worse. These merchants ar* not working for your present tradii alone,- but hope by the treatment! accorded you on your visit, now tol induce your return in future years.l An invitation to Coffee County. I Xhc Fitzgerald Enterprise of lastweek, had the following: 1 I “Coffee and Telfair counties are invited to be with us at the Cotton Factory meeting in Fitzgerald, September 6th. The factory is big undertaking, and every good citizen should taka stock and help build up the county and section. There is no surer or quicker way to do this than by the building of manufacturing industries. X otl help others, and at the same time help yourself when you join in these matters.” Some of our people will be therp, and we hope they will see their way clear to subscribe for about half the stock in that mill. Vfie arc going to build one in Douglas after a bit, but there is nq roa-, on earth why Coffee county' sho- v .- not help her neighbors, especiAL when the beneliu ot such J tcrprise promises tohii of such /At mutual benefit, ' J ! Atlanta Journal and the one year for $1.25.