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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
VOL.JSf
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Was Never More Plentiful in Waycross
Than this Season, as the warm weather has held
back the usual Fall Sales. J}
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Desires to till, his into cash, and will sell
" MEN AT $3.50 HP 10 SIB.M
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— —from now ox-
rf Willi a Guaranteed Saving of sl.
V to $5.00 ©n flie suit ■
YOUTH’S SUITS from $2.5© to $7.50.
Come to see us for any
thing you may need, and
tell your friends to meet
you at Jone’s Store.
Make headquarters at
our store and you will be
pleased.
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J. A. JONES.
WAYCROSS GA.
DOUGLAS, GA., SATURDAY, DEC. 15th„ 1900.
Taxable Property of Negroes.
Tatnall Journal: The taxable
property of negroes in this state this
year is valued at $14,076,489. The
returns show a big increase over the
last year. Last year the taxable
properly of negroes was $13,560,-
179, making an increase of $516,-
o :.sjsrvcr. s wa-a iaaiiaiwlnfe.
His Judgement was Correct. ‘ *
A ienna Progress: 11 We confess
that our judgement went astray t>n
the election, t;..i •> c are nevertheless
willing to back it on the president’s
message. wager that it will
have all the coruscating brilliancy
that characterizes the average mar
ket report.” Yes, it had the regu
lar Mw-Rinley jinggle from end to
end.
Mrs. M. A. Brown's Foot Hurt.
• The following from the Black
shear Times, will he regretted by
Mrs. Brown’s friends here : “Mrs.
M. A. Brown received a painful
bruise last Thursday while awaiting
the arrival of a train. She was
standing on the passenger platform
and when the train hands were
unloding the baggage from the car
’they accidentally let a trunk fall on
her foot.”
deduction in Revenue Taxes-
The most important changes in
the present law will be in schedule
B, which practically will be wiped
out,, and which will include medi
cines and proprietary articles. The
tax also will probably he removed
from conveyances, mortgages, etc.
These, with the abolishment of
laxas on express receipts, tele
grams, hank checks, and some other
stamp taxes, it is said, will secure
the reduction of $30,000,000, which
is the amount agreed upon by the
treasury officials and the committee.
Will Make His Mark.
\\ hen ever we see a young man
of genuine worth and pluck we like
to see him feCognieed, he he rich
or poor.. In this connection we
njay. rnejition the' name of Lewis
\Hckers; of this county,-.sixeeTrtof
of the last' will and tcstamenUof the
late Rev. John Vickers, deceased.
He is “business” from soon in the
morning until late at night, and in
the discharge of his duty makes
minute details of all business trans
acting with the preciseness of a
man of maturer years. His relatives
and all concerned are perfectly sat
isfied with his ability to handle the
work entrusted to him to perforin,
and know his honorable hi hits and
executive qualifications will allow
him to complete his work wit!*
fairness to every one interested.
The Gold Standard.
Now that all democrats, regard
less of past differences, agree that
free 16-to-i coinage is a dead duck
as an issue, it may not be amiss to
remind democrats that gold was
made the standard of value by the
people of the United States in con
gress assembled, in 1834. The act
of congress, which it was declared
at the time “would make the United
States a gold standard country,”
was passed in the house of represen
tatives by a vote of 145 to 36, and
in the senate by a vote of 25 to 7.
It was a non-partisan act, but it
was passed by a majority of demo
cratic votes and was signed by a
democratic president. If you re
member that fact, it will be easier
for you to eschew populism and
get hack on the platform of 1892. —‘
Dalton Argus.
Irwin County News from the Dispatch.
Irwin county has twenty-six pen
sioners who draw from the state
$1,430 annanually.
Air. M. J. Baulk’s ginnery has
already turned out over 400 hales of
cotton this season, and there is more
cotton coming in now than at any
time during the season. AdvertL
ling, hacked by first-class ginning,
pays.
“Amos,” in the Fitzgerald Enter
prise of last Wednesday, says lie
knows a preacher who sold his vote
to one man and then voted Tor an
other. That is a grave charge, even
if made aaonymously. “He may
be a “preacher”’ in name. The
woods is full of ’em, and hell will
be when they are ri|>e enough to
fall off.
The “fixers” are said to have
done some sly work in the matter
of the three county commissioners.
It remains to be seen what the
quality of the work is, if what
“they” say is true.
The Largest Sweet Potato.
A sweet potato from the planta
tion home of “Uncle” David
Clements, living west of town, was
brought to the Enterprise office last
Wednesday that tipped the beam at
an even seven and a half pounds.
This is the largest, potato brought in
yet.—Fitzgerald Enterprise.
Willie and His Papa.-
Eastman Times : President Mc-
Kinley’s message deals with the
“trust question” very lightly.
Evidently he feels very shy when
he approaches this-qUestion.” Cer
tainly ; Willie knows his papa, and
like a dutiful boy, will give him lio
Sass.
Red Hot Poker Down Her Throat.
John Gibson, the Kentucky fiend
who killed his infant stepdaughter
by thrusting a red-hot poker down
her throat, has confessed. “I burn
ed the baby with the red-hot poker
in so many spots,” lie said, “be
cause I wanted her to look as though
she had died of smallpox.” Society
would be better off with such a fiend
removed from the earth ; yet the
Kentuckians refrained from lynch
ing him, and will let the law take
its course.
The Salt Combine.
Eastman Times: “The latest
combine is a salt (.rust, and it is said
that salt will jump from 95 cents to
$2.00 a hag. And right at hog
killing time too.” Nothing'wrong
about that. “Hog killing time” is
the opportune time, more salt is
needed, anil as the people endorsed
McKinley and trusts, they’ll pay
the freight. We have no liogsj
neither have you, and if tlife bosses
want $5.00 per bushel let’er hump.
The Old and the New.
The nineteenth century is draw
ing rapidly to a close. The century
will pass away with the year 1900.
The twentieth century will he
ushered in immediately after mid
night on January 31st, 1900 —in
other words, with the beginning of
1901. the people
are .beginning to plan some
watch parties to see the old year
and old century out and welcome
the new century in. They are also
planning a number of social enter
tainments and parties to make llie
coming holidays memorable.-Way
cross Journal.
A Strange Freak.
On Saturday last Mr. J. C.
Thompson ol Montgomery county
brought to the city a lien with four
legs. Three of the legs were well
developed hut the fourth one was
just a little bit shorter than the oili
er three. The freak legs were out
from the back and touched the
ground in the rear of the two legs
which grew in the right place.
Mr. Thompson had the lien on ex
hibition at the Emerald City Drug
Store for a short time Saturday.
He carried the hen back with him
to his Montgomery county liomc.T-
Dublin Courier Dispatch.
Wanted Netrroeson the Jury.
The case of the eight negroes
charged with murdering W. B,
Moore, a young white man, at
Pensacola, was set for trial next
Thursday. The counsel for the de
fense, three colored attorneys, made
and argued * motion to quash the
indictment of the grand jury on the
ground of discrimination, in that
no colored man was included in the
eligible jury list made by the Coun
ty Commissioners recently. Judge
Maxwell overruled the motion and
set the case for trial. A special j
venire of seventy-five jurors has j
been ordered.—Savannah News, j
Valdosta After State Fair.
Valdosta Times: It is geially
conceded that Valdosta can get the
next State Fair if she wants it, and :
it is equally true that Valdosta will 1
not get it if she does not show that |
she wants it. Such prizes do not
■ go begging, and a half a dozen citi-:
| zens of Savannah raised $5,000 in !
ten minutes the other day at a star
ter for the fund to be used in carry
ing the fair to that city. For that
amount of money Valdosta can get
the fair easily, and it would be a
calamity to this city if the money
were not raised. The canvassing
committee appointed by the Mayor
are on the streets again this after
noon and are receiving generous
responses. There is not much doubt
that the money needed will be rais
ed, but subscribers will have to in
-1 crease their subscriptions to do it.
The “Cap Fits and he Wears It.”
Whenever we assert that the
Breeze is the best paper in the land,
has a larger circulation than any or
all papers, combined, in Southern
Georgia, and this office does better,
cheaper, nicer, more attractive job
printing than any one else can,
could, or ever will on this terrestial
globe, please call us a liar, a deceiv
er, a gas-bag, blow-hard and swell
up and bust, for that’s what we
think of those who do such things
and will allow you to have same
opinion.—Douglas Breeze.
Anybody who had ever met Jim
my and heard him blow his bazoo
would naturally come to ting con
clusion. You don’t have to #ait
to hear a jackass bray before dis
covering that he is a jackass. His
ears.give him away. Therefore we
don’t have to wait until Jimmy
claims all the above till we arrive
at the proper conclusion.—Way
cross Journal.
Without any charge he makes
acknowledgement that he is guilty
of cha.ges in first article above,
and tries by dirty allusions and
smutty comparisons to divert the
mind of the reader, Skunks always
try to throw pursuers off the track,
but they never smother the scent.
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In Darkest Appling. £
Baxley Banner: “An incnfe.it
occurred here recently which seems
to indicate that some parts of this
county are as promising fields for
missionary work as any section of
darkest Africa or the most Boxer
infested region p( China.
Sparks’ circus was to give two
performances here on Saturday and
the entire country side.was coming
to see it. One family came and
brought a sick child und carried it
to a relative’s house und left the
little sufferer there while its parents
attended the afternoon perform
ance. Between the afternoon and
night performances the child diet!
and the neighbors dressed it for
burial while its father and mother
went to the show,.. Such an ex-
J6J | jj ( tiij,y l of Juyirtlessness it has nev
er before be’eniyiir lot to chronicle.
More Truth Than Poetry.
The Charleston News and Cour
ier says : “Senator Clay, of Geor
gia, it is announced, introduced in
the senate on Tuesday bills pro
viding for the admission free of
duty of articles controlled by trusts.
It is a good move and well design
ed for the suppression of the evil
concerns. As will be noted, how
ever, it is made by a democratic
Senator from a southern state. The
trusts have nothing to fear from it.
They are in the hands of their
friends for four years more.
Court Last Week In Dodge.
Superior court convsned here
Monday morning with Judge Smith
presiding. The cases set for hear
ing Monday were called and all
continued, after which court was
adjourned until Tuesday morning
when the grand jury recommended
that the court be adjourned until
the 3rd Monday in January. This
was done. No business was trans
acted except the granting of one or
two divorce decrees. The grand
jury adjourned Tuesday afternoon.
—Eastman Times-Journal.
Dooly Claims Best Farmer of the State.
Dooly county claims to have the
best fanner of the state. He made
this year with one mule, twenty
six hales of cotton, that brought
him SI,OOO. The seed from the
cotton are worth sl7l. He also
made 120 bushels of corn, 100 gal
lons of syrup, fifty bushels of sweet
potatoes, about 100 bushels of oats,
about 2,o<xi pounds of fodder, be
sides hog feed of different kinds to
fatten plenty of meat to run his
farm for the next twelve months/*—
Dawson Recorder.
No Danger, Thank You,
Albany Herald: “Mr. McKin
ley can’t have another term. Real
izing that fact, wouldn’t it just be
glorious if he should give the mar
ble heart to the Hanna crowd,
bring out his backbone from its
hiding place and begin to.J>e pres
ident in very truth,
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Rev. M. A. Thigpen and Geo.
R. Youmans, of Ware, have been
j appointed administrators on the
j estate of T. T. Thigpen, late of
that county deceased.
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