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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. VOL.JSf " \ Was Never More Plentiful in Waycross Than this Season, as the warm weather has held back the usual Fall Sales. J} / \ Desires to till, his into cash, and will sell " MEN AT $3.50 HP 10 SIB.M ♦■+ : " — —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. * • 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. _ - ; 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, 'i 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. N / 31