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Large Crowd of Cordeleans
Go to the Campgrounds.
About 4,000 People in
Attendance.
q j, Shipp, Our Talented Corres
pondent, Tells the Readers of The
Sentinel of the Good Time Had
and the Good Edibles, Etc.
Early Sunday morning a crowd
of Cordele’s pious citizens, some
in hacks, others by the railroad
route, found themselves making
for the famous Dooly Campground,
which is located three miles west
of Vienna. We all arrived safe
and sound, without any embarrass
ment except that a couple of gentle
men lost their way in one of D. B.
Leonard’s pine orchards, but suc
ceeded in finding it again after
goiug a circuit of five or six miles
through an almost trackless forest.
This is one of the most beauti
ful campgrounds that it has ever
been my pleasure to see. It con
tains about ten acres of land, en
closed by a good, strong fence,
sufficient to keep the neighboring
cattle from grazing on the grounds
and committing other depreda
tions on the premises. Within
this enclosure is one of the finest
springs of water that I have seen
anywhere in Dooly county. The
oldest inhabitants says it has
never been known to go dry.
The day was a great one. I have
never seen a more bountiful sup
ply of edibles or a more hospi
table people. It was your scribe’s
good luck .to fall in at the dinner
hour with an old friend, Will Lig
gin, Mr. Toombs Morgan and
lady; more hospitable hosts are
not to be found anywhere. We
beg them to accept our thanks for
courtesies extended.
A large crowd was in attend
ance. I heard some one estimate
it at 4,000. I think that possibly
this estimate was not overdrawn.
It seemed that everybody within
eight or ten miles was present—a
number of people from Macon
and Pulaski counties were also to
be seen. Everybody enjoyed them
selves. The preaching was of the
old-fashioned campmeeting va
riety—soul-stirring and zealous.
r i he good behaviour of the
congre
gation was exceptional; an old
citizen, remarking on this sub
ject, drew a contrast between this
and former meetings, he said that
the campground had been in exist
ence twenty-seven years, and that
during the first three or four meet-
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ings there was such disorderly
conduct on the part of some peo
ple as to require the intervention
of the courts, and that on one oc
casion about a dozen true bills
were found against disturbers of
worship. But this was not a
proper criterion for judging these
people, even at this time, ns this
is one of the oldest and most re
fined neighborhoods in the state,
but was attributable, perhaps, to
the demoralizing influences of the
civil war.
This being an off year, there
was very little politics talked,
though I heard several prominent
men say, that if Tom Hill should
run for attorney-general that
South Georgia should give him a
solid front, he being the only
South Georgia man in the race for
any state house office. Pope
Brown can almost be claimed as a
South Georgia man, he living just
in the lower edge of Middle Geor
gia, while Terry and Guerry both
live in Middle Georgia.
Jim duPree, of Oglethorpe, was
there, courteous and congenial;
Jim says he is out of politics, but
many of his friends think lie will
be the logical candidate for con
gress should Mr. Lewis retire.
Colonel George busbee, J. M.
Busbee, D. B. Leonard, D. A. R.
Crum, Frank Lewis, Tom Owens*,
Drs. Mobley, father and son, Doc.
Fullington, and a number of other
prominent citizens were on hand.
We had a glorious time. Long
may Dooly county campground
wave.
Moonliffht Picnic
Quite a number of our young peo
ple went out to the bridge at the
creek near this city last Monday
evening and spent the evening as
only picnickers can. Music, lunch
and games were indulged in, to the
delight of all.
Pub,ic Sale Day.
Next Tuesday is public sale day,
and > as wi U be seen from lhe columns
of The Sentinel, there is quite a
lar g e amount of property advertised
for sale, Tiie Sentinel is the only
P a P er ln Dool y county publishing
everything that is for sale next Tues
da y, and > consequently, anyone in
terested should read the advertise
ments 38 they a PP ear in The Sen
TINKL -
Keep Up the Lick.
Hon. J. H. Dorough, one of
the most prominent citizens of
Dooly county, was in this city
Tuesday and gave The Sentinel
a call. Mr. Dorough voluntarily
took occasion to commend The
Sentinel for its work in behalf of
better roads, said The Sentinel
was on the right line, and he
trusted we would “keep up the
lick” until something is accom
plished that Avill prove better than
the present system of road work
ing.
Never be afraid of what is good ,
the good is always the road to what
is true.
CORDELE, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1901.
A WONDERFUL LETTER.
Said to have Been Written by
Jesus Christ.
Copy of a letter written by our
Saviour, Jesus Christ, found eigh
teen miles from Iconium, forty
five years after our blessed Sa
viour’s crucifixion, and transmit
ted from the Holy City by a con
verted .Jew, faithfully translated
from its original Hebrew copy,
now in the possession of the Lady
Cuba’s family, in Mesopotamia.
This letter was written by Jesus
Christ, and found under a great
stone, both round and large, at
the foot of the Cross, eighteen
miles from Iconium, near a vil
lage called Mesopotamia; upon
the stone was written, or engraved,
“Blessed is he that turneth me
over!” People that saw it prayed
to God earnestly, and desired He
would make known the meaning
of this writing, that they might
not attempt in vain to turn it
over; in the meantime, a little
child turned it over without any
help, to the shame of all that
stood by:
the letter.
Whosoever worketh on the Sab
bath day shall be cursed. I com
mand you to go to church, and
keep the Lord’s day holy, without
doing any manner of work.
You shall not idly spend your
time in bedecking yourself with
any superfluities of costly ap
parel and vain dresses, for I have
ordained a day of rest. I shall
have that day kept holy, that your
sins may be forgiven you. You
shall not break my Command
ments, but observe and keep them,
written by my own hand, and
Bjwken w,th my own mouth. \o ;i ,
shall not only go to church your
self, but also your Men servants
and Maid servants, and observe
my words and learn my Command
ments, You shall finish your la
bor every Saturday in the after
noon by six o’clock, at which
hour the preparations for the Sab
bath begin. I advise .you to fast
five Fridays in every year, begin
ning with Good Friday, and to
continue the four Fridays imme
diately following, in remembrance
of the five bloody wounds I re
ceded for all mankind. You
shall diligently and peaceably la
bor in your respective callings,
wherein it hath pleased God to
call you. You shall love one an
other Avith brotherly love, and
cause them that are baptized to
come to church, and receh r e the
Sacraments, Baptism, and the
Lord’s Supper, and in so doing I
will give you a long life, and many
blessings; your lands shall flour
ish, and your cattle shall bring
forth in great abundance; and I
Avill give you many blessings and
comforts in the greatest tempta
tions; and he that doth to the
contrary, shall be unprofitable. I
will also send a hardness of heart
upon them till I see them, but
especially upon impenitent un
believers. He that giveth to the
poor shall not be unprofitable.
Remember to keep holy the
Sabbath clay, for the seventh day
I have taken to rest myself; and
he that hath a copy of this letter.
Avritten Avith my OAvn hand, and
spoken Avith my OAvn mouth, and
keepeth it without publishing it
to others, shall not prosper; but
he that publishes it to others shall
be blessed of me; and though his
sins be in number as the stars in
the sky, and he that believes in
this, will be pardoned, and if he
believes not this writing and com
mandment, I will send many
plagues upon him, and consume
both him and his children, and
his cattle.
And whosoever shall have a
copy of this letter, written with
my own hand, and keep it in their
houses, nothing shall hurt them;
neither nor thunder
shall do them any hurt. And
a woman be with child and in
bor, and a copy of this letter
mg about her, and she firmly
her trust in me, she shall be safely
delivered of her birth.
You shall have no news of me,
but by the Holy Scriptures, until
the day of Judgment.
*** All goodness and prosperity
shall be on the house where a copy
of this, my Letter, shall be found.
Zion Hill Dots.
Editors Sentinel : Mr. O. B.
Perry, who has come to bo a great
writer of late, and who is display
ing great wisdom (?) on the public
road question, wants to know,
through the oolumns of the Vienna
News, where Zion Hill is.
Zion Hill. Mr. Perry, is in four
miles of the centre of Dooly
oounty, and there are forty fami
lies within two miles of the place,
and I wish to say, Mr. Perry, that
I am really surprised that a man
;of your years in Dooly, your ex
perience as a public roads writer,
that you do not know where Zion
Hill is. Your ignorance in this
matter is only equalled by your
absurd idea that thq present sys
tem of road working is “good
enough” for the ‘Country boys.”
Your correspondent, Mr. Edi
tor, made an error in saying that
Vienna took from Cordele the
rural free delivery route through
our section. There were really
not enough people on the Vienna
route, and tbe roads are out of
shape and not good enough on the
Cordele route. So we are to miss
the free delivery altogether. I am
also informed that the failure to
M8aIe „ frM n , ral mail deli
( . rt . o8 ^ ^ js known as
the ,. Pnteville route „ u on a0 .
count of the bad condition of the
public roads. Your correspondent
wants to know of that gentleman
who signs, “O. B. Perry,” if he
can reconcile the failure to get
these mail routes on account of
bad roads, with his idea that the
present system of road working is
good enough ?
We have just closed a meeting
of seven days, at which interest
increased daily until the close.
One joined. Brother J. A. Bur
nett aided Brother R. A. Smith in
the meeting.
Mr. James Connel has moved
back to Dooly from Colquitt
and is now living in sight
the same house he left. Mr.
Murray has also come back to
from Colquitt, to live.
If anybody wishes to buy a nice
Rev. R. A. Smith has one,
which lies in the northwest corner
the Eleventh district of Dooly
Our people are glad to see The
Sentinel pushing the public road
Keep it up, Mr. Editor,
until we get better roads, and,
a free mail route.
Mrs. J. A. Altman is quite ill,
and has been for some days. We
trust she will soon be better.
Death at IMclnvood.
Mrs. Sam Walls, Jr., of Rich
Avood, died at her home in that
place last Tuesday, at noon hour.
Her death was unexpected and
came as a great shock to her devoted
relatives and friends.
She was a noble-hearted Christian
lady and held the esteem, love and
respect of all who knew her.
She was, up to her death, a con
sistent and active member of the
Mount Pleasant Baptist church.
She was the daughter of D. W.
Wilder, of this county.
Her remains were interred at the
family burying ground at Mount
Pleasant on Wednesday morning.
May the Comforter abide with the
bereaved ones in their affliction.
The average bog isn’t an expert
mathematician, but when it comes to
examples in square root, he’s
m ,t.
Np Kill
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l>oh A’ iIson Meets Death at
Hand of Frank Ledbetter.
Justifiable 11011110106—BOM , Ol
$500 Fixed and Given,
Calvin Ledbetter Is, on Agreement
of Counsel, Released From Jail—
FrRnk Ledbetter Voluntarily
Gives Bond—At Home.
Bob Wilson, of Lumpkin, who,
on last Thursday night, got into
a row with Calvin Ledbetter, and
was killed by Frank Ledbetter,
was about as mean negro as lived
in Stewart county, at least that is
what the white people all said, and
many colored people acknowledged
it true. He was a white man
hater, he would not buy from a
white man’s store, and urged other
blacks not to patronize the whites.
He had used his knife effectively
on previous occasions, he had
faced pistol balls before, and it
was predicted that some day he
would take the pistol ball route to
the next world.
Frank and Calvin, who live at
Cordele, were in Lumpkin, putting
in a telephone system. They had
about completed the system, and,
dispatches from Luanj^iq .
they Avere drinking, probably
brating the completion of their
Avork of supplying the good, quiet
people of Lumpkin Avith an excel
lent ’phone system.
The unfortunate tragedy oc
curred'on the sideAvalk, betAveen
the storehouses of G. W. Pugh
and A. L. Raleigh, the difficulty
beginning under the shed in front
of Pugh’s store. Calvin was in a
store, and came out, and in some
Avay he brushed against “Old Bob,”
who became insulted. His impu
quickly brought on a feiv
Avords, and “Old Bob” drew his
and undertook to stab Cal
but the latter was too quick.
grabbed the uplifted arm of
negro, held it, and called for
who was just inside the
Frank came out hurriedly,
.just as the negro had about
his arm from the grasp
Calvin and turned his atten
to Frank, Frank fired five
in rapid succession.
After the smoke had cleared
Calvin Ledbetter was found
have a pistol-shot wound in the
fleshy part of the left hand, oppo
site the thumb. In the right hand
of Bob Wilson Avas seen an open
pocket knife, He was then speech
less and unconscious, but lived
until about 9 o’clock next morn
ing. Upon examination there
were four or five bullet holes
found upon his body; either one
of tire tAVO Avounds Avould probably
have been fatal.
At the committal trial of the
Ledbetters Monday morning the
courthouse Avas Avell filled Avith
people. Solicitor-general F. A.
Hooper represented the state, and
of Colonels
Hickey and Harold – Son the de
fendants. After going into the
case to some extent it was agreed
among the lawyers to release Cal
vin altogether and to put Frank
under a $600 bond for involuntary
manslaughter, which bond was
quickly given by the people of
Lumpkin, and the Messrs. Led
better came home on Monday’s
train. It is thought that Frank
will hardly be indicted for the
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gave bond, in order that the grand
jury might say if he shall be in
dicted. Messrs. Frank and Cal
vin Ledbetter are loud in their
praises of the kind treatment and
consideration they received at the
hands of the good people of Lump
kin.
CORDELE STIR HELD UP.
Cordele was very much stirred
up over the killing above described,
and besides the two or three
friends who accompanied Mr. ]>.
H. Ledbetter, the. father of Frank
and Calvin, to Lumpkin, efforts
were made to get the Seaboard
Air Line railroad to run a special
to Lumpkin, in order to accom
modate .some forty odd citizens
who wished to attend the trial, and
although almost every kind of in
ducement was offered the road for
the special, yet all efforts to se
cure the train availed nothing.
PATEVILLE ROUTE FAILS.
On Account Bad Roads the People
Deprived of Mail Service.
Thore will be no rural free de
livery mail route down towards
Pateville, at least not for a while
yet. There has been a good deal
of work done in order to get this
route established, but the work
has all been in vain, and our cor
respondent from Zion Hill gives
the reason for the failure—the
roads are too bad.
A petition was gotten up to se
cure this route, and the necessary
number of names were attached
to same. The postal inspector
came and went over the route, and
all was good except the roads, but,
because the roads were bad, the
establishment of the route fell
through. Thus the people hav^
been depriVed* of a rural free de
livery mail route down towards
Pateville, because Uncle Sam de
mands good roads, and this section
of Dooly hasn’t got them.
New Hope Happenings.
Messrs. Editors: Never having
seen anything from these parts in
The Sentinel, we thought to send
a feAv dots concerning this people
and vicinity.
New Hope is a Missionary Bap
tist church, situated in a remote
part of the grand old “State of
Dooly,” Seville, on the S. A. L.,
being the nearest railroad point.
Providence has smiled on these
people, and they are classed with
the prosperous.
To show their appreciation of
God’s good gifts, they have built
a nice house in a beautiful oak
grove, and dedicated it to Him.
At this place there has just
closed a meeting which, Ave feel
satisfied, has resulted in much
good. Rev. J. W. Powell, an evan
gelist, who is stopping at Rochelle,
was Avith us from Sunday until
Wednesday. Brother Powell is
an able divine, and the people
seem more thoroughly aroused to
a sense of spiritual duty than ever
before. There were four addi
tions to the church.
Mrs, M. M. Johnson is teaching
the public term of school here,
we having failed to get a teacher
in the spring. Much interest is
manifested and by hearty co-opera
tion of patrons Avith the teacher,
the school will lie a success.
Crops in this section are in
good condition and promise a rich
han r est, especially corn.
Mr. and Mrs. Dowdy Avent to
Cordele shopping yesterday.
Commissioner E. G, Greene vis
ited the school Monday and con
tracted with the teacher.
Miss Virgie Lee Johnson has re
turned home from a visit to
Vienna.
There is much comment on the
new railroad that is coming thro’
here. Observer.
Mean time is the kind the average*
bargain counter clock keeps,