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LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1897.
HE MOCKED FATE
BUT DEATH CLAIMED HIM.
Believed That He Would Never Die, Yet
He is Dead.
HIS CREED WAS ETERNAL LIFE.
Was a Follower or I lie Strange
Religion of Shernianism.
Sleeping in death beneath the
sod of the <dd family burying
ground in Henry county is Mack
Dodson, who in life believed that
he would never die.
His faith was that he would
never see death, yet he is dead. ,
In a pretty house at No. 1 Glenn
street came the end to this man’s
remarkable career. Lying almost
unconscious in the throes of death,
•he argued that he would not die.
To the religion of a lifetime he
was true to the last.
Mack Dodson was a believer in
that strange creed called Sher
manism. The sum and substance
of this weired dogma is that a man
who has faith will never die; that
if he will live right he will some
day be caught, up in a chariot of
fire, just as was Elijah of old.
Shermanism is without doubt
the strangest religion in existence.
It has thousands of followers, but
none (if them with a faith like
Dodson’s. He was the most prom
inent of the hundreds of Sherman
ites who inhabit north Georgia.
For years he has been an aggress
ive believer in the religion of Shdr
man and there has been no more
powerful factor in spreading the
religion in Georgia than he.
He was prosperous and could
have dressed well, but his religion
was that a man must have but
one coat, so he never had but one.
He thought that a man should
wear his hair long like Jesus and
the apostles, and from the time
he adopted the eccentric belief he
wore his hair in long flowing lock*
that fell below his shoulders.
Last week while Dodson was vis
iting his brother-in-law at No.
1 Glenn street, the death which he
had scorned grew tired of the
mockery and took from him
that life he had sworn should al
ways be his. Just before he died
he was told by a brother of the
creed to get up and walk and he
would be well. The sick man’s
faith was stronger than ail else
and he rose up and dressed . In
a short while he was dead.
WAS A FAITHFUL FOLLOWER.
It was over ten years ago when
Dodson first embraced the faith
which he held to his death. In
Henry county he was one of the
most progressive citizens. About
1886 a preacher named Sherman
came to Henry county preaching
a strange, new religion. Dodson
went to hear the man tell of his
system of religion. He was struck
with the force of the stranger’s
utterances. After the|sermon was
finished he offered the preacher
some money.
“I never accept money or pay
for ministering,” said Sherman.
The preacher told Dodson that
he must go through forty days of
I fasting and prayer. For forty
days tho searcher for the truth
prayed and ate only what was
necessary to keep body and soul
together.
Sherman, with the influence of
Mr. Dodson, soon secu ed other
followers. In a few years he es
tablished in Henry county and
Clayton a large church of his fol
lowers.
MANY SHERMANITES NEAR HERE.
Yory few people in At lanta know
Sherman or know that his religiop
exists, yet iu a few miles of the
city there are hundreds of men
who believe they- will never die.
In north Alabama Sherman has a
following estimated at 10,000 men.
They may not be known as Sher
manites, for frequently the only
evidence of their belief is their
I quaint ways and long hair.
! The main basis for their belief
lis found in the eighth chapter of
John. This is the passage of
scripture which Dodson said was
his promise: John, viii, 51. “Ver
ily, verily I say unto you, if a man
keep My saying he shall never see
death.”
j Others were: “Verity, verily, I
say unto you, he that believeth on
Me hath evorlasting life.”
“Your fathers did eat of that
manna in the wilderness and are
dead,”
“This is that bread which som
eth down that a man may eat
thereof and not die.”
“I am the living bread which
came down from heaven; if any
man eat this bread he shall live
forever, and the bread that 1 will
give is my flesh, which I will give
lanta to visit relatives. He was
unwell when he came to the city
and every day of his stay he be
came worse. Last Monday he
was quite ill. His brethren of
the faith visited him and encour
aged him to cling to the creed of 1
eternal life.
Sherman, the man who had
changed the current of Dodson’s
life, came and sat by his bedside.
Rugged, bearded and with hair
streaming down his back, he looked
like some priest of a dark craft.
He lost one arm in battle and the
empty sleeve adds to the gro
tesqueness of his appearance.
“Have faith; take up thy bed
and walk,” he said to the sick
man.
Dodson rose up and dressed at
the bidding ot his chief. He w r as
hardly able to stand, yet his faith
upheld him. Dodson was so weak
alter dressing that he had to go
back to his bed, despite the ur
gent request of his priest to con
quer sickness by faith. The sick
man refused a doctor. Finally he
became so ill that he could not
forcibly object and Dr. Odell was
summoned. The physician diag
nosed the case and said that the
patient was suffering with ty
phoid fever. Dodson grew con
stantly worse. In a few days his
relatives saw that death was in
evitable. He contended that he
would not die. He still laughed
at death and said that he believed
too strongly in Jesus to think he
would die.
Just before Dodson’s death a
number of the Shermanites were
with him. After he died they
fled like frightened people flee
from one who has been stricken
by the plague.
“He sinned,” they cried.
THE BURIAL OF DODSON.
It was their religion that a man
would never die unless he sinned
aud they claimed that Dodson
had sinned. They would not go
near him after death, for they
sail they were afraid they would
catca the dread contagion of his
transgressions.
When he was carried to the
family burying ground in Henry
county not a single Shermainft?
followed the bier.
“Let the dead bury its dead,”
was the quotation of the Sherman
ites. They said that Dodson had
sinned and was in hell and they
did not want to go near him.
Now he is sleeping with his fa
thers. The faith of a life-time
was devoted and loyal, but it
didn’t save him from the inevi
table.—Atlanta Constitution.
HELD FOR RANSOM.
I'rof. I>. J. Holmes and Marry Tollerton
Believed to Have Been Captured by
Swiss Bandits.
Toledo, 0., Oct. 4 . —lt is be
lieved that Harry Tollerton, of
this city, aged twenty years, son
of Attorney B. W. Tollerton, and
Prof. Daniel J. Holmes, of Alle
gheny college at Meadville, Pa.,
who have been traveling in south
ern Europe since June, are held
by Swiss banditti for ransom.
They were lust heard from on
Sept. 8 at Martigny, Switzerland.
A few' days previous to that time
they received sufficient funds
through Geneva for the rest of
their trip to Berlin, where both
were to enter the university on
Sept. 22.
Mr. Tollerton received a cable
gram from Prof. Holmes dated
! Lucerne, requesting an immediate
j remittance ot SI,OOO by cable tp
I Cologne. He cabled to the United
States consul at Lucerne for in
formation and to Holmes for par
ticulars.
The reply from the consul was
indefinite and unsatisfactory and
that purporting to be from Prof.
Holmes was even more so.
A second request for SI,OOO, to
be cabled this time to Lucerne,
was received Sept. 23.
To-day a message was received
from Assistant Secretary Day at
Washington saying that the min
ister at Berne and the consul at
Horge had been cabled to make a
searching investigation.
PROF. HOLMES INTENDED TO SPEND
THE WINTER NEAR ROME.
Meadville, Pa., Oct. 5. —Prof.
Daniel J. Holmes entered Alle
gheny college as teacher of Latin
in September, 1896. He expected
to spend the winter in the vicinity
of Rome. He is twenty-five years
old and a son of the Rev. Dr.
Daniel J. Holmes, of Evanston,
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A Big Hotel.
In a few days tjie biggeO^
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Henry Sage and Commodore
Vanderbilt.
The determination and will pow
er which brought success to Henry
W . Sage, who died rtcently at Ith
aca, and which marked his rise
from the canal tow-path to the
status of a millionaire, had prob
ably no better illustration than in
Mr. Sage’s first meeting with
Commodore Vanderbilt, says the
New York Sun. Mr. Sage was than
in the wholesale and retail lumber
business in this city. He had
matte enormous purchases of lum
ber at thi beginning of the civil
war, and in the rise of prices had
become rich. He was a man of
high influence in Brooklyn church
affairs and in New York business
circles The wagons of his lumber
firm were seen all over town. His
shipments of lumber by river and
sea were large. He worked early
and late at his business, and at the
beginning of middle age had the
right to be known as a representa
tive citizen.
When the contract was given
out to put up the grand stand and
other buildings and fences at Fleet
wood Park, above the Harlem, Mr.
Sage’s bid for supplying the need
ed lumber was lowest. He put the
lumber on several schooners and
had them towed up the Harlem
river. For some reason Commo
dore Vanderbilt refused to allow
the draw of the New York Cen
tral’s bridge to be opened to allow
the lumber to pass. Mr. Sago
stormed about the matter and then
sent his son William, who was just
out of college, up to Mr. Vander
bilt’s office, on the site of the
present Madison Square Garden,
to learn when the draw would be
opened. There was a penalty for
delay in the delivery of the lum
ber. The younger Sage came back
and reported that Commodore
Vanderbilt wouldn’t see him.
“Wouldn’t see you, eh?” said
Mr. Sage. “We’ll see about that.”
Then he ordered his son and a
clerk to jump into his .'dagon with
him, and away they dashed to the
New York Central railroad office.
They went up stairs to the com
modore’s office in a rush. A ne
gro attendant stood at the gate.
Vanderbilt in?” thun
dered Mr. by this time fair
ly iu a rage.
“Yes, sir Vhat is your nanje
and what do j’Vt want to see iiiny
about?” ii
“Never mind who I am aitfl what
I want to see him about,” aaidMr.
Sage. He then said “come ou” to
his young men with him, pushed
the negro aeid- and strode into
Commodore Vanderbilt’s presence.
“Is this Commodore Vander
bilt?” said Mr. Sage.
“That’s what they call me,"
said the commodore, looking up
sharply in response to the angry
tones of his caller.
“Well, my name’s Sage, Henry
W. Sage, and I want to know when
you’re going to open that Harlem
river draw and let my lumber for
Fleetwood Park go through?”
“So you’re Mr. Sage, are you?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Well, Mr. Sage, we’re going to
open that draw w’hen we get damn
ed good and ready.”
“You are, are you? Well, you
are going to open that draw' be
fore you get damned good and
ready, and in three hours, or I’ll
open it for you. “Come on,” he
added, to his young men, and all
swept out of the place. Mr. Sage
jumped into his buggy and did all
the talking that was done on the
way to his office. It is said that
he kept muttering something
about “if it costs me SIOO,OOO.
Commodore Vanderbilt, eh?
damned good and ready ? I’ll
show him.”
Straightway Mr. Sage went to
the owner of the stoutest tug he
could find that could go up the
Harlem river,
“I’ll pay all the you
do as I say,” he said to the cap
tain.
Mr. Sago was on the tug with
his young men. They went up
the Harlem past the schooners
with the Fleetwood Park cargo
and approached the draw. They
looked the draw over, and Mr.
Sage picked out its weakest spot.
“Now back off,” he said, “and
hit that draw at full speed right
in that place.”
The tug went back some dis
tance and came up the river with
a rush. It hit the draw in the
spot indicated and half wrecked it.
“Back off and give it another,”
cried Mr. Sage.
On came the tug at the draw
again like a snorting bull. At the
second crash the draw was torn
completely from the bridge and
tossed to one side^c^^^gjiggj
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CONFEDERATE VETERANS!
General C. A. Evans Sends Out a Communi
cation to the CampM.
General C. A. Rvans, commander
of the forces of Georgia, has issued
his first order in reference to the
confederate veterans’ reunion,
which will go to Atlanta next year.
Attention is called to the fact
that it will be necessary for the
camps to organize and that the
survivors must get their organiza
tions in shape.
The order was sent out Friday
last and will be important informa
tion for all confederates in the
state. Following is the full order:
Headquarters Georgia Division Uni
ted Confederate Veterans, Atlanta,
Ga., Oct. 1, 1897.—T0 Confederate Vet
erans of Georgia: The annual con
vention of ex-confederate soldiers and
sailors to be held in Georgia, at At
lanta, 1898, will be made the most in
teresting and enthusiastic re-union
that has yet been held. Assurance is
given that every effort will be put forth
in Atlanta to make the occasion worthy
of the brave men who served in the
southern army and navy. The in
formation from all parts of the state
shows a general gratification that
Georgia will have this opportunity of
honoring tlie heroic veterans who re
sponded to the call of their states and
illustrated the valor of southern men
on numerous hard fought battlefields.
The first preparations for the event
having been energetically made since
the close of the re-union at Nashville,
it is the desire of the commanding
general of the Georgia division that
all camps within the state should at
once begin to make arrangements to
attend in full force.
1. Commanders will therefore call
their camps together not later than
the first Tuesday in next November to
adopt such measures as will secure the
attendance of the whole body. Any
information that may be desired will
be furnished on application by mail
to these headquarters.
2. Confederate soldiers in every
town and county where no camp has
been formed arertfcrged to meet at once
and organized The necessary- papers
will be furnished from these headquar
ters on application. There are now
nearly ninety camps in the state, but
it is desired that the number be in
creased to 160 camps, or at least one in
every county. In the great parade
there should be 5,000 Georgia veterans
in line.
3. Sons of confederate soldiers are
notified that they will be telied on as
the strong arm of the reunion. Their
reverent regard for the memorable vir
tues of their fathers and mothers,
amidst the trials of war, is observed
with pride, and it is due to them that
they now share fully in an occasion,
which win. ,-J
- patriotic memories.
Arrangements will be made for their
assembling for business, and a place
will be assigned them in line.
4. Daughters of the Confederacy,
whose mothers were first to pay the
honors of war annually at the graves
of the dead, as they were foremost in
cheering the soldier in the times of
battle, are respectfully solicited to
form chapters, and to grant their en
thusiastic aid in making the reunion
pre-eminently representative of the
south as it was and as it is.
3. The newspapers of the state have
so generously assisted at all times in
giving publioity to all confederate no
tices, as to encourage us to request
-that this circular be published by
every paper in the state.
Clement A. Evans,
Major General Commanding.
J. Colton Lynes,
Colonel and Secretary-in-Chief, Atlan
ta, Ga.
STONE MT. vs. DECATUR.
DeKalb County Seat Stirs Up
Strife.—Serious Charges Are
Alleged.
The fight for the county seat of
DeKalb is getting hotter each day.
Both sides are looking upon the
other with suspicion and watch
ing closely.
Both sides claim to be far in
the lead of the other and greater
endeavors than before will be put
forth until the legislature meets.
The citation saying that the peo
ple of Stone Mountain ask that
the court house be moved to their
town has been posted and the bill
will be introduced into the house
of representatives almost as soon
as it is called to order.
The petitions of the people of
Decatur are circulating very rap
idly, and it is claimed that they
now have over half of the regis
tered voters of the county on them.
Much strife and some hard feeling
has grown out of this feature of
the fight and charges and counter
charges have been made on either
side.
The most serious charge is be
ing made by the people of Stone
Mountain, which is to the effect
that the Decatur people are pay
ing for signatures to the petitions.
denied by those
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GEORGIA.
News of tlie Empire State of the
South Epitomized.
There are cherry and pear blos
som* in Perry.
Senator Bacon has dona- j
ted a tract of land in North Ma- /
con for a city park. / »
Statesboro is now a third-class
post office with a salary attach
ment of SI,OOO.
Fulton’s county commissioners
will enforce the corporation tax
against local corporations.
Elbert county/‘has decided to
organize a and work
her convicts on her county roads.
Macon’s city council refused to
pass an ordinance requiring the
street car companies to charge 3
cents frre.
Dr. E. F. Degraffenreid, of
uinbus, has gone to " Edwards,
Miss., where he goes to attend (lie
yellow fever patients.
The Rome cotton factory has so
many orders ahead that they are
compelled to run several hours
overtime every d'tj*.
Lexington Echo: Apple wag c ,\l
ons will soon begin to arrive.’
They will be numerous this win— • v ,
ter, as the crop in north Georgia - -
is said to be immense.
R. H. Northcutt has bought
half interest in the Marietta knit
ting factory . Mrs. J . H. Barnes
owns the other half. The factory
is doing well and has orders ahead.
One of the white girls who as
sorts rags at the Marietta mill,
fouud a ten dollar bill the other
day. Since then there has beentf|
an increased activity among '
girls in assorting rags.
Mrs. S. A.. Green-, a.
man, has been twice convicted ort
running a blind -tiger in Gaines- I
ville. On the second offense the |
mayor fined her S2O, but agreed to j
remit it if she would leave the
county, and she left.
A young man burglarized an At- ,
lanta barroom recently and fell a i
victim to the seductive
roents of the wares exposed.
fact he got so drunk on stolen !£■
I---;-.. £
The way he got in, aud wus
tured next morning by the pl^B
The Cobb county fair will opH
Tuesday, Oct. 12, and last
flays. Everything is m good dkM
a ni arrangements perfected
successful fair. The farmer|Sre'M
gettiug up exhibits to oompetafo* 1
prizes offered by the association,
and every line of industry of tfce
field, garden orchard and house
hold, will be represented.
Mrs. Olie Hamby, of
ty, is a remarkable woman . Shr
is the twenty sixth child boride
her parents, and although J
Cook’s junior by two years, is hm
great aunt. Mrs. Hamby had
sever brothers who were Baptist
preachers aud 6ix nephews en
gaged in the same calling. Her
descendants now numbor seventy
seven. She has accumulated a
considerable fortune. Judge Cook
paid her a visit not long since, it
being the first time they had met
in three-score years.
The Chattahoochee is lower
than ever before and business at
Columbus iB paralyzed. An old
river man, in discussing the mat
ter, attributed much of the lack
of water in the river to the fact
that Atlanta was using such im
mense quantities of water out of
the Chattahoochee and none of
it comes back into the river, as
the waste water aud sewage of
that river goes in the Flint river.
Fears are entertained of the river
going permanently dry from the
accumulation of sand beds in the
channel.
Canal From the Lakes to the Sea.
Albany, N. Y., -T— I'lio"* 1
Deep Waterways Cbmmission ap
pointed by President McKinley to
report on a canal route connecting
the upper lakes with the seaboard
has practically selected a route,
according to a statement made by
Chief Engineer Harrison, of the
commission, starting from North
Touawanda and extending to Lake
Ontario, the outlet to be near
Wilson, beginning again at Oswe
go, thence to Lake Oneida, and
from there to the Mohawk River,
which is a direct connection by
way of the Hudson with the At
lantic ocean.
This route is almost identical
with what, has been known as the
“Oswego Route,” which was se
lected inGB9S by Engineer A}ber^_
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