The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-08-02
FALSE GEORGIA DEITIEs.
HUMAN LIFE SACRIFICED At DEMAND {
IMpOsTERs AND FANATICs


A recent dispatch from Savannah,
Ga. makes the following remarkable
statement A lamentable state of affairs
exists in Liberty County, forty miles
below this city. For q number of
weeks past a white man known as Du
pont Bell has proclaimed himself as
the Messiah. His pretentions were
readily accepted by the colored people,
hundreds of whom deserted their little
growing crops or left the plantations
and turpentine farms where they were
employed to flock to the standard of
the new Messiah, who announced that
on August l6 they should ascend into
Heaven.
Planters suffered Considerably from
the lack of labor, and as a last resort
Bell was sent 70 Milledgeville Insane
Asylum. The effect of his rawlings still
continues. A successor has appeared
in Edward James, colored man, who
claims that Bells spirit has passed into
him. He breaches free love and ap-
pears before his followers as scantily
attired as was Adam in the Garden OF
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Lss davelone5 the mania and i nos;n
as the Holy Ghost. 1--WE are three ir
one ne announced at the meeting
to crowd OF several hundred
and then explained that Bell was the
Deity, who has gone back to Heaven
TO make arrangements tor their recep
ton. james Is the Son and he is thu
spirit. Ioney ana James require
their folio Vers to prostrate themselves
before them. None are allowed tp
speak to them unless ON their knees.
At the meeting on Sunday after
noon the wife OF Charles Baker was
badly injured. James pointed to her
and exclaimed "She has devils in
her; pound them out" A dozen mer
seized the woman, threw her on
. rough table and beat her with clubs
Her Jaws were broken and her body
badly bruised. On Monday james
n said he saw devils moving in Eugena
d Richards. The declples set upoI
Richards and beat him into insensibil
q ity. He received serious internal in
juries and will probably die.
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