The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-03-28
7HF TROUBLES OF A STREET PREACHER
1oe;ah Norris Who Preached Death Damnation and
Destruction in Dawson Gets In Jail as Nui-
sance in Thomasv1e

Isaiah Morris, a travelling negro
oroacher, who spent some time in
lawson recently, and is remembered
&c a long winded street talker who
,rodicted all manner of terrible things,
i nm against it" down in Thomas
Vile. as is told by the TimesEnter
prise as follows:
"The negro preacher, Isaiah Morris,
who has been shouting from the street
corners for the past two weeks, has
bpen Jailed by the city officers on the
charge of being a nuisance. The man
came here some time ago from Albany,
ard since he hit town has attracted
considerable attention. Nobody paid
very close heed to what he said, but
some of those who did say that he
preached seditious doctrine, and gave
some evidence of being half cracked
in the head.
"The gospel of sweetness and light
had little part in his theology. He
preached death, damnatlOn and de-
struction in the thirty third degree.
He said that he had warned the whites
and negroes, too, up in Tennessee last
year that unless they ceased their evil
WAYS there would be short crops, and
he called to witness that there were
short crops. The Tennesseans who
had blamed the boil weevil and bad
weather will know better when they see
this article He also claimed to have
predicted the cyclone that struck AL
bany few months back. Albany is
wet town, and regarded by its neigh
bors as having a slight penchant for
wlckedness, but many will be sur
prised to learn that it deserves So
dom-like punishment. He also made
his remarks local and told the Thorn
asville folks that pillar of fire might
decend and sweep them from earth I'M
unless they hiked back to the path of
righteousness.
In addition to these evidences of
being crippled under the hat, the ne
gro worried the life out of the tele-
phone girls by asking them if there
was long distance call for him. AT
ter his twelfth visit Manager Natf
asked him from whom he expected a
long distance message. From above,
he replied, in solemn tones. This re-
yersal of the Hello, Central, give me
Heaven song staggered the manager,
but he told the anxious inquirer that
he lines did not reach that far.
The negro did not seem faxed by
MS incarceration IN the local bastile.
In TACT, he has never seemed to care
whether he had any audience or not.
lie preached steadily on all the even
ing, chiefly on the text that they have
no right to lock me up.
Inc particular accusation against
AorrlS was that he would not stop
Jus breathing WlGu JOLO
" 40 SO by the officers. No objection
was made to him so long as he stayed
Oh the fringes of business and did not
5?y right in front of a mans door. He
oihsIegarded this Injunction, and even
alver being reminded several times to
1--we 1--we 10 more open quarters he neg
tvCleu 10 do so. When asked why
u ms was so obstinate he replied: L
was was Just at the conclusion of my SER
poa; with lot of people around me
N.Y. nejoGlclng, and knew the officers did
1Uv nave ,e any right to bother me; and
ill., iiSn olan exactly hear them, just
do1,.% soldier in battle sometimes
0U a,f near what you say to him.
ono "lorriS has an endless flow of Ian
f 1u"se, =. MS words rolling off his
n rynfug IKE water off dam. He will
3o CVoaoly be released when he cools