THE RESULTS OF A CAMP MEETING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1068, 8 February 1883, Page 3

THE RESULTS OF A CAMP MEETING.

Some time ago a little American tow aship decided to hold a mammoth negro cimp meeting, advertising that ‘more amusement would be furnished than at any camp meeting ever held in Gorgia.’ This naturally brought up thousands of negroes in anticipation of unlimited fun and whisky, The meeting became excited, a qnanel arose, and a negro was shot dead by a white. A dramatic incident followed. A near relative of the dead man—a drunken negress—fell across the dead body, and exposed his death wound to the crowd, ‘as Mirk Aniony the body of Caesar ’ Plunging her hand into the wound, she rose erect, with the blood dripping from her fingers, and called for vengeance. A general fight commenced, and a white was shot. After some shooting, order was restored, and a number of people were arrested, five of whom were sentenced to death. A curious defence was made on their beha f To sell bad whiskey is criminal. The whiskey in this case was bad Therefore, the men who sold the whiskey were the murderers. They ought to suffer. One witness, indeed, declared that *he didn t blame any one for committing murder after he drank it’ In spite of this, however, four men and one woman were hanged together—for the first time in the history of Georgia.