Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-09

Anna from under the bed. only TO find her
clothing burnt of and her flesh burnt to a
crisp. She lived about one hour and died in
great agony"
The boys Of Barnesville have organized a
social club, the principal feature Of which is a
pledge 10 abstain from all whisky, tobacco
and profanity. 1t now has TWENTY-FIVE mem
Ders, whose names are q. ID. DOmineck James
W lIIams, James {. Hunt, Robt Swatts A. A
Murphey, Walter smith, James Lambdin
John MiddlebrOOk. Walter Rogers. Bennie =
reeves, W. '. Whlpple, Leigh White, Walter
W His, Ads Rose. Ben LYON. Curran Rogers.
Henry BlOodwOrth, Frank stafford, Edgar
Cook, Milton Tschudy, Cliff Elder, Dan Black
II Is a good beginning, and worthy Of sup
port. F
The gin house Of Mr.. William L. Grant. To-
Gated at White Plains. Greene county. to-
gether with his cotton press and ali the ma
chlnery attached to the house, was consumed
by lire on Thursday last between three and
hve p. m. At the time Of the fire Mr.. Grant
was about finishing lot of cotton ne had been
ginning, and was pidking up locks Of cotton on
the noOr to put in the gin. The first he no.
tlced OF the fire was pun of smoke from the
INT room. By the time he rushed 10 the door
OF the loom the fire had made such progress
that he could not enter. In a short while the
building was in ashes. Estimated loss s.. 900.
Columbus EnQHirer-Sun: "a most horrible
case OF lnianticide was brought to the notice
OF the police yesterday. Phemy Grant
negro woman living on the premises of Mr..
james RenlrOe, gave birth TO a child Tuesday
evening, and- being alone, she threw it into
the nre. Georgia Reid. negro woman. who
called 10 see Phemy while the child was burn
ing, detected the crime. She reported the
matter 70 Alderman James b. Allen. who
notined Lieutenant Pickett yesterday. Last
nlght MI Fickett went to the WOman's room
and found her in bed and too i'll to be taken to
prison. She stated that her brother. Evans
Grant, was the father of the child"
II viii be seen by the following which we
clip from the Dawson Monitor. that that cOun-
y Is coming to the front in the DEVELOPMENT
OF her mineral wealth: I've were shown the
result Of panning from the Dawson county
Prospecting Company, in charge of Mr. o. &
Seupin, last Thursday, which is surprising TO
the mining world. The specimens taken out
yielded from two to three dwt. to the pan and
were taken from the centre Of the PalmOur or
johnson vein, belonging to the upper Calhoun
belt, between the Baby and AmicalOla mines.
The property proves to be very valuable and
will be put on the market as soon as the neces-
sary developments are completed"
The following are among the announcements
OF the location of Methodist preachers made
by the North Georgia Conference, at its recent
session at LaGrange: Presiding Elder of At
Ianta district, }. B0rdmg; Trinity Church, T.
X. Kendall; First Church. G. A. Evans; Evans
4. +. Pierce; Paynes, j. NJ. Bowden: Sixth
Church, IL. l.. Crumley; EdgewOod, J. II.
Baxter; City Mission, W. 4. Dodge St
johns, Augusta. W. \. Chandler: st. James
Augusta, Z. Pope; Asbury, W. +. Quinian
Milledgeyille, X. W. Bingham. Oxford dis
triCt, J. ID. Gray, Presiding Elder: Gaines
Nlltt. y. - dILcIshllle. u. Hughes.
Rome, W. d. Anderson. Marietta district. J.
r. MaysOn, Presiding Elder. Newman dis
trict, George +. Gardner, Presiding Elder
LaGrange district, W. II. LaPrade Presiding
Elder; LaGrange, J. Lewis. Griffin district
q. II. PatillO; Griffin 5. p. Richardson.
Another journalistic venture has its origin
in Columbus, The Progressige Age. devoted to
the advancement Of the interests of the coll
Ored people of the State, and particularly of
the cOlOred citizens of Columbus. From the
salutatOry we make the following extract,
showing the character and scope of the new
journal: ''The cOlored citizens of Columbus.
though only seventeen years old, have made a
wonderful degree of progress, and while we
as - people have many things to regret, yet we
feel proud, and we would like for the world to
know ii; therefore, il shall be our endeavor in
this, our first annual trade issue, to show up a
few of them and their works to the credit of
our city. II has often been said that the col
ored people are extraordinarily large in the
organ of imitativeness. and we take this Op-
pOrtunity of acknowledging that they are.
and we would to heaven that the region of
their brain were larger, that they might he
wealthier, more united, more intelligent and
more temperate. Our motto is, Initiate the
good only So