Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-30
Lyman Phelps, President; Fay 5. Phelps,

Lyman Phelps, President; FAY 5. Pbelps
Cashier, and Frank Foster, Teller.
Gainesville Bee: SIT is rumored that a gem
tleman from the North purposes bulldin0 a
large and commodious female college in East
GAINESVILLE some time this summer"
ISehsacola Is now enjoying her normal
nealthy condition. The number of deaths
during the month of December. 1881 was
fourteen; ten whites and four colored Ave Of
whom were children.
q, Hamilton County Times: ''We desire to call
the attention OF our readers to the fact that
the Savannah WEEKLY NEWS is lust as good
as eVer-We won't say better because that is
lmposslble-and it is still offered at the low
price OF two dollars a year. 1t is without
uOuDt, the best weekly newspaper published
IN the world and this remark is not made as
matter Of courtesy, but because it is our
honest conviction
In reference to the sale Of the Jacksonville
Mon, ana ITS consequent consolidation with
the Jacksonville Times. the editor saws: For
years nave edited the Union and managed
lts large and growing business with the hand
OF disease pressing heavily upon me. NV con-
dltlOn Tor the past few months admOnished me
that l could no longer stand up under such
onerous burdens and rendered it imperative
that / should lay them aside. MY duty both
done. Accordingly the sale to Mr.. Jones. who
desired to purchase, and was willing to
pay what l considered a fair price
for the property, was made. In
this connection il is due both to Mr.. Jones and
myself to say that through the Intervention of
mutual friends an interview between us had
been brought about, which resulted in an ami
cable and satisfactory settlement of the per-
sonal difficulty between us-and opened up the
way, not only for the sale of the Union to Mr.
Jones as a business transaction. but also to nv
consentlng TO accept a position on the edito-
RAJ stan on the consolidated paper. and to
use my pen IN filling up its columns as largely
as the condition Of my health would permit
Farther than this, l presume, the public has
no interest in the details of that adjustment"
The Madison Recorder records two sad
cases Of burning to death in that vicinity last
week: "On Tuesday at about 10 O'Clock the
wife of Mr.. 4. J. Gill. who lives six miles
northwest of town, was STOPPING down near
the fireplace when her clothes caught fire and
the flames soon enveloped her form. She im-
medlately ran out of the house into the ward,
when her husband came TO her and did all in
ms power TO extinguish the fire, badly burn
ing MS hands IN the attempt. The flames
consumed all her clothes excepting few small
pieces and the waistband. She was horribly
burnt, and DIR. Peeler, who was immediately
sent Tor, did all IN his power to alleviate her
suffering, but to save her life was impossible,
and on Wednesday at O'Clock her
spirit took its flight. Five little children one
an infant, are left mOtherless by this sad ca
lamity. The other case was that of Lille Nc
Kinney. an old eOlOred woman. aged over
sixty years, who lives with her son. lust beyond
the railroad, was burned to death on Monday
No one was IN the house at the time, and how
she caught on ire Is a mere matter of suppO-
sitiOn. 1t IL supposed she was sitting near the
nre place sewing when a spark popped out on
her dress, setting fire to it. She was not dis
covered until about two hours afterwari
when some OF the neighbOrs happened in and
found her charred and lifeless form living on
the nOOr with not particle of clothing left"