The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-27
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

TIE other evening the family of +. Il.
Blakely, of Chattanooga, Tenn, consisting
OF three children and a servant-girl, were
poisoned by drinking milk from diseased
, COW. None of them died but two were
dangerously i'll.
r. ]. CLUvEnIUs, convicted in Richmond,
Va, of the murder of Fannie Madison, was
sentenced to be hanged November 20.
PERRY and VIM. Milton, father and son,
were hanged at Farmcrsville, La, for the
murder of John w. Cherry, on April 10,
1884.
THE fifth trial OF Frank Burkman, who
killed Captain Edward Nelson and his
colored mate in Machodc Creek, in the Po-
tomac, on the night of May 6, 1882, was
concluded few nights ago at Rappahan-
noch, Essex County, Va, and resulted in
verdict of murder in the first degree
on the first count. Burkman then
pleaded guilty to tho charge of killing
the mate, and was sentenced by Judge
Dangerfeld to eighteen years. imprison-
ment in the Richmond Pententiary for each
case, making thirtysix consecutive years
Burman will have to serve.
WILLIAM f. WooDRUFF,sr., who, in 1919,
founded the Arkansas gazette, and when
the State was admitted into the Union in
1886, was the first State Treasurer, died on
the 10Th in the nintieth year of his age.
JUDGE TALBOT has sentenced George
Wilson, Mathilde Jones and Charles Davis,
all colored to be hanged at such time us
the Governor may direct. They were con-
victed of numbering and robbing Mrs.
Judge Cole, several months ago, at Plaque
mine, La.
VIM. FREEMAN, aged eighteen, near
Tasley, Va, on Chincotcague Island, shot
Timothy Hills his wife and daughter, and
then killed himself. He had courted tho
daughter of Hills, and she, it is supposed
at the instance Of her mother, declined his
suit. 1t is feared that all three will die.
Mr.. Hills is one of the most prominent
citizens of the island.
Mr.. SID NJ. DAVIS, n member of Farra-
gut Post, No 10, G.. A. r., of Washington
an ex-soldier and Republican, has tad.
dressed a circular letter to the officers and
delegates of tho National Encampment, G
A. r., which meets at Portland, Me. . Il
this letter Mr.. Davis submits proposition
for the approval of those to whom it is ad
dressed that the United States establish
and maintain homes for needy x-Confed
crates whose wounds were received at the
hands of Federal troops. Mr.. Davis says;
81 do this for the reason that such APP
prevail, If given, will come with added
nf tho Ia,
you during the war. You can speak will
certain degree Of authority in behalf OF
your late opponents, and close, by this act
the last gulf existing between the sections
in the true. interest of humanity, not alone
in the United States, but the wide world
over"
ANDREW COPELAND had boon counting q
girl living ten miles south of Nashville
Tenn. She eloped and married another
man few days ago. That night Copeland
took ten grains of morphine and died.
W. G. Huh. young man of Memphis
attempted self4destruction, by laudanum
at Nashville, a few days ago. Promp
medical attention saved his life. He safe
Ie was tired of living. = :
CAPTAIN ABEL S. DUNCAN, died the
other day at his residence, Surry farm, o,
the Philadelphia road, near Baltimore, Nd
About the first of this Year he had cor,
removed from the little toe of his RICH
foot. Some time afterward it began t.
give him great pain, and symptoms of gan
creme appeared. This was attributed b,
some to the operation, and by others t.
wearing tight shoe too soon after the cor
was extracted DR.. Houck was sent for
but the trouble had become too deep seated
and resulted in DEATH
A SON of Rev. J. Nj. Wheat was killed b
freight train at Cullman, Ala, the othe
evening,
AN incendiary fire at Hillsboro, Ala, tn
other night, destroyed five business houses
with their contents.
MRS. EMILY H. TUBMAN, one of the old
est and wealthiest residents of August,
Ca, died recently, aged ninety -one years
She was the ward and personal friend {
Henry Clay, and assisted at the welcom
of Lafayette in Augusta.
THE extra session of the Tennessee Legis
lature is at an end
AT Nashville, Tenn, Louisa Hooper, CO.
ored, and her husband, Bill Hooper, &c
into family wrangle the other evening
On the police coming in to arrest them
Louisa jumped from a'third- story window
distance of thirty feet One foot wa
broken, one hand terrible mashed, and sl
received internal injuries. When aske
why she took tho fearful leap, she reptile
thatshe would sooner die than 60 to th
Work house.
WILLIAM HALL, Dock Hall and bud
Reynolds, three white boys between tn
ages of twelve and sixteen, got into diff
Guilty with colored boy by the name {
Frank Lorey, at Union City, Tenn, tn
other morning, and during the fight the ne
gro was struck with apiece of railroad irol
called fishbar, by one of the boys, crush
ing his skull on the right side. 1t is though
the negro will die. The boys were arreste
and are in Jail.
FIRE tho other morning destroyed til
stores of R. Marx, J. Holberg, Charles Hal
din, Jno. Brogan and j. Frazer, at Macol
Miss. Four other buildings were badl
damaged. The loss is about $4,000; ir
sured for half that amount.
The public gambling houses and poke
rooms in Memphis have been closed by til
city authorities.
NATHAN GoLKING, native of Polan'
aged about thirty five years, was shot an