The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-03
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGs.

AT Tallahassee, Fla, Frank Lowrie, the
murderer of Vanderburg, has been found
guilty and sentenced for life to the peniten-
tiary.
DETECTIVE WIN. PORTER arrested a negro
named Charles Bryant at Williamsburg,
KY, for the murder Of an old negro named
James Dckey, at Sevierville, Tenn, five
years ago. There was large reward for
Bryant, and Porter has been hunting him
two years,
WHILE fighting fire at lockwood Mines
near Chattanooga, Tenn, Frank Burchfield,
fireman of Chattanooga, was caught under
a fall of rock and probably fatally hurt.
A SPECIAL from Calera, Ala, reports the
explosion of the boiler of the Calera Land
Company's saw-mill. Joe Robertson, en-
gineer; Jesse Pilgreen, superintendent and
William Fletcher, laborer, were killed and
four others badly hurt
JOHN DRAKE, a prominent colored man,
was hanged at Thomaston, Ca, few days
ago, for the murder of his wife, Ella Drake,
in December 1884. The crime was one of
singular atrocity, and created such feeling
at the time of its commission that the Jail
wherein Drake was confined had to be
strongly guarded for several weeks in order
to save the prisoner from wouldbe lynch
ers. On the morning of the execution
Drake was in jubHant spirits, having no
dread whatever of the fate ahead of him.
He smoked perfumed cigars, and went
jauntily to the gallows with Sheriff Foster
at twelve O'Clock. A few minutes later the
trap was sprung and brakes neck was
broken, in the presence of six thousand
people.
In a quarrel at Scottsboro, Ala, between
John w. Barrett and Robert Proctor, the
latter was fatally stabbed. Barrett es-
! capped.
THE proposed visit of Mr.. Jefferson Davis
| to Montgomery, Ala, has created a de-
| mand for fifty-dollar Confederate bills.
| The Monument Committee desire them to
sell as souveniers of the occasion. These
| particular bills are desired because they
| bear the vignette of Mr.. Davis
NEAR Old Columbus, Fla, three negroes,
lately from Georgia, whose names are UNI
known, shot a negro boy with whom they
quarreled, inflicting three wounds, one of
which is fatal A posse of negroes over
took the fleeing murderers in Madison
| County Resistance was offered, and one
| of the trio was shot dead in the skirmish
which ensued. The othertwo surrendered,
but were subsequently killed by their cap
tors Turner Wright, Robert Brooks and
NJ Pratt, of the avengers, who were
four in number, were surrendered to the
sheriff of Madison County and taken to
Madison Jail charged with murder. The
fourth member of the posse is still uncap-
tured 1t is believed friends will attempt
to rescue the prisoners
The grand jury at Carrollton, Miss. is
making efforts to ferret out the perpetra-
tors of the outrage on the 18th, in which
eleven negroes were killed.
THERE is negress living in Atlanta, Ga,
who says she was born in 1867.
GEORGIA has law making death the
punishment for burglary in the night time.
THE Maryland State constitution pro
hibits ministers from becoming members
of the Legislature.
The oldest Episcopal Church in the
country is that in williamsburg, Va. 1t
contains the font in which Pocahontas was
baptized
DAN O'DoNNELL, who shot and killed
John r. Monasco March TO- in front of the
courthouse, Memphis, Tenn, was tried in
the criminal court and acquitted by the
jury 1t was proved that Monasco struck
him before being shot,
AT Vicksburg, Miss, Fred Vilarosa, ar
Italian fruit dealer, made an indecent as
sault upon the thirteen-year-old daughter
of Postmaster VIM. Groome in his store
Villarosa was arrested, The child's father
was with difficulty prevented from killing
him. The prisoner was smuggled out o
} jail and taken four miles from town, thu
intention being to flag train and tax,
him to jackson for safe keeping, but thu
train failed to stop and he was returned tt
Vicksburg. There is talk of lynch th,
villain.
. MISSISSIPPI prohibitionists are organizing
for State campaign, and an exciting TIM
is expected.
TUE eight-hour day will be demanded b,
the Knights of Labor employed in the cot
ton and wooden mills of Tennessee, Ken
i lucky, Alabama and Georgia after April
THE Red Men of Richie County, w. Va.
drenched with coal oil and burned cti
V zens house and shot and dangerousl,
+ wounded him and his wife while they wer
: attempting to rescue live stock from tn
I burning barn.
G HENRY HOWELL and William Chick
, neighbors of Beverly W. Va, eliminate,
e series of quarrels into an encounter re
t Gently, resulting in Chick being fatal
. shot in the abdomen by Howell
AT Eustis, Fla, recently lettuce-hea,
- grew to the size of a dinner-plate two week
Il after being set out
n SAMUEL KENYON, the ten-year-old son @
= awealthy farmer of Clay County, Tenn
J. was shot through the head and instantl,
killed by Dick Sanderson because the DO,
told his sister, to whom Sanderson was pay
ing attention, that he saw the latter stea
S another young mans pocket-book at
S church a few days ago. The murderer ha