WILLIAM II. KIFo, Esq, &C., sc.
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The RECENT TRAGEDY.-Many of our readers are
already acquainted with the fact which led to the
tragedy recently enacted near this place. family by
the OF Burge, consisting OF old man, his wife,
three daughters AMI two sons, have for length of time
lived in what termed the Boguc :ho settlement and
for reason had become quite unropuar with the
the neighboring fsmilies Some three four months
since they brought up upon charge trading with
the negroes and bound TO thenext term cour


they likewise bound upon charge ofre sting
process When the case clme up for trial, ii was
tinued upon the affidavit OF elder Bufge who
material witness was absent, whereupon they entered
into bond with security for their at the next
term Of the court and consequently released from
custody. About week two since singular document
circulated through the country for signatures the
rurport which that the subscribers pledged them
the Burge family from the settlement In
which they lived peaceably possible and If not by 9TH
means II appears that horse was found near the
house Of old Buge and of course the killing charged
to one Of the Burge family, which led to the get
ting up Of the document to which have referreA-
The Burge family, we have every reason to suppose
acquainted with the intention Of those who had
gotten up and circulated the paper of which have
just spoken, and from what has occurred very rightly
determined resist the last any effort which might be
made to oust them from their home. On Thursday last
somewhere between 10 and ~ o'clock party Of indiv
duas disguised by being blackened attacked the house
of old Buge; the first who entered was shot by the
elder Of the sons and instantly killed. his name was Ed
ward Holloway, Jr. The second who entered which
was man by the name OF Stephen b. Davis, also
shot, but by the old Davis was shot in the lack but
had sufficient strength to kill the old man with knife
One of the daughters shot in the abdomen, and we
learn has since died and the younger in the thg


from persons without but he is not expected to die The
older shot in the hand the gun being fired like
the other from without rush then made from
without towars the house, when the rest Of the family
fed Cahdtpbn (DaiLas Co Gaxfte