Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1879 — Hon. Otho R. Singleton. [ARTICLE]

Hon. Otho R. Singleton.

Representative Otho R. Singleton addressed a large and lively audience at Melver Hall, this city, on the Ist. Round after round and peal after peal «f applause punctuated the many, strong, unanswerable points of his speech. His utterances were calm, logical, regent, and illustrated with anecdotes that poked the boys under the ribs and made teem roar with laughter. Mr. Singleton is a candidate for U. S. Benator, and has long experience in public life, his unflinching fidelity, his high, unquestioned integrity and the ssaaterful grasp of his genius would make him a most royal representative of our people iu the upper House. The States wishes there were two Senators to be elected isl 1880, instead of one. A special telegram to the Cincinnati Enquirer says:—There is good authority for the statement that Lamar Justifies the act of Barksdale in killing Dixon, who was the independent candidate for Sheriff of Yazoo county, Miss. At first the Senator refused to speak upon tee sutyeet to any person, but, since receiving the full particulars of the unfortunate trugHty, he is said to Justify Barksdale’s action p» the ground teat Dixon Induced m the most violent lanjniaro some of the lady members of Barksdale's family.