Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1879 — Hon. Otho R. Singleton. [ARTICLE]

Hon. Otho R. Singleton.

Representative Otho R. Singleton addressed a large and lively audience at Mclver Hall, this city, on the let. Round after round and peal after peal •f applause punctuated the a any, strong, unanswerable points of his speech. His utterances were calm, logical, cogent, and illustrated with anecdotes that poked the boys under the ribs and Bade them roar with laughter. Mr. Singleton is a candidate for U. S. Senator, and has long experience in public life, bis unflinching fidelity, his high, nnqnestioned integrity and the ■Msterful grasp of his genius would ■sake him a most royal representative of •or people in the upper House. The States wishes there were two Senators to be elected in 1880, instead of one. A special telegram to the Cincinnati Enqnirer 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 Yaxoo county, Miss. At first the Senator refused to speak upon the subject to any person, but, since receiving the full particulars of the unfortu•ate tragedy, he is said to justify Barksdale’s action on the ground that Dixon traduced in the most violent langnage some of the lady members of Barksdale's family.