“True to their appointment, the enraged parties met on the streets the following day.  James shot first, his ball passing through his antagonist’s liver, whose pistol fired immediately afterwards, and missing J., the ball pierced the head of a stranger by the name of Collins, who instantly fell and expired.  After being shot, Binford sprang upon J. with the fury of a wounded tiger, and would have taken his life but for a second shot received through the back from Bartin James, the brother of Thomas.  Even after he received the last fatal wound he struggled with his antagonist until death relaxed his grasp, and he fell with the horrid exclamation, ’I am a dead man!’

“Judge James gave himself up to the authorities; and when the informant of the editor left Clinton, Binford, and the unfortunate stranger lay shrouded corpses together.”

The “N.O.  Bee” thus gives the conclusion of the matter: 

“Judge James was tried and acquitted, the death of Binford being regarded as an act of justifiable homicide.”

From the “Flemingsburg Kentuckian,” June 23,’38.

AFFRAY.—­Thomas Binford, of Hickman county, Kentucky, recently attacked a Mr. Gardner of Dresden, with a drawn knife, and cut his face pretty badly.  Gardner picked up a piece of iron and gave him a side-wipe above the ear that brought him to terms.  The skull was fractured about two inches.  Binford’s brother was killed at Clinton, Kentucky, last fall by Judge James.

The “Red River Whig” of September 15, 1838, says:—­“A ruffian of the name of Charles Gibson, attempted to murder a girl named Mary Green, of Louisville, Ky. on the 23d ult.  He cut her in six different places with a Bowie knife.  His object, as stated in a subsequent investigation before the Police Court, was to cut her throat, which she prevented by throwing up her arms.”

From the “Louisville Advertiser,” Dec. 17th, 1838:—­“A startling tragedy occurred in this city on Saturday evening last, in which A.H.  Meeks was instantly killed, John Rothwell mortally wounded, William Holmes severely wounded, and Henry Oldham slightly, by the use of Bowie knives, by Judge E.C.  Wilkinson, and his brother, B.R.  Wilkinson, of Natchez, and J. Murdough, of Holly Springs, Mississippi.  It seems that Judge Wilkinson had ordered a coat at the shop of Messrs. Varnum & Redding.  The coat was made; the Judge, accompanied by his brother and Mr. Murdough, went to the shop of Varnum & Redding, tried on the coat, and was irritated because, as he believed, it did not fit him.  Mr. Redding undertook to convince him that he was in error, and ventured to assure the Judge that the coat was well made.  The Judge instantly seized an iron poker, and commenced an attack on Redding.  The blow with the poker was partially warded off—­Redding grappled his assailant, when a companion of the Judge drew a Bowie knife, and, but for the interposition and interference of the unfortunate Meeks, a journeyman tailor, and