“In Selma, Alabama resided lately messrs.  Philips and Dickerson, physicians.  Mr. P. is brother to the wife of V. Bleevin Esq., a rich cotton planter in that neighborhood; the latter has a very lovely daughter, to whom Dr. D. paid his addresses.  A short time since a gentleman from Mobile married her.  Soon after this, a schoolmaster in Selma set a cry afloat to the effect, that he had heard Dr. D. say things about the lady’s conduct before marriage which ought not to be said about any lady.  Dr. D. denied having said such things, and the other denied having spread the story; but neither denials sufficed to pacify the enraged parent.  He met Dr. D. fired at him two pistols, and wounded him.  Dr. D. was unarmed, and advanced to Mr. Bleevin, holding up his hands imploringly, when Mr. B. drew a Bowie knife, and stabbed him to the heart.  The doctor dropped dead on the spot:  and Mr. Bleevin has been held to bail.”

The following is taken from the “Alabama, Intelligencer,” Sept. 17, 1838.

“On the 5th instant, a deadly rencounter took place in the streets of Russelville, (our county town,) between John A. Chambers, Esq., of the city of Mobile, and Thomas L. Jones, of this county.  In the rencounter, Jones was wounded by several balls which took effect in his chin, mouth, neck, arm, and shoulder, believed to be mortal; he did not fire his gun.

“Mr. Chambers forthwith surrendered himself to the Sheriff of the county, and was on the 6th, tried and fully acquitted, by a court of inquiry.”

The “Maysville (Ky.) Advocate” of August 14, 1838, gives the following affray, which took place in Girard, Alabama, July 10th.

“Two brothers named Thomas and Hal Lucas, who had been much in the habit of quarrelling, came together under strong excitement, and Tom, as was his frequent custom, being about to flog Hal with a stick of some sort, the latter drew a pistol and shot the former, his own brother, through the heart, who almost instantly expired!”

The “New Orleans Bee” of Oct. 5, 1838, relates an affray in Mobile, Alabama, between Benjamin Alexander, an aged man of ninety, with Thomas Hamilton, his grandson, on the 24th of September, in which the former killed the latter with a dirk.

The “Red River Whig” of July 7, 1838, gives the particulars of a tragedy in Western Alabama, in which a planter near Lakeville, left home for some days, but suspecting his wife’s fidelity, returned home late at night, and finding his suspicions verified, set fire to his house and waited with his rifle before the door, till his wife and her paramour attempted to rush out, when he shot them both dead.

From the “Morgan (Ala.) Observer,” Dec. 1838.