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Fatal affray.

--At Fort Worth, Texas, on the 3d ultima, R C Gillespie, son of Colonel Robert Gillespie, late of Tazewell county, Va. being assaulted by a man named Graves, used a revolver in his defence. The second fire proved fatal, Graves dying during the night While Gillespie was awaiting his trial, a man named Brinson fired at him through a window, the ball striking and passing through one thing, entered the other, and passing down, lodged near the knee. Gillespie, it is thought, will recover. Brinson has been arrested and bailed.

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