MATTINGLY, LEWIS T. ADAMS CENTINEL (newspaper), 1/15/1823 GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA FATAL ENCOUNTER LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, DECEMBER 20. On Tuesday last an occurrence took place in Richmond, Madison County, of a most serious and distressing nature. In consequence of some controversy, with the particulars of which we are not sufficinetly well acquainted to undertake to detail them, Edmund Irvine, Esq., a young gentleman of that place, made an attack upon Mr. Lewis T. Mattingly, editor of the Richmond Republican, who, being armed with a pistol, shot his assailant through the heart, so that he instantly expired. Mr. Irvine had been but a few weeks married to a daughter of Green Clay, Esq. of Madison County.