Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger October 12, 1858 Death of Col. R. W. Denning. We are pained to have to announce the death of Col. DENNING, for many years one of our most enterprising business men and a most estimable citizen. ---- He died at St. Louis, on Wednesday evening last of consumption. His remains were brought to this city, where they arrived by the 8,30 train on Saturday evening. They were received at the depot by the Harrison Guards and escorted to his late residence on Fourth street. The funeral took place on Sunday at 3 o'clock P. M., and was attended by the Harrison and Washington Guards, Free Masons, Odd Fellows, Reliance, and Phoenix Fire Companies, the Episcopal Sunday School and a large concourse of Citizens not connected with either of those institutions. It was by far the largest and most imposing funeral procession ever witnessed in this city. The services at the grave were conducted by the Masons and Odd Fellows. Col. Denning was a man of warm heart and generous impulses -- an enterprising citizen and, that noblest work of God, an honest man. He drew around him wherever he went a circle of warm and devoted friends to whom he was in turn earnestly and sincerely attached. -- His loss will be widely and deeply felt. " He is at rest from his labors, may it be in peace." -= Scioto Gazette.