Jordan HOLT, a negro boy eighteen years of age, under sentence of death for violating the person of a white girl thirteen years old, and whose case had been appealed to the Supreme Court setting in Nashville, has had his sentence commuted by that court, from death to imprisonment for
Nashville Banner: It was reported in the city yesterday that a boy ten or twelve years old, the son of Mr. FERRY, residing northwest of Nashville, getting tired of nursing his sister, an infant six months old, last Friday took down a pistol and shot her, the ball putting out
James FLOYD was fatally hurt last Monday at the power-house of the Nashville Railway and Light Co., on First Avenue North. He died the following day. Mr. FLOYD was caught between a large coal bucket and the woodwork of the building, his head catching the full weight of the bucket.
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