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Horrid Tragedy — Negro Hung — effects of the Yankee invasion.
The Louisville Democrat, of the 8th, copies the following account of a horrid murder at Elizabethtown, Ky., from an extra of the Zouave Gazette, a newspaper published at that place by some of the Yankee soldiers encamped there.
This murder is but the certain consequence of the teachings of the Abolitionists and the invasion of Kentucky by the Yankees:
On Wednesday night last, a negro boy, belonging to Wm. Smith who resides about four miles below here, entered the house of his master's brother, Cyrus Smith and seizing the infant child of Mrs. Smith, dashed its brains out, after which he beat Mrs. Smith with a club, bruising and mangling her in such a manner that her life is despaired of.--The negro boy, who was about 18 years of age, was arrested by the picket guard of Company F, of the 19th, and committed to the county jail at this place, under charge of Company D, for safe keeping.
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