>From the "Louisville Commercial" newspaper, December 31, 1878 summary of violent deaths, statewide, throughout 1878: August 15th - H. N. HOLDSWORTH shot Phillip ARNOLD at Elizabethtown. August 26th - Tom REEGON and B. TWEEDY killed Mrs. Lucinda JOHNSON (prostitute) at Elizabethtown. December 24th - Evan VANMETRE, in a difficulty at Glendale, received two slashes with a knife in the hands of an antagonist, one reaching from the right shoulder to the left hip; the other laying open the bowels. December 26th - John SMITH, a Negro man, while drunk, crawled into a barn near Glendale, and when found, was frozen to death. December 27th - At Elizabethtown, two Negroes, John WALLACE and Bob TAYLOR, got into an altercation, during which WALLACE used a pistol and put a ball into TAYLOR's stomach. End-------