Blount County TN Archives News.....Miscellaneous Articles November 19, 1853
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THE ADVOCATE November 19, 1853
THE ADVOCATE



November 19, 1853



A few days ago, we visited for the first time our friend Alex Kennedy’s Mill

and Manufactory. We must confess, on approaching them, that their external

appearance created an unfavorable impression. And is this (thought we) the

spot, where Kennedy’s far-famed flour and thread is manufactured? We ascended

a dilapidated flight of steps, entered by a rude door, and stood in the

presence of an ingenious combination of wheels, screws and straps, by whose

agency with but slight aid from the hand of man, the cotton undergoes its

interesting metamorphos. After spending half an hour in examining the

intricacies of the machinery, we retired, under the impression, that the

factory resembled its proprietor; rather an unpolished exterior, but within,

full of energy and ingenuity. Long may he live to exercise them, and to

receive a patronage equivalent to his perseverance and usefulness.



Melancholy Suicide



From a Nashville newspaper: Yesterday morning an abandoned woman known as Mary

P. Smith, committed suicide by shooting herself in the heart, in a back room

in the second story of the block adjoining the post office on Cedar Street. An

inquest was held, and a verdict rendered in accordance with the above facts.

Some of the particulars of this unfortunate woman’s history are of a

peculiarly melancholy nature. We learn that she received, in one of the best

female schools in this state, located in a neighboring town, a finished

education and at the age which young ladies generally leave the seminary, was

an accomplished, handsome, and interesting girl. But in an evil hour, she

departed from the path of virtue, and became dishonored. About 18 months since

she came to Nashville and has ever since been an inmate of one of the numerous

houses of ill-fame which infest the city. Yesterday morning, awakened at about

daylight by her paramour, she arose, and with the remark that she presumed he

had become tired of her, she opened a drawer, from which she took a loaded

pistol, and deliberately shot herself. We learn that she was just about 19

years of age.



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