Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Soc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ September 21, 1875 Josephus Campbell, formerly of Rockcastle Springs, Pulaski county, has moved to London, He has rented the property of J. R. Baugh. Lieut. W. A. Miller has received a three months furlough and is now at his fathers. He will shortly visit his friends in this county. His command is stationed at Greenville, S.C. The funeral of Sophia W. Gray will be preached at Spruce Creek meeting house Whitley County, on the fourth Sunday in this month. The meeting will begin on Saturday at 11 o'clock. Elds R. Ewel, W.W. Pope and B. Chesnut will conduct the meeting. John B. Chesnut has been confined at home for three months by sickness, was in town on Tuesday looking rather thin and pale. We are glad to see him out again and hope he will soon regain his usual health. Sheriff Magee left on Tuesday for Frankfort, with Mr. Ray who was sent to the penitentiary for one year for stealing tobacco from McNeil & Mitchell, Little Bill Lovelace and John Jackson went with him as guards. Ray is a dangerous man. The man whom Bill Dillion shot at Livingston probed to be one of the robbers who robbed a bank at Huntington, W. Va. There were four of them when the bank was robbed and they were followed as far as Owsley county, where they abandoned their horses. From correspondence from Beattyville and Booneville, it seems that the robbers separated some where between those places, going in twos. Dillion says that he saw four men just before the fight began, two of whom went around the back of his store, after which he did not see them nor did they engage in the fight. It is possible that those two may have been pilots, for had they been the confederates of the two engaged, in the fight with Dillions, it is hardly possible that they would not have come to the rescue. Concerning these robbers there are several rumors and various statements made by parties in the neighborhood of Pine Hill, which appear at variance with each other and are difficult to reconcile if they all be true. The Cash! ier of the bank which was robbed came to Livingston and identified the wounded man as the leader of the robbers. Detective Bligh, of Louisville, thinks the robbers are the Jameses and Youngers, of Missouri, and that the wounded man was Jesse James and his companion Cole Younger. On Sunday about ten o'clock, the wounded robber died and was buried at the Grisham grave yard. He said nothing as to who he was and where he lived, and refused to make any revelation as to his past life. He died the possessor of the secrets of his own life and a stranger in a strange land, again showing that the way of the transgressor is hard. The Dillions deserve great credit for thus aiding to break up the most dangerous gang of outlaws in the whole county. OCTOBER 1, 1875 THE MAN KILLED AT PINE HILL THOUGHT TO BE THOMPSON, ALIAS CHARLEY MCDANIELS. A Kansas City telegram of last evening says: Chief of Police Speers today received a letter from detective Bligh, containing copies of the photographs found on the body of the Huntington bank robber. One of them the picture of a young man named Bob P. Ricketts who grew up a neighbor to Thompson McDaniels, says McDaniels was the only person who had his photograph A woman named Mrs. Hall, with whom McDaniels was living also has received a letter from Kentucky, containing a piece of scrap without any writing except the address and every one at all acquainted with the circumstances believes McDaniels to be the dead robber. OCTOBER 5, 1875 Allen Hicks killed a snake on his farm a few weeks ago, measuring eight feet and four inches in length, of brown color, with a grown rabbit in its stomach. Women are getting dangerous in Laurel. Tom Young had his mother in law, of sixty, and palsied, arrested last week on a peace warrant. Squire Lamond couldn't see it exactly as Tom did, and after a hearing the evidence released the old lady and required Tom to give bond to keep the peace. J. C. Coldwell has sold his town property to W. H. Jackson and will leave on Monday Next, with his family for Oregon "Crit" is a good fellow and we are sorry to lose him. He will be missed by his many friends in Laurel who wish him a safe trip and a prosperous one in the "far west" May his shadow never grow less. OCTOBER 22, 1875 Eds. Mountain Echo: A day long to be remembered by the people in the vicinity of old Mt. Pleasant, in Laurel County, and especially will the children and relatives of our dear sister ADALINE JACKSON, whose funeral was preached by old bro. William B. Landram and bro. Azbill, the writer participating. Adaline Jackson was born in 1812, and is a sister of Judge Pearl,, of London and a daughter of John Pearl, deceased one of the first families of the county. Her husband H. T. Jackson who preceded her to the promised land several years ago, is a brother of Gen. Jarvis Jackson, of this place and also of Hancock Jackson late governor of Missouri. Sister Adaline Jackson and H. T. Jackson both embraced the Savior and were baptized many years ago, and lived and died in the faith. Their home was always the home of the servants of the master especially the preachers and the very extra ordinary concourse of people that attended the funeral and the free flow of tears that flowed while the venerable old veteran of the cross discoursed the funeral remarks of sister Jackson well demonstrated the great love of all who knew her and her family had for them. There were present at her funeral seven of her children all of whom are faithful followers of the master, and who sang very beautifully! the sweet song "Shall we know each other there." which touched every heart and caused tears to flow. Three of her children Kerr, George and Harvey Jackson live in Missouri and as old Bro. Landram called out the children one by one and spoke of the separation of the family here,of the broken ties and shattered love and of the union that would take place in heaven, the meeting of all there of the joy that should fill their souls and the bliss that they should share the effect was indeed thrilling and every soul in the audience was overflowing with joy for the blessedness of the resurrection and the love of the savior who brought this to man. Let me say to the children and friends of Sister Jackson take courage and thank God, because they have a loved one in Heaven, and they can go to her. Oh! What a joyful meeting. Let us hasten unto its coming. R. L. 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