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From: "Gerri Sutton" <>
Subject: EXCERPTS from the Mountain ECHO 1890
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:11:45 -0500


Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society
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August 15,-Charles Loring, arrested at Chicago, accused of having five
wives an only thirty years old.

Mrs. Graves, of Mt. Olivet, Tenn., is the grandmother and greatgrandmother
of one hundred and ten living people. She is ninety four years of age.

A poor washerwoman of Fayetteville, Ark., on being notified that she had
been granted a pension and would recieve $5,000 back pay, was so overcome
with joy that she died.

Following is a list of Magistrates and Constables elected in Laurel county
at the recent election; London Precinct, Larkin Brewer and D. Y.Brock,
magistrate and T. C. Norville, constable; Raccoon, W. T. Evans and J.
H.Vaughn, magistrates, and Wm. Philpot, constable; Bush's, M. Gregory and
T. J. Russell, magistrates, and G. P. Johnson, constable: McHargue, J. M
Scalf and T. H. Jones, magistrates and J. B. Champling, constable;
Newcombs, J. N. Covington and Ira Stanberry, magistrates and G. W. Delph,
constable;. Rock House, P. L. McFadden and F. C. Dunn, magistrates and W.
H. Reynolds, constable; Stepping Rock, Ed Scholk and J. M. Sams,
magistrates, and Henry Whitaker, constable; Kempers, J. M. Adams, and N. S.
Southard, magistrates, and B. F. Adams, constable; Independence, D. D.
Bales and Tandy Bolton, magistrates and J. N. Bradly, constable:
East Bernstadt, Ed Vance and Wm. Moore, magistrates.

The population of London is 584, according to the census report.

MARRIED-At the Jackson House, in London, August 7,by the Rev. R. L. Ewell,
Mr. Wallace Steele and Miss M. L. Minks, both of Lincoln county.

W. S. Burkhart and family, who have made London their home for several
months, left Tuesday night on the north bound train for Cincinnati, where
they will make their future home. Dr. Burkhart was a good friend of the
ECHO while in London, and we regret his departure.

MARRIED-At the home of the bride's father by the Rev. R. L. Ewell on
Sunday, August 10, Mr. Stephen R. Jackson and Miss Julia C. Lovelace,
eldest daughter of Mr. Jesse Lovelace, of this county. May many years of
happiness be theirs.

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