Wednesday, Aug. 1, 1883

-- There was another man killed in Breathitt county the other day.  The victim this time was a man named HUTSON and hs son did the killing.  He was shot in the neck and bled to death in a few moments.  The shooting was accidental.

Friday, Nov. 5, 1886

--In the death of his son Price, Capt. Calloway COPE looses the seventh from his family.  A wife and six children lie slumbering in the quiet valley where they lived and died.  Twenty-five years ago his prophesied that he would not lived three years, but he survives while his family have fallen like autumn leaves.  He and his family have the tender sympathy of a large circle of friends in this their deep affliction.

-- The people of Jackson were shocked Thursday afternoon, the 21st ult. at the shocking announcement that Miss Sarah BARNETT had committed suicide.  She lived in the family of Mr. Claborn FUGATE, in Jackson, her father, James BARNETT, living on Quicksand.  She and Mrs. FUGATE had been to C.J. LITTLE's store, and returning home, Mrs. FUGATE dropped in to see a neighbor and Miss Sarah went on home.  She had been there but a few minutes when the report of a pistol in the house attracted the attention of Breck COMBS and James MALONE, who chanced to be near, and they went in to see what the result was, to find her sitting on the side of the bed in the agony of death.  They laid her down upon the floor and she breathed her last without uttering a word.  The pistol, a 32, had been taken from the valise of a young man who was boarding in the family and working on the brick yard.  There it lay upon the floor.  She gave a scream when the pistol fired which was heard by the above named gentlemen.  She had attempted to use poison to destroy her life a few months ago but was detected and prevented.  Nothing is known of her reasons for this fatal step.  she was a modest unassuming girl of 18, respected by all who knew her.

Friday, May 11, 1888

--- Constable Morgan ALLEN brought into Jackson the 3rd inst, a boy 12 years old named Linville COMBS from the waters of Buck Horn creek in a remote part of Breathitt, and turned him over to Judge BLANTON.  The boy is charged with killing his little sister, 2 years and 9 months of age.  The murder was committed the 13th of April.  The boy says he was hired to do it by a young man named Sampson COLLINSWORTH, who is too intimate, it is said, with the boys mother.  The children were at home alone when the deed was done.  The weapon employed was a skillet handle.  This is the boy's story, and all that is known about it.  The Judge issued a warrant for COLLINSWORTH and committed the boy to jail.  It is a most shocking affair.  The boys seems intelligent, but talkes about the matter with perfect indifference.  We are pained to have to chronical such an event as transpiring in the bounds of our county which of late years has been so free from violence and bloodshed.