A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Ohio > Meigs http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2524 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=34439 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: Athens Messenger Article Date: July 19 1877 Article Description: News from Meigs Article Text: Meigs Tupper's Plains in this county was first settled in 1802. Elder Wiggins, pastor at Dexter chapel, recently preached his farewell sermon there. Mr. John Ohlinger died at his residence in Chester township, on Sunday of last week. Abner Bickel, of Rutland, has a son, only ten years of age, that weights one hundred pounds. Mrs. Jenkins of Letart, recently seriously poisoned herself with drinking water from a brass kettle. Mrs. Asahel Skinner, of Rutland was lately taken to the insane Asylum at Athens for medical treatment. Mrs. Weigard of Letart was last week thrown from a horse without, however, receiving serious injury. Mrs. John Woodard, age 80, of Rutland died on the 7th inst. Her husband who services her is a pensioner of the war of 1812. J. F. Stevens's fine new building in Rutland which he had recently moved, was lately struck by lightning the members of the family narrowly escaping injury. At the Catholic Pic-nic, Pomeroy, on the Fourth a young man named Peter Goeit was shot in the ankle by another young man named Phillip Snyder. The shooting was accidental. Meigs county has now over a dozen more insane people in the Asylums of the State than it is entitled to according the proportion of inhabitants, and still, says the Telegraph, there is more to follow. On Monday of last week Robert Higginbothan was terribly cut in the arm with a bowie knife in the hands of Charley Carlile during a quarrel over a game of cards in a Middleport saloon. Carlile and his brother Lee were afterwards arrested in the Virginia side and are in jail. The Meigs County Democratic convention was held at Pomeroy on Saturday and nominated the following ticket: For Representative, James M. Evans; Auditor, J.P. Stewart; Sheriff, J. Middeswart; Prosecuting Attorney, Martin Harris; Commissioner, J. F. Davis; Coroner, J. R. Winget; Infirmary Director, Jacob S. E. Age??. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ OH-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com