These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other persons or organizations. They are for individual research ONLY. They will remain the property of the OHVINTON list serve and may NOT be FORWARDED on to any second party or group. Persons or organizations desiring to forward or use this material must obtain written consent from me or my legal representative and contact the archivist of the OHVINTON list serve with proof of consent. I have given permission for these files to be stored permanently for free access in the archives of the OHVINTON list serve. [This article was transcribed without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Athens Messenger May 27, 1880 VINTON When completed to Pomeroy, the O. & W. Va. railroad will be eighty-five miles in length. The Hamden Enterprise says that the hills around that place are rich in mineral deposits, Decoration Day will be observed at Wesley Chapel Cemetery, in Swan township, next Monday. The McArthur Journal says: Zaleski didn't incorporate last Thursday, a mistake in the survey compelled the withdrawal of the papers in the case. Intense excitement was last week prevalent in Deerfield and Union townships in consequence of the great number of real or imaginary mad dogs running around loose, many of which have been killed. In a drunken brawl Thursday night at John McBride's saloon Chas. Nutter, a hard character, and a former companion of Terrell, the Weldon murderer, shot and seriously wounded Thos. Connolly, an employe (sic) of the Gore Iron Works. Nutter has fled. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson