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 June 17, 1880 VINTON John Dill last week sold his farm, about two miles south-west of McArthur, to Mr. John Chenoweth. Track-laying on the Ohio and West Virginia railway has reached Eagle Furnace, nine miles below McArthur. There will be a grand pic-nic and celebration at the Campbell tunnel on the O. & W. Va. Railway, on Saturday, June 19. Miss Clara Nichols, daughter of Henry Nichols living about four miles west of Hamden died one night last week of typhoid fever. Chas. Johnson, charged with forgery, who recently broke out of the jail of this county has been recaptured and confined in the Jackson county jail for better security. Wm. Cassill, of the Hamden Enterprise, recently sold his livery and feed stable in that place and has mysteriously left for unknown parts leaving his family behind. The Hocking Sentinel: M. D. Risley has taken a contract to build twenty dwelling houses on the lands of Butchtel & Co., south of McArthur, on the line of the O. & W. Va. R. R. The McArthur Journal says: The increase of chattel property in this county as gathered from the Assessors returns over last year is $111,763, nearly $45,000 of which is in Swan township. Sunday last Detective Linton, of Zanesville, and S. B. Weaver of Roseville, arrested at Vinton furnace one John P. Griffin, charged with being implicated in the murder of Jacob Baughman, near Roseville, Perry county come seventeen years ago. He was placed in the Logan jail Sunday evening, next day was taken to Zanesville. A McArthur correspondent on Saturday last writes: The track-laying force on the Ohio and West Virginia Railroad reached Eagle Furnace to-day, nine miles south of here, and there was great rejoicing among the people at that point on the arrival of Conductor P. M. Thompson's construction train. The furnace, having laid idle a period of twelve years, having been repaired and now operated by Wm. Cox & Co., made her first cast this afternoon of five tons of best quality of pig-iron, which will be repeated every succeeding six hours. The successful operation of the furnace, which went into blast yesterday, and the completion of the railroad to that place, made it a lively time for the denizens of that rich mineral locality. The track-laying force moving northward from Gallipolis reached Vinton, in Gallia county, this afternoon, sixteen miles latervening (sic) between the two points. Thus the long talked-of railroad is being pushed rapidly to completion. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson