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 March 11, 1880 VINTON Elisha Williams and Mrs. Erastus Davis, both of whom were well advanced in years recently died suddenly at Zaleski. Several persons, says the Journal, are optioning (sic) land west of McArthur. They now have some two thousand five hundred acres. Leora, aged 26, daughter of Henry Mosey, of Hamden, was recently adjudged insane and application made for her admission into the Athens Hospital. The result of a recent nine days meeting at Eagle Chapel, (Beech Grove, ) was, says the McArthur Journal, an accession of twenty-two to the membership of the church. J. D. Clark recently sold 1544 acres of mineral land, located in Swan township, this county, to John D. Martin, of Lancaster. The amount paid was $44,000.00. Dennis Ruther would, it seems, ruther steal than earn an honest living, he was recently committed to the jail of this county in default of bail for stealing chickens from Delilah White, of Eagle township. The interior of the jail of this county caught fire one night last week, but was timely discovered by Sheriff Cottrill and put out, and now the prisoners unite in saying that they would like the Sheriff to serve them the same way. The Hamden Enterprise says: Joseph Truman and William O'Connery, of Byers Station, were pretty badly injured while blasting last Friday in Scott's coal bank at Eureka. O'Connery is so badly injured internally that he will not survive his injuries. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson