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 February 5, 1880 VINTON John Ward, aged about ninety years living in Elk township, died recently A protracted meeting is in progress at Pleasant Chapel, Richland township. Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Martin Kinsel of this county, died of lung disease, on the 21st ult. The McArthur Enquirer predicts the rapid growth of that place on the completion of the railroad. A very nearly successful attempt was lately made by the prisoners in the jail of this county to break out. The Grand Jury of this county recently found a bill against Henry Zartman of Somerset for burning a house on Reuben Kings farm. The Allensville correspondent of the Hamden Enterprise has several specimens of grass-hoppers which he lately captured in the fields. An Eagle Mills correspondent says that at the series of religious meetings at the M. E. Church there, they have a crowded house every night, and many old hardened sinners are coming to repentance. A Zaleski correspondent of the Record says: Most of the men in the shops were placed on six hours time last week. This sounds like "panic" but is only temporary, and will last but a short time. A man named Dixon, living 8 miles from Allensville, came near bleeding to death recently by accidentally severing his brachial artery by the misdirection of a knife with which he was in the act of killing a superannuated horse. What is the use to sing of going to a country where your "summer would last all the year?" Havn't (sic) we got what the poet wished for? We have the potato bugs, snakes frogs, and daises in full bloom -- do you want more? -- [Hamden Enterprise. The lecture of Rev. C. D. Barbour, was, says the Vinton Record, attended by a crowded house last Saturday evening. A committee of five was appointed to draft a suitable petition to be presented to the General Assembly, praying for the passage of a suitable local option law. The mail carrier between Hamden and Wilkesville lately started out on his return trip obliviously drunk, and scattered portions of the mail matter along the road and finally fell out of the wagon himself, and was found by the roadside in a blissful state of unconsciousness, his team completing the trip unattended. Not a fractional part of the whole has been told of the great mineral resources of this county. That there are both coal and iron in inexhaustable (sic) quantities, is now a known and indisputable fact, lying dead, as it were in the hills for the proper facilities to carry the same to market, or manufacture the same into "pigs." -- {McArthur Enquirer.