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 July 22, 1880 VINTON The O. & W. Va. Rail Road Company have erected a fine depot building at McArthur. An important vein of fire clay, six or seven feet thick, is said to have been discovered on the line of the O. & W. Va. Rail Road, near Hartley's Mills. Mrs. Nancy Moore, of Wilkesville, is 107 years old so said; and what is more remarkable still she don't lay claim to have ever sat on Washington's knee. The Vinton Record says: William H. Comstock has leased the land of Anderson Jones---about forty acres.--- This land has been found to contain the most extraordinary mineral wealth ever developed in this section. The McArthur Enquirer says: The barb wire fence is now being erected along the line of the O. & W. Va. Railroad is a very dangerous thing. Not a week, or a day for that matter, but that we hear of some accident to stock. Joe Thacker, of Raysville, is in jail awaiting the action of the Grand Jury for wildly firing with a shot gun into a squad of persons at that place, on Sunday of last week, wounding several and also a Mrs. Brown who was sitting on the porch of her residence. Joe, was chuck full of bug juice at the time. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson