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 18, 1880 VINTON The (sic) is considerable talk of a new proposed railroad from Circleville via Hamden to the Ohio River. Mrs. Martin Heiliger, of Zaleski, who leaves five small children, recently died at her home in Zaleski. Thomas, son of John McCormick, of Eagle Furnace, is reported hopelessly sick at home with consumption. The Presbyterian society at Wilkesville have secured the services of Rev. Thomas Welsh as pastor for the coming year. Charles Johnson, of Richland township, charged with removing mortgaged property out of the county, has been bound over to answer at court. Harvey Dozier, who has been one of the Justices of Peace for Harrison township, for several years, having sold his farm is preparing to remove to Cozaddale, Dawson county, Nebraska. Hamilton Snyder, says the Hamden Enterprise, met with a very painful accident at Zaleski Tuesday evening, by jumping off a freight train, breaking one of his legs just below the knee. Samuel Hays, whose sudden and unexplained disappearance was, says the McArthur Enquirer, mentioned in this paper last week, has been heard from. He writes from Hamilton, Missouri. The body of Wm. McKabe, a railroad laborer, who while intoxicated was drowned in attempting to cross Raccoon Creek, near Wilkesville, last November, was found in a drift some days since. Joseph Bothwell, a resident of Vinton county since 1853, has sold his farm in Section 19, in Richland township, and is making preparations to remove upon a farm near Centre Ridge, Woodson county, Kansas. Harvey Zimmerman, living two miles north of McArthur, lately pursued a thief who had broken into his house and stole a suit of clothes, and under the persuasive logic of a shot gun compelled his surrender. Lincoln Shurtz, an inoffensive young man, was recently without provocation, assaulted near the Wells Mills, in this county, by a party of drunken roughs and struck on the head with a rock, producing, it was thought, fatal injuries. Some unknown parties recently drove on the farm of John Miller, near Wilkesville, and deliberately pitched a stack of hay on their wagon and drove off with it. The theft was not discovered until a few days after it was committed. Rev. J. D. Smith, of the McArthur M. E. Church reports sixteen recent accessions to his church -- all heads of families except two young men. Our Sabbath School, he writes, which numbered about 60 when we came here, had yesterday 138. The Hamden Enterprise says: Vinton Furnace has been leased for a term of years, by the parties who are to run the Eagle, and it will be made ready for work as soon as possible. All the furnaces in this county are now, or are making preparations to go in blast. -- The business out look in this section for the coming year is certainly a very bright one. Of the new railroad in course of construction through this county the McArthur Enquirer expected that at the close of last week "the track-layers will, perhaps, have the work completed a mile or two south of New Plymouth, and there being a number of bridges to build between that place and Karnes' Station, six miles north of McArthur, and six miles south of New Plymouth, perhaps Karnes' Station will not be reached before the last of the month." Again we had the privilege and pleasure of hearing Rev. C. D. Barbour lecture on the subject of Temperance on Friday night last, at the Court House Hall, and it was a master-piece of eloquence, truth and illustrative lecturing. Rev. Barbour has commenced a good work in our community, and seems determined to labor on in the great cause, thereby lending his separate aid in the moral lessons of Christianity. His lecture on Saturday night was equally excellent, and all were highly pleased who heard it. -- {McArthur Enquirer. The dead body of an unknown man was found Saturday morning by a haystack on the farm of Mrs. Paine, near Hamden. Coroner Russell was notified, and upon examination found the body considerably decomposed, and he believed it to have been dead three weeks. Cause of death, exposure. He was an American, aged fifty-five, height five feet eight inches, brown coat, black vest, dark cotton pants, brown striped shirt, heavy boots, black soft hat, black hair, gray chin whiskers. He has a ticket on the Huntington and Broad Top Railroad, and a paper with two addresses -- Samuel R. Faust, Millheim, Center County, Pennsylvania, and Charles Miller, Fairview, Guernsey county, Ohio. He had a cane and valise which contained a few articles of clothing. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson