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 OHMEIGS 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 OHMEIGS 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 OHMEIGS list serve. [This article was transcribed without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Athens Messenger January 15, 1880 Vinton Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Cramblett, near Hamden, died recently, aged 70. J. W. Wilkinson, J. P. of Eagle township, this county, has removed to Chillicothe. Mrs. Hewitt of Swan township, was at the close of the week, very sick and not expected to recover. A colored man, supposed to have been over one hundred years old, recently died in the Infirmary of this county. A protracted meeting is progressing at the Elk Fork United Brethren Church. a mile north of McArthur, under the labors of Rev. D. Folk. Thomas, son of Mr. James Hawkins, residing on the Allensville road 3 miles west of McArthur, who has been very sick with lung fever is slowly recovering. Mr. Andrew Jarvis and Ret Cooper caught in the woods near the former's residence in Richland township, Tuesday evening last, a snow-whilesquirrel (sic), says the McArthur Journal. The Hamden Enterprise says that the room occupied by John Donahoe, at Karnes' Station, on the O. & W. Va. R. R., was burglarized Tuesday night. The burglars got away with Mr. D's clothing and about $6.00 worth of tobacco. In the Common Pleas at McArthur last week, in the case of Charles Rosser against James Bird, who, it is charged, cut with a knife the former with intent to kill, the jury returned a verdict of assault and battery. Bird was a boy, and was said to be drunk. The occurrence took place the 2nd of last October. Frederick Henderson, of Richland township, had a very narrow escape from death at Byers Station in attempting to cross the track in front of an approaching train. The beam that supports the pilot struck him a glancing blow on the hips, disabling him so that he has not been able to be removed to his home. At McArthur, on Friday, the jury in the trial of John T. Sharp for the killing of Elder D. V. Benjamin, retired at 8:30 o'clock in the morning, and returned into the Court at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, with a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. The prisoner trembled violently and appeared in great agony. -- The sentence will be pronounced at the close of the term of Court. On Friday night at McArthur a mob of men and boys, numbering about 150, went over on what is called the hill and attacked a house, where it is stated a simple girl that had wandered from her home was made drunk and then ravished. The report flashed through town, and soon after the closing of business hours a mob of men repaired to the place and the house was completely gutted. The mob then went to another house, smashed in the windows and did other damage. No one injured. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson