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 24, 1881 VINTON Wm. Graves and Miss Lizzie McGee were lately married in Eagle township. Wesley Stevens an escaped prisoner from the jail at McArthur was recaptured on Monday in Eagle township. Mrs. Jas. Barnes, of Wilkesville, recently sustained very serious injuries by falling on an anvil in the yard of her residence. Anderson Smith and Wesley Stevens broke out of this county jail, on a recent night. They were overtaken in the western part of the county, one day last week, by Deputy Sheriff Shockey. Smith was retaken, but Stevens escaped. The physicians of George Staley, a former resident of Madison township, Vinton county, who was dangerously shot in the abdomen, sometime since, by James Powers, with whom he had a difficulty about a woman, at Baird's Furnace, say he can't recover. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson