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 28, 1881 VINTON Henry Peters a convict in the penitentiary from this county is insane and is about to be transferred to the Athens Asylum. The Hope Furnace property, lying in Brown Township, this county, and containing *,399 acres of ore and coal land, has been sold to Wm. D. Lee for $103,000. The property has a good furnace and other buildings on it, and is connected with the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad by a two mile branch, owned by the Furnace Company. A coal-miner named Fred Warth, employed in the mines near Zaleski, was severely injured, one day last week, by a piece of slate, about twelve feet square and eleven inches thick, falling on him. One of his legs was broken in two places, and a pick was driven through the muscles of his arm. All that saved him from being mashed to atoms was his lamp being accidentally knocked out of his hat and falling a few feet from him just before the accident and he moved from the place on the hunt of it. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson