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 September 1, 1881 VINTON Robert Stalters one day last week had all the fingers of his right hand cut off by an accident in Eagle Furnace of which he is superintendent. W. D. Anderson, an aged resident of Zaleski, while recently on a spree, drank by mistake a portion of concentrated lye which his wife had prepared for scrubbing and came near losing his life as a result. David G. Delaney of this county has commenced proceedings in the Common Pleas asking to be divorced from his wife, Arttissa Delaney, on the grounds of wilful absence and neglect of duty. The parties were married in 1878. Recently Enson Rinehart, a prominent young farmer of Jackson township, while assisting in driving a drove of about three hundred fat hogs, was run over by them and nearly trampled to death, a considerable time elapsed before he was restored to consciousness. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson