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Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio January 4, 1877
Meigs Mr. Samuel McKnight of Salem, is thought to be fatally ill. There is some talk of starting a German paper in Pomeroy. Spelling schools have broken out in the neighborhood of Rutland. Three prisoners in the jail of this county at the close of this week. W. A. Humphrey, aged 16, is teaching this second term of school in Rutland. Recently a large eagle made its appearance above Lima, to the great alarm of the turkey tribe. James S. Grimes, while returning from Rutland, recently, was thrown out of his sleight and considerably injured. George Cole, who for several years kept store in the Fourth Ward, Pomeroy, died recently, of consumption, aged 36 years. The new building of Messrs. Bradbury & Johnson, on Mill street, Pomeroy, was "dedicated" with a dance one night last week. The recent Fair of the Ladies' Society of the St. John's Protestant Evangelical church at Pomeroy realized $300 as receipts. Prof. J. M. Black, of Reedville, was recently very severely injured by being thrown from his buggy and striking his face on a wheel. Mrs. R?y Evans says the Telegraph had a severe fall on the icy walk, one day last week, and has been confined to the home ????. Mr. Martin Windell, and Sim. Newberry, who were convicted of bigamy and sent to the penitentiary about two years ago, have been discharged, and have returned to this county. Miss Margaret C. Thomas of this county asks the court to compel Robert Sleeth Jr. to pay her $5000 because the said Robert has failed to come to time touching a marriage engagement. The Pomeroy Telegraph says: A couple of hunters from this city on a three day's hunting expedition in the neighborhood of the infirmary last week, killed one hundred and seven rabbits. A young man named George Eiselstein, son of the late Val. Eiselstein, says Pomeroy Telegraph, was shot in the left arm, on Christmas, near Chester, by the accidental discharge of a revolver. The wound is not dangerous. William Ross, of Clifton, says the Middleport Republican, while out hunting on Thursday, near Harrisonville, this county, met with an accident that will disable him for some time. His gun bursted, the fragments cutting his head very badly, injuring one eye, and lacerating his hand. He will recover. Captain Tim Russell, in boring for oil on the farm of James Martin, one mile north of the Court-house, in Pomeroy, struck it on the 23ult., at 104 feet. Since then, says a correspondent writing last Friday, Mr. Russell has filled thirty-six barrels with the oil, having to collect them from the stores in the city. In the meantime Wednesday night it flowed over, overflowing the tank and pit, and ran fifty yards down the ravine from the well. The pressure of gas has several times thrown the oil to the top of the derrick. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio February 8, 1877
Meigs The Clifton coal miners are on a strike. Miss Clara Chalfan has taken charge of the Pomeroy Academy. There are seventeen divorce cases to be tried next term of court. The oil excitement prevails in Rutland and the best informed men are confident of success. Mattie McCullough, of Middleport, was badly scalded by the upsetting of a pot full of hot coffee not long since. Miss Lottie Grant has gone to Georgetown, Brown County, to take charge of the musical department of a Seminary there. Charles Till?ard fell into the river, while catching drift-wood at Middleport, during the recent rise, and narrowly escaped drowning. Mrs. Gray, of Grantsburg, while standing in front of her house to look at the fire in Middleport, a few nights since, slipped and broke a leg above the ankle. A little daughter of Mr. Gibson, Clifton, aged three and a half years, tried to skate on the floor, when she stumbled and fell, breaking the right thigh bone. She is doing as well as could be expected. Jared Chapman, of Salem, recently had a narrow escape from a mad dog, which attacked him with open mouth. Having no weapon, he struck the animal between the eyes with his fist, and brought him to the earth; he then stamped him to death with his feet. Wm. H. Grant, formerly of Middleport, but for the last few years of Ellenwood, Kansas, made a visit to his old home recently, ostensibly to visit his friends and relatives, but in reality to take back with him a wife. He and Miss Nettie Logan were married, Monday, Jan. 29th. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio February 15, 1877
Meigs Burglars have lately got in some professional work in Pomeroy. The Pomeroy Flour Co's mill is only running on partial time owing to the scarcity of wheat. The February term of the Common Pleas, for this county commenced on Monday, Judge Knowles presiding. Of Middleport, the Herald of that place says: Second street, from Mill to the corporation line is a perfect sea of mud. The stable of N. R. Nye, in the First ward of Pomeroy was recently destroyed by fire, involving the loss of a horse a cow and calf and other property. Dr. Hysell of Pomeroy last week raised by subscription a sum sufficient to buy a good cow for a widow lady who recently lost her own by the burning of a stable in that place. The residence of Mr. John Sprouse, of Salem township was recently saved from being burglarized, by Mrs. S. summoning the neighbors by blowing a horn form an upper window. The public use of profane language is a costly luxury in Pomeroy, we take it, from the heavy penalties in which offenders in this direction are customarily mulcted in the police court of that place. It is said that the Pomeroy Coal Company can not and will not submit to the demands of the miners and that they have arranged to purchase coal to fill contracts elsewhere. If persisted in, this presents a gloomy out-look for those dependent upon this industry for the support of themselves and families. Owing to the current strike of the coal miners at Pomeroy, about a thousand men are left without employment. The telegraph says: "The strike is probably more unanimous and determined than any other that has been experienced here for many years." If, as is said, after deducting incidental expenses and lost time the miners were only able to make about $10 per month the strike is not surprising. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio February 22, 1877
Meigs Great mortality prevails at present in Letart township. The Pomeroy miners and coal operators have not yet come to terms. A protracted meeting is in progress in Parkinson school house, Rutland Township. Mr. H. Conden, merchant of Middleport, has been compelled to suspend business through financial stress. There were 103 applicants for certificates at the recent session of the Board of Examiners of this county. Judge Merrill's Pork establishment, of Rutland, was recently burglariously entered and a quantity of meal carried off. Wm. H. Cooper, age 62, a former well known citizen of Syracuse, died on the 4th inst. at his home in Lancaster, Indiana. There were 106 applicants for teachers' certificates before the recent meeting of the County Board of Examiners of this county. The story of the man, who was supposed to have been murdered on Parker Run, about twelve years ago, is being revived, but no further evidence has been developed. Rev. H. Berkstresser closed a series of revival meetings in Syracuse charge, on Sunday evening last, says the Middleport Republican, with an accession of seventy members to the church. On Saturday of last week, Robert McElhinney, an age citizen of Rutland township, died from the effects of being accidentally hit on the head by a stone thrown by some parties a few days previously. Thomas U. White, who during the latter part of the war purchased the Pomeroy Telegraph, and owned and edited it for four years, recently died at his residence in Bantam, Clermont County, of jaundice. The miners working for the Buckeye Furnace, at Pomeroy, and who have declined joining in the current miner's strike at that point on a recent night, had their tools, consisting of picks, drills, needles, etc., broke up by persons unknown. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio March 1, 1877
Meigs Johnson's new coal bank near Hanesville is being operated. A new bell tower is being erected on Progressive Hall in Wilksville. Bear-wallow District has an organized and well governed literary society. Corn, standing in the shock, in Rutland township, damaged more or less by rats. A little child of J. S. Giles, attorney at law at Pomeroy, died the other day from the effects of a scald. The striking miners at Minersville last week rejected a proposition to go to work at 2 1/4 cents per bushel. There appears to be no abatement in the oil excitement that has for some months been extant in portions of this county. The Jewish ladies of Pomeroy gave a ball at that place on Monday evening for the benefit of the Jewish Orphan Asylum at Cleveland. Nathan Edmundson, an old and respectable citizen of Salem township, died at his residence near Salem Center, Monday, February 12. Albert Hazelwood, who sued the city of Pomeroy for damage done his property on cutting down the grade of a street, was given a verdict of about $2,000. The "boys" of Dexter and Columbia townships, were lately out in force after a certain "old white tipped fox" which they succeeded in failing to capture. A farmer named Perry Bailey, living in the vicinity of Pomeroy, was found dead near his residence. Wednesday afternoon last week. He was subject to fits. Mr. Hod. Condee, of Middleport, says the Telegraph, has suspended business for the present, and has turned his property over to the Sheriff to secure his creditors. John Henderson and Samuel Binford, for stealing and burglary, were last week sentenced by the Court of Common Pleas of this county to the Penitentiary for one and three years respectively. The funeral services of Annie Turnbull, an estimable young lady and daughter of Mr. Thomas Turnbull, of Middleport, took place at the M. E. Church at that place on Sunday afternoon of last week. Mrs. Joe Fisher of Middleport, while attempting to fill a lighted lamp with coal oil on night last week, experienced the usual result in such cases and was very seriously burned about the arms face and breast. Mrs. Martha Cooper, widow of the late Wm. Cooper, of Rutland, a pensioner of the war of 1812, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Rupe, on the evening of 16th, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. She was sick only five days. The boiler of the Clifton Nail-keg Factory, opposite Middleport, exploded on Wednesday afternoon of last week, instantly killing four men and wounding about a dozen others, some of them supposed fatally. Morgan Barker, a boy, was blown a distance of seventy-five feet and escaped unhurt. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio March 8, 1877
Meigs Eight colored converts were immersed at the Middleport wharf on Sunday of last week. Mrs. Brine, mother of Mrs. B. F. Stivers, of Pomeroy, died quite suddenly, on Sunday of last week. A sow owned by Mr. Alonzo Chase, of Rutland, lately produced 21 pigs in one litter, but two of them, however, living. The net proceeds of the recent Ball, at Pomeroy, for the benefit of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, amounts to over $100. The Telegraph says, the Pomeroy Soap Co. have got the new factory in operation and made their first batch of Monday of last week. Caywood's sugar camp, in Salem, one of the most valuable camps in that section, lately had all its trees girdled by some miscreant. The house of William C. Cottrill, of Salem, with most of its contents was lately burned. The family was away from home at the time. The house was new. The consummation of a wedding, in Salem, lately, was prevented by the expectant bridegroom failing to put in an appearance at the critical juncture. The case of Frank Ingersoll, late of Pomeroy, charged with embezzling, has been dismissed, the Grand Jury having refused to find an indictment against him. A recent attempt to hold a protracted meeting at Dexter Chapel, Salem township, was frustrated by demonstrations of rowdyism on the part of local ruffians. Mr. Robert Watson, who has lived on Hysell Run, in Rutland township, a number of years, recently sold his farm and bought another in Putnam county, West Va. James Cahoon, Jr., who recently got out of the penitentiary, is in limbo again, at Pomeroy, for stealing a sack of flour, the sale of which enabled him to indulge in his weakness for a spree. Mr. James Jenkenson, of Salisbury township, who is ninety-two years of age has mined all the coal used by his family this past winter. And he is as hearty and rugged as most men of fifty. Dr. A. H. Whitfield, (African,) of Pomeroy, last week, was called to pay five dollars and costs in the municipal exchequer of that place for the luxury of addressing obscene language to a female. Mrs. John Ripley, of Middleport precinct, says the Republican, brought to this office on Thursday last, an egg almost perfectly round, two inches in circumference, which was found within the yolk of a common egg. The Middleport Herald says: Several gentlemen from the regions of Pennsylvania have been in this vicinity, this week, looking at the oil prospects. They are of the opinion that there is very little oil in Meigs county. In the recent application in the Probate Court, of this county, to have a guardian appointed for Isaac Radford, whose mental unsoundness was assumed on the ground that his wife unduly influence him, it was adjudged that there was no law for the appointment of guardians for hen-pecked husbands. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio March 15, 1877
Meigs There are 17 divorce suits, in the Pomeroy courts this term. Lafayette McGuire, of Rutland lately broke his leg while engaged in hopping. At Clifton, opposite Pomeroy, Eliza Butcher, aged 15, was lately burned to death by her clothes taking fire at the kitchen stove. It is apprehended that serious consequences will ensue to E. A. Gardner, of Rutland, as the result of lately having a number of jaw teeth extracted. Mrs. Judge Plants delivered a lecture at the Opera House, in Pomeroy, on Friday evening last; her subject being "The True Woman" in opposition to Woman Suffrage. Mrs. Lydia Clark, a teacher in the Middleport M. E. Sabbath School for nearly fourteen years last past was absent from her post for the first time on Sunday of last week, which was occasioned by sickness. Miss Anna Hughes, now teaching in the Rutherford district, commenced the business of teaching at the early age of fifteen, and she has taught thirty-five terms, all in Rutland and Salem townships, except two. Last Sunday, the 4th of March, there were born to Captain and Mrs. O. P. Skinner, of Middleport, two sons. -- In honor of the day and the blorious results of the electoral county, they were promptly names Hayes and Wheeler. -- Telegraph Benton Carl, of Bedford township had a horse stolen from his stable one night last week. He found out that it was gone within a few minutes, and started out in pursuit with one of his brothers. They came up with the man on his horse within a mile or so and got the horse. The thief took to the brush before they got close enough to recognize him. -- Telegraph A Rutland correspondent of the Middleport Herald says: On last Saturday the wife of J. W. Nelson met with a very serious accident. On going to stop a cow that had a young calf, the cow accidentally struck Mrs. Nelson in the eye with one horn, completely tearing out the eye. Fears are entertained that the injury will prove fatal. Mrs. Nelson has been delirious most of the time since the occurrence. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio March 22, 1877
Meigs Silas Winn and wife, of Rutland, have removed to Kansas. Mrs. Cynthia Percy, age 92 died on the 12th inst. William C. Hays, Ex-commissioner of this county, with his family has removed to Missouri. The Pomeroy rolling mill says the Telegraph has stopped operations to await the termination of the miner's strike. Mrs. Hannah White, wife of Calvary White, of Harrisonville, died very suddenly of heart disease, on Sunday of last week. Mrs. John Aiken, of Middleport who has long been suffering from a whitlow, affecting her thimble-finger, has been obliged to have it amputated. John E. Stansbury, says a Rutland correspondent of the Middleport Herald, has a eve sheep that has produced 7 lambs inside of 17 months, first 3 in Jan. '76, 2 in the summer, and now 2 more in February. All lived, and the last two doing well. John Onyon, of Middleport, attempted suicide at Portsmouth on Friday morning, by throwing himself under the baggage car of a passenger train. The break beam pushed him nearly off the track, he escaping with a badly fractured arm and bruised head. He will probably recover. Whisky. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio April 5, 1877
Meigs Phillip Hobstetter, a promising young man of Chester, recently died. S. O. Crawford Esq. and family have removed from Middleport to Greenfield, Highland county. Arthur Merrill aged 24, formerly of Rutland township, died recently quite suddenly, in Cabel county, West Va. Nine members, of Mr. Samuel Stevens' family, of Lotta, were recently down at one time, with the sore throat. Elder Louis V. Pickens commenced a series of meetings, at the Christian Church, in Middleport on Saturday evening. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio April 19, 1877
Meigs Mrs. S. S. Rice, aged 76, of Chester, died on the 7th inst. James Dana, living in the south part of Rutland township, died recently of consumption. J. E. Stanbury, of Rutland township, lately bad a choice flock sheep nearly destroyed by dogs. Mr. John Stanley, says the Pomeroy Telegraph, walked from his home on Irwin Creek, one day last week, to Pageville, a distance of four miles -- Mr. Stanley is in his eighty-eighth year, and bids fair for several years yet. Thirty years ago, a Lotta correspondent of the Telegraph, Uncle Tim. Vining, bored a hole in a tree and put a lock of his son's hair in it, and drove a plug in the hole solid and tight, as a sure cure for phthisis. A few days ago the son cut the tree down and found the hair in a perfect state of preservation. The Middleport Herald says; Mr. R. C. Grant, of this town, has recently perfected and completed a nail machine that promises fair to revolutionize the business. It operates on an entirely new principle, with a rotary motion, and is self-feeding. A plate dropped in the hoper is cut up into perfectly headed nails, that drop below, ready for blueing. We saw the machine in operation, and those interested in mechanic will find it a rare curiosity. Two machines are already ordered by a prominent nail company, where they will have a thorough test. The following are the principal losers by the Pomeroy fire on Wednesday night of last week, and of which we made brief mention in the Messenger of the following day. A.W. Sebohm, dwelling, $4,000, insurance $2,500; Nicholas Klein, furniture store and stock, $3,400, no insurance; D. Geyer & Son, dry goods store, $10,000, insurance $5,000: Jones, Thomas & Gerheimer, hardware store, $18,000, insurance $8,500; Henry Neutzling, saloon and dwelling, $3,500, insurance $1,200; J.C. Probst & Son, furniture store, $8,000, insurance $3,500; Mrs. Dubach, saloon and dwelling, $1,500, no insurance; Chas. Bickman, jeweler, $2,500, insured; Huttel & Gibsell, merchant tailors, $3,500, insurance $1,000; W.J. Pratt, hardware store, $1,500; D.C. Whaly, dentist, $2,000; S.A.M. Moore, two store rooms, $2,000; Abe Geyer, feed store, Mrs. Humphrey, dwelling, and McKnight, blacksmith, and Dr. Train, about $500 each; Daniel Davis building' used for lawyers; offices, $1,200; W. H. Lasley, same, $1,000 insured. The building belonging to Dr. Reed and the First National Bank was damaged about $3,000. The Masonic Lodges occupying the upper floor lost about $6,000 worth of furniture, paraphernalia, &c. Exactly how the fire originated is not yet know, and there are the incendiary theory, the cigar theory and the spontaneous combustion theory, but no certainty as to which is correct. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
unknown Meigs County newspaper April 25, 1877
Deaths The oldest man in Rutland Twp, Mr ELIHU HIGLEY, departed this life, April 23, at the age of 88 yrs. He was a native of Granby, Hartford Co, Connecticut. His father's family with 2 other families - Dan'l Rathburn & James Phelps moved to this place in the autumn of 1803. The 1st settlement having commenced only 3 or 4 yrs previous. He married the daughter of Mr. RICHARD COOK, a sister of the late RUSSELL G COOK. He was a soldier of the war of 1812 for 18 months & also drew a pension. He has been feeble several years and his wife [NANCY COOK - trans.] died a few years since. He leaves an only daughter, MRS MARTIN FOX to mourn his loss. [Transcribed by Evelyn Morgan]
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio April 26, 1877
Meigs George Womeldorff has been appointed Postmaster at Middleport. The Middleport Herald says, that the prospects are favorable for a good peach crop in this county. Miss Albina Giles, aged 28, died at her home in Rutland township, on the 12th inst., of typhoid fever. About fifty farms are offered for sale in Rutland township, owing, mostly to contemplated removals west by their owners. The house of Jerry Davis, in Salem township, was lately burglarized and $5 taken, the thieves missing $300 that was in another part of the house. Ed. Grimes, says a Rutland correspondent, of the Middleport Republican, has traded his farm in Kansas, for the McHaffee Mills, on Big Leading Creek. A coal digger, by the name of David Edwards, while working in the Peacock mine, near Middleport, on Thursday afternoon last, was dangerously hurt by a fall of slate. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio May 3, 1877
Meigs Henry McCormick died in Rutland township on the 22nd ult, of consumption. Mr. Elihu Higley, aged 88, who was the oldest man in Rutland township, died on the 23d ult. Thurman Kennedy, aged 16, died in Rutland township on the 22nd ult. after a year's sickness. Rev. W. E. Powell, of Ravenswood, has settled at Pomeroy as the pastor of the First Baptist Church. "Bob" Selby, aged 26, and a Miss Murry, aged 16, eloped from Rutland township on Sunday of last week. Patrick McNutly, a prisoner, set fire to his bed in the jail at Pomeroy on Tuesday of last week, for which he is held to answer for arson. Prof. J. M. Black, of Rutland, has commenced suit against Thomas E. Stevens, of the same township for slander, laying his damages at $4,000. A farm house with its contents, belonging to Wm. Morton, in Salem township, Meigs county, was destroyed by fire on Monday of last week. The Universalists of Middleport and Gallipolis have made arrangements for the Rev. J. D. Lauer to take charge of the churches in the two cities. The Court of Common Pleas of this county will commence its May term on Monday, May 7th, with Judge S. S. Knowles, of Marietta, on the bench. There are two hundred and sixty civil cases on the docket, and four criminal cases. The former include eighteen divorce cases. A Pennsylvania oil company, with a capital of $20,000, has been organized, and have taken some leases of farms over on the creek, They announce their intention of commencing operations on J. B. Bradford's place week after next, and to thoroughly test the territory. -- Pomeroy Telegraph. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio May 10, 1877
Meigs This county has 31 postoffice; six less than Athens. A dog in Rutland lately killed eighty rats in one day. S. F. Stevens, of Rutland township, lately moved into his fine new edi-fice situated on the Rutland and Middleport road. William Sims, of Rutland, lately received by mail, from his brother in Nevada, an Irish potato weighting three pounds. Daniel Gillilan has traded his farm of 80 acres, in Lebanon township, to J. M. Crary for 160 acres in Jefferson county, Kansas. Mr. Gillilan will move to Kansas this fall. Pomeroy Telegraph: The fattest cattle in the county, probably, was the pair sold by Mr. William E. Hysell, a couple of weeks ago, to Frank Gloechner. They weighted 3,220 pounds. A unsuccessful attempt was made to burglarize Remington's store at Pomeroy on Monday night of last week, by a colored boy, named Henry Goings, who had, during the day stolen the key of the front door. On Sunday of last week, David West, n a drunken quarrel in Stieff's saloon at Pomeroy, shot Thos. Dunn with a pistol, the ball entering his shoulder. In the Mayor's Court, the day after West claimed he was so drunk at the time that he now has no recollection whatever in regard to the affair and can not tell how it originated or what it was about. He was bound over for his appearance at Court. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio May 17, 1877
Meigs Mr. G. W. Todd, of Pomeroy, takes charge of the St. James Hotel in Middleport this week. The Pomeroy Telegraph seems to be real mad because John Robinson's show gave Meigs county the "go by." During the past year, Mrs. J. M. Cook, of Rutland made 1,000 pounds of butter and 1,000 pounds of cheese. The Pomeroy Flour Company, says the Telegraph, is shelling about ten thousand bushels of corn, to be shipped to parties in Baltimore. Sheebers, the landlord of the Hein House, says the Pomeroy Telegraph, has abolished his bar, and the house will hereafter be run without that attachment. Fred Gressell, who works for the Sugar Run Salt company, at Pomeroy, accidentally stepped into one of the grainers, recently, severely scalding his foot and ankle. Pomeroy Telegraph: Every saloon in town had its side door opened last Sunday, contrary to the ordinance, and they were all lighted up until late in the night. Councilmen should either repeal the ordinance or have it enforced. Pomeroy Telegraph: Messrs. Truman and Marshal held their farewell temperance meeting here at the Presbyterian Church last Saturday evening. If those who have signed the pledge will "stick" these gentlemen have done much good for Pomeroy. John Hampton, of Pomeroy, has invented an appliance for preventing a cow's switching her tail into the milker's face. Any one who has performed the solemn duty of milking in fly time can readily understand the pressing need of such an invention. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio May 24, 1877
Meigs David Saunders, age 89, one of the earliest pioneers of Rutland township, is back here on a visit. Mr. John S. Giles, of Rutland, is the father of twenty-two children, eighteen of whom are now living. The Pomeroy Telegraph says that the potato bugs are making their appearance on Letart Bottom in vast quantities. J. E. Cartwright, Esq., son of Judge Cartwright, of Pomeroy, graduated with credit at the Cincinnati Law School on the 9th inst. A little girl eight years old, named Kate Heilman, living at Monkey Run, had her throat dangerously cut some days since by falling on a picket fence. Mr. James Oty, of Dexter township, lately, to prevent his cow from kicking while being milked broke her neck with a club, which device succeeded admirably. Old citizens inform us says the Middleport Republican, that forty-three years ago last Monday morning, May 14th, Leading Creek was frozen over with a thick coating of ice. A burglar was lately frightened away from "Big Will" Saxton's, in Dexter township, by the cry of a baby, whence it follows that every family should keep a baby if only as a burglar alarm. The Pomeroy Telegraph says that the young man, Cyrus Moore, of Chester township, who was lately incurred by the accidental discharge of his gun while shooting rats, had to have his arm amputated. Middleport Republican: The trail of David Bailey, Esq., of Chester, for bastardy, on Saturday last, in Pomeroy, resulted in his acquittal -- The charge was made by one Ellen Smith, who had resided in the family of Mr. Bailey. The evidence showed most clearly a well arranged case of blackmailing. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio June 14, 1877
Meigs A miner named Gress was severely hurt in the Minersville coal bank recently, by a fall of slate. James N. Hostetter, of Tupper's Plains, has got himself into trouble with the U.S. authorities for dealing in tobacco without license -- so charged. George Bare, an old man who lives back of Minersville, was lately very severely injured by jumping from his wagon during the running away of his team. The wife of Prof. W. S. Weeden of Pomeroy, had a narrow escape from fatal consequences last week by taking in mistake an excessive dose of morphine. A couple of men from Pittsburg have commenced sinking an oil well in the front yard of James Martin, about a mile from town, near where Russell struck oil last winter. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio June 21, 1877
Meigs Earl Cranston is visiting relatives and friends in Middleport. Hays & Giles, Attorneys of Middleport, have dissolved partnership. Powell & Son of Middleport produce strawberries, 30 of which make a quart. A young son of Jas. Hopkins, a former resident of Middleport, was drowned in the Kanawha on the 5th inst. Mr. Isaac Haysell, a Meigs county adventurer in the black Hills, has lost one of his eyes by accident but no rich gold find is yet reported. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio June 28, 1877
Meigs Silas Jones of Racine had three ribs broken lately by being thrown from a buggy. Dr. Jas. E. Brown, of Rutland, who was well and widely known, recently died suddenly of heart disease. The most prolific cheese manufacturer in Rutland township is Mrs. Cavender, who made 1,900 pounds last season. William Williams, a miner in Ebenezer Williams' bank, lately had his right thigh crushed by falling under a bank car. George, aged 15, son of Mr. J. G. Hopp, of Middleport, fell and broke his collar bone one day last week, cherry tree. Conrad Stieff, a Pomeroy saloonist, lately, during a scrimmage, bit a piece of Adam Brandenburg's nose, permanently disfiguring him. Bergin, who lately murdered McBride at Mt. Vernon, is a son of Wm. Bergin who years ago conducted a tannery on Sugar Run near Pomeroy. We learn from the Albany Echo that Mr. A. J. Carpenter, of Columbia township, lately had quite a narrow escape from drowning in Five Mile Creek; a bridge over which stream having given away during the late freshet while he was in the act of driving over it. Dr. (?) Whitfield, colored, of Pomeroy, was lately legally adjudged to pay a colored plaintiff $64 and costs whom he had beguiled into rendering him some months service and paying him $150 by promising, at the end of a certain time, to award him a medical diploma that would entitle him the privilege of practicing medicine, a promise which, of course, he was without authority to make good. We omitted in the last issue of the Messenger to give the nominations made by the Republican Convention of this county on the Saturday previous. They are as follows: Representatives, J. L. Carpenter; Auditor, Geo. P. Sanford; Prosecuting Attorney, Ira Graham; Sheriff, Capt. Henry Warren; Coroner, J. B. Scott; Commissioner, C.B. Langhead; Infirmary Director, Jasper G. Forrest. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio July 5, 1877
Meigs Mr. Zadock Robison died in Rutland township on June 21st. S. T. McLain of Rutland has a dog that has caught about a thousand rats this spring. The Telegraph mentions a six month old pig belonging to Mr. John A. Hopkins, of Pomeroy, that weighs 242 1/2 pounds. John Stephens of Salem sheared 782 pounds of wool from 157 sheep; William Cahoon sheared 143 pounds from 26 eves. John Allensworth lost his life by "damps" while working in a well last week, on the farm of A. B. Donnally, about three miles from Pomeroy. The crystal wedding of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Stephens on the 21 ult. is refered to as the grandest affair of the kind ever known in Rutland township. Rutland Correspondent: Mrs. Holt, of this village, who has been engaged in the bird business for some time, has a red bird, which has taken charge of a young Oriole, and feeds it as a mother bird, and appears to regard it with the same tender care. Mr. J. H. Strong, the line repairer of the Western Union Telegraph Company made a narrow escape from death by lightening in Pomeroy one day last week. He was knocked down and rendered unconscious. He did not get over the effects of it for two or three days. Edna Draper, white, and Mrs. Keys, colored, engaged in a bloody recounter in Pomeroy, one day last week about a dog during which Edna threw a iron tool at Keys, hitting her on the head and cutting a gash from which the flood flowed freely; whereupon the latter closed in with Edna, threw her down and hammered her in the head with a iron sledge, making some bad bruises and cuts. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio July 12, 1877
Meigs The oil wells of Rutland township have been temporarily abandoned. Judge Heckard, of Pomeroy, died at his residence on Monday evening, July 2d, aged about 68 years. Mr. Curtis D. Reed of Pomeroy and Miss L. Alberts McElhinny, of Middleport, were married on the 18th. Mrs. Isabella Coe, of Harrisonville, has a quilt containing 2610 pieces, which she quilted herself entirely at the age of 77. A five year old son of a Mr. Miller, residing on or near Grass Run, was recently frightfully cut in the face by falling on a scythe during a visit at a Mr. McElhinney's in Rutland. Miss Lillie M. Weldon, of Middleport, who possesses rare ability as an artist, returned last week from Hillsdale (Mich.) College which she has been attending during the past year. Pomeroy Telegraph: News was received here yesterday that the body of James Davis, formerly a boiler in the rolling mill, was found at the mouth of a creek at Chambersburg, Gallia county one day last week. It was identified by a due bill in one of his pockets. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio July 19, 1877
Meigs Tupper's Plains in this county was first settled in 1802. Elder Wiggins, pastor at Dexter chapel, recently preached his farewell sermon there. Mr. John Ohlinger died at his residence in Chester township, on Sunday of last week. Abner Bickel, of Rutland, has a son, only ten years of age, that weights one hundred pounds. Mrs. Jenkins of Letart, recently seriously poisoned herself with drinking water from a brass kettle. Mrs. Asahel Skinner, of Rutland was lately taken to the insane Asylum at Athens for medical treatment. Mrs. Weigard of Letart was last week thrown from a horse without, however, receiving serious injury. Mrs. John Woodard, age 80, of Rutland died on the 7th inst. Her husband who services her is a pensioner of the war of 1812. J. F. Stevens's fine new building in Rutland which he had recently moved, was lately struck by lightning the members of the family narrowly escaping injury. At the Catholic Pic-nic, Pomeroy, on the Fourth a young man named Peter Goeit was shot in the ankle by another young man named Phillip Snyder. The shooting was accidental. Meigs county has now over a dozen more insane people in the Asylums of the State than it is entitled to according the proportion of inhabitants, and still, says the Telegraph, there is more to follow. On Monday of last week Robert Higginbothan was terribly cut in the arm with a bowie knife in the hands of Charley Carlile during a quarrel over a game of cards in a Middleport saloon. Carlile and his brother Lee were afterwards arrested in the Virginia side and are in jail. The Meigs County Democratic convention was held at Pomeroy on Saturday and nominated the following ticket: For Representative, James M. Evans; Auditor, J.P. Stewart; Sheriff, J. Middeswart; Prosecuting Attorney, Martin Harris; Commissioner, J. F. Davis; Coroner, J. R. Winget; Infirmary Director, Jacob S. E. Age??. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio July 26, 1877
Meigs At the late funeral of Azom Stiles, of Rutland, Rev. T. A. Welsh preached the thirteenth funeral sermon for the Stiles family. Pomeroy Telegraph: Building operations are going on rapidly in the square which was burned off. Klein's building is about completed, and is now occupied by him. All the balance will be completed and occupied before cold weather. Anna Humin, aged 11, daughter of Conrad Humin of Pomeroy, met with a frightful death on Tuesday of last week, as a result of the too common practice of kindling fire with coal oil. The Telegraph says she was literally roasted all over her person. Marshal Simms of Pomeroy, has been bound over to answer at court for his unwarranted treatment of two strangers whom he took from the Exchange Hotel, where they were stopping, and upon vague suspicion that they were not "all right" cowhided them beyond the corporate limits. Valiant Marshal. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio August 2, 1877
Meigs Judge A. Merrill, of Rutland is confined to his bed, in a very critical condition. Jas. M. Evans the Democratic nominee for Representative from this county has withdrawn from the ticket. Wm. L. Bellows, of Rutland, was lately thrown in front of his mowing machine resulting in severe injury to his left hand. Mr. Stephen Chapman, an old citizen of Letart Township, died Sunday morning of last week. The deceased was one of the oldest setters of the township. The carpenters and caulkers of Middleport held a meeting last week at which resolutions were passed demanding an increase of 25 cents per day, and pay in cash instead of store orders, and also ten hours for a day's work. Ellsworth, aged about eighteen, son of Wesley Carpenter, of Columbia township; this county says the Albany Echo, got both bones of his leg broke just above the ankle, on Monday last by being thrown from a mule. One of the hardest workers for Hon. Geo. L. Converse was Hon. D. H. Grosvenor, who was at Columbus early, and labored earnestly for his nomination. Mr. Converse owes his defeat to Mr. Grosvenor's championship as much as to any other cause. -- Middleport Herald. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio August 9, 1877
Meigs Dr. O. G. Chase, formerly of Rutland was recently married to Miss Smith, of Nebraska. John Rush, a farmer near Letart, realized an average of 33 1/2 bushels of wheat to the acre from his late harvest. W. L. Bellows, near Rutland, lately had one of his hands badly cut by being thrown in front of a mowing machine. Mr. John Chatman died, July 26, at the residence of H. C. Maguire, in Rutland, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. Willis Stratton and Arthur Dennis are in limbo at Pomeroy for a recent burglary of the saloon of a Mrs. Birtcher in that place. The regular annual meeting of the Meigs County Pioneer Society will be held at the Presbyterian Church in Middleport to-day. Wm. Williams, of Minerville, is recovering from what were at the time supposed to be fatal injuries received in a mine on the 18th of June. Richard Buckley, age 71, sent from this county a few months since to the Athens Hospital for Insane died in that Institution on Tuesday of last week. Mr. Charles Weiskittle, age 44, died at his residence in Pomeroy Sunday morning of last week of dropsy, after having been confined to his bed for over a year. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio August 16, 1877
Meigs Mrs. Luana Gardin, of Rutland, was last week reported dangerously ill. Mr. and Mrs. Florentine Forrest, of Rutland, lately celebrated their tin wedding. Mrs. Gordon, aged 86, of Rutland was not expected to live at the close of the week. Miss Electa Chase, of Rutland, will shortly take charge of a select school at Salem Center. Mrs. Lucy Hooper, widow of the late Dr. Hooper, of Rutland, is rapidly falling in health. Major S. N. Titus, formerly of this county has received the Republican nomination for Sheriff of Marion County. Rev. W.M. Jones, the new Universalist pastor at Middleport, preached his initial sermon at that place on Sunday last. A daughter of Mr. Madison Page, of Rutland, was recently thrown from a mule, and very severely injured about the face and head. Sandford Shutt, of Middleport, a recent graduate of Oberlin, will his fall take charge of the Bellville, Richland Co. Schools. Prof. J. H. Charter, of Athens, lectured on the subject of education at the Rutland Freewill Baptist church last evening, 15th inst. For several years past, the average yield of Hon. V. B. Horton's farms, made up of hill and bottom lands, has says the Pomeroy Telegraph, been about 33 bushels of wheat per acre. A vacant house owned by Mrs. Lydia Hysell, of Middleport, situated near the Laurel Cliff School House, was totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday night of last week. Incendiary. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio August 23, 1877
Meigs The Pomeroy Catholic Orphan Asylum has been removed to Columbus. Phil Dean, a well known stock dealer, of this county, has gone into bankruptcy. Geo. V. Lasher, of Rutland, from four square rods of ground raised potatoes at the rate of 460 bushels to the acre. Wm. Bergin, convicted last week, at Mt. Vernon, of murder in the first degree, was formerly a resident of Pomeroy. Mrs. Roxalana Hinkley, better known as Grandmother Hinkley, who was born in 1770, died at the residence of her son-on-law, B. Halsey, in Chester township, Wednesday, August 8th. Recently the family carriage of Mr. Gorham Oaks, of Rutland, containing himself and five others, women and children, was thrown from a bridge near New Lima, the carriage turning bottom up, covering its occupants, none of whom, very strangely, were seriously injured. John S. Giles, Esq., of Pomeroy, read before the late meeting of the Meigs County Pioneer Society an account of a contest between the slaveholders of Virginia and the freemen of Meigs county, which took place away back in 1823, and which may be considered the commencement of the slavery agitation which finally resulted in its overthrow. Mrs. George Masser, living on Breezy Height, Pomeroy, one day last week, had her attention, by the furious barking of a dog, drawn to a two year old daughter who had fallen into a tub of water in the door yard and when found was very nearly dead. The child, however, was restored by the prompt and proper exertions of the wife and daughter of the editor of the Telegraph, who live near by the locality of the accident. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio August 30, 1877
Meigs Mrs. Maria Holt, of Rutland, lately had five out of nine birds contained in a cage, killed by a rat. Major Skinner, Treasurer elect of this county, assumed his duties last Monday. He will make a popular and efficient officer. Mr. Martin Hecox, of Chester, who was seriously injured sometime since by being thrown form his buggy, is gratifyingly improving. A Chester man, says a correspondent, is brother-in-law of one of his own children. How we would like to know, is this to be cyphered out. A party who lately assembled at Sutton Chapel in the Nease settlement to see a marriage ceremony performed were disappointed by an announcement that the marriage had been postponed. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio September 6, 1877
Meigs Lewis Weaver, of Antiquity, has a four winged chicken. Hon. V. B. Horton's hill farm, back of Minersville, yielded 52 62-100 bushels of wheat per acre the past season. The Republicans of Rutland will meet en masse on the 15th inst. Hon. T. A. Plants and others will address them. Hon. H. S. Bundy and Jas. B. Payne Esq. addressed an immense Murphy meeting recently in Hand's Woods east of Wilksville. Capt. Sam. Womeldorff of the Middleport wharf boat was severely injured one day last week by falling over the stone wall at the foot of Coal street in that place. Abner, aged 12, son of John Esselstein, of Chester township, narrowly escaped fatal injuries, lately, by being struck on the head by the lever of an old fashioned cider mill at which he was at work. Joshua Harpold, of this county, who went to the Black Hills last spring, was, says the Pomeroy Telegraph, shot by the Indians about the first of July, while working his claim about three miles from Deadwood. The residence of Mr. Myron Harper, in Bedford township, was, with the greater part of its contents, destroyed by fire Monday night of last week. The Telegraph says, that over one hundred bushels of oats, fifty to sixty bushels of wheat, nearly all the furniture, dishes, cooking utensils, bedding and wearing apparel of the family were destroyed. Mr. Harper has no insurance. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio September 13, 1877
Meigs Dr. Martin, of Pageville, have moved near Longsville, to practice medicine. Sheriff McElroy has been elected a member of the Middleport School Board. Mrs. Eliza Rice, aged 77, after an illness of a week, died at her residence on Leading Creek, Wednesday of last week. J.F. Stevens, of Rutland, and Ira Nobles and Charles Logan, of Middleport, have been prospecting for silver near Pageville. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio September 20, 1877
Meigs Asa McNeil, of Orange, says the Telegraph, has a steer three years and seven months old that weights 1,800 pounds A boy named Thompson stabbed with nearly fatal effect, a colored boy named Geo. Burns, in Pomeroy, on Wednesday of last week. George Davis, a much respected citizen of Columbia township, was last week lying dangerously will, with but little hopes of recovery. The Pomeroy Telegraph says: Capt. Thomas Alexander, of Letart, estimates that there will be thirty thousand barrels of potatoes taken South this fall from this region. Mr. M. J. Tewksberry, Postmaster at Valley Ford the ???? of whose dwelling and ???? by the ??? last spring we [unable to read the next two lines] this fall. Samuel G. Castor, of Valley Ford, lately had restored to him a pocket book containing over $6? which he had lost 7 or 8 years ago. His little girl found it, where he had placed it, in an old bureau drawer. The Middleport Woolen Mills, lately had a narrow escape from destruction by fire as the result of a spark from a lamp dropping into some waste. Prompt exertions served to confine the loss to about $200. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio September 27, 1877
Meigs Mr. B. F. Stivers and family, late of Pomeroy, have removed to La Rue, Marion Co., in this State. A large black riding horse belonging to S.A.M. Moore, says the Telegraph, died of lock jaw last Sunday. Mrs. Katherine Grey, the noted elocutionist and dramatic reader, gave an entertainment at the Pomeroy Opera House, on Tuesday evening. Mr. Jeremiah F. Brown, an old and respected citizen of this county, died at his residence in Tupper's Plains, on Tuesday 13th inst., aged something over seventy years. Mrs. Sarah B. Torrence, an aged lady of Rutland, while on the way to the fair, on Saturday, was thrown out of the wagon, and received severe injuries about the head. Her recovery is hopeful. Mr. Thomas E. Stevens, of Rutland township, informs us that he has an application for forth miners to go to Webster, Iowa, and mine coal. The price paid for mining there, he says is $1 per ton; the depth of the vein is four feet, work steady. - Pomeroy Telegraph The Bank of Middleport, J. V. Lasher, President, and D. H. Lasley, Cashier, temporarily embarrassed, suspended payment on Friday. Assets and liabilities unknown. The depositors will be arranged with. -- This bank has no connection whatever with the First National Bank of Middleport, R. R. Hudson, President, and Jno. B. McElhenny, Cashier. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio October 4, 1877
Meigs A.M. Barlow, Esq., an aged citizen of Middleport, has lately been dangerously ill with an affection of the bowels. Geo. Kayser, of Columbia township took the first premium and sweepstakes with his Pennsylvania Buck at the Fair of this county. Mr. George McCarty, an aged residence of Dexter, was seriously, and it is apprehended fatally, injured by a fall from his porch, recently. Walter Scott, of Middleport, aged fourteen, whose mind has become deranged from excessive study, was lately removed to the Athens Insane Asylum. Thomas Webb, of Columbia township, this county, was lately seized by two ruffians near Harmar, Washington county, thrown to the ground and robbed of $160. A public meeting is called for today, October 4th, at Keeper's school house, Columbia township, to further the project of a tri-weekly mail between Albany and Hanesville. Leonard Schriber lately killed 15 copperhead snakes that he found under a single rock in Hysell Run, and Presby Gardner killed seven in the same neighborhood. It is now the Albany Echo's turn. The residence of Capt. W. L. Downing, on Lincoln Hill, Pomeroy, was partially destroyed by fire on Wednesday of last week. Loss of property and furniture about $2,000, which was wholly covered by insurance. Rufas Bratton, of Columbia township, who was sent to jail several weeks since for an attempted outrage upon a little girl, had a rehearing before the probate Court one day last week, it having been sought to obtain his release on the plea of insanity, but without avail, and he was recommitted. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio October 18, 1877
Meigs Mr. John McCornice to Miss Nancy Grimes, was a recent Rutland marriage. Miss Alice Grant, of Pomeroy, who has been suffering from an attack of malarial fever is recovering. The improvements on the Court House at Pomeroy are about completed and it is now much larger and more attractive looking building than formerly. Mr. Peter Powell, of Harrisonville, says the Pomeroy Telegraph, sold a calf, last Friday, to Mr. Frank Glockner, of this city, that weighted 500 pounds, The calf was 4 months old. On Wednesday evening of last week, during an altercation at Farmer's Run, four miles back of Racine, a man named Wilcoxen was instantly killed by a blow on the neck with a brass knuckle by a young man named Carpenter. Rev. Mr. Mathews, late of the Racine M. E. Church, was on the eve of his departure to his new charge at Marietta, in connection with Mrs. M. presented with a fine album by many members of his congregation, and containing the photos of the donors. The Meigs County Telegraph says: one evening last week, as Mrs. John Shaefer, who lives in Letart township, was filling a lamp with oil, while the lamp was lighted, the lamp or the oil can exploded, burning Mrs. Schaefer slightly, and very seriously a little daughter who was standing a short distance from the spot. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio October 25, 1877
Meigs Miss Teddie Coe, of Racine, recently died of consumption. C. C. Hawk has completed the finest barn ever built in Salem township. Mrs. Annie Strong, aged 88, who had been a resident of Salem nearly sixty years, died on the 8th inst. Ex-State Senator, Dr. J. R. Philson of Racine, died quite suddenly on Thursday evening last, of heart disease. Wm. McMillen and Wm. Russell are in the jail of this county for stealing twelve bushels of wheat and some sacks, from John Wiseman of Salem. The oldest resident in Salem at present is Mrs. Young, relict of Nicholas Young, who is 94 years of age. She suffers from a cancer on her lower lip, which is nearly eaten away. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio November 1, 1877
Meigs Alice Chase, of Rutland, has been adjudged insane and sent to the Athens Hospital. Edwin Condee last week plead guilty to an indictment for keeping a grogery near Antiquity and was fined $50 and costs. Wes Carpeter, of Columbia township, recently sold to Mr. Moore, of Philadelphia, four two year old steers whose united weight was 5,650 pounds, an average of 1,415 pounds. Ira Brewster, an aged resident of Salem, was lately run over by a couple of horses while engaged in letting down bars and among others severe injuries, had several of his ribs broken. Rev. Warren Taylor, for twelve years pastor of the Presbyterian church at Wilksville, has taken charge of the congregation at Birmingham in the northern part of Guernsey county. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio November 8, 1877
Meigs The first election in Rutland township, after its organization, was in 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Longstreth, of Rutland, has a girl baby whose weight is 2 1/2 pounds. A Racine girl baby was lately born into the world with seven fingers on each hand. Two young men of Salem are in jail at Pomeroy for burglarizing the barn of John Wiseman. Mr. Jno. Giles, who has been a resident of Rutland township, since about 1814, last week moved to Pomeroy. Judge Stanbery lately fell through a hatchway into the cellar of a new building at Pomeroy and was considerably injured. Miss Mollie Stone, for the past several years a teacher in the Pomeroy public schools, has become insane through overwork and ill health. Recently, John Wolf, an old German citizen of the western part of Chester township, attempted to destroy himself by cutting his arm with a razor. A Rutland correspondent of the Middleport Herald says: Mr. Horace Holt bought in 1838 a drove of one hundred head of steers 4 and 5 years old for the Baltimore market at an average of eight dollars a head, and lost money on them at that. Now such steers would bring more than forty dollars a head. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio November 15, 1877
Meigs Mrs. Davis Cross, of Racine, recently died quite suddenly. The mind of Mr. Wm. Church, of Rutland, is very much improved. Harlow J. Phelps, Esq., of St. Louis, Missouri, a native of Meigs county died in that city, the latter part of October. The dwelling of Mr. S. S. Smith, on Hysell Run, in Rutland township, recently had a narrow escape from destruction by fire. The oldest man in Rutland township now is David Saunders, who is 88 years of age; and the oldest woman is Elizabeth Bellows, nearly 89. This county, on Friday, sent the following persons to the Penitentiary: Charles Carlyle, cutting, etc., four years; Arthur Dennis, burglary and larceny, one year. A Rutland correspondent says: Leading Creek has four grist mills on it, it, all on dead profits so far this fall; but one of the millers thinks the investment better than deposits in the Middleport bank. A correspondent at Enterprise says: There was an old lady came into our village a few nights ago, by the name of Keiser. After considerable German gab, she went away, leaving a nine pound boy with Mr. John and Mrs. Kate Griffiths. Samuel C. Postlethwait, of the First Ward, says the Pomeroy Telegraph, died of paralysis of the brain, last Thursday, Nov. 1st, some what unexpectedly. He was thrown out of a buggy early in the summer and one of his limbs broken, and he received other injuries from which he never fully recovered. Rev. C.P. Maples, Rector of Grace Church, Episcopal, in this city, for some time past has been in an infirm state of health, which has recently resulted in a partial derangement of his mind. Consequently he has not been able to attend to the duties of his position for several weeks past. It is the intentions of his friends to have him removed to the Athens Hospital for the Insane for treatment, if the symptoms should grow more unfavorable. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio November 22, 1877
Meigs W. L. Musser, on Hysell Run, has lately completed the finest barn in the township. Mrs. Lucy J. Pickens has been appointed Assistant Postmistress, at Langsville, in Rutland township. Rev. ? V. Pickens has moved from Rutland to Langsville, having bought the property of J. W. Talbett, at the latter place. For saying that J. M. Black, of Rutland, "swore to a lie," Horace Holt of the same township, is sued for $30,000 damage by the former. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio November 29, 1877
Meigs A six year old daughter of Mr. Melvin Duttons, of Pageville, recently fell from a fence and broke her arm. The miners in Ebenezer Williams' bank struck on Wednesday morning, says the Middleport Herald, but went to work again Thursday. Mr. Chas. Guthrie, of Cheshire, was quite seriously injured by being thrown from his buggy in Pomeroy on Wednesday of last week. At the sale of the homestead of the late L. S. Townsend, says a Pageville correspondent, the window bought the entire property and will continue to occupy it. Wyatt W. Watson, a Rutland farmer, recently lost a number of his front teeth by being kicked in the mouth by a beef which he was in the act of killing. One of a party of young men that lately entered the still house of John Golden, near Pageville, after night and drank heavily of newly distilled corn juice, like to have died as a result. Commissioner Laughead had a cow which committed suicide, says the Telegraph, by jumping over a cliff on his premises in the lower part of Middleport, a few days ago. Domestic infelicity, probably. Timothy Sullivan of Pomeroy, wandered from his home about midnight of Tuesday of last week and is supposed to have drowned himself in the river in as much as he had previously attempted self-destruction. Whisky. A Rutland correspondent says: The notorious Bill Slusher of Gallipolis, came the confidence game on Wm. Rightmire one day last week to the tune of thirty five dollars. The money will likely enable him to make a trip to Columbus this winter. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio December 6, 1877
Meigs Elder L. V. Pickens has been appointed Postmaster at Rutland in place of J. W. Tallbott, who has removed. E. W. Rutherford, of Columbia township, recently sold a Durham thoroughbred bull calf, weighing 575 pounds for $??. James G. Maguire, of Rutland, while recently preparing to start for Pomeroy, was accidentally thrown out of his express wagon backwards, and was severely injured on his side and back. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio December 13, 1877
Meigs Rev. I. Z. Haning is suffering from a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism. L. P. Wright has removed with his family from Pomeroy to Rutland, his former home. Mrs. Robert Decker and little daughter are visiting friends in Jackson county. Will be absent till spring. Miss Ellen Swisher has had her cottage refitted and refurbished, and it is thought will soon dedicate it with a wedding. Married on the evening of the 1st inst., by Geo. V. Lasher, J. P., Mr. Allen Steiff to Miss Hattie Rathburn, all of Rutland. Rev. J. S. Ricketts, of Pleasanton charge, Marietta District, preached at the Pomeroy M.E. Church on Sunday evening the 2nd. The Telegraph says that Gloeckner & Meyers butchered a fat hog, last week, which had three kidneys, perfectly natural and sound. It is certainly unusual. Willie Helm, of Middleport, fell from the wharf at that place, last week, and came near drowning. He was rescued by Mr. Womeldorff who also required assistance before he got him out. John Rawling, a well-to-do farmer of Columbia township, Meigs county, Ohio, left his home on the morning of the 26th of November, 1877. When last seen he wore a dark brown coat, blue jeans pants, and black hat. He is supposed to be temporarily insane. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio December 20, 1877
Meigs Capt. Henry Warren, Sheriff elect, of this county, will take charge of the Sheriff's office, Monday, January 1st. Conrad Humm is in jail at Pomeroy, on the charge of recently burglarizing the grocery store of A. D. Weed, of that place. Miss Jennie Norris, of Letart township, was last week fined one dollar and costs ($64 in call) for assault and battery against Miss Eva Richey of the same township. Henry Carter, a colored porter at the Remington House, Pomeroy, lately cleared himself of the charge of burglarizing a Pomeroy shoe store by proving an alibi. Mr. Walter Hysell, of Pomeroy, was recently very severely burned on the hands while in the act of extinguishing the fire, which had communicated with his wife's dress from the grate. Judge Plants is delivering a course of Sunday afternoon lectures at the Court House in Pomeroy, on the first chapters of Genesis, taking the Swedenborgian view of the Biblical account of creation. At a recent term of the Court of Common Pleas of this county, Mr. Albert Hazelwood, of the first ward, of Pomeroy, obtained a judgment of about two thousand dollars against the city for damages done his property, by reason of cutting down of the street. A couple of weeks since, says the Pomeroy Telegraph, Mr. Junia Castle, of Bedford, while currying one horse was kicked on the forehead by another, and was carried into his house insensible and almost lifeless. He was confined to the house for several days, but is now able to be about. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio December 27, 1877
Meigs Mr. Eli Schilveler, an old citizen of Chester township, died, Saturday night, 15th inst., of abscess of the liver. Mr. Francis O. Cobb, of Salem, evidently did his courting close at home as he recently married A. Neighborgali. The commissioners, says the Telegraph, last week let the contract of putting a plank road through Cook's Gap to Junia Castle for $342.50. Rev. I. Z. Haning, says the Rutland correspondent of the Telegraph, is still confined to his room, and the probabilities are that he will not be able to travel and preach to any of his churches this winter. Father Michael Hern, pastor of the Catholic congregation at Wilksville, Vinton county, was recently calaboosed at Pomeroy, for getting drunk and cutting up Ned, and on the following morning was arraigned in the Mayor's Court where he paid $9.60 for his fun. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker
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