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 OHGALLIA 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 OHGALLIA 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 OHGALLIA list serve. [This article was transcribed without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Athens Messenger September 1, 1887 GALLIA The Gallia County Democratic Convention has been called for Saturday, September 10th. It is to be composed of 177 delegates, or, one for every ten votes cast for John McBride for Secretary of State. There is one peculiarity about the ores discovered of late years in Southern Ohio, the metals can't be gotten out of them. Gallia county discovered the richest tin ore in the world, but for some reason no tin can be gotten out of it. Washington Swisher, aged 54, a farmer near Cheshire was attacked on his farm last Friday and so shockingly gored by a two-year-old Jersey bull that his death was anticipated as a result. The enraged animal pinned him to the ground, broke his collar bone twice, ripped him up the side from the hip to the shoulder, broke one rib and tore two others loose at the backbone, ran his horn in his side and forced it out six inches further up, and otherwise bruised him from head to foot. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson