Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger December 20, 1888 GALLIA The next term of the Gallia Common Pleas Court convenes January 18th?. The State Board of Agriculture has appointed the 23d and 24th of January as the time for the meeting of the Farmer's Institute at Gallipolis. The Gallipolis Journal says: Mrs. Heisner has a genuine ostrich egg that was sent her by her daughter, Mrs. Conners, of Brooklyn. It is about the size of a large cocoanut, and quite a curiosity.