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 June 23, 1887 GALLIA Crops throughout Gallia county are reported in good shape as to condition and quality. Gallia county, it is confidently said, will at the fall election improve on her usual fifteen hundred Republican majority. The people at Gallipolis are confident of early striking oil or gas. The energy which they have evinced in connection with their test well is worthy of success. The colored voters of Gallia county held a meeting and decided that John G. Willis should go on the Republican county ticket as Recorder of something else. He didn't, however, and the colored voters there are in no very amiable mood as a result. After the recent acquittal of Hawkins, indicted for arson, at Gallipolis the Prosecutor got his dander up and nollied (sic) all the criminal cases on the docket, including the celebrated cases against the ex councilmen and city officers who were accused of having helped themselves to the public funds. He evidently thinks justice has a poor show in Gallipolis. The Betz & Morrison saw-mill, at Gallipolis, which had a boiler to explode a month ago, killing four men and badly wrecking half of the mill, was in process of reconstruction by the proprietors and nearly completed when it was fired by some one early last Thursday morning, and was entirely destroyed, together with considerable lumber piled near. The loss is estimated at about $3,000. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson