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 December 8, 1887 GALLIA Gallia county has 450 pensioners who received $52,000 from the Government. The houses of Hamilton Thomas, of Point Pleasant, was burglarized, on a recent night, for the fourth time in a year. P. T. Wall, one of the editors of the Gallipolis Journal, slipped on the pavement in front of his residence, one night last week, and broke his leg. The fact would seem to be fully established that tin ore of fine quality and in practicably inexhaustable (sic) quantity exists in a certain locality of Gallia county, in the Ohio river, were active operations for mining it have been entered upon. A little daughter of Mr. Jas. M. Mills, of Gallipolis, had a piece of candy lodged in her windpipe recently and in spite of all efforts to relieve her became so far suffocated as to be thought dead, her father however as a last desperate effort to save her thrust his finger down her throat and succeeded in removing the obstacle and restoring her breathing after the spark of life was supposed to have fled. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson