Joyce, Just wanted to thank you again for continuing these newspaper items. I enjoy and appreciate them more each time I read them.. Mary Lee One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JAR422@aol.com> To: <OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:57 PM Subject: [OHGALLIA-L] March 18, 1875 - Athens Messenger > Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. > Transcribed by Joyce Robinson > > Athens Messenger > March 18, 1875 > > GALLIA > > C. W. Bird is the Republican nominee for mayor of Gallipolis. > > Dr. Newton, postmaster at Gallipolis has recently been critically ill. > > Within the past week, great numbers of wild geese have passed over > Gallia county northward bound. > > Mr. Charles Henking, one of the oldest and worthiest citizens of > Gallipolis, suddenly died on Tuesday of last week. > > A "pome" furnished the editor of Gallipolis Journal by a prisoner in the > jail was up to the proper literary standard in everything but "rhyme, > grammar, sense, punctuation, capitalization, meter, truth and spelling." > > The Bulletin says: On Tuesday last the Supreme Court of Ohio decided > the long-pending suit of the The First Presbyterian Society of > Gallipolis, > in connection with the Hocking Presbytery, plaintiff, vs The First > Presbyterian > Society of Gallipolis, in connection with the Athens Presbytery. The case > has long been on the docket -- about twenty years --- in one form or > another. Years ago there was much bitterness in our midst about the > struggle, and there was scarcely an individual in the community who did > not "take sides." It will be noted that after the long and vexatious > litigation, > the "Old School" has triumphed. > > > > > > > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== > If you want to unsubscribe to the list, send an email to > OHGALLIA-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe in the text of > the email. > >