Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger March 30, 1876 GALLIA Gallia county is troubled with the wheat fly thus early. The Ohio Valley Medical Association meets at Gallipolis, April 5. The wife of Congressman Vance, of Gallipolis, gave birth to a boy on Sunday. The wheat crop throughout this county is reported to be in an excellent condition. J. C. Wood pays Gallipolis thirty-five dollars a year for the privilege of ferrying the river at that place. The recent revival meetings, at Westerman, resulted in seventy accessions to the church, and ninety conversions. James W. Erwin was found guilty of murder in the second degree at the present session of the Common Pleas of this county. Valentine Switzer, an old and esteemed resident of Addison township, recently died. He served as county commissioner during several terms. Certificates to teach were granted to twelve out of twenty-seven applicants before the Board of Examiners, of this county, at their last meeting. Charles Adkins, who was sent last fall to the Penitentiary for participation in the robbery of Mr. Reuben Rice, in Guyan township, died in that institution recently of small-pox. Capt. Fred. Ford and Malin H. Rodgers, the farmer for bulls, and the latter for boilers, have been appointed United States Inspectors for the new District, with headquarters in Gallipolis.