Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger August 5, 1875 GALLIA The colored Brass Band, of Gallipolis, are complimented for their extra style of playing. As a natural consequence the calaboose, at Gallipolis was full on the night of Bill Allen's meeting there. A very large proportion of those in attendence (sic) at the late Democratic meeting, at Gallipolis, were ex-Virginia rebels. The general drift is that William Allen failed to make an immensely good impression at Gallipolis on the 21st inst. The Gallipolis Bulletin says that the late Tabernacle meetings at that place were very successful and that the M. E. Church, under whose auspices they were held, will be greatly benefited by them. The Democracy, of this county, were indebted to Scioto county for the cannon "that so grandly boomed out a welcome to the incoming masses," on the occasion of Bill Allen's meeting, as they were equally indebted to the old rebel strongholds of West Virginia for the masses themselves. Charles Woods, son of a wealthy farmer residing about two miles from Adamsville, Gallia county, hung himself last week, in his father's barn. --- Trouble arising from a bastardly suit is supposed to have brought on a depression of spirits, which resulted in the act. He was only nineteen years old. ---[Gallipolis Journal. Gallipolis is being successfully worked by thieves. Thursday night the sample room of the Dufour House was entered, and five hundred dollars in notes and checks and six hundred dollars worth of goods taken, belonging to Callahan and McKeever, peddlers. The night before nearly every house for two squares on Third street was entered, and money, jewelry, clothing, &c., taken.