Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger July 15, 1875 GALLIA A Tabernacle meeting is in progress in Gallipolis. July 26 is the date on which commences the Gallia County Teachers' Institute. Bill Allen has declined to fill the appointment made for him at Gallipolis on the 21st. Mrs. Reuben Aleshire, of Gallipolis was last week seriously injured by being thrown from a buggy. The old Methodist Church building in Gallipolis has been torn down and a parsonage is to be forthwith erected in its stead. Mr. John Betts, of Gallipolis, lost half of his hand recently, by its coming in contact with the planer of a saw mill in which he was at work. The Welsh citizens of Gallia and Jackson counties will hold a grand "Eisteddfod" -- a literary and musical festival -- at Oak Hill, on the 7th day of October, 1875. Mr. Henry Baxter, clerk in a drug store in Gallipolis, lately received painful injuries by the breaking of a carboy of Sulphuric acid which he was handling, the contents of which enveloped his clothing. The Gallia County Democratic Convention met in Gallipolis on Saturday, and nominated a strong ticket, with R. Alshire, Esq., of that city, at the head for Representative. Wm. Courtney, colored, dangerously stabbed a man named Jackson, in Gallipolis one night last week, the latter having interfered to prevent the former from whipping a boy.