Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger April 20, 1876 GALLIA Mrs. Jane Randall, widow of Christopher Randall, died on Thursday, the 6th of April, 1876, after a lingering illness. Mr. Louis Baer and family, of Gallipolis, will sail from New York on the 29th, on the steamer Weser, for Europe, where they will spend several months. Hon. T. A. Plants, of Pomeroy, O., will deliver a course of New Church, or Swedenborgian Lectures, at Christ Church, in Gallipolis, beginning Sunday, April the 23d. The Centerpointers, Perry township, are reported all down with the Arkansas fever. Which means that the boys are considering whether it were better to go West in quest of fortune than to remain in old Gallia. Judge Knowles did more business to the square inch than any Judge we have had here for a long, long time. If the Judge has one or two more "hitches" at that docket, he will clear it up. -- (Gallipolis Journal. Mr. Thomas Hill, one of the first men who came to this place to engage in the manufacture of woolen goods, died on the 5th inst., aged 70 years and 2 months. Mr. Hill was a very remarkable man. he never wore spectacles, and his eye-sight was perfect until a few weeks before his death, when he was stricken with paralysis. He was a native of Bedford, in Yorkshire, England, but had been a resident of the United States, since 1832, and of Gallipolis, since 1854. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his death. - [Bulletin. The semi-annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Medical Association was held at Gallipolis, on the 5th and 6th instant. The grand feature of the meeting was a supper tendered by the citizens of Gallipolis. The tables were elaborately decorated and bounteously supplied. The next meeting of the Association will be held at Huntington, West Va., on Wednesday, November 1st, 1876. The following officers were chosen for 1876-77; President, Dr. J. O. Wall; Secretary, Dr. Clark; Treasurer, Dr. Reed; Censors, Doctors Wilson, Knight, Bing, Jacobs and Nash.