Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger September 16, 1875 GALLIA Wm. Watson, of Point Pleasant, is in jail at Gallipolis for forgery. There are fifty-five criminal cases on the docket for the next term of the Court for this county. James A. Mauck, a young gentleman well known in Gallipolis, died September 5th, 1875, at Cheshire. For the year ending March 31st, there were in Gallia county 664 births and 211 deaths. 348 marriage licenses were issued, and 13 were sent to the Lunatic Asylum. Charles Adkins, the leader of the band of outlaws who robbed Mr. Rice, in Guyan township, was captured in West Virginia, recently, and lodged in jail in Gallipolis. The Gallipolis Journal says: There is talk that there will be a raid made upon the jail to liberate the robbers therein. It is, we hear, to be made by the balance of the gang. The barn of Mr. C. A. Smith, in Perry township, in this county, was discovered to be on fire under such circumstances as to leave no doubt of its being the work of an incendiary. --- The barn and its contents were destroyed. Loss $800.