Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger January 6, 1876 GALLIA They are suffering from the affliction of almost impassable roads in this county, too. Fred, son of Postmaster Mullineux, of Gallipolis, accidentally shot off a portion of a finger on Christmas day. John Fulton Brown who was recently sent to the penitentiary for forgery, is the son of a Methodist minister. As the result of a personal difficulty recently between Mr. Lorenzo Clark, of Morgan township, and his son William, aged about twenty-one years, the former had his skull fatally fractured as is feared.