Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger February 17, 1876 GALLIA Wheat throughout this county is looking well. Seven in the jail of this county at the close of the week. The Gallipolis Journal says that there is more gambling now going on in that town than ever before. This county, not to be behind, reports a ghost as having been seen in "Oil Hollow," Morgan township. The prisoners confined in the jail of this county made an unsuccessful attempt to break out on Tuesday night of last week. Advices from Washington state that Secretary Bristow will give us a Board of local inspectors, with our city as headquarters, with district attached. --[Gallipolis Journal. A young colored man named Harvey Robinson, living in Springfield township, fell into the fire, recently, and was so severely burned that his life is despaired of. He was subject to fits.