Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger March 18, 1875 GALLIA C. W. Bird is the Republican nominee for mayor of Gallipolis. Dr. Newton, postmaster at Gallipolis has recently been critically ill. Within the past week, great numbers of wild geese have passed over Gallia county northward bound. Mr. Charles Henking, one of the oldest and worthiest citizens of Gallipolis, suddenly died on Tuesday of last week. A "pome" furnished the editor of Gallipolis Journal by a prisoner in the jail was up to the proper literary standard in everything but "rhyme, grammar, sense, punctuation, capitalization, meter, truth and spelling." The Bulletin says: On Tuesday last the Supreme Court of Ohio decided the long-pending suit of the The First Presbyterian Society of Gallipolis, in connection with the Hocking Presbytery, plaintiff, vs The First Presbyterian Society of Gallipolis, in connection with the Athens Presbytery. The case has long been on the docket -- about twenty years --- in one form or another. Years ago there was much bitterness in our midst about the struggle, and there was scarcely an individual in the community who did not "take sides." It will be noted that after the long and vexatious litigation, the "Old School" has triumphed.