Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger April 13, 1876 GALLIA Gallipolis collected $4, 085.90 for wharfage the year ending March 1st. Six prisoners were, recently, sent to the penitentiary from this county. Mr. W. H. Markin, of Harrison township, lost his dwelling by fire on the morning of March 25th. The Gallipolis Journal says: On Monday night of last week, Mr. J. F. Robinson, Township Treaseurer of Morgan township, retired to bed as usual, placing under his pillow $700 of township funds, the same being in two separate packages of $500 and $200. --- Some time during the night the $500 roll was taken, the other remaining untouched. Mr. Dan M. Coffman, of Gallipolis, while recently in Cincinnati, put a letter addressed to his wife in the hands of a partial stranger, to be taken to the post office. The latter opened the letter and finding therein reference to certain money deposited in a Gallipolis bank, in the name of the wife, forged an order in the name of Mr. C. and went at once to Gallipolis where he obtained $750 of the money from Mrs. C., since which he has not been heard of.