Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger April 27, 1876 GALLIA John Phillips, of Addison township, this county, was found dead in his bed at Pt. Pleasant, recently. Next Fair of the Gallia County Agricultural Society will be held Sept. 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th. Prior engagements of Hon. T. A. Plants has impeled (sic) him to defer his contemplated course of lectures at Gallipolis. Simeon Roach, of Green Township, and Isaac Carter, of Perry township, have recently died. They were both aged citizens. Not a prisoner, at the close of the week, had been received at the jail, of this county, since the last term of the Common Pleas Court. The Gallipolis Journal says: A widow, one day last week, probated her late husband's will, procured a marriage license, and was married again and all in the same day.