Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger August 12, 1875 GALLIA Gallipolis has latterly been infested with burglars. They are building a new Methodist Church in Gallipolis. They are to have fifteen policemen without salaries, in Gallipolis, in each ward. The late Democratic meeting at Gallipolis was a harvest for saloon keepers, one of them sold nearly two thousand drinks. It is stated that at least a thousand acres of potatoes have been overflown (sic) in Cheshire township, Gallia County, and, of course, entirely ruined. Mr. Benjamin F. Curry, of Gallipolis, while engaged in catching drift in the river, near that city, on Monday of last week, fell out of the boat he was in and drowned. Miss Heisner, of Gallipolis, while on the train between White Sulphur Springs and Covington, W. Va., recently, had her pocket picked of $100 and her baggage checks (sic). Abraham Syphas, when returning from the Democratic meeting in Gallipolis, says the Journal of that city, was thrown from his horse, near the residence of Esquire Plymale, and has since died from the injuries he then received. The jewelry store of W. McFarland, of Gallipolis, was entered Saturday night, the safe blown open, and nearly the entire stock of jewelry and watches stolen. No clue to the perpetrators of any of the recent robberies here. -- [Journal. On the Davis farm, just above Gallipolis, last Monday morning, Guy Milliken shot Wm. Faulkner in the left eye with a revolver, killing him instantly. Both were colored, between whom a feud has existed for some time. Faulkner making frequent threats to kill Milliken and meeting him this morning, attacked him with an ax, when Milliken entered the house and got a revolver and shot him dead.