Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger July 1, 1875 GALLIA The contract price for building the M. E. Church, at Gallipolis, is $13,500. A Tabernacle Tent meeting will be held at Gallipolis, commencing, July 8th. Mr. Joseph Mauck, of Cheshire, was striken (sic) by palsy on Friday night, June 18th. The Gallia county Republican Convention met on Saturday, to nominate a county ticket. The Bulletin says "meat theives (sic), sneak thieves and all other sorts of thieves are getting numerous hereabouts." The Fire Department of Gallipolis will have a Fourth of July platform dance on the public square on Saturday evening. J. F. Fry, aged 33, recently had one of his feet cut off while working about a portable saw-mill on the farm of Ephraim McCormick, in Green township. Miss Bettie Holcomb, of Vinton, while riding in a buggy with her mother in Meigs county, on Sunday, of last week, was thrown out and badly bruised. She will recover. Mr. Alexander Baird, of Morgan township, is lying at his home dangerously ill from poisoning by Paris Green, which he had been applying to potato vines for the destruction of Colorado bugs.