Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger April 22, 1875 GALLIA A tabernacle meeting will be held shortly at Gallipolis. A telegraph office has been established at Cheshire. There are at present nine prisoners in the Gallia county jail. The new postmaster at Gallipolis, Mr. Mullinex, entered upon his duties Friday, 9th inst. The Gallipolis Journal says that it learned that Dr. W. A. Jenkins died while enroute (sic) to the Asylum in Athens. The managers of the Gallia County Agricultural Society have fixed the 6th, 7th and 8th days of October as the time for holding their next annual Fair. A tenement house on the Blessing farm, near the Blessing bridge, Gallia county, occupied by Mr. Jacob Fierbaugh, was burned on Wednesday, 14th inst. The Pomeroy colored band and the Gallipolis colored band played a match on the Public Square in Gallipolis, recently. Both are said to have done well.