Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger February 18, 1875 GALLIA Fifty cases have been called at the present term of the Gallia county court. Joseph Hunt retired from the clerkship of Gallia county on Monday of last week, after sixteen continuous years in that position. The bar and officers of the Gallia county court signalized the occasion by presenting the retiring incumbent with a gold lined silver snuff box as a "token of their esteem." A large meeting was held on Tuesday evening of last week, by the citizens of Gallipolis to devise means fro the relief of the grasshopper sufferers. The recent report of the Grand Jury exhibits the jail of that county in no enviable light. There is to be a grand firemen's complementary ball in Gallipolis, on the 22nd inst.