Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: September 4, 1880 LOCAL AND PERSONAL FRED. COLBURN left for the Kanawha region last week. Capt. RIFENBERICK is visiting in the mountains of Virginia. H. LEET and son visited Hawk's Nest on New river last week. Hon. J.F. CORYELL, of West Union, was in the city, Wednesday. I. RICHMAN left for the East, Thursday, to lay in a Fall stock of goods. WILL SILCOX and wife ard expected home from Jordan Alum to-day. Ironton occupies 853 acres or about one and a third square miles. G. W. ANDERSON was at Cincinnati the past week purchasing his fall stock. Miss MOLLIE REED, of Chillicothe, is the guest of Miss MAME TIMMONDS. Miss MARY FRIZELL, of Buena Vista, is visiting friends in the city. Mr. J. H. WYATT begins school on Pond Creek, Monday, September 6th, 1880 J. G. SLAVENS, of Pike, was in the city, attending the Institute, this week. Miss MOLLIE CLAUSEY is visiting the Misses O'CONNOR, of West Sixth street. Mr. and Mrs. J. Swim have arrived home from their visit to Mt. Clemens, Mich. J. F. WETMORE, of the Waverly Republican, pair the TIMES sanctum a visit Monday. Mr. KEP and Miss NINA McCALL, of Twin, were in the city during the past week. WILL BOLLES left this week for the second year of his course at Kenyon College, Gambier. J. A. EYLAR, of Waverly, was in the city Tuesday attending to some legal business. JAMES CUTLIP, of Pike county, is 95 years old, and is the father of twenty-eight children. SOCRATES GLAZE was up on the Pickaway Plains last week, buying corn for some of our dealers. Dr. W. A. FRIZELL, of Buena Vista, was in the city Tuesday, and paid the TIMES a friendly visit. TAYLOR ROBINSON was in town this week greeting familiar faces and shaking hands with his many friends. Misses LIZZIE and ALICE JOHNSON, of Steubenville, are visiting their cousin, Miss EMMA JOHNSON, on Second street. W. A. WAYLAND and family, of Chillicothe, were in the city yesterday on their return from a trip through Virginia. AUGUST LORDIER left for his home at Fort Wayne, Ind., Monday, after a pleasant visit here among relatives and friends. BEN BARKLOW went to Columbus, Thursday, to take in the sights and scenes of the Capital City and see the State Fair. Mr. and Mrs. EMANUEL MOORE, of Moore's Landing, West Side, left last Wednesday morning for Columbus, to attend the State Fair. JACOB PROSE and daughters, Misses Laura and Mary of Union township, returned Monday, from a visit to relative and friends at Gallipolis. Hon. WELLS A. HUTCHINS, accompanied by his wife, returned home Tuesday from a trip through Western Minnesota and Lake Chautauqua. Judge EVANS, of Columbus, and Judge STEELE, of Hillsboro, were in the city, Tuesday, on their way to Manchester, where they were to open District Court. Mr. WM. H. WATSON, of Wellstown, was in the city yesterday to attend the funeral of Mr. B. B. GAYLORD, with whom he was associated in business for twenty years. A. F. McCORMICK, of Buena Vista, was in the city several days the past week. He will leave in a few weeks for Delaware, where he will enter the Ohio Wesleyan University. Miss BELLE SMITH, and Misses LOU, CHARLIE and SALLIE DAVIS, spent a few days very pleasantly at Columbus this week, visiting the various public institutions and doing the State Fair. JAMES BRADFORD, for the past year connected with the millinery firm of Souder & Bright, Columbus, has accepted a position as traveling salesman for Selby's Sewing Machine establishment. W. W. MERSHON, Esq., who has been keeping books temporarily for the stave (sic) firm of Carmach & Sulser, will leave for Franklin Furnace today to prepare for opening his school Monday. Messrs. LUTHER MILLER and GUS H. STANLEY started out on their autumnal commercial tours the first of the week, the former taking the Big Sandy Circuit and the latter a West Virginia trip. Both of these gentlemen are excellent salesmen, and the house they travel for is to be congratlated (sic) on having secured their services. SAM TIMMONDS left the early part of the week for Columbus, and after a few days sojourn in the Capital City, will depart for the classic halls of Kenyon College, at Gambier, O, where he will enter for the purpose of taking a collegiate course. Sam is undecided yet whether he will take a theological course and fit himself for the ministerial field, or prepare for commercial life.