Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: July 17, 1880 Local and Personal. ---- Miss ANNA MAULE is visiting relatives in Chillicothe. The Misses TEWKSBURY are visiting at Lima, Ohio. Mr. P. C. KINNEY and wife have returned from Michigan. Mrs. D. L. WILLIAMS is visiting friends at Albion, N. Y. G. W. STACY is now employed at a shoe factory at Cincinnati. The family of Mr. EICHELSTEIN are at the Esculapia Springs, Ky. Rev. J. T. FRANKLIN, formerly of this city, is visiting at Chillicothe. Mr. R. McMULLEN, lately at Eisman's, has accepted a situation at Cincinnati. The Misses SYKES, of Huntington, are visiting Miss CALLIE DENNING, of the West Side. Miss SARAH ISAACS, of Cincinnati, is visiting her father, S. W. ISAACS, at the Bigge (sic). P. H. KELLEY, who is engaged in building railroad bridges in Indiana, was at home yesterday. After an extensive trip through the South, Capt. E. N. HOPE and family returned home last Sunday. R. McMULLEN, formerly cutter at L. EISMAN's & BROS., has accepted a situation in a Cincinnati house. Mrs. MARTHA ROBINSON and daughter GENEVIEVE, formerly of this city, will spend a year in Europe. Miss NELLIE and ALLIE ADAIR, are the guests of Mrs. F. A. LEWIS and Mrs. L. D. ADAIR, Chillicothe. Mr. E. RONSHEIM, who is visiting his daughter, Mrs. L. EISMAN, is dangerously ill with a carbuncle. CLARA, youngest daughter of Capt. WM. BURT, has just recovered from a very severe attack of measles. Rev. Mrs. GARDNER, of Ironton, with her children, is visiting Miss MARIA E. TIMMONDS, at her suburban residence. Miss JENNIE CLOUGH, a charming blonde of Chillicothe, is a guest at the residence of GEORGE DAVIS, on Gallia avenue. ALBERT GRIMES, after a short visit home, left for Terre Haute, Ind., last week, accompanied by his little niece, Miss Blanche Fitch. Mrs. D(e, r,) A. B. RICHARDSON, accompanied by her children, is visiting in Chillicothe, the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. HARRIS. Mr. L. SEEBERGER, for the last five years with the extensive firm of Well Bros. Jacksonville, Ill., is in the city, visiting his parents, on Second street. The Misses ANNA and ELLA GLOVER, who have been the guests of the Miss ANDERSON, Offnere street, departed last night for their home, in Mt. Sterling, Ky. Mrs. D. L. WILLIAMS is visiting friends in New York City. Mr. WILLIAMS will go East in a couple of weeks to join Mrs. WILLIAMS, and while there will lay in his fall stock of goods. Miss FANNIE BARTLETT, of Ironton, who has been the guest of Miss HATTIE TRACY, returned home yesterday. Miss TRACY accompanied her, and will make a brief visit at that city. The social gathering, at a West Side residence, in which many participated, one evening during the past week, deserves complimentary notice. The programme was of unusual length, consisting of the many parlor pastimes, interspersed with the musical variations. The musical (chin) part of the exercises was superb, the "Trouble" waltz being predominant, and eliciting a storm of applause from the remaining attentive witnesses. The above was played by a city gent, a frequent visitor to the rural districts over the "Scioto," who imagined the floor would be instantaneously, if not quicker, filled up to his "heart's" content. But not a single person responded but--- himself. The floor was soon "brushed," or rather "cleared for another set." Invitations are now going the rounds for the next rehearsal.