Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: June 12, 1880 There are 31 inmates at the Infirmary. WM. BURT is slowly recovering from a severe attack of erysipelas. MR. JOSEPH BRIGGS, of Clay township, has been quite ill for several days. DR. C. P. DENNIS, the dentist, is improving his residence on Second street. MRS. THOS. LAWSON, of Middleport visited relatives in the city last week. MISS MARY PURDUM, of this city, is visiting her sister, MISS EMMA, of Berea, Ky. The youngest child of FRED COLBURN is seriously ill with slight hopes of its recovery. MRS. BERTHA MILLER, nee GLIDDEN, is visiting at her old home at MRS. W. A. HUTCHINS'. J.D. CLARE went up to Bloom Furnace yesterday to look after his iron interests there. DR. FINCH lost his gray horse Monday night. It was a clear case of death on a pale horse. CAPT. E. N. HOPE leaves this week for a business trip over the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. HON. J. J. BURNS, State School Commissioner, was in the city Thursday, en-route to Gallipolis. MRS. BURTON and family returning yesterday on the Bonanza from a six weeks' visit to Cincinnati. MISS MARY DAMARIN is visiting in Trenton, New Jersey, the guest of her sister, MRS. GEO. D. SCUDDER. But one marriage license was issued during the past week, to PETER G. REINHART and MARY WILLIAMS. Street Commissioner HARRIS has moved from Third street to the McQUADE residence, on Gallia street. After two weeks' absence in New York City, MR. and MRS. D. McFARLAND, JR., returned Tuesday. DR. and MRS, E. L. MOORE, left last Monday on a visit to their old home and friends in Clermont county. MR. P. KAPS has commenced the building of M. STANTON's residence on Second street. It will be a handsome dwelling. MRS. B. B. GAYLORD and family left the city Thursday, for the seashore, with the expectation of spending the summer there. A bridge across the Little Scioto at Scioto Mills is to be built, bids bring advertised for by the County Commissioners. W. H. WILLIAMS, County Recorder, returned from Columbus, Thursday evening, where he had been on a short visit. MRS. WM. B. DENNIS, formerly a resident of this city, but now a resident of Bartow, Ga., is visiting her parents at Aberdeen. MR. W. P. MARTIN has the best cropped wheat on his farm in Quaker Bottom, that has been raised there for the past seven years. MISS CHARL?? DAVIS returned from Glendale yesterday, where she had been pursuing a course of studies at the Wesleyan Female College. DR. G. W. FIELDS and family returned to the city Thursday evening, after a ten years' absence in Europe, part of the time being spent in England, and the remainder on the Continent. They are now at the residence of MR. R. LLOYD.