Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: July 31, 1880 LOCAL AND PERSONAL To JOHN G. MILLER and wife, July 21st, a son. GIBB MILES returned from Chillicothe, Tuesday JOHN HEER has returned from a visit to Pittsburg. Miss MATTIE DUDUIT is visiting friends in Ironton. Mrs. CHAS. T. KEHOE is at Esculapia Springs, Ky. THEO. JOHNSON, Jr., and sister, Miss MINNIE, are visiting in Philadelphia. Miss LILLIE CAMPBELL, of Ripley, is the guest of Miss CHARLIE DAVIS, on Fifth street. ELI KINNEY and P. J. DOUHAM, Esq., of Cincinnati, attended a land sale here, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. PURSELL left Thursday, for a three weeks' visit at Lake Chautauqua. Mrs. MARY OLENDORF, of Pittsburg, is visiting at EARNEST HERMAN's, on Seventh street. Ex-Mayor S. P. Nickells is home on a visit to his family. He is located at Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. WALTER MANN, nee MADDOCK, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, is visiting relatives in the city. Mr. and Mrs. T. N. JOHNSON, and Capt. J. J. GIST and wife, are making a tour of West Virginia. Mrs. GREY and daughter, of Covington, Ky., are visiting at Mr. JOHN NEIL's on Market street. Mr. and Mrs. JESSE SWIM will leave Tuesday, for a visit to the summer resorts of northern Michigan. CLIFFORD WILHELM, of Enterprise, Miss., returned home Wednesday, after a visit in the city. GEO. W. CONNEL, Secretary and Treasurer of the Peabody Coal Co., was here last week on a visit. Mrs. F. E. DUDUIT, accompanied by her daughter, Miss ALLIE, left Tuesday for an extended visit east. Col. VANCE, of Gallipolis, stopped in the city Friday night on his return from the Cleveland convention. JAC. BECKER, of the firm of Becker & Glidden, left WEDNESDAY, for a horse-back tour up the Big Sandy. Miss MARY DAMARIN, accompanied her sister, Mrs. GEO. D. SCUDDER, of Trenton, New Jersey, arrived home, Tuesday. Capt. KITE, of Covington, Ky., accompanied by his wife, was visiting his sister, Mrs. Dr. E. L. MOORE, east Second street, last Monday. Miss FANNIE KEMPER, of Newport, Ky., stopped over Sunday in the city, the guest of Mrs. ENOCH J. SALT. She departed yesterday for Huntington. GUS H. STANLEY, traveling salesman for Reed & Peebles, returned to the city the fore part of the week after a seven weeks trip on the road. DELL R. JACKSON, a young man formerly of Belpre, has taken up his residence in Portsmouth, and expects to enter one of our prominent business houses. F. W. PICK and two sons, of Covington Ky., are visiting relatives on Carey's Run. Mr. Pick, who former-merly (sic) lived in this county, is engaged at the painting trade. To CHARLES F. KEHRER and wife, Sunday morning at 9 o'clock, a son. Weight ten and a half pounds. This is little Kehrer number one, and of course the parents are unusually proud. S. B. JENNINGS, Esq., senior proprietor of the Biggs House, left this week on his Colorado trip. Mr. Jennings has been having poor health for some time, and went west with a view to improving it. His many friends here will be glad to learn of a change for the better.