Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: October 2, 1880 LOCAL and PERSONAL ELI DICKINSON is in Cincinnati attending the big show. ALEX WARNER spent a few days at Cincinnati, this week. Mrs. D. L. WILLIAMS is visiting friends at Chillicothe. Miss KATE REILLY is visiting her many friends in Ironton JOHN T. MILLER is doing the Exposition and other attractions this week. Misses SALLIE and CHARLIE DAVIS are in Cincinnati attending the Exposition. Misses HATTIE VINCENT and SALLIE STEVENSON, are visiting in the Queen City. Miss EMMA BALL has been engaged to teach at the Miller School House, Valley township. Miss DOLLIE ROADS returned home Thursday evening from a tour to the White Mountains. Judge TOWNE and wife returned from a visit to Chillicothe the early part of the week. Dr. JAS T. VAUGHTERS and family were among those who went on the Chicago Excursion. Mr. J. KROLL, for some months past engaged in the sale of organs. &c., for D. H. BALDWIN, left this morning for Cincinnati. GEO. FEUCHTINGER, JR., ,junior editor of the Correspondent, left yesterday morning for Cincinnati, expecting to be absent a week. Miss BELLE HUTTON, of Ashland, Ky., returned home the fore part of the week, after a pleasant visit among friends on the West Side. DICK PRITCHARD, of Ironton, was in the city Wednesday, en-route to Zanesville, to attend the annual conference of the M. E. Church. HERB CLARE leaves today for Poughkeepsie-on the-Hudson, where he will take a commercial course in Eastman Business University. WILL B. THOMPSON and H. C. BALMERT, who are now at Colorado Springs, Col., write to their friends here that they are both improving in health rapidly. Mrs. C. C. DAMARIN, Mrs. W. H. BONSALL, R. LLOYD, Dr. G. W. FIELD and Miss HATTIE TRACY were among those who went ont he Chicago excursion. SAMUEL J. HUSTON, SR., celebrated his eightieth birthday Thursday. He cast his first vote for Jackson in 1824, and has been a steadfast Democrat ever since. Wayne township gave Jackson seven votes at that time, and Mr. Huston is the only survivor of the number.