Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: June 19, 1880 Additional Local. J. O. SLAVENS, was in the city yesterday. MISS CARRIE MILLER, of Buena Vista, has been visiting friends in the city during the past week. An Italian has been giving street performances whith some wonderfully trained rats and more for the past few days. MILFORD KEYES, formerly local editor of the TIMES, spent a few days very pleasantly in Chillicothe, last week, the guest of MAJOR MASON and family. CAPT. A. C. DAVIS has not yet recovered all his beauty, but is able to be about. He has just moved into the brick residence on Second street east of E. B. GREEN's. The Europa Hotel building and grounds were sold, Wednesday, by the Second German Building Association to JOHN ROTTINGHAUS, for $4,300. He re-leased it to the present proprietor, MR. MIKE REDINGER. There will be a picnic and dance at Rockwell's Grove, near the Red Bridge, July 3d. A large pavilion will be provided for the benefit of those who want to indulge in the art terpsichorean. The boys and young men are taking advantage of a cheap bath, and any warm evening from twenty-five to a hundred may be counted along the banks of the river, from above Market to Jefferson streets, enjoying the aquatic sport. MR. W. W. MERSHON, formerly teacher of the Carey's Run school, returned yesterday from a summer term at Lebanon. Mr. Mershon has attended this popular school several summers, and we predict for him a glowing future. Councilman MILLER, in obedience to the old adage, "make hay while the sun shines," rolled up his sleeves last Sunday and helped the men get the hay in the barn before the menacing clouds could deposit their moisture and destroy the crop. MRS. SOPHIA BLOSS, an old German lady, who followed mending umbrellas, on Court street, between Front and Second, died Wednesday morning with disease of the bowels. The deceased was 53 years old, a widow, and has no family. The Sunday Schools of Carey's Run and Ole Town we understand, will unite, and give a picnic at one of the West Side groves on the 3rd. Arrangements will be made to have addresses by Rev. C. M. PRIOR, of Old Town Circuit, and Presiding Elder DILLON, of this district.