Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: July 24, 1880 Local and Personal. ---- Miss MAME MACKLEM is sojourning at Concord, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. CHAS. KENDALL are visiting in Cleveland. Hon. J. W. BANNON and family are at the Adams County Springs. Miss KATIE, daughter of Presiding Elder DILLON, is lying ill with fever. HARRY KINNEY went up to Chillicothe, Tuesday, on a business trip. Miss LEWIS, of Cincinnati, is visiting in the city, the guest of Mrs. GEO. DAVIS. Miss STEWART, of Cincinnati, is visiting Mrs. J. A. MAXWELL, of Sixth street. Miss LIZZIE DAVIS and Miss LENA RIVERS are spending this week in Portsmouth. A. H. LLOYD and wife, of Selma, Ala., are visiting RICHARD and THOS. G. LLOYD. J. Q. WEAVER spent several days in Cleveland, Ohio, this week, visiting his brother. Miss MARY PURDEM returned home, after several weeks visit in Georgetown, Ky. SAM TIMMONDS and sister, Miss MAME, have been visiting relatives and friends in Ironton. Miss ALICE DUDIT of Portsmouth is the guest of the Misses PETERS, on Olive street. --- Irontonian. SAM JOHNSON and conductor BROOKS, of the Valley Road, are taking in the nights and scenes of the Metropolls. Miss CHARLIE DAVIS is expected home from Chillicothe to-day. Miss JENNIE CLOUGH will accompany her. Mrs. JOS. G. REED, accompanied by her son PERCY, was among the excursionists to Niagara Falls, Tuesday. Mrs. JUDGE GARDNER has gone to Portsmouth to visit her sister, Mrs. JUDGE HARPER. --- Hillsboro Gazette. Miss MAGARETTA YOUNG, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is the guest of Miss HATTIE BERKSHIRE, on Findlay street. H. C. MACKOY and son WILLIAM, of Greenup county, left Tuesday, on the excursion, to hear the roar of Niagara. Mr. S. B. JENNINGS, of the Biggs House, contemplates a trip to Colorado. He also contemplates matrimony. Mrs. WM. MILES, of West Third street, has been visiting friends in Delaware and Columbus for the past two weeks. AL. J. PADAN, pencil manipulator of the books at the Front Street Shoe Factory, took in the West Side, last Sunday. Mrs. Dr. SAFFORD, of Chillicothe, and Miss KATE SAFFORD, of Windsor, Conn., are guests at the residence of Judge TOW?E. Miss DOLLY ROADS, daughter of Mr. J. W. ROADS, is visiting a friend at Lake Winnepescgee, N. H., in the White Mountains. DICK PEEBLES and WILL STEWART are slaughtering grizzly bears and scalping Indians in the ??? of the Rocky Mountains. Rev. J. W. WAIT, pastor of the M. E. Church at Bloomingburg, Fayette county, was in the city this week on a brief visit to his home. Mrs. LEVISAY and Mrs. MORGAN, wives of the captain and clerk of the steamer Ohio, are visiting Mrs. WM. FOWLER, on Sixth street. KIRK H. BARLOW will leave tomorrow morning on the Valley Road, for Washington C. H., in (sic) view the soldier boys on the camp ground. The Misses TEWKESBURY, of Portsmouth, and Miss HAY, of Coshocton, are expected guests of Miss GEORGIE HOFFMAN --- Circleville Herald. JAMES DROULLIARD, GEORGE BURNS, FRED BAKER and CHARLES MOLSTER have been camping out in Kentucky for the past week, hunting and fishing. Mrs. WILLIAM DUNN, accompanied by her son THOMAS, left yesterday for Cincinnati, where they will visit some of their friends and relatives. Mrs. MARY SHOPE, of Powellsville, is spending a part of her vacation with her old friends, Mrs. GEO. COLE and Mrs. JOHN BRIGGS, of the West Side. ROBERT SHARP, a swift-footed young man of Ironton, who lost about twelve hundred dollars for his friends in a foot race at Gallion, was in town Sunday. CHAS. SAULBERRY, fell and was rendered senseless at the armory, corner of Chillicothe and Fifth streets, Tuesday evening, while going down stairs after a bucket of water. HERB CLARE and GIB MILES went up to Chillicothe Thursday, to visit friends. Herb and Gib are somewhat on the conquest, and many a fair maiden mourns the loss of a heart. Mrs. HELEN TRIPP, of Buffalo, N. Y., and Miss MARY STEWART, of Cincinnati, who have been visiting Mrs. JAMES W. VOORHES, leave tomorrow for the mountains of West Virginia. SAMUEL REED, ESQ., of the Portsmouth National Bank, is in possession of a fine archaeological specimen in the way of a large pipe exhumed from Kentucky turf. It is a fine specimen of the pipe used by the pre-historic races of the country. Miss EMMA CRAMER started Wednesday on the Bonanza on a visit to her cousin, Dr. PULTO, of Cincinnati, after which she will go to Dayton and visit Mrs. KAUTZLEBEN, formerly of this city, and also a cousin of Mrs. Cramer. Company C., "Veteran Guards," left, Wednesday morning, for Washinton C. H., where they go into encampment. An excursion train will be run from Portsmouth to that place, tomorrow, giving all a chance to see the "vets" in the role of the real soldier.