Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: August 21, 1880 Local and Personal. Miss LOU DOERR is visiting Miss CARRIE MILLER, Of Buena Vista. Mrs. ED McGUIRE has been ailing for several days past with the flux. Miss LUCY MILLER returned last Wednesday from a two weeks visit to Piketon. Miss ROSA BROUSE spent last Sunday in the city with Mrs. CHARLES McFARLAND. FRANK MURPHY, of Ironton, was visiting JOHN KENRICK of Fourth street, the past week. Miss HAN McCOY of Siloam, Ky., is visiting Mrs. Capt. W. W. LITTLE, on Front street. J. K. LODWICK left Monday evening for a week's visit to the White Sulphur Springs. W. H. ELLIOTT. of the Boston Cheap Store, is suffering from an attack of rheumatism. Miss MAUD WEAR drew the "Air Castle" prize in Miss HANNAH's drawing, Thursday night. Miss AGGIE BROUSE was the guest of Miss ETTIE ASHBAUGH, of the Eats Side, last Saturday. Miss CLARA RAUGH, of Covington, Ky., is visiting her sister, Mrs. H. B. MURRAY, of Front street. GEO. JAMISON, Esq., of the Ohio Central Railroad, was in the city Thursday, registered at the Biggs. WILL SILCOX and family, and Miss STEWART will leave next week for Jordan Alum Springs, Va., for a brief respite. Miss EMMA JOHNSON, teacher in the public schools of Ironton, is the guest of Miss KATE REILLY, east Second street. FRANK W. CALVERT, traveling salesman for a Cincinnati house, is shaking hands with old acquaintances in the city. Miss FLORA VAUGHTERS, of Sugar Grove, was sojourning in Piketon. She returned Thursday, accompanied by the Misses ENGLISH. Miss ANNA BYERS, of Columbus, daughter of Rev. Dr. BYERS, is visiting at the residence of R. S. MICKLETHWAIT, on Ninth street. R. N. MONTGOMERY, representing Reed & Peebles, returned Wednesday, from a seccessful (sic) business tour up the Scioto Valley. Mrs. ANNA SKEELS, daughter of C. LUDGATE, is very low with consumption at her residence, corner Sixth and Gay streets. JAC. BECKER has returned from his pilgrimage up the Big Sandy, and was highly delighted with the trip. He made the journey on horse-back. Misses MAMIE SALTERS and FANNIE POTKIN, who have been visiting Miss MAME SWARTZ on Gallia avenue, leave to-day for their home in Circleville. Mr. B. EDWARD ROSE, one of the prominent young legal luminaries of Greenup, Ky., chaperoned a party of young folks to the city last Sunday. Mr. MARION TEMPLE, an employe (sic) of the distillery at Union Mills, has been very low during the past week with brain troubles, but is now convalescing. Miss MATTIE LEWIS left on the Bonanza yesterday for her home in Cincinnati, after a pleasant visit here, the guest of the Misses Davis, of Fifth street. OSCAR W. NEWMAN is rusticating at the Ancient Metropolis, having left for that place last Tuesday. Oscar is the guest of H. F. MOORE, of the Ross County Bank. Mr. AMOS HUNT, a contractor of the West Side, will leave next week for the northern part of the State, to accept a position as time-keeper on a large turnpike contract. CHARLES WILHELM left last Monday for Little Rock, Ark, where he goes into the grocery business with Mr. CRIS GEISLER, another Portsmouth boy. We wish them success. Messrs EGGLESTON GATES and BELDEN NICHOLS were among the excursionists to Chicago. They were well pleased with the Metropolis of the West, and like the Queen of Sheba, on her visit to Solomon in all his glory, thought the half had not been told.