Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: February 5, 1870 BREVITIES About 6,000 hogs were slaughtered in the vicinity of Chillicothe last season. Ex-Sheriff ELSWICK, of Lawrence County, is to take charge of Pine Grove furnace store. The total damage done by the flood in Ross county it is estimated cannot be less than $250,000. The Chillicothe City Council will, hereafter, meet every two weeks, instead of once a month, as formerly. Rev. J. F. FRANKLIN, of this city, occupied the pulpit at St. Paul's Church, in Chillicothe, on Sabbath last. Mr. W. A. LOVE, of Maysville, an Ohio river pilot, died on Tuesday last, at Iuka Springs, Miss., where he had gone for his health. Over 120 annexations to the church have been made during the revival now in progress at the M. E, Church, at Piketon. A girl named ETTA PAREGOY, an operative in the Union Woolen Factory, Gallipolis, had one of her fingers torn off in a loom, a few days since. There is a man in Pike County who is but forty-seven years of age and yet is the father of seventeen children, and all by the same mother. The Maysville (Ky. ) Eagle says HENRY SMOOT sold a cow the other day for $500. She was a Durham. The purchaser lives in Highland County, Ohio. A bill has been introduced into the Ohio Legislature to change the time of the expiration of the terms of County Auditors from March to November. The last span of the Ohio River bridge at Louisville was completed on Tuesday. It is over a mile long. Teams will be able to pass over the bridge in a few days. Fifty game cocks were shipped from Maysville on Tuesday last, to participate in the "big fight" which is to come off at Cincinnati on the 17th inst. Poor business. The lower House of the West Virginia Legislature has passed a bill repealing the act of the last Legislature locating the State Capital at Charleston. Its fate in the Senate is uncertain. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company advertise for sealed proposals for the grading, masonry, &c., of their road between the Ohio river and the Falls of Kanawha. Bids will be received at Charleston until the 1st of March. A meeting was held at Jackson, Ohio, on last Saturday, to aid in the movement to build a railroad from Columbus to Ironton. Committees were appointed to solicait subscriptions to pay for the preliminary survey. The meeting adjourned to meet at one o'clock. The Chillicotheans, being prepared to retire from business, are agitating the question of purchasing the bottom land at the head of Paint street, known as the "Island," and converting it into a pleasure lake for public resort. They can then while away their drowsy existence in sailing on a pond.

Wow! 17 children!! They make it sounds as if the man has done something spectacular. What about that poor woman!! Thanks for posting all this news. Very interesting to read. Phyllis -----Original Message----- Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: February 5, 1870 There is a man in Pike County who is but forty-seven years of age and yet is the father of seventeen children, and all by the same mother.