Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: January 22, 1870 BREVITIES GALLIPOLIS is almost entirely water-bound. The miners at Vinton Furnace are on a strike. The Vinton Record says that Eagle Furnace will soon be sold at Sheriff's sale. MR. HOMER JONES, who was injured at the Chillicothe depot last week, is recovering. In Ross County 365 marriage licenses were issued during 1869, 287 were issued in Scioto. A project is on foot for the establishment of a Manufactory of Agricultural Implements, in Athens. Twelve citizens of Springfield have announced themselves as being willing to serve the city in the capacity of Clerk. Quite a religious awakening exists among several of the churches of Ironton, particularly at Spencer and Wesley Chapels. The printing office of the Gallipolis Dispatch, including presses, type, &c., will be sold at public sale, on Saturday, February 12th. The certificate of incorporation of the Meigs County Telegraph Printing Company, was filed with the Secretary of State, on the 7th inst. The delegates from Chillicothe to the late Municipal Convention at Columbus, were allowed $25 each by the Council of that city, for their expenses. MR. PEPPERS, a coal digger at Orange Furnace, Jackson County, was very seriously injured on last Saturday, by the slate in the coal bank falling upon him. A little daughter of RICHARD MATHER, of Ironton, Cashier of the Second National Bank, fell upon the ice and broke both bones in one of her arms, near the wrist. Editors do not seem to be popular in Maysville. One of them ran for Clerk and received two votes, and another for Mayor and received forty -- the lowest cast for any candidate. Jackson County receives a million dollars a year from the iron interest. Star Furnace there made 5,000 tons of pig iron last year, and paid $100,000 for ore, coal and limestone. Ground glass windows are destructive of health, because they diminish light. The difference of light transmitted through clear and ground glass is about fifty per cent in flavor of the clear glass. A little son of HENRY CLAUS, of Marietta, came to its death, on Saturday the 8th, by being scalded. The mother was washing, and while busy with her work, the child fell into a tub of hot water, which penetrated through its clothing to the body. Death followed in a short time. The Ohio State Journal reports that the hog cholera has been prevailing very extensively wherever hogs have been collected in large lots. One firm collecting hogs at Lockbourne, Franklin county, and at Chillicothe and Portsmouth have lost, it is reported, two thirds of the entire number of hogs. The lost amounted to about $40,000. MR. EDWARD HEATH and three of his children, and MR. HARRISON KISSENGER, living in Jackson County, were severely burned by gunpowder on Friday of last week. Mr. KISSENGER was emptying some powder from a horn, near the fire, when the powder took fire, bursting the horn, tearing boards from the ceiling and burning the parties badly.