The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-26
Personal.

Mr.. c. P Isley, the author, is visiting in
this city
Prof. R. E. Bisbee, of Atlanta Ca, is at
Peaks Island
Hon. j. c. Madigan of Houlton is seriously
i'll with hemorrhage of the stomach.
Miss Mary Bartol, the author, and sister of
Rev. DR.. Bartol of Boston, is visiting the city.
w. F. Blake, consular agent at London
Canada, has resigned and returned to his home
in Pennington.
Mr.. A.. l.. Sturtevant, chief of the printing
and stationery division of the treasury depart
ment, is in town
o. B. Clason, graduate of Bates College,
has been engaged to take charge of the Hop
kinton (NIass,) Academy next year.
The trustees of Bucksport Seminary have
elected Miss Emma o. Pratt, of Winthrop, a
graduate of Kent's Hill, to the position of pre-
ceptress.
The Rev. Dr. r. S. Storrs of Brooklyn. and
his family, are spending the summer at Jeffer-
son, N. II. He win preach at jefferson Hill
tomorrow morning.
Mr. A. L. Hardy of Wilton has recently been
elected principal of the high school at Ran
V I. MI. l1dIuy SGduudlGu HUH ALI
herst this summer.
Miss Mary f. Park of Chesterville, men,
Der of the college class, Kent's Hill, 10, has
been elected lady assistant of the high school
at Millbury, Mass
Hon. VIM. G. Park of Honolulu, the marshal
of the Sandwich Islands, with his daughters,
are visiting Augusta. Mr.. Park has been for
twenty-five years prominent official of the
Hawaiian government.
Colonel Chase and Rev. DR.. Beard, pastor of
Plymouth Church, Syracuse, N Y, are on
their way to the woods of Maine, travelling on
horseback. The distance is $50 miles, and they
expect to cover it in ten days.
Mr. Walker Blaine, the eldest son of Senator
Blaine, has entered the law firm of Davis,
O'Brien & Wilson, of st. Paul. Mimi, as q stu
dent. This firm is one of the most substantial
law firms of the northwest.
Mayor Nash of Augusta has received from
Martin Millmore, the eminent artist, author of
the soldiers monument on Boston Common,
and OF the "Lion of Lucerne" at Colby Univer-
sty, design for the proposed soldiers monu-
ment to be erected in Augusta
No. of the first volume of the Glen House
Record is received, and we notice the following
Portland people registered there: Mr. and
Mrs. l.. o. Short III. B. Brown, wife and Miss
Brown, H. M. Fessenden, Misses Nellie and
Lizzie Stevens, Mrs. Josiah and Misses Anna
and Lille Milliken, and DIR. Greene.
Parker Pillsbury will lecture in Arcana Hall
tomorrow evening on "The Present and Pros
pective Condition of the Country" There will
be great desire to see and hear the veteran
abolitionist, who has done SO much and so
good work in the cause of freedom. The lee
ture will begin at 7.30, and ladies and gentle
men are respectfully invited to attend.
The Auburn school committee has elected
Mr.. Frank I'll. Bartlett of rs, Bates, assistant
principal of Auburn High School, in place of
Mr.. Hurd, resigned, at salary of 5000. Miss
Bell has been re-engaged, but Miss Litchfeld
has resigned, and no teacher has been elected
to fill the vacancy. Miss King has been re-
elected principal OF the grammar school at a
salary of $3.50 per year-a reduction of $50
Miss Robbins, first assistant in the grammar
school, has resigned, and no one has been
elected to fill the vacancy. No other changes
have been made in the board of teachers.