The Portland daily press., 1881-07-02
Personal.

In our article yesterday on the Lang solder
factory the tracing of the current of electricity
should have been credited to Mr.. l. H. Farm
Company.
Stephen Smith, aged 45, who worked in the
Doten mill building, has been missing for
three weeks. He said he was going to Bath to
collect some money. He will probably turn
up all right. They always do
Charles S. bennett, of Blddeford, and B. G.
Leavitt,of Saco, have graduated at Dartmouth
this year.
Rev. John Wills theme on Sunday evening
at the India street Universalist church will be
"The Declaration of Independence and its
sgners, with glance at the probable future of
our great republic" We think that the
preacher could hardly have selected more in
tensely interesting subject, and we hope
will have large and appreciatiyo audience.
Edward P. Tobey, of Providence, R. l., for
merly of Lewiston. and an honored member of
the First Maine Cavalry, has severed his con-
nection with the Providence Journal to as.
| sumo the more important position of editor-in-
chief of the Evening and Sunday Telegraph.
Charles M. Kallock, of Rockland, has been
| appointed to position in the War Department
at Washington.
| Mr.. George e. Jewett, of Bangor, has been
appointed travelling agent of the Grand Trut k
Railway, to succeed Mr.. j. W. Donald, who
| has resigned to accept similar position on the
| Atchinson, Topeka s. Santa Fe Railroad. Mr..
| Jewett entered upon his duties July 1st.
Mr.. Amherst Alden, long a respected resi-
! dent of Bangor, died suddenly in Bangor of
| heart disease June Goth, aged 70 years. Mr.
| Alden was born in Freeport April IS, 1903,
| He received his education there and worked
| on the farm with his father, Samuel Alden,
until 1926 wien he came to Portland and
| learned his trade of stone mason He went
to Bangor in 1923, specially to ASSIST in build
ing the county jail; since which time he has
made Bangor his home. Five years after
moving to Bangor he was united in marriage
with Abigail. daughter of Jonathan Webster,
Esq, continuing to prosecute his trade. In
1915 he removed to the Webster farm, (be.
You'd what is now Webster streel) and carried
it ON to 1869. Since that he resumed in part
| his profession.
Michael c. McDonough, OF this city, gradu-
ated Thursday at the College of the Holy
Gross, Worcester, Mass. His thesis was 1.-THE
| origin and aim of government.
Mr.. Thaxter, the sculptor, whose death has
been once before reported. sailed from Leg
| horn for New York. He was then in improy-
ing health and in high spirits. He expected
40 arrive in New York about the 10Th of this
month. 1t was supposed that the steamer
would sail direct, and his reported death at
Naples was at first regarded as an absurd re.
port. Upon inquiry, however, it has been as.
certained that the steamer stops there, some.
times for several days at a time. There is a
possibility that Mr.. Thaxter may have re.
ceived sunstroke Or been affected by the heat
so much that brain fever resulted. Nothing
however, will be known until intelligence is
received from Florence.
The Bar Harbor Tourist says:
Mr.. j. e. Blabon, of the firm of Deering
Milliken & Co., and wife, of Portland, have
been spending few days at the West Enc
Hotel, where they will spend the month o.
July. Mr.. Blabon is one of the wealthiesi
and most successful business men in Portland
Miss EHamlin, one of the handsomest youns
ladies in Portland society," has been guest a
the West End.