The Portland daily press., 1882-06-07

Mr.. E. c. Cushman, nephew of the grea
tragedienne, Charlotte Cushman, has taken 9
cottage for the summer at Mount Desert.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe Is en- route from
the South and will pass the summer at a cot
tage which she has recently engaged at Ferry
Beach, Saco.
Mr.. John Main of the Grand Trunk has
gone to Montreal. Mr.. Fred Smith, cashier
freight department, is acting as agent In his
absence.
William N. Taylor, formerly clerk with
Messrs Loring, Short & Harmon of the city
has become a successful merchant at Wood
lawn, Nemaha county, Kansas.
Robert johnson is to be chief in charge Of
the engineering corps in running the surveys
for the Grand Forks and Missouri Valley road
Last year he was employed by construction
company in New Mexico, and is consequently
thoroughly posted in prairie.work.
Mr.. Emmons Blaine, son of Hon. James u.
Blaine, who has been employed in both execu-
tive and traffic offices of the Chicago and
Northwestern Road at Chicago for more than
year, has gone to Cincinnati, where he will
engage in the practical supervision of railway
now company, of which his flasher is an Off
Ger, which proposes to construct a railroad
from Cincinnati to Portsmouth, O., following
the north bank of the Ohio River the entire
distance. The officials of the Northwestern
speak in the highest terms of his executive
qualifications.
Dr. Albert f. Murch, one of the graduates
of the last medical class at Bowdoin College,
has been appointed assistant surgeon at the
Maine General Hospital.
The Rev. VIM. e. Guskin of Harrington'has
received and accepted a call to he passionate of
the Universalist Church at Portsmouth, N. 81.
Mr.. Guskin is young man of much promise,
graduate of Tufts College Divinity School
and has preached several years in Washington
county in this State
Westbrook Seminary.
Westbrook Seminary commencement this
year takes place on the 29th inst. The Rev.
DIR. Capen, President of Tufts College, is to
give the address before the Alumni Associa-
ton. At the dinner table speeches are ex-
pected from the Rev. DIR. j. M. Pullman of
New York, Hons. Olny Arnold and Henry B.
Metcalf of Rhode Island, ex-Governors Wash
burn and Perham and others. A large class
will graduate.
Through the efforts of Prof. Rawson, Messrs.
Houghton, Miflin & Co. of Boston, have pre-
sented the Seminary with copies of the excel
lent Atlantic portraits of Emerson, Longfel-
low, Whittier, Bryant, Lowell and Holmes.
Prof. Rawson is somewhat of a mechanical
genius, and has made during his spare hours,
unique and substantial frames for the portraits,
which now adorn the walls of the dining hall
OF the Seminary.
The grounds at the Seminary have been put
in good condition by the ianitor, Mr. Dodge.
A few days of sunshine is now required to
give blossom to the large number of dollhouse
plants which ornament the flower beds.
The second number of the Westbrook Echo
has appeared. The periodical is we'll made up
and printed in a manner that reflects credit
upon the young men and ladies who have it in
charge. The students own the type and
small press, and during their leisure hours
perform the labor required to publish the Echo.
Army and Navy Union.
The committee appointed to draft resolutions
on the death of Capt. j. A. Perry, hereby sub
NIT the following:
Whereas, Our diminishing ranks have again
been broken by the death of Comrade Joseph
A. Perry, late Captain of Co. f.. 18th Maine
Volunteers, which occurred at Portland, after
a long and painful sickness, February IS, 1882;
therefore be it
RESOLVED. That in the death of this gallant
officer, who nobly rendered to his country the
whole duty of an American citizen in the war
to preserve the Union, through long years of
toll and carnage; who was always, in war and
in peace, ready to render material assistance to
others, unmindful of self;whose quick impulses
rarely failed iu doing the right thing at the
right time and place; whose kind heart and
genial disposition ever manifested themselves
towards each and all of his comrades: our as
ISOLATION has met with a great loss and every
member a kind friend; nobody an enemy; his
death we deeply regret
ReSolued, That copy of these resolutions be
sent to his afflicted family as a token of our
sympathy in their greater loss, and that the
same be spread upon the records of our associa-
ton as an abiding record of our brotherly love
for our departed comrade, and as testimonial
of the high respect in which we hold his mem
ory.
GEO. W. VERRnL, Committee
JOHN o. RICE, on resolutions.