The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-10-30
Personal.

Personal.
Ger. chamberlain and Mrs. Chamberlain
are at the City Hotel.
Mr.. A. A. Mayo of Montreal, auditor of &C
counts Of the Grand Trunk railroad, is at the
Preble House
Mr.. Eugene F. Shaw and Miss Mamie State
were married at st. Dominick's church yester-
day.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Healy has returned home,
and preached at the Cathedral yesterday morn
ing, at 10. 80 O'Clock.
Rev. W. r. Alger has withdrawn his resig-
nation of the pastorate of Park street church
for the present.
We are panied to learn that Col. "a. R. Mil
lett, the present efficient postmaster at Cor
ham, is very sick with dangerous disease.
President Dewitt, of the Union Mutual,
left London last week, and will arrive home
this week.
Israel Washburn. Jr., LID, has been
elected president OF Tufts College Rev. DR..
e. @. Bolles is one of the board of visitors.
Miss Annie Barnes of Knightyille, having
resigned her position in the primary school,
Miss Pike of Cornish has been appointed to
the place.
DR.. FL. II. Hunt of Gorham, brother OF Dr.
G. o. Hunt, Of the Maine General Hospital, is
closing up his practice as fast as possible, in
tending to remove to Portland in short time.
Mrs. Fellows, nee Nettie Miliken, sang at
Plymouth church yesterday morning, render
ing Haydn's "With Verdurs Clad" with
great beauty. Mrs. Fellows is daughter of
Mr. M. G. Millken, the brilliant organist of
Plymouth church.
Mr.. r. A. Wills, the well known printer of
this city, will issue Nov. 18th, the first number
of the Pythian Herald, monthly paper, to be
devoted to the interest of the order of knights
of Pythias. Many of the leading members of
the order will be contributors, and we hope he
will meet with generous support.
Mr.. M. S. Chamberlain, the popular clerk at
the City Hotel, leaves next Wednesday for
two months vacation at his old home in Alba
ny, vt. The many friends of Mr.. c. Fl. Rich
will be pleased to hear he has accepted posi-
ton as clerk at the same house, and will enter
on his duties to-day.
Mrs. e. Pool, the Oldest inhabitant at Ferry
Village, died at her home Saturday, aged
about ninety years She has been wonderfully
active for one of her age. The deceased was
the mother of Capt VIM. Pool, who, it will be re-
membered, steered the Kearsarge throughout
the historic battle between the former vessel
and the rebel cruiser Alabama.
Orrin Hamilton, Esq, of the Boston &
Maine railroad, residing in this city, is now, in
point of service, the Oldest conductor of that
road. He was first employed at the Great
Falls N. H. station, July 1, 1s47, and ap
pointed conductor September 1st 1S47, and has
served as such continuously to tie present
time, period of 50 years. During all that
time not death or accident has happened to
any one on train under his charge.
Hon. Bion Bradbury, while coming down
flight of stairs in Stanton block, on Exchange
street, opposite Merchants Bank, Friday noon,
caught his heel and fell some ten or a dozen
steps, bruising his shoulder and side badly. He
was taken home in carriage, but Saturday
had recovered so as to be out as usual
Mr. John Fairy died at his home yesterday.
Mr.. FAIRY was one of the original members of
the Montgomery Guards. Only three of the
members who joined that organization at its
start, now belong to the company. He was
married last June to the daug liter of Mr. Geo.
Heating. Mr.. FAIRY was most estimabe
man.
Mr.. R. W. Dunston, widely known citizen
and business man of Chicago, was drowned in
Alabama on Tuesday, where he was accompa-
nying party of English capitalists, who con-
templated purchases of Southern lands. Mr..
Dunston was an Englishman, and came to this
country with Mr.. Bridges to take charge OF the
freight department of the Grand Trunk rail-
way. Miss Lillian Dunston, the actress, is a
daughter.
Speaking of the Massachusetts campaign,
the Boston Advertiser says: Several gentle
men from other States are doing excellent
work. There are few better campaign speak
ers than Senator Frye of Maine, and the Re-
publicans of Massachusetts, are under obliga-
tions to him for the COED service he is doing
Congressman Reed, of the same State, has
spoken but once, but will soon return to stay
until the end of the campaign. If he had been
chosen Speaker of the House instead of Keifer.
there might have been better work done He
is a strong man everywhere and commands at
tention whenever he speaks. Gen. Hall, from
the same prolific State, has often helped the
Republicans, and there are few men who pre-.
sent the issues of political campaign in
more telling way.
The Lewiston Journal says: cool Joseph
@. Tyler, who organized and conducted the
first brass band in Maine, died in Durham last
Sunday, at the age of 6S years. On Tuesday,
the Durham Band, which he had led for forty
years, lowered his remains into the grave amid
solemn music Many Of our readers will expe-
rience the pang of regret which thrilled the
writer upon learning of the death of cold Joe
Tyler" Within year the journal has given
full fetch of his career, in "Reminiscences
of old Durham" by an old Durham boy, and
in Father Newell's recollections. Newell and
Tyler used to fife together at all the musters
and trainings fifty years ago. They were the
Lioeeer musicians of the county. In his day
Joe Tyler was great musician. He started
his first band in Freeport when a mere lad
Later he organized the Durham band. He
taught singing school In Durham for many
years, and led the voices with his fiddle. An
ME Louise Cary took her first lessons from Joe
Tyler. He instructed many men and women
who are now numbered among the leading
singers and players of our county. One of the
Oldest members of the Androscoggin Bar
played in his Freeport band. For few years
past he has led a retired life. We last saw
him in public on fall evening, in the politi-
cal campaign of 1880, when he trudged many
miles through our dusty streets at the head Of
his band, executing shrill quavers and runs
upon his clarinet, for torehlight procession:
His long gray hair, lis tall, sinewy and bent
form made quaint spectacle in the glare and
excitement of the parade. Tyler had been ill
for year Previously he weighed two hun
dred pounds. When he died he was almost
skeleton and weighed less than hundred
pounds. His wife outlives him, but is feeble
Alive or dead, all his friends know that Joe