Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-05-02
Personal.

Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague now signs herself
Mrs. Katharine Chase.
Senator Logan will spend most of his
summer in New Mexico.
| jay Gould and party left New York Sat
urday to inspect Western and Southern rail
roads
A. H. Sabine of Bowdoin '76 is Professor
of Chemistry in the University of Vermont,
and was lately appointed State Chemist.
Jefferson Davis is growing oranges on his
Mississippi plantation, and believes the con
ditions there more favorable than in Florida.
| Gen Robert Toombs' health is said to have
much improved recently, and he is described
as looking hale and strong, better than he has
appeared for years.
Mrs. General Diaz is said to be young and
pretty, and dresses as might be expected of a
| woman who supposes herself an heiress of the
fame and wealth of the Montezumas.
Mr.. Sargent, the American minister at
Berlin, denies that he said the prohibition of
the importation of American pork was illegal
| and carried despite the opposition of the
| Reichstag.
George =. Lathrop and Mrs. Rose Haw-
thorne Lathrop go abroad again early this
summer, and '.The Wayside' at Concord,
IIawthorne's old home. where they have been
living this winter, is for sale.
Ex-Gov. John ID. Long of Massachusetts,,
is back in the office with his old partner
Stillman b. Allen. with whom he has been
| associated many years. He is now residing
at his summer house in bingham.
| Philip Pervere, of Sedgwick, is said to be
the Oldest man in Maine. He was born in
Hampton Falls, n. H., Nov. II, 1879, and is
| consequently over I03 years old. When a lad
he lived with DR.. Jesse Appleton, who was
afterwards president of Bowdoin College.
The Hon. Warner Miller, senator from
New York, together with General Anson Nc
Cook, the Hon. J. w. Wadsworth, of New
York. and the Hon. Amos Townsend, of
Ohio, are making a trip through Mexico
Senator Miller is en- route for California
| from here.
The Prince Of Wales probably did not al
| together enjoy the grand gala night of the
| Berlin festivities, being compelled to wear
very heavy uniform and dolman, reducing
| him to the condition of Miss Carolina Will
| helmina Skeggs iu 1.-The Vicar of Wake
| field" In fact he was thoroughly exhausted
and had to retire soon as he could.
Quite a number of Washington society
| people attended the wedding, at Frederick
City, Md, last week, Of Mr.. Donald Mclean
| New York lawyer, and Miss Emily Nelson
| Ritchie, daughter of Judge Ritchie, one OF
| the leading democrats of Maryland, and at
one time Congressman from that State.
Miss Richie has fifteen sisters, who, like
her, have the reputation of being the hand
soonest ladies in that State. Miss Emily is
the first of the sixteen sisters who has mar
ried.
Alexander Sullivan, since Fridays conven-
ton. when he was elected President of the
National League, one of the most prominent
| Irishmen in the world, is now 80 years of age
and was born in Maine. He stumped the
State of Michigan for the constitutional
| amendment giving negroes the right of suf-
| frage and was an active abolitioDist. He was
a republican until 1872 when he supported
| the liberal movement and has since been
democrat. He studied law with Algeron T.
Sullivan of Newark, and has been for num-
Der of years in successful practice in Chicago
] Through her counsel, Mrs. Bette Mason
has filed an answer in the equity court to the
suit of Benjamin +. Bigelow for counsel
fees in defending her husband, Sergt. Mason.
She states that Bigelow volunteered to az
sumo the case, and was not of her choice /;
that she never agreed to pay him for his SER
vices. but had Of her own volition paid him
S370 for which she holds his receipts; that
he connected himself with her husbands de-
fence only for his own gioriication and for
the benefit Of bis reputation.