The Portland daily press., 1883-08-15
Personal.
Rear Admiral prahle is in town

near admiral FreDle is IN town.
MIS-. Abba Goold Woolson is now in London.
Mr. Edward A. Mason has begun his labors
as pastor of the First Baptist church in Farm.
ington.
Rev. III. @. Estes, D. D., OF Paris, Las re-
ceryed call to the Baptist church in Win
chendon, Mass.
George q. Porter, editor of the Baltimore
Journal of Commerce, and Secretary Of the
Baltimore Board of Trade, is in the city.
Mr.. E. II. Clement, of the Boston Tran
script. is visiting Isle au Haute with his FAINT
ly.
Hon. Lewis Barker and Lewis A. Barker,
Esq, accompanied by their families, started
yesterday on drive of two or three weeks
along the Maine coast in private carriages.
Mr.. Simmons, the sculptor, is in town for a
brief stay, the guest of Judge Symonds He
will be here again, later, and make a longer
stay.
Mr.. Hall Burleigh. of the firm of Bodwell g.
Burleigh, is on his way home from England
with 200 head of thoroughbred cattle, which he
hos recently purchased there. The cattle will
be landed at Quebec, where they will be quar-
antined.
Rev. Mr.. McIntire, of Waterville, stated at
the Saturdays meeting on the Richmond
camp ground, that purse of 100000 awaited
that party which should champion the cause Of
the liquor dealers at the approaching contest in
Maine over the prohibitery amendment.
Judge Nathan Cleaves and Albert n Par
tin, Treasurer of the Magee Furnace Co. Of
Boston. have been unanimously chosen as
signees of the firm of A. N. Noyes & Son, of
this city, at a meeting of the creditors
The following are Portland visitors at the
Hamlin homestead, now the residence of Mrs
William Chase:-Mrs. Oliver Hay, Miss Isabel
b. Hay. Mrs. -Prindle, Miss Alice Hinkley.
Miss Margaret P. Hinkley, Miss Eleanor T.
Hinkley, Miss Julia P. Harris and Miss Nellie
G. Eaton.
At the election of Co. 81, I'd Regiment, to fill
vacancy caused by the resignation of Capt.
Plaisted. held Saturday evening at Waterville,
Capt. A. A. Plaisted, of Gen. Browns staff,
presided. First Lieutenant R. l.. Proctor was
elected captain; I'd Lieut.. S. G, Bracket, I'd
Lieutenant, and Sergeant c. L. Sayward, I'd
Lieutenant. This company is one of the best
drilled, and part with Capt. Plaisted with re-
greet.
The Oxford House, Fryeburg, is so full that
boarders have to lodge in the neighboring
houses. large proportion of the boarders
have been or are Portlanders, among them Mr..
and Mrs. G. o. Gosse, DR.. Thomas Fillebrown
and family, Judge Knight and family, Mrs. R.
Cram, Rines Brothers, Mr.. and Mrs. J. B.
White, Isaac Emery and family, and P. W.
McIntire, formerly of the PRESS.
Among the guests at the Falmouth last eve
ming were Mayor Fraser and rady. of Halifax,
J. B. Bloomingdale and family, Of New York,
9. P. Collier and party, of Hudson, N. Y, @.
A. Harvey, of Washington, D. c., T. Crarys,
of Montreal, Phil Simonds, business manager
of Ranch 10, A. B. Homer. of G Galveston,
Texas, A. W. Won Utlasy, of Philadelphia. M
G. Harris and party of yacht Jennie, N. Y,
A. Taintor and wife. OF Men omonie, Wis.
DIR. Hiram A. Cutting, of Lunenburg, VT,
State Geologist, Secretary of the Board of Ag-
riculture, Fish Comm issioner and Curator of
Natural History, B. J. Lang, the celebrated
organist of Boston, F. j. Patten and j. F. r.
Landers, q. S. A., Hon. T. r. Simonton, of
the Camden Herald, Judge Hall, of Rockland,
W. M. Rust, A. NJ. Spear, j. E. Moore, T. H.
committee on the revision of the statutes, and
Edward w. Grant, of the Shoe and Leather
Reporter, Boston, are at the Preble House.
Mr.. John e. Sweetser, whose death by his
own hand was reported yesterday, was born in
Wakefield, Mass, in 1889, and was the son of
Stephen and Nancy Sweetser, both of whom
are dead. He enlisted ia 1861 for tn rec years
in COMPANY E. First Massachusetts Cavalry
and served two years with credit, when he was
discharged for disability. In 1867 he entered
business in Saco, and for fifteen years was one
of Saco's most prosperous and influential citi-
zens. Several years ago he erected, in connec-
ton with his uncle, Hon. Cornelius Sweetser,
of Saco, the "Sweetser Block" the largest
and most substantial building in that city. He
held the office of alderman during the years
1878 and was offered the nomination of
mayor, but declined. In the latter part of 1882
the citizens of Wakefield made efforts to get
Mr.. Sweetser to locate his business in that
place, and the endeavor was successful, as he,
together with the firm of L. a. Day & Co., re-
moved their entire business to Wakefield. On
March oath last he lost his wife, Sarah Eliza
beth Sweetser, and since that time has labored
under unusual nervous excitement, which Gull
minated Monday morning in his sad end. He
was the nephew and partner of the late Cor
nelius Sweetser, of Saco, who, in his will, gave
$4,000 to the town of Wakefield for the inn
provement of the "Town Park" Mr.. Sweet
ser leaves five children, three sons and two
daughters.