Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-05-28
Personal.

Capt. Geo. w. Chase, a Belfast boy, is
now in command of the iron steamer 'Copi-
api," of 500 tons, which runs between Val
paraiso and Iquiqe.
General Chamberlain has been removed to
the residence of his daughter in Boston
Highlands, and is fast gaining strength. His
wound is healing slowly.
Thereis a man in Rockport whose name
spells the same whether read backward or
forward in the usual manner. Ii is Esrom
Morse.
Hon. s. :. Fifeld, of Ashland, Lieut..
Governor of Wisconsin, is a native of Ban
gor. He is rising politician, comparatively
a young man vet and the prospect is that he
will step still higher in political life.
Asa c. Mitchell, graduate of Bowdoin
died Saturday, in Bellows Falls, VT. He
was civil engineer on the Grand Trunk.
and later chief engineer on the Vermont
division of the Portland 4 Ogdensburg.
While making arrangements for trip to
Europe for his health's sake, the Hon. Alex
ander Mckenzie. formerly premier of Can
ada. was surprised by the advent of a party
of friends who presented him with purse Of
$4,000.
Mr.. Ham of Lewiston says that he found
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin at Moosehead
Lake fishing with all the animation
of younger man. Mr. Hamlin says
he remembers fishing in Rangely Lake
in 1928, and he thinks the fishing is as good
now as in that day.
Hon. Isaac Stephenson of Marinette, Wis.
member of Congress from the 9th Congress.
sional District, was a resident OF Bangor in
1874 and ls45. Though not native of Maine
having been born in New Brnnswick-yet
most of his youth was spent in this State,
his father having emigrated to AroostOok
county while he was child.
Rev Us Burgess of Waterbury, CT, form
erly of Lewiston. is visiting Maine in behalf
of the Free Baptist Home Missionary work.
and will remain here about a month. The
Free Baptists are doing an excellent work in
the South and other parts of the country and
contributions in aid of it cannot fail to do
great good.
The Rangeley lake party consisting OF
Messrs. A. Atwood, Gen. h. Bearce, Seth
Chandler, J. Ham and Freeman have arrived
in Lewiston from the lake covered with glory
and are the happy pOssessOrs of unlimited
pounds of trout Mr.. Chandler showed the
Lewiston Journal a couple of rare fish. One
OF them turns the scales at 81 lbs, and the
other trife less. The party brought away
very nearly two hundred and fifty pounds.
Mr.. Hatton, the owner of the Burlington
Hawkeye, has an office of profit in Washing
tOU. MI w dIle, du cultOF VI Tic udWkcyt,
is postmaster at Burlington, and John w.
Burdette, another editor of the Hawkeye and
a brother of the funny man, has been appoint
ed collector for the fourth Iowa district. The
office boy of the Hawkeye had not been pro-
vided for at last accounts.
Mrs. Thaxter, the mother of the Portland
sculptor, lately purchased beautiful lot in
the cemt terry at Florence, and commissioned
a devoted friend of her late son to go to
Naples for his remains. Under the
personal superintendence of this friend and
that of the consul general at Naples, the
removal was accomplished, and the body
brought to the chapel of the Protestant
cemetery at Florence. Mrs. Thaxter's
design is to erect a monument on the spot.
The base of this will be of granite with a
likeness of her son in q marble medallion.
The granite block will be surmounted by q
on which will be Thaxters last work
ssReverie,' unfinished, with the chisel
mallet and other tools lying around as
sculptors are wont to leave their work for
little season.
Kew. Mr.. Gerrish of Bangor is now at work
on another book. which will be issued in
September. While at the South last fall he
obtained much important information in re-
gard to the late war which has never been pub
lisbed, and he also made the acquaintance of
the Rev. Mr.. Hutchinson, of Fredericksburg,
Methodist clergyman, who for four years
was a member of the famous Stonewall jack
son Brigade. The book will be joint pro-
duction of the two gentlemen, and will give a
condensed and correct history of the two great
armies to which they belonged. The title
of the book is very appropriate "The Blue and
theGray." Col. A. c. Hamlin, of Bangor and
Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee, of Virginia, will write
introductions for the xork. The design for
the cover will be Union and a Confederate
soldier shaking hands. No words Of condem-
nation are to find place in the book, but two
boys who carried their knspsacks, one in the
Federal and one 10 the Confederate ranks,