The Portland daily press., 1885-05-20

Mr.. Turner Berry arrived home from a
pleasant sojourn in Florida yesterday morning.
Mr.. Edgar, general passenger agent of the
Grand Trunk road, was in the city yesterday.
MIR. Charles Il. Hooper, Quartermaster of
Charles L. Stems Post, G. A. R., will deliver
the Memorial address at Castine.
Hon. Charles P Mattocks is making bust
ness tour of some of the Western States and
Territories.
Rev, j. w. Parsons will deliver the Memo
rial address at tie cemetery in Saco on
Memorial Day.
Hon. John Kimball o. Bangor, former
State Senator and Representative, died On
Sunday. he was native of Carmel.
The lecture committee of Bates College are
negotiating with Hezskah Butterworth of
Boston to deliver the Grafton before the united
| literary societies, commencement week.
Chief Engineer Whitaker of the Dallas has
been ordered to Galveston. Mr.. Whitaker has
been here about six years and has made many
firm friends, who will deeply regret his de.
parture.
Mr.. Geo. &. Stacy of Boston writes the Ken
nebec Journal that the statement in its
columns that he is candidate for office under
Mr.. Pillsbury is not correct, and that be is not
| candidate for that or any other office under
| Mr.. Pillsbury.
The people at West Buxton have invited
| Chas. A. Warren Post, G. A. R., of Standish,
| to hold the Memorial services at the former
place, and the post have decided to do SO. Rev.
W. f. Berry OF Woodfords is to deliver the
Memorial address.
| 1t is obvious that the land ring in New
| Mexico would like to be rid of Clarence
| Pullen, the new Surveyor-General. The ap-
| poiptment OF an honest man to sit in Judgment
| on all questions connected with the old Spanish
| and Mexican land grants was a good point
| gained, and it is one worth keeping.-Spring-
| field Republican.
Frederic o. Conant of this city is preparing
genealogy of the Conant family. 1t will in
clude the early English ancestry the descend
ants of Roger Conant, the first of that name
| who emigrated to this country, who, in 1924
| was Governor of the Cape Ann Colony, and
who subsequently, in 1926, moved to Naum-
keag, now Salem, where be built the first
house.
B. w. Stimson, travelling salesman for Allen
& Co., died suddenly Monday afternoon at
the Belmont House, Claremont, NH. He
had been out several days and was suffering
from d cOlu Wn6n ne loIb. NO particulars OF
his death have been learned. Mr.. Haskell
went to Caremont yesterday morning and will
bring the body home with him. Mr. Stimson
had been in the employ OF Allen g. Co. for
about ten years. He leaves widow and three
children, residing at 81 Atlantic street.
Mr.. Martin Burckes, the last survivor OF the
Hornet-Peacock fight in the war of 1872 died
in Somerville, Mass, last Saturday evening
He was born in Boston, Sept. Ia, 1888, and be-
came ship carpenter. Previous to his service
in the Hornet he had been to sea and visited
the four quarters of the globe. For six months
he was prisoner to the French, on account of
the famous order of Napoleon at that time.
After the war Mr.. Burckes came back to Bos-
ton and worked at ship carpentering at the
North End, where he built up very large
business, besides doing some work for the
United States government. He employed
large number of hands and a large capital.
Moving to Charlestown, he made it his resi-
dence for over fifty years. About twenty years
ago he gave up business, spending some years
in Maine For the past few months he had re.
sided with his two sons in Somerville.