The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-03
PERSo NAL.

Governor Robbie has finally decided to go to
California with the G. A. R.
T. ]. Calvert, editor of the Lewiston Ga
zette, and wife are at the Merchants Ex-
change.
Bngadier General Brown has received
many compliments upon his excellent work
at the muster at Bangor this week.
Mr.. Fl. NJ. Sylvester of Quincy, Mass, has
been elected counsel and prosecuting attor-
ney to the Quincy Board of Health.
Mr.. E. A. Perry of the Boston Herald staff
is in England, writing up the elections for
his paper. He is son of Hon. j. J. Perry
of this city.
Prof W. r. Howard, Maine State College,
'S2, has accepted the position of principal of
Gould's Academy. Bethel, and enters upon
his duties next fall.
Miss Beal of Norway, has been one of the
young ladies who has graced the military
headquarters at the muster at Bangor with
her presence.
Clark Drummond of Winslow, father of
E. r. Drummond of this place aud Hon. J.
III. Drummond of Portland, will be ninety
years old next Sunday. MI. Drummond is
hale and hearty, and as he Is seen almost
Qdlly, ullblllS dloliS Jul oelSOoos oOSo
seem more than seventy years of age.-Wat-
erville Sentinel
Miss Minnie Boyd, the charming daughter
of Capt Robert Boyd of the flagship Tennes-
see, accompanied by Mrs. Colonel Hebb OF
Portsmouth, n H., will arrive in this city
on Monday next where they will be the
guests of Mrs. Charles Boyd. GA Gray street
The family of Mr.. Carl Berrer of this city
who was suddenly killed by an accident is
left in needy circumstances, and the officers
of the Provident Aid Society, of which he
was member, upon being informed of this
| fact have authorized immediate payment to
| the widow of Mr.. Berrer from funds in the
| treasury of the full amount of the benefit to
| which his membership could be entitled.
A. F. Brown and family, Washington, ID
c.; Hon. F. E. Richards and wife, Camden
| r. r. Bishop and wife, c. FL. Goodwin, Bos-
| ton; l. B. Hesford, Haverhill; A. G. Steb
bins, Worcester; j. L. Porter, Cleveland, o.
| A. S. Ranney, Concord, N. H. W. A. Cole
man and wife, Scranton, Pa; A. K. Chad
wick, Lowell; O. G.. Calkins, Chicago; d.
| B. Wright, Jacksonville, Fla. Bishop
Doane, Albany, n Y, were among the ar
rivals at the Falmouth Hotel last night
The Trustees of the State College at Oront
have accepted the resignation of Prof. c. I'll
| Fernald, who has decided to accept the offel
made him by the Trustees of the Agricultur
al College at Amherst, Mass. His departure
will be great loss to the College and the
| State. When he went to Orono, fifteen years
| ago, there had been comparatively little dont
! by any scientists with the moths and butter
|. flies of this State. His collection now EN-
braces about every butterfly known to exist
in Maine, and very nearly all the moths Ii
1882, Prof. Fernald published a catalogue o.
| the Trtricida family. He is also the author
eff the article entitled "Heterocera, or moths
| and butterflies, in the Standard Nationa
| History, published recently in Boston by S
| E. Casino & Co., and this last winter he
published valuable work upon the Sphing-
| ed@, or sphinx moths. Some time ago HI
| prepared for the use of the college students
valuable textbook upon the grasses o.
| Maine, and has also published one upon the
| Butterflies of the State. His next work will
| embrace the Pyrald@ and Pterophorid@, o.
| Pyralids and Featherwings This work viii
| probably be published under the auspices
| of the Smithsonian Institution.