The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-11-29
PERSONAL.

Rev. DIR. Fem is suffering from carbun-
Gle.
HMr. Charles II. Sawyer and wife of Mon
son, are at the City Hotel.
Hon. Neal Dow will speak on temperance
in the City Hail. Hayerhill, tonight.
In the recent election in Iowa, Judge
Maeomber, formerly of Milo, was reelected
District Judge by very large majority
Mr. A. S. Libbey, Of the Portland and
Skowhegan postal route, has been trans
ferred to that between Bangor and Boston
ID. L. Savage, Esq, who has been engaged
in the practice of law at Foxcroft for the last
eight or nine yeart. has removed to Mandan.
Dakota.
Judge Bonney and wife of Portland.
passed Thanksgiving with his father, VIM
l.. Bonney Of Turner. They returned to
Portland Saturday.
The Committee on the LIQUOR Agency
Saturday elected James E. Flanagan, clerk
OF the agency, in place of Christopher d.
Cunningham, resigned.
James Dixie, formerly an usher in the Bos-
ton Latin School, died on Tuesday evening.
He was the oldest son of Rev Dr. S. L. Dixie
of Bath, Me-, and graduate of Bowdoin
College.
Miss BERTHE Webb is reported as acquiring
great skill in her playing of the violin, under
the tuition of Prof Bernhard Listemann of
Boston. She is one of the first violins in his
Student Orchestra"
FEY. Selah Merrill, United States consul at
JeruS allen, arrived Thursday by steamer
Nevada at New York. Mr.. Merrill is spec
ialist in the omithology and archaeology of
the Holy Land and has many friends in
Maine.
The funeral of DR.. lie Prohon took place
at the Catholic Cathedral this morning. The
exercises consisted of a requiem mass. Quite
number of the physicians of the city were
| present. The deceased was buried at Cal
vary Cemetery.
Mrs. Mary Bradford Crowninshield, wife of
Commander Crowninshield, United States
Navy, late in charge Of this lighthouse dis
trict, has written "All Among the Light
houses" detailing an actual trip up the
coast with lighthouse inspector and two
bright boys.
Rev. Henry Storer, who for many years
was one of the most popular and beloved
preachers in Maine, is very i'll and there is
little hope of his recovery. He has been at
the house of Captain James Thornton, OF
Oak Hill, Scarboro, but yesterday he was
moved to the Maine General Hospital.
Rev. 7. II. Wallace, chairman of the SUI
| perintending school committee of Lewiston,
has written an admirable report of the
schools of that city. 1t is replete with prac-
tical suggestions, which would repay all
those interested in our school system to ex-
anime. He has been unanimously reelected
chairman of the board.
Rev. Francis Smith, S. j., of Baltimore,
Nd, who has been conducting the jubilee
exercises at st. Dominic's, during the past
week, preached most practical and instruc-
tive sermon yesterday morning at the Cathe-
dral of the immaculate Conception at the
high mass.
Mr.. Payson T. Sykes, son of r. f. Sykes,
Esq, of Auburn, has accepted responsible
position in the Portland office of General
Manager Tucker of the Maine Central rail-
road. The Lewiston Journal says that Mr.
Sykes is one of Auburn's most reliable and
promising young men.
Frank P. Otis, Esq who read law in the
OAiSC Va iICUiOhC ~ dloOuo VI fOAcTOIL, a
few years ago, and afterwards practiced law
in Norway, and in Corinna, has been prac-
ticing law in Sonora, California He has re-
Gently been elected district attorney for
Tuolumne county in that State.
General William J. Sewell, United States
Senator from New J ersey, in recent speech
accused the Hon. Thomas II. Dudley
of amassing fortune during his administra-
ton as United States consul at Liverpool
England, by the exaction of exorbitant, un.
authorized and illegal fees or otherwise, from
American vessels. The late consul has COM
menced proceedings in the Supreme Court
of New Jersey, against General Sewell, fol
alleged libel. 1t may yet be fresh in ths
minds Of many who were shipmasters OF
owners of vessels trading to Liverpool dur
ing Mr.. Dudley's administration whether the
Senator's statemef4 can be borne out by
facts.