The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-14
PERSONAL.

SnerlH W0rmell OF Betnei was III tue Guy
yesterday.
Rev. j. l.. Seward has accepted call to
the pastorate Of the Unitarian parish at Wa
terville
Judge Robinson and wife of Houlton, left
on Monday for South Carolina, where they
will remain during the winter season.
Rev. George A. Holbrook and wife left
Brunswick, Tuesday, for Ashtabula, Ohio.
where Mr.. Holbrook has accepted call from
st. Peters parish.
Capt, Isaac w. Sherman, master of the
great ship Frederick Billings, has arrived
at Camden, his home. He came from Liver
pool by steamer
Rev. Thomas Hill, d. d., win lecture in
the Central Club course at Bangor. next
Monday evening, on personal Recollections
of Louis Agassiz."
The Miss Adams. who was welded Ihurs-
day to Mr.. George Gardiner, one OF those
wounded in the Boston q Maine accident,
was teacher at Cumberland Mills, whittier
she was going when the accident occurred.
Mr.. Alden Sprague, formerly editor and
proprietor of the Kennebec Journal, Will
make trip to Southern California, in about
| two weeks. Mr.. Charles Sprague. his son, is
now at Los Angeles.
| By an error the name of Mr.. Arthur Nc
| Donald was printed in yesterdays Munich
pal Court record, instead of another name
| that is somewhat similar. Mr., Mcdonald, it
| is needless to say, was not before the court.
| Mr.. Charles II. Pepper, son of President
Pepper, of Colby University, leaves Maine
| today, to Jake passage Tor the Azores on the
| packet barque Sarah, which sails from Bos-
ton directly to st. Nicholas. Mr.. Pepper,
who goes abroad for his health, takes with
him bicycle for use on the smooth roads OF
the island He viii visit Fayal, from which
place he plans to take passage for home next
| June.
A recent report that a son of Gen. o. o.
| Howard is teaching school incognito at An.
dover, Mass, and is engaged to marry
| Prussian princess. is stated to be incorrect
| The young man in question is about to be
graduated in civil engineering at Troy. He
| is engaged to marry a.young Prussian lady
| of aristocratic, but not princely family, who
| is teacher of languages at Andover.
The Dexter Gazette says that Mr.. James
Dawson, superintendent of the Dexter wool
en- mills, has arrived home, and is quite bad
ly. though not seriously injured. The bones
of his right shoulder were very severely
wrenched, the left arm badly bruised, and
the right knee somewhat disabled, besides a
general shaking up, from which it will take
| some time TO recover. Mr.. Dawson says that
the train was running mucn faster than the
railroad people claim that it was. In his
| opinion it was going very close to full speed,
Principal Barton, of Bridgton Academy,
has secured the services of the following
gentlemen to lecture during the spring term
DR.. Thomas Hill of Portland, subject either
''Three Weeks in the Straits of Magellan, .
| or "a Week in the Galapagos; Prof
Woodruff of Bowdoin College, Ancient
and Modern Athens; Rev. E. Fl. Cousins Of
Cumberland Mills, subject to be announced
Judge Symonds of Portland, "The Law
| Other lectures will be delivered during the
| term.
The will of the late Hon. Parton Hough-
ton gives to the town of Eastport the first
bequest of funds made for the public benefit
| since 1885, The sum Of $4,000 is left, the in
come of which is to be used to improve the
| town cemetery; $4,000 is left for fund to
aid aged and deserving women of the town
| of Eastport, who have no fund or relatives
to depend upon for support; and $1,000 is left
to the Unitarian society at PASSPORT. To
| the "Children's Mission Of the Destitute" OF
| Boston, $1,000. Mr.. Houghton also bequeath-
| ed to his granddaughter, Edith Prince Bib
Der, $4,000 and real estate in Eastport; to
| Ellen Ann ENNIS, of Boston, $500; and tic
the children of Harriet Austen Sumner
| $500.