The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-09-24
PERSONAL.

Commander Folger U. S. NJ. and Mrs.
Folger are at the Falmouth Hotel.
Mr.. John Coleman, of the Falmouth. is
confined to the house with severe cold.
Mr.. Fred Gibson, of the Preble, has gone
TO Camden to go into the grocery business.
Miss Alice Gould has returned from New
Brunswick and is at her studies.
Mr.. ii. B. Milliken, the newspaper cores
pendent, is going to California and Japan.
Harper's Weekly has fine portrait of
Gov.-Elect Burleigh.
Mr.. III. b. Brown and Miss Helen Brown,
the artists, have returned from Jackson, N.
II.
President Blabon, of the Board of Trade
has gone to Nebraska to visit his sons cattle
| rancho
William ID. Little, Esq, is the last suryi-
vor of the men in business on Exchange St.,
fifty years ago. He is hale and hearty.
Alden J. Blethen, formerly principal of
the North school. in this city, is the Republ
can nominee for mayor of Minneapolis.
Miss Emma Eames, the soprano, formerly
Of Portland. has accepted a position at the
Opera Comique, Paris.
Mr.. Fred Shaw, of the West End Hotel,
Bar Harbor, will return to Florence, Italy,
the coming winter, to pursue his studies in
sculpture.
Rev. Julian K. Smythe, of Boston, former
iy of Portland, is very i'll with fever contract
ed by camping out in Maine the past sum-
mer.
M. A. Drew, Esq, of Alfred, commences
this week to run as postal agent weighing
mails between this city and Gorham, N H.
The work will require month.
Mr., Ira Berry, the venerable grand secre-
tary of the Grand Lodge of Masons, celebrat-
ed his s7th birthday yesterday. He is in
good health.
Mr.. Parsons B. Cogswell and Miss Helen
b. Pillsbury, daughter of Parker Pillsbury,
were married at Concord, N. H., Saturday
Mr. Cogswell is managing editor of the
Concord Monitor.
Miss Emile Foster, youngest daughter of
Hon. Geo. f. Foster, of this city, and Mr.
Willis Hunt, of Pasadena, Cal, were mar
ried In the latter place lately. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hunt will reside at Los Angeles.
Mr.. Ernest LIE Prohon has been appointed
Consular agent for Spain at this port. Con-
sui and Mrs. Ainz left Friday for Montreal
to take the steamer Vancouver for Liverpool
on Saturday.
DR.. Fred E. Buck, formerly of Auburn.
whose stay in jacksonville was noted the
other day, is added to the list of yellow fever
sufferers telegram has been received by
his friends in Bath. 1t states that he has the
fever in mild form.
Capt VIM. Bragg, who has been in COM
mand of the Bath branch of the Salvation
Army number of months, is to marry Miss
Henrietta Hodgdon, of Brunswick, next
month. The ceremony is to be performed at
City Hall.
Beecher Putnam, Colby $50, of Houlton,
is to have the care of the Colby gymnasium
and win manage the base ball nine this year.
and has therefore resigned his position as
edtor-in chief of the Echo. E. F. Stevens,
$50, has been chosen to fill the vacancy.
The Blue Book of the House of Parla-
ment for 1887 contains a discussion of the
standard yard made by Prof. Rogers, of Col
by University, for the Standard Department
OF the British Board of Trade in 1887. The
length of the yard was found to be only "a
milllonths of an inch shorter than the stand
ard Imperial yard
The late Rev. ii. G. Storer, who died at
Scarboro last week, was cousin of the late
Mrs. George Evans, and an uncle of the
late Hon. Bion Bradbury. BE was pastor of
State street mot Park street church at one
time. He was man of great information,
most engaging conversationalist and of love-
ly disposition. He was the last of his fam
lily.
H. T. ID.
Thursday, says that DR.. Weed has been the
observed of all observers since he was ac-
quilted in the recent robbery trial in Bangor
and returned to Newport. The amount of
practice which he has had has been simply re-
markable and his time is constantly occu-
pied The doctor seems to have been we'll
advertised in Bangor, and is Ger tainly reap
ing the benefit of it,
Ex-Consul Francis Warren Rice, of Pana-
ma, died of paralysis at his summer home in
Saco, Sunday noon, aged "a years. He was
born in Buxton, Maine, and learned the
printers trade in Saco, going from there to
the Portland Advertiser office, then to Bos-
ton, then to New York. In 1S49, in compa-
ny with Joseph M. Crane, of Virginia, he
went to California and founded the San
Francisco Courier. After remaining there
one year he sold out and went to Panama,
then returned to Boston. He was appointed
consul at Acapulco, Mexico, under President
Fillmore, which office he held one year. Then
he went to Panama and was South American
correspondent of the New York Times. I'M
der President Lincoln he was appointed con-
sui at Aspinwall, which position he held
during Lincoln's and Johnson's admnistra-
ton.