The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-17
PERSONAL.

Ex-Alderman Denison is lying quite i'll at
his home on Deering street.
Mr.. A. F. Poole. the Boston artists is
stopping at the Preble House
Rev. Mr.. Phelan of Preble Chapel, is con-
fined to the house with sciatica.
Mr.. e. B. Mallett has returned home from
Florida much improved in health.
Rev. d. Hill lectured in Bangor last night
on Personal Recollections of Louis Agas-
siz."
Rev. DIR. Bodies presided at the anniver-
sary exercises of the Samaritan Society in
the Universalist church in Salem Sunday
evening.
S. S. Knight has been elected Assistant
Superintendent of the Universalist Sunday
school, Deering, in place of David Torrey.
The other officers we're reelected.
Miss Lillian Carl Smith will take the con-
tralto parts at the bringing out Of Paine's
Nativity and Berlioz's ''Te Deum" in
Boston by the Handel and Haydn Society
Capt j. S. Winslow, Capt, Dennison, and
President Blabon, the delegates of the Board
of Trade, are insWashington in attendance
on the Shipping and Industrial Convention.
A paper is In circulation for signatures
recommending Mr.. E. c. Jordan the civil
engineer, for the Railroad Commissioner
ship, vacated by the death of Mr.. Anderson.
Mrs. James d. Fessenden and Miss Octa-
via Carroll left Boston on the Raymond and
Whitcomb California excursion yesterday
afternoon. They will be absent six
months.
Tomorrow Messrs. j. H. Barnes and w.
FL. Hobbs leave Portland for vacation trip
through the South. They will go to Wash
ington first, and thence through the Eastern
Southern States to Florida, taking several
weeks for the excursion.
Mr.. Abiel Foster. who established the For
est City Dye-House on Preble street, died
Saturday, aged IA years. He retired from
active business several years ago. He was
born in Saccarappa. Saturday he ate
hearty meal and soon afterwards was taken
i'll and his physician summoned, but medi-
cal skill proved useless.
The Rev. George Leon Walker, d. d., pas
tor since February. 1879, Of the old Centre
Congregational church of Hartford, Conn.
surprised his congregation Sunday by read
ing letter Of resignation. The reason for
his action is his poor health. DIR. Walker is
one of the corporation of Yale College, and
one of the most widely known Congrega-
tional clergymen of Connecticut.
Mr.. j. w. Harmon Of Unity. has been en-
gagged as agent of the Codwell Water Power
Company, to succeed Mr.. Josiah w. Bodwell,
who retires on account of his health. Mr..
Harmon is favorably known as one OF the
most efficient postal clerks of the United
States mail service between Bangor and
Boston, from which service he voluntarily
resigned on the advent of the Democratic
Administration.
Music and Drama speaks highly OF Miss
Bertha Behrens. She appeared at the con-
cert given by the Madison Square Concert
Company in New York, and that journal
says she delighted and astonished the audi
ence by her brilliant execution and thor
oughly artistic and intelligent style OF deliv-
err. Miss Behrens Is Portland girl. and
her father was formerly a partner In the
house of Thomas Asencia a. Co., West In
dia merchants.
At the close of the morning service at the
First Parish church in Saco, Sunday, the
pastor, Rev. E. c. ingalls,, read his letter OF
resignation from the passionate Of the church
time of his withdrawal to be suited to the
convenience of the society. During his loca-
ton in Saco Mr.. ingalls, has won many
friends as an earnest Christian worker, both
in his own church and throughout the city,
who will learn of his resignation with regret