The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-28
PERSONAL.


Colonel Coppinger, U. S. A., MIR. Blaine,s
son-in-law. is in Augusta.
Hon. William Gould, of Windham. was in
the city yesterday.
}. ii. Higgins, of Geneva, N. Y, is visiting
in the city.
Dr. b. H. Bowen, a special student OF the
homanic languages at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, has been appointed instructor in
French and Latin at Bowdoin College.
Mr.. V. b. Stinson, of Concord, N. H., was
at the United States Hotel last night, and
Judge Enoch Foster of Bethel, at the Fall
mouth.
General III. M. Sprague, who accompanied
Worumbus Canton to Cincinnati, has been
appointed chief of staff to General Cush-
man.
Representative Dawson, of Greenville, is
on journey to Southern California, whittier
he has gone to get the remains of his son,
who died out there last winter.
Rev. Gardiner Holmes, formerly of Bridg-
ton, pastor of the NJ E. church in York, has
declined a call to the M E. church at Butte
City, Montana, at salary of $780,
George H. Larrabee, who was graduated
this year from Bowdoin. has been engaged
as principal of the new High School at Bux-
ton.
Mr.. E. r. Drummond, of Wateryille,
brother of Hon. j. II. Drummond, completed
last Sunday his seventeenth year as superin-
tendent of the Methodist Sunday school at
Waterville
Mrs. Julia Lefavor and Miss Lefavor, of
Gnlunahuc n &c Of I poil
Mrs. Lefavor is an invalid, and it is hoped
her sojourn at the old home may be bene-
| fetal.
Mr.. M. II. Boutele, graduate of Bow
doin in the class Of 1886, has successfully
| passed his examination for admission to the
bar in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis papers
| speak in high terms of his examination. Mr..
Boutelle is from Bangor, and brother of
Congressman Boutelle
Chief of Police Cloyes, of Cambridge,
Mass. passed through this city yesterday
morning on vacation. He took look at
Raymond, the burglar, who evidently recog-
nized him, for he asked the chief when he
left Boston. Cloyes said he recognized Ray
mond's face, but couldn't place him.
Next Monday Mr.. Hight, formerly of this
city, now of the firm of Lord & Hight, of
Baltimore, Nd, with his son, Mr.. Grant,
Mcdonald, of Portland, and John ID. Lord,
Jr., of Baltimore, will leave for Montreal to
take the Partisan, of the Allan line, for Liv-
erpool Mr.. Nights son and Mr.. Mcdonald
will pass two years in study at Geneva.
The Board" of Bowdoin College have
made an appropriation for the purpose OF
maintaining and improving the college
''choir" or "Glcc Club" and Mr.. Harry M.
Nickerson, of Portland, a pupil of Professor
Dennetts, of this city, and a senior in the
Medical School, has been appointed by Pre-
| sident Hyde to the position of instructor and
leader, the position he has so successfully
and acceptably held for the year past
Yesterday morning there met on Exchange
street five gentlemen, all of whopi- assisted in
| pulling down the spire of-the old Second
Parish church in 1926. They were Hon.
William Gould (bornin 1900, Samuel Coles.
worthy (born in>1S10), Samuel r. Leavitt
(born in 1910, Edwin Sawyer (born in 1870,
| and William j. Bradish. All these gentle
men agreed as TO the details of that affair,
and they all remembered that the vane had a
holethrough it at that time.