The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-05-01
PERSONAL.

Ex-Mayor George II. Nichols, of Bath, is
at the Falmouth Hotel
William FL. Looney, Esq, spoke last night
on the Irish question in Scarboro town hall.
1t is at Richmond that Rev. Elijah Kellogg
will deliver Memorial Day sermon.
Bishop Nicely administered the rite of con-
firmation at st. Johns Episcopal church, at
Bangor, at the morning service, Sunday.
Miss Lizzie D. Haven, artist will sail with
her father for Buenos Ayres, South America,
the first of May.
Ex-Congressman Charles J. Gilman, of
Brunswick, is candidate for Presidential
elector for the First District
Mrs. Fellows's engagement in the High
street church choir ceasing Sunday evening,
she has accepted the invitation of the First
Parish church to sing in their choir.
Hon. William Senter is in Bangor, enjoy
ing the first salmon fishing. But one fish
was taken Saturday, and Mr.. Senter caught
that. 1t weighed 81 pounds.
DR.. Walter Leighton of Togus is to be ex-
changed with physician in the Milwaukee
Soldiers Home. He leaves about the middle
of May.
Mr.. Henry c. Rice, of China, who has rep
resented Shaw, Hammond & Carney, for the
last fifteen years so ably in Kennebec and
Knox counties, is in town, attending the
Grand Lodge.
In the list published yesterday of young
gentlemen admitted to the bar to practice
law in the courts of this State the name of
Charles Thornton Libby of Portland was in
advertently omitted
The French Salon of 1888 contains 5,523
works of art, namely, 1856 oil paintings,
1.1S2 drawings and pastels, 1869 pieces Of
sculpture, 500 engravings, 81 medallions or
canoes, and $50 architectural designs. Sew
eral American artists have pictures, among
whom is Young Alger Currier, the Gardiner
artist. o. him Theodore Child, the Boston
Herald art critic, cables from Paris; "a
young American, Alger Currier, makes his
debut on the line with an ugly old man on a
bitumen background, holding glass in his
hand. 'Sante' is the title of his excellent
study"
Washington has rather notable new din
ing and talking club, known as the six
o'clock Club" 1t meets and dimes every
Thursday at Wizards Hotel. The curious
feature of it is that it has no organization
Certain people with brains have informally
agreed to come together and discuss different
subjects, and the last two dinners have been
exceedingly interesting. At the dinner last
Thursday Commissioner Webb presided, and
amons others present were Senator and Mrs.
Henderson, Gen. Van Vliet, Mrs Elizabeth
Stanton and Mrs Willis, widow of the late
N. p. Willis.
A Washington despatch to the Boston
Journal has the following concerning the
launch of the new cruiser at Philadelphia,
Saturday: "There was lying at anchor near
the wharf at which the Secretary of the Navy
and the Congressman took the steamer to
proceed to Cramps Yard a vessel that was
very interesting and an important practical
object lesson to the free traders, who only
last week insisted that we have not and can
not have a merchant marine. The object les
son was furnished by the beautiful ship X.
d. Rice, of Thomaston, Me-, Captain Jordan.
The ship was a noble vessel of 2200 tons, with
three sparesail yards across, bound for Hiogo,
Japan, with cargo of petroleum. She was
then loading with petroleum. Mr.. Dingley
and Mr.. Boutelle, who were of the launching
party, ioyfully pointed their free trade asso-
ciGtes to the practical refutation of their the
cries with respect to the American merchant
Marine"