The Portland daily press., 1888-02-13
PERSONAL.
Mr.. L. A. Goudy is sick at home

Mr. L. A. Goudy is sick at home.
Prof. A. w. Small, of Colby University,
was in the city Saturday.
Ex-Councilman j. V. Bradley is sick with
pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. NJ. Moore will sail on
trip TO the Bermudas Saturday.
Mr. c. l.. Fox has been obliged to close his
studio and classes for the present, on ac-
count of i'll health.
Conductor Orrin Hamilton has been pre-
sented a purse of gold by the regular COM
mercial travellers on his train.
Gen. G. b. Abbott, Commander Sons of
Veterans. U. S. A.. win visit Portland, Feb.
goth.
3. f. Chadbourne, of Chadbourne & Ken
dali, is quite i'll at his residence on Spring
street.
The Kimball Company of West Paris have
presented Capt. Bragg. of the Eleanora,
with Iine easy chair for the pilot house.
Rev. J. M. Burtt pastor of the Baptist
church at Buxton Centre, has resigned, the
resignation to take effect April LIST.
Mr.. b. II. Bartol, the wealthy refner of
Philadelphia, died in that city Friday. from
pneumonia, aged II. He was born in Free
port, and passed his early youth in Portland.
Mrs. Rea, wife of the National Command
er of the G. A r., is making a collection of
silver spoons, and buys a spoon at each
place she visits with her husband
Rev. w. II. Fem lectured last evening in
the Central church in Bangor, on "a few
Sundays Abroad" This afternoon he
speaks in the church parlors on Testimony
of Art to Religion"
A bust of ex-Vice President Hamlin has
been ordered to be placed in vacant niche
of the Senate chamber, together with those
of ex-Vice Presidents Wheeler and Arthur,
under a resolution passed by the XLIXth
Congress to place in the Senate chamber the
busts Of those who have been Vice Presi-
dents of the United States.
The many friends of James E. Mitchell in
Portland and vicinity will be panied to learn
CT his death, which occurred at Ogden City,
Utah Territory, Jan. Goth. He was born in
Yarmouth, but when quite young man
came to Portland, where he worked as car
riagesmith for G. p. Kimball. He served
during the war as sergeant in Co. G, 10th
Maine, and also in the Goth Maine regiment
The society reporter thus describes one of
the dancers at the leap year ball at Augusta
last week: "Ex-Gov. Plaisted was conspic-
uous among the dancers in full dress Down
the broad expanse of his snowy linen there
glistened three shirt studs. Four-in-hand
tie. shade, ashes of roses. The Governor
wore a gracious smile, and was the attract
i've centre of a large group of ladies during
the entire evening. Pointed-toed patent
feathers"
Commander-in-Chief Rea and Junior Vice
Commander Linehan Saturday morning Wis
tied the brother Of the latter, Rev. Father
Linehan, and were shown through the Cath
Ollie grounds on Congress street Judge Rea
had planned to remain until the departure of
the early evening train for Boston, but ow-
ing to the storm he feared delay and left
with his party on the / o'clock Grain In the
afternoon. 1t was the intention of his aids
in the city to give him complimentary din
ner, but he was obliged to decline this honor.
The autobiography of the late Prof. Pond,
of Bangor Theological Seminary, who died
in 1881, at the age of 81 years, was published
in 1883, and contained prayer used by him
for many years at night. The prayer was
copied into a Sunday school paper, and a
copy of the paper was carried home one
Sunday by the little children of John Gibson
of Philadelphia. He read the prayer, began
TO use it, and became consistent Christian.
He was killed by the falling ruins of the
Temple Theatre, in Philadelphia, in 1886,
and when the body was recovered, in peck
Of of his coat was found the paper contain
ing the prayer, nearly worn to pieces. Such
l. the story as told by the Congregationalist.