The Portland daily press., 1888-10-22
PERSONAL.

Hon. Fred Atwood, of Winterport, was in
town Saturday.
Alderman Smith has returned from Low
ELL
Bishop Nicely, who arrived home Saturday
'ofieiased at st. Lula's Cathedral. Yesterday.
Mfs'Ec ssA~tG. W.. Randall; ~ Virginia,
fpraeziy III this city;:fS.'visitlnz Mrs. Ezra
HaMSss.- - =. > - ~
M. .C~DeV.A Iusans, of this city. a grad
uate of Harvard College, leaves for Europe
with his sisters, this week. He viii remain
abroad year.
Miss Margaret We're Harrington, of Port
land, graduate of Smith College, has pub
lished a beautiful illustrated volume of
"Tales of King Arthur and His Knights Of
the Round Table," that is highly spoken Of.
A fine crayon portrait of President Martin
b: Anderson, LII. D., of the University of
Rochester, has been added to the Memorial
Hall collection of portraits of distinguished
alumni of Colby University.
DR.. John Bowers, of Saco. accompanied by
his father, Hon. r. l.. Bowers, went to New
York Thursday. Saturday DR.. Bowers
sailed for Germany, where he will remain a
year in pursuit of his studies in medicine
and surgery.
Rev. j. E. Cummings, of Saco, writes from
Henzada, Burma, that Rev. Mr.. Everleth, a
Maine missionary, has been ordered home
from India on account of i'll health. The
wife and child of Rev. B. f. Turner, anoth-
er missionary who went to that country last
year, accompanied him.
Col. G. C. Meservy, an old newspaper man.
and for the past three years editor and pro-
prietor of the Nyack, (Mass.), City and
Country, died at that place Thursday MORN
ing. He was born in Hallowell, Me-, and
was about 60 years old at the time of his
death.
The Wilton Record says the name of Capt
George R. Fernald, of that town, is men,
toned for the position of trustee of the
Maine State College, in case "a vacancy
should occur. Capt. Fernald was a member
of Gov. Robes Council, and is brother of
President NJ. C. Fernald, of the college.
The Library of Colby University has re-
ceived from Professor William Mathews of
Boston, gift of 26 volumes, with the assur-
ance Of another donation at an early date. A
new work by Dr. Matthews. entitled "Wit
and Humor their Use and Abuse" is about
to be issued.
One of the most indefatigaDle workers in
the realms of natural history is Carries B.
Fuller. whLm met the other day, after the
lapse OF some years. For score of years he
has been curator of the Portland Natural
History Society and he has been member
OF the organization considerably longer than
neutrality-suspicious. of Industrial Jour
nal.
One of the surprises of Friday evening
session of the Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union convention in New York was
the presentation Of handsome marble clock
to Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, for eight
years recording secretary of the Union and
another to Mrs. L. VI. n Stevens, who has
filed the Office of assistant secretary for the
past ten years.
Rev. George Brooks, an eminent Baptist
divine of Loadnn, England, is in Maine, en-.
gagged in collecting information concerning
the American liquor traffic, and especially in
regard TO the practical workings Of the pro-
hibitory and local option laws. On his re.
turn he will write series of articles treating
of his American experiences for the Uniyer.
sal Review, one of the leading London
m0nthlies