The Portland daily press., 1889-02-26
PERSONAL.

Hon. Z. L. Rand was in town yesterday.
Ex-Governor Marble and Hon. Lewis Bar
ker were at the Falmouth yesterday.
Mrs. Elbridge Gerry Of Portland has un-
der construction a summer cottage at Fort
Point, New Castle.
Rev. +. 5. Thatcher, of the Unitarian
church in Augusta, in response to the urgent
request of the parish. will resume his pasto-
raj duties next June.
William Kimball, aged 81 years, highly
esteemed farmer of East Pittston, dropped
dead Sunday, at his home. Heart disease
was the cause.
Mr.. w. S. Barbour, city engineer of Cam
bridge, who died in that city on Sunday last,
will be remembered as the engineer who
laid out the Portland Horse Railroad.
Miss A. q. Morgan, who keeps fashion
able school at Portsmouth, n H., which
many Portland ladies have attended, gave a
brilliant reception Saturday evening.
Rev. Mr.. Simmons of Connecticut, who
was supplying the pulpit of the Church of
the Messiah Sunday, had such severe cold
that he was unable to fulfil his engagement
in the evening.
Capt. Eben I. Lewis, who has a record as
the most successful mackerel catcher in the
history of Gloucester, the home of the
mackerel fishery, has sold out his vessel in
terest and will go into the real estate busi-
ness in Boothbay, his native place.
Judge Nathaniel T. Talbot of Roekport
died Sunday of paralysis, aged rs years. He
was native of Turner, Me-, and a graduate
a ali a. -
Benjamin +. Butler. lie was many years
judge of the Probate Court. He leaves
widow, son and two daughters.
George w. Stores has been appointed gen
eral passenger agent Of the White Mountain
Division, Boston & Lowell vice III. n. Tur-
ner, resigned. ID. c. Prescott has been APP
pointed general freight agent of the White
Mountain Division, and W. c. Berry general
freight agent of the st. Johnsbury & Lake
Champlain, vice Fl. N. Turner resigned
The leader of the Little Puck" orchestra
is William Withers, and he carries scar on
him which will always bring to mind the ter
rible crime which shocked the world on the
evening of April 18th, 1865, in Ford's Thea
tire at Washington, for he received it from
j. w. Booth, when the actor was trying to
escape.
DIR. G. e. Dow and J. II. Hannaford have
returned from their trip to New York. They
stopped In Boston a few days, being enter
tanned by E. b. Pillsbury and others of the
Boston Athletic Association. They speak
in the highest terms of the new club house
on Boylston street. Their host. Mr.. T.. r.
Pillsbury, is the manager of the Postal Tel
egraph Company, ana a most genial gentle
man In the bargain.
Among the prominent people from abroad
who were in town last week in attendance
upon the dedicatory exercises of the Public
Library edifice, was Mrs. Willard l.. Bow
dom of Salem, whose husband was de-
scendant OF James Bowdoin, who endowed
Bowdoin College. She recently gave to the
college some original letters of their great
patron, which were thankfully received, as
the college did not possess a single original
letter Of James Bowdoin. Mrs. Bowdoin is
relative of Mrs. James p. Baxter.
Horace Stevens, M. D., of Cambridge,
Mass, died at the residence of his son, Dr.
T. H. Stevens, on Sunday morning. The
deceased was born at Piermont, N. H.
April 10, 1876, and was graduated from the
medical department of the University Of
Vermont, having also attended Dartmouth
for three years. He first practiced his pro-
fession in Stantead, Quebec, afterward re-
moving to Skowhegan, Me-, where he re-
NAMED until his health broke down about |
ten years ago, when he went to Cambridge
Since his residence in Cambridge he had
been confirmed invalid from the result of
paralysis, and was never seen on the street
except in carriage. At the beginning of
the late war, DIR. Stevens entered the service
as surgeon of the First Maine Cavalry, re-
naming until 1865 or the deceased's fami-
ly, his widow, one son and daughter are
loft H.,