The Portland daily press., 1889-04-09

PERSO NAL.

Professor Corthell of the Gorham Normal
School, was in town yesterday.
Mr.. Parke g. Dingley of the Lewiston
Journal is at the Preble House.
Hon. M. p. Frank of Portland, has accept
ed an invitation to deliver the Memorial Day
address at Gray.
Mr.. Frank Burnham will be director of
music at the Hotel Fiske, Old Orchard, dur
ing the coming season.
Hon. Henry G. Peabody Of Portland, will
deliver the Memorial Day address at Cor
ham, N. H., his boyhood home.
Mr.. E. B. Winslow has been elected chair
man and Mr.. 81. S. Payson, secretary of
the Police Commissioners Board.
General Horatio c. King will deliver the
Memorial address at Orange, N. j., in the
Academy of Music on the evening of Decor
alton Day.
Gen. Geo. l.. Beal, State Treasurer of
Maine, and Brigadier Gen. John Harper, in
spector general of the staff of Gov. Burleigh,
are at the Falmouth Hotel.
Mr.. A. L. Trufant of Cundy's Harbor,
Harpswell, has died at st. Augustine, Fla.
BE had filed many of the town offices and
was member OF the .igonia Lodge of this
city.
It's Martha's Vineyard, not vinalhaven.
to which DR.. G. E. Banks has been ordered.
DR.. Banks has been here but one and half
years. He is Portland boy and his friends
here will part with him with regret.
The board of editors for Bowdoin's CTS
Bugle is as follows; Editor, Charles S. F.
Lincoln; business editor, Everett G. Loring;
literary edidors, Arthur T. Brown. Thomas
S. Burr. Harry s. Chapman, Walton w.
Poor.
The Portsmouth Times says; Lewis B.
Smith, Esq, Of Portland, for over half
century has served as deputy collector of
customs. with but rare absence from his
desk. He seems to have been for years of
the kind who
"N0 re- e' e, had changed nor wished to change
Hon. Elliot Wood of Winthrop, has been
appointed postmaster of the National Sen
ate in the place recently vacated by Hon.
VIM. ii. Bigelow at a salary of $1,000 He is
at home on three weeks leave of absence
and is still a candidate for the assistant APP
praisorship at the Portland Custom House.
Mr.. E. p. Capen. formerly ticket agent at
the transfer station in this city. has been
appointed general agent of the passenger
department of the Chicago. st. Paul & Kan
sas City Railway, with offices at 1876 East 3rd
street, st. Paul, and 8 Nicollet House block.
Minneapolis, MINI. The Office which Mr.
Capen now fills is an important one and his
many friends in Portland will be glad to
hear of his appointment to this position of
trust
Llewellyn G. Estes of North Carolina, who
has been appointed Assistant Superinten-
dent of the Railway Mail Service. ami IS
signed to duty in the Office of the First AS
sistant Postmaster General. was an Old
town boy, and entered Co. A of the First
Maine Cavalry as a private September q,
1862. He worked his way up from the ranks
to a position on the staff of General Judson
Fitzpatrick and took part in the Stoneman
raid around the rebel army. Being cap
tured with detail Of ten men, when de-
spatched to go through the rebel lines from
Richmond to communicate with General
Hooker he captured the party which had
him in charge and brought them into the
Union lines. In March, 1864, he was pro-
NOTED to be captain and Assistant Adju-
tant General, and in April was detailed and
assigned Adjutant General of Cavalry, Mill
tary Division of the Mississippi and as such
served through the Georgia and Carolina
campaigns. He was promoted to be Majorin
September. 1854 and to.be Lieutenant Colonel
by brevet in March, 1866. He was also pro-
NOTED to Brigadier General by brevet Sep
TENDER 3oth, when he resigned his position
In the army. At this time he was "a years
of age. After the war he settled in North
Carolina.