The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-05-24
PERSONAL.

Col. A. B. Neatly of Lewiston is in town
on visit.
j. Herbert Shedd of Providence is among
the guests at the Falmouth.
Rev. @. 81. Shinn of Deering will deliver
the Memorial address at Searsport.
Rev. G. A. Tewksbury and wife, of CAM
bridge, Mass, is at the Preble.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin is to address the
citizens Of Paris Memorial Day.
Hon. Charles HI. Frost, of Springvale. and
L. Goldthwaite, of Biddeford, were In town
yesterday.
Mr.. George III. Haynes, of Camden, is in
the city. on his return from trip to Range
ley.
Canon Stills of St. Luke's Cathedral sails
for England June I'd to spend several weeks
with his friends there.
Hon. W. FL. Bigelow was taken seriously
Ill last Monday night, and is now confined to
his house on Crescent street.
q True P. Pierce, Esq, of Rockland. has
been invited to speak at East B0othbay
Memorial Day. - 4s,ssz, lz<.Ass
II The death of Mr.. David Wyer is ANNOUNCE
ed. Mr.. Wyer was one of the Oldest fish
dealers in the city, and gentleman very
much respected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Micah Stockbridge, of South
Freeport, will have been married fifty years
next Sunday. They are the parents of
Messrs. Ira c. win FL. and Miss Annie
Stockbridge. ~
Thomas F. Murphy, of Augusta. has re-
signed as deputy collector of internal rev.
enue Of the second Maine division. Since
IL r L.. /. - J..
Bangor.
At a meeting of the Unitarian Parish of
Ellsworth it was unanimously voted to in
wife Rev. Frank E. Healey Of Boston to be-
come pastor of the society. He has accepted
the call. r
Hon. w. l.. Daggett of Strong, who is one
of the delegates to the Worlds Sabbath
School convention. expects to start from his
home next Monday. He will sail from New
York Tuesday. the 30th inst, by the steamer
State Of Georgia, for Glasgow direct, thence
by rail to London.
Next Monday Mr.. and Mrs. c. o. Poor of
Belfast will start on carriage drive of about
500 miles through some of the finest scenery
in Maine. Their route will be from Belfast
to Augusta, thence to Pennington, up the
Sandy River to Strong. and thence to Rum
ford.
The Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuller are
greatly enjoying the cordial hospitality of
the Southern cities on the Justices annual
circuit. They are banquetted in each Of
their court towns, and the pleasant impress
sion is amply reciprocated. Charleston was
the latest stopping place.
Dennis w. Clark, Prentice C. Manning,
henry B. Bennett, John E. Dewitt, Frank
II. Little, Daniel Clary, Henry M. Mailing,
and Woodbury. S. Dana have been elected
members Of the Genealogical Society, and
resolutions will be prepared in relation to
the late Thomas fash and Cyrus Woodman.
Howard Owen, Esq, who is a native of
Brunswick. has been invited to delivor one
of the after-dinner speeches at the banquet
which will be given June 18th, at the cele-
bration Of the towns one hundred and
fftieth anniversary. He will respond to the
toast Some random thoughts concerning my
native town."
No action has yet been taken with refer
ence to filling the position Of president of the
board of trustees of the Maine State College,
left vacant by the recent retirement of Hon.
hJuuOu YAK VI 0drianQ, III is not Ukely
that full meeting of the board will be held
before the regular session at Orono COM
mencement time, when new president will
be chosen. VIM. FL. Strickland, Esq, Of
Bangor. is prominently mentioned in con-
nection with the position.
The following graduates of Bangor Theo-
logical Seminary have been commissioned
by the Governor to solemnize marriages af-
ter June 1, 1889: James A. Anderson, Chas.
S. Bates, Virgil w. Blackman, Edwin G.
Brown. Henry W. Conley, Daniel A. Evans,
Sam. ii. Goodwin, Carleto f. Lewis, Clar-
ence 9. Lyon, John III. Matthews, Newman
Matthews, James II. McLaren, Lyman
Nevis, Elmer E. Newbert, John M. Matthew,
Chas. S. Young.
Col. George M. Atwood, widely known
real state dealer, died at his home In South
Boston, Wednesday afternoon. Deceased
was native Of Sandwich, N. Ii. He was
living in Maine when the war broke out, and
served CALAMITY as colonel of the Twenty
fourth Maine Regiment. Col Atwood was
Adjutant General of Maine. was vice pres;-
dent of the Maine Veteran Association of
Boston, was prominent among the Grand
Army men, and was a stanch Republican.
He leaves widow and three daughters