The Portland daily press., 1889-01-22
PERSONAL.


Capt. S. w. Lane, the coast missionary,ha
been the guest Of Rev. Francis Southworth
lately.
Hon. Fred Atwood, of Winterport, has
sent samples of the sweet corn packed at his
factory In that town to the Paris exposition.
Capt. Baker p. Orne of the steamer Mary
w. Libby, has been called to Southport for
few days, and Capt. King of the Fannie g.
takes his place.
At the meeting of the Prohibition Club
held last evening Mr.. Rufus Deering was
elected president in place of Mr.. II. S. Pride
resigned
Mr. Elbridge Fernald, we'll known and
prominent citizen of Winterport. died Sun
day at the age of 70 years. after several
months sickness from Brights' disease.
The cross of the Legion of Honor has just
been conferred upon Prof. F. L. Scribner,
Maine State College graduate, for his re-
searches in the scientific world.
Mr.. Mark Courant, ex-president of the
Boston Central Labor Union, is in the city
in the interest of organized labor, and prob
ably will speak at the regular meeting OF the
longshoremen tonight.
MIS-. w. t. DtOMu OiCu ohduchAJ Nv hCA
home ON Alder street, Sunday night, from
apoplexy. DR.. Thayer was called. Mrs.
Brown was a prominent member Of Ivy
Lodge ID. of r.
Messrs. Watson of Westbrook. proprietor
of the Westbrook Chronicle, and Mrs Emma
Garvin of Biddeford, were married In Ports
mouth Saturday afternoon by Rev. Mr..
Fisher
Albert w. Libbey. native of Eliotdied in
Brooklyn, N. Y, last Friday. Mr.. Libbey
was in business on Broadway, New York, at
the time of his death. He was the only son
of the late Jeremiah Libbey of Eliot.
Mr.. t. G. Holt, the well known Canadian
Pacific railroad contractor, will soon leave
for Chill, 5. A, where his firm has contract
to build railroad $50 miles In length. His
brother, Mr.. n. s. Holt, and Mr.. ID. ID.
Mann, are already upon the spot, and it will
not be long before the work will be COM
menced. 1t is very large contract and will
take some time to finish it.
Miss Dora Wiley. who is now in Australia.
has now an excellent engagement at the
Gaiety Theatre, Sydney The season open
ed with mariana" and was followed by
'Girofe-Girofia, 1.-THE Bohemian Girl" and
"The Daughter of the Regiment" Miss
Wiley had two good offers for India, China
and Japan, but refused them. Before ac-
cepting her present engagement she sang for
a time in concert with great success. For
the opera engagement Miss Wiley was
obliged to give up four months engage
ment in promenade concert, and standing
engagement at Criterion Theatre, with a
compensation Of $500 per week, with only
two evenings singing.
The Beattie (Kan.) Star brings news of the
death in that town of Mr.. Dexter White,
formerly Maine shipmaster, at the age of
Y years. Mr.. Dexter White was born in
Bowdoinham, February, 1917. He has two
brothers and one sister living, one of whom
is Mrs. Cordelia Brookings of Lewiston. He
entered upon sea-faring life while a boy,
and by attention to duty attained to conn
mand OF ship while young man. He
went West afterwards and resided there for
the rest of his life. de was married to Miss
Aroline Morrow Of Bowdoinham in 1855.
Mrs. White died in 1859 at Mariposa, Cal.
In 1865 he again married while in California
Miss L. Steadman, who accompanied him to
Kansas, and died in Beattie. May 10, 1887
Mr.. John Boyle O'Reilly, the versatile
editor of the Boston Pilot and one of the
most respected Irishmen Of this country, is
coming to Portland to lecture for the benefit
OF st. Joseph's Home, Deering, on Sunday
evening. Feb. Sd. The fame of this dis
tinguished poet patriot. scholar and orator
ought to fill City Hall on this occasion to
listen to his best lecture on ''The Distinguish
ed Irishmen of One Century,