The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-05-20
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Mr.. William Ii. Smith is improving in
health.
c. II. Scott, Jr, will be the clerk of the
steamer Emita this season.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Porteous of Boston are
visiting Mrs. Dryden of Locust street.
Mr.. Eben I. Nutter, of Cape Elizabeth, is
out again after his long sickness.
Mrs. IBurleigh, wife of Gov. Burleigh, is
the guest of Miss Alena Belle Bartlett, No.
16O Park street.
Rev. Fl. p. Winter preached at Chestnut
street NJ. E. church yesterday morning and
at the Presbyterian church in the evening.
Gem John T. Richards of Gardiner has
been elected member of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company, of Boston.
Grimmer's Orchestra called upon Mr.. and
Mrs. +. W. Buxton Friday night and pre-
sented them handsome French clock.
Miss Hattie K. Steele, graduate of Port
land High School, class of 81. passed very
satisfactory examination and received the
appointment of principal of school in Bath
| Prof. Little, of Bowdoin College, has gone
to St. Louis, to attend the meeting of libra.
rians In that city. He may be gone about
three weeks, and extend the trip to New
| Orleans.
| z. I'll. Kilby Is at work on book entitled
binding of the Links, Story of Forty
Years of Odd Fellowship" An edition OF
5000 copies will be issued Mr.. Kilby will
make most interesting volume
The Maine Central has settled with Postal
Clerk Palmer, who was injured some time
since in the Kingsman accident for $4,000
| The man still suffers from the shock, and is
somewhat lame.
Mr.. III. NJ. Lord, editor of the Rockland
Courier-Gazette, has accepted an invitation
to deliver the Memorial Day address at
Brooklin, Hancock county. Mr.. Lord de-
livered the address before the post in Liberty
| last year.
Miss Henrietta e. Hooker, Professor of
Botany at Mount Holyoke Seminary, is visit.
| ing friends in Gardiner. Miss Hooker is a
native of Gardiner and a graduate of the
High School. She has been studying in
Europe the past year.
Mrs. Chas. A. Jones and Miss Mamie
Jones sailed Saturday noon from Boston
in the Cephalonia for Berlin, via London
and Paris. They will remain in Berlin oyer
JNoA' Ahioo JULIUS Will ItSuiu6 UtT musical
studies there.
Services were held by the Penobscot bar,
In Bangor Saturday morning, in memory
of William H. McCrillis and Joseph Carr.
Chief Justice Peters presided and speeches
were made by Hannibal Hamlin, A. G.
Wakefield. A. w. Paine, J. A. Wilson and
p. G. White.
Major Dunn, U. S. A., will succeed Major
Rawles in command of Fort Preble this
week Mrs. Dunn is daughter of the late
Hon. Lot Morrill, The other officers, Capt.
Fuger, Liutenants Leary. Brooks and the
battery xill leave for South Carolina, and in
the winter, go tsFort BARRACKS, Fla.
Hon. John l.. Stescas says in the Bsnne-
bee Journal of Saturday Ssat the Statement
In the newspapers that Lutser Severance
was the editor Of the Kennebec Journal
when Mr.. Blaine first made his connection
with the paper is incorrect. Mr.. Severance
had sold his interest in and had ceased to be
editor of the Kennebec Journal, and was
United States Commissioner at Sandwich
Islands, several years before Mr.. Blaine be-
came one of the owners and editors of that
paper IN the autumn of 1854.
The funeral of Allen Thorndike Rice took
place at Grace Church, New York, Saturday.
The pail bearers were Vice President Levi
7. Morton, Walker Blaine. representing the
department Of state, Gen. w. T. Sherman
ex-Mayor Edward Cooper, Pierre LorilIard,
Chauncey NJ Depew. S. II. DIN, William
T. douglass and w. w. Astor. The church
was crowded and the sidewalks near the en-
Trance were hlled. The service was the
regular burial service of the Protestant
Epiis seobP chqPch' Bishop Potter OBLIGATED,
Grace church, and Rev. George Il. Bottome.
assistant rector. ''0'"e'