The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-01-07
PERSONAL.

Senator and Mrs. Frye left Saturday for
Washington.
Capt Seth b. Mcclellan was out Saturday,
although still suffering from his injuries
Mr. Henry A. Poole, of the Mechanic Falls
Ledger, was in the city Saturday
City Marshal Chadbourne. Of Biddeford.
was in town Saturday night.
DIR. and Mrs. +. II. Gerrish left Portland
Saturday, for Californian trip for the ben
eft of DR.. Gerrish's health.
Edgar p. Kincaid, farmer of Brunswick,
was found dead in his bed Friday. Heart
disease was the cause.
Mr.. Harold M. Sewall, consul general to
Samoa, has gone to Washington to be present
at the Congressional investigation.
The Salt Lake Tribune says Rev. c. l..
Libby of Salt Lake City formerly of Ham
mond street church, lewiston, is meeting
with good success in his present charge.
Capt. R. L. Harding. first officer of the FL
eanora, has resigned, and Mr.. Girard Mahon-
| ey appointed to the place. Mr.. Harry Cham
berlain is second officer of the Winthrop.
Lieutenant Leary, U. S. Artillery, is pre-
pairing report for the Quarter Master Gen.
erals Department on the early defenses of
Portland.
At the annual meeting Of the First Regi-
ment Band held at their headquarters Satur-
day evening. Mr.. Frank L. Collins was reel
ected leader and agent.
Col A. w. Wildes and Messrs. Mortland
aud Banks. railroad commissioners, were at
the Prebie House, Saturday, and 50 was w
M. Nash of Cherryfield.
The editors of southern California have
formed an organization. At the meeting
Judge Enoch Knight. formerly of this city,
represented the Pasadena Daily Union, and
was among the speakers.
Col. c. S. Edwards of Bethel, Col. H. r.
Millett of Gorham. and Mr.. John French of
Lewiston, were in the city Friday, attending
a meeting of the Fifth Maine Regiment Get
tysburg Monument Committee
Conductor William BODICE of the Maine
Central, says the Waterville Mail, has been
running on trains from the opening of the
road in 1S49. During all these years he has
not been sick day, which proves that
though he may have had fine constitution,
his habits of life must have been uncommon
ly good.''
A contented man is editor Charles K. Wing
of the Waterville Mail. Having been pro-
posed as candidate for mayor of the virgin
city, he replies: "We had rather be editor
| of the Mail than Mayor of Waterville, Gov
ernor of Maine, or President of the United
States and Canada" Why not? The Mail
is first-rate paper in a first-rate town.
Is the State pension department to become
a connection of the Adjutant Generals Office
and If not who is to be State pension agent?
says an Augusta dispatch. At the meeting
of the newly elected Executive Council an
order was presented and tabled providing
that the affairs of the pension Office should
be under the charge of the Adjutant General.
There was another order introduced and also
tabled, which gave Col. E. C. Harrington the
appointment of pension agent But as there
are three other candidates to be heard from
the result is uncertain
Mr.. Beniah Benjamin, of Whitefeld, Me.
died in that town the 28th ult., at che age Of
ninety-eght years. ten months and twenty
one days. Mr.. Benjamin was born in Rox-
bury, Mass, Feb. 18th, $780, His parents
moved to Livermore Falls, Me-, when he was
four years old, where he resided I'LL nineteen,
He then bought wild track of land in
Whitefeld. Crossing the Kennebec at Gar
diner, he proceeded thirteen miles, by blazed
trees, to his land. He was one of Whitefeld's
first settlers.
The Bowdoin College Alumni Association
of New York are to hold their nineteenth
annual dinner at the Hoffman House, on
Wednesday evening", January 9th, at $50
o'clock. An unusual largely attendance is ex-
pected. General o. o. Howard, 81, now in
command of the Department of the Atlantic,
will be able to attend for the first time in
many years. Chief Justice Fuller, the Hon
William L. Putnam, Gen. Thomas ii. Hub
bard, DR.. Newman Smythe, of New Haven,
all Bowdoin graduates, have been invited,
and majority of them are expected to be
present. Prof. Lee, of the college, who has
been absent for year upon the government
scientific expedition to Cape Horn and the
Pacific, also hopes to join the alumni at din
ner. DR.. F. Fl. Dillingham;, 344 Lexington
avenue, is Secretary of the Association.