The Portland daily press., 1891-05-23
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
"The Burglar" company are at the Fall
mouth Hotel.
Hon. Volney Cushing of Bangor will be
Memorial Day orator at Etna.
DR.. Gilman Colby, editor of the Bar Har-
Dor Tourist. is at the Falmouth.
Hon. S. j. Walton of Skowhegan will be
Memorial Day orator at Bingham.
Mr.. w. d. Little has been confined to
his home by severe illness for several
days.
Mr.. J. II. Sturtevant of the Senate post
Office. Washington. is visiting his home in
Fayette.
DIR. E. K. Sprague, for several years
physician at Milo, is to remove to Jersey
City. N. j.
DIR. Sumner Laughton of Bangor has gone
to San Jose. Cal, to visit his daughter, Mrs.
Frances L. Mace.
The mother and sister Of Rev. j. G. Mer-
rill are spending few days with his family
at $50 Cumberland street.
Mr.. E. G. SWEET of Bosworth Post will de-
liver the Memorial Day address before John
A. Logan Post of Harrison.
General Selden Conner will deliver the
Memorial Day address before the Grand
Army Post at Arlington. Mass.
The Rev. Father Murphy and his brother,
Rev. ]. w. Murphy, v. G., of Portland, sail
for Havre In the steamer La Bourgogne
today.
Mrs. Helen Winslow Potter has been en-.
gagged to sing at the commencement exercises
Of the Maine Central Institute at Pitts6eld,
June 18th.
Colonel j. B. Peaks of Dover is to be Me-
mortal Day orator at Springfield. and Rev..
W. r. Cross Of Dover will be the orator at
Garland.
Miss Emma Eames is singing In opera at
Covent Garden. London, and the great Lon
don critics are enthusiastic over her singing
and acting.
Harrington III. Whipple of the Harvard
Medical School has been appointed surgical
house officer at the Boston City Hospital for
a term Of IS months.
Mr.. Russell. principal of the Pembroke
high school. has resigned his position on &C.
count of i'll health. Mr.. w. w. Poore of the
grammar room has taken his place.
Mr.. Frederick A. Shaw's latest work,
salon and given an excellent position. Mr..
Shaw has received congratulatory letter
from Ralshoven, the artist, in regard to it.
The appointments for Bates College class
Of 81 for class day exercises are as follows
Orator, F. ]. Chase. Unity; poet. Miss N. G.
Bray, Harrison; odist, Miss NJ. S. Merrill,
Lisbon; prophet. f. l.. Pugsley, Rochester.
N. III. historian, A. ID. Pinkham, Lewiston /;
parting address, F. S. Libbey, Wolfboro. N.
81.
William +. Larrabse, Esq, of Hampton,
Va, Grand Master, Grand Lodge, 1. o. o. F.,
of Virginia, is native of Dover, Me-. where
his father, Mr.. w. p. Larrabee, still resides.
He went out in the 14th Maine Regiment, in
1864 settled at Fortress Monroe as teacher of
public school, and is now in the photo
graph business.
At the dinner given by the Pine Tree
State Club in Boston the. honorary guest of
the evening was Ex-Governor Sidney Per-
ham Of Maine. other gentlemen present be-
ing Hon. A. p. Martin, Hon. G. d. Gilman,
Judge s. 81. Bolster, DR.. w. A. Rust, Consul
General W. G. Frye of Halifax. Rev. W. Fl.
Lyon and Colonel j. P. Jordan.
The Saccarappa Methodist Society gave
their pastor, Rev. A. W. Pottle, and his
wife formal reception Wednesday evening
In the vestry of their church on their return
by episcopal appointment for the second
year-it being also the occasion Of the 18th
anniversary of their welded life-and pre-
sented Mr.. Pottle handsome sum of money.
Mrs. j. I'll. Burleigh of South Berwick,
owner of the Burleigh mansion, recently
burned, will take up her residence in the
house formerly occupied by Mrs. Hiram
Walker until after the Berwick Academy
centennial celebration. She was so unfortu-
nate as to lose all the bedding belonging to
her summer residence at York, it having
been brought away to secure 1t from burglars
who had entered her house several times.
Mrs. A. S. Edwards of Strong is a Maine
woman who has claim to a portion of what
is called the Robert Edwards estate" in
New York city. Robert Edwards came to
America 10 1772, bought 65 acres of land
and afterwards leased 1t to King George Ill.
for SO years. The lease expired May 4th.
The property is said to be worth $500. 000, 900
and Mrs. Edwards is one of the heirs. pro-
vided the claim can be made good.
Among the graduates of the Yale Divinity
School Wednesday were the following, also
their different engagements, temporary or
permanent. The first town is the residence,
the second where they will preach: Thomas
A. Frey, B. A., Lovettsville, Va. Biddeford.
Me-; Dorr A. Hudson, B. A.. Wakefield,
Mass, Cherryfeld. Me-. A. A. Keene. B. A.,
Atkinson, Me-, indefinite; Harry L. Pea
body, Princeton, Me-, Trinidad. ICol. Arthur
G. Townsend, d. A., Lewiston, Westhamp-
ton, Mass.
Mr.. r. G. Spencer, Jr., who married Miss
Ernestine Elliott of Phippsburg year ago
last fall, has just won the Rotch travelling
scholarship prize. By the conditions pre-
scrIbed by the donor. Mr.. Spencer must
leave for Europe before September 1, and
spend two years in study abroad on an allow
ance of $1,000 year. He is to spend bis
time sketching architectural beauties, and is
required to send measured drawing Of
some structure of note every three months
to the Boston Society of Architects.