The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-14
For additional Local News see
Fifth Page.
PERSONAL.

Mr.. F. A. Woodbury. of Newport, VT.
United States Immigrant Inspector, is at
the Falmouth Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred E. Allen returned
Saturday evening from an extended we'd
ding trip to the South and West.
Mr.. S. NJ. Watson of Deering, ex-libra-
rian of the Portland Public Library, has
accepted the position of editor of the
Deering News.
Colonel B. F. Eastman will reach his
Cpd birthday tomorrow.
Lieutenant Berry and family have been
visiting Mr.. Stephen Berry the past
week.
Hon. and Mrs. L. D. M. Sweat will
soon leave for Egypt where they will
pass the winter.
Mr.. James Fl. Smith will soon leave
for Egypt, where he will join his wife,
who is at present occupying cottage on
the Nile.
Rev. Mr. Keirns, of the Church of the
Messiah, has received call from Mas
sachusetts church.
Rev. T. D. Anderson, a former pastor
of the First Baptist church preached to
his old society in this city yesterday
morning and evening.
Rev. Father Ahern, recently of the Ca
thedral in this city, and now of Turner's
Falls, Mass, was in the city Saturday.
1t is stated that Mr.. Ezekiel Dennis,
commissiod merchant on Commercial
street, is candidate for the appraiser
ship of the port of Portland.
W. E. S. Whitman of Augusta and
George Vandyke of Lancaster, N. H.,
were at the Falmouth Hotel Saturday. !
Captain Edward W. Norton, manager
of the marine railway, will be brought
forward as a candidate for shipping COM
missioner.
Colonel I. S. Bangs of Waterville in
tends to sail about the 28th of this
month for Europe. He will spend the
winter in Paris, where his wife and son
now are, together with Mr.. and Mrs. F.
A. Smith of Waterville.
DR.. James ]. Mooney, the accomplish
ed physician at the Kelley Institute,
North Conway, was in town Saturday,
the guest of Mr.. R. H. Knight. Dr..
Mooney is taking well earned vacation
of months duration.
Hon. S. G.. Hilborn, just elected to
Congress from the third California dis
trict, is native of Minot, in this state,
where he has a brother now living. He
prepared for college at Hebron and Beth
ell academies, and graduated from Tufts
in 1885, He was classmate of Cover
nor Copnor and Rev. DR.. Henry Blan-
chard. He studied law with Fessenden
& Brother in this city, and was admitted
to the bar in 1861. He then left for Cal
ifornia.
Much gossip has been occasioned on
Governors Island by the rumor that
General o. O. Howard would be replaced
in command of the Department of the
Atlantic by General Miles, whose head
quarters are now in Chicago. None of
the officers could say how or where the
rumor started, but the majority were in
clined to think it true. General Howard
is now in Europe, and will not return
home for two months He is collecting
data for work on harbor defences.
Mr.. D. W. Ames, representative of
Milliken, Tomlinson & Co., Portland,
made his last trip to Lewiston and Au.
burn yesterday He has been coming to
these cities in this capacity SO years, and
to say that he is popular and very gener-
ally esteemed here, mildly expresses it.
He has always made his headquarters at
the Elm House, patronizing both the old
and the new houses. He remains in the
employ of the same company, but has
been assigned new route. His success
sor is Mr.. E. L. Robinson.-[ Lewiston
Journal.