The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-16
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The residence which Senator German
is erecting in Laurel, Md, on the site of
his former home, which was burned a
year ago, will be the finest house in How
ard county-a county of many attractive
homes, among which is the fine old colo
NAL mansion of Ex-Governor Carroll of
Carrollton. The Senator's family have
occupied the building since July Is,
though it will not be completed for a
month to come.
Lloyd Tevis, who has just retired from
the presidency of Wells, Fargo & Co.,
had directed it's affairs in San Francisco
for more than twenty years. He was
born at Shelbyville, KY, in 1924, and
crossed the plains to California in 1S49.
After three years of adventure in the
mining camps Mr.. Tevis settled down in
San Francisco and devoted himself to
commercial pursuits. He owns 275, 600
acres of land in Kern county, Cal, is as
sociated with Mr.. Haggin in breeding
thoroughbreds at Rancho del Paso, and
owns large blocks of stock in the famous
Anaconda, Homestake and Ontario
mines. Mr.. Tevis is President of the
North American Commercial Company,
which has the seal monopoly in the Beh-
ring Sea, and was at one time President
of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany
The enemies of Gov. Hogg of Texas ac-
cuse him of naming his three children re-
spectively Ina Hogg, Ura Hogg, and
Moore Hogg. The Texas campaign bids
fair to be one of the most unique on rec
ord, and the fear is expressed that 1T may
become personal.
Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers says that his or
ganization has at the present time $4,000
members, and that in the 2S years of its
existence it has distributed more than
So, 600, 900 to widows and families of de-
ceased engineers The main secret of its
strength lies in the fact that it promotes
the elevation of labor by systematic and
practical means. The result is that dur
ing the last II years all of its troubles
have been amicably adjusted.
Gen. Alexandra Ybarra, minister of
war and last commander in chief of the
Venezuelan army, has arrived in Boston.
Although the papers have said he was
killed or wounded many times, he is
we'll MIR. Ybarra was the daughter of
the late Hon. Thomas Russell, and will
join her husband here in October.
1t may be a surprise to learn that six
of the famous Beecher family are still
living, and that the oldest, DR.. Edward
Beecher recently celebrated his eighty
ninth birthday in quiet way at his home
in Brooklyn. His surviving sisters are
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Isa-
bella Beecher Hooker and Mrs. Mary
Rev. Charles Beecher of Mysox, Pa, and
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher of Elmira.
So great have been the crowds that
have visited Whittier's grave since Sat
urday that it has been necessary to put
a special police guard around the lot.
Every one who comes wants to carry
away a leaf a flower as a memento, and
if this were allowed, the grave would be
entirely stripped of everything of the
kind Sunday between seventeen and
eighteen hundred persons on foot and
$50 teams visited the grave, and Monday
they were still coming.
Hon. Julius Sterling Morton, once
governor and now the Democratic candi-
date for governor of Nebraska, is some
times called the father of Arbor Day. 1t
is very largely owing to his exertions
that Nebraska advanced so rapidly in the
establishment of artificial groves, now
having about 250,O00 acres of growing
forests and some 100000 planted trees,
besides vast area of fruit trees, grape
vines, bushes and minor plants. He was
born in New York State in 1882, and was
graduated from Union College in 1854