The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-09
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Ex-Minister Robert T. Lincoln has writ
ten letter denying fatty a report that
his father, President Lincoln, was a
Spiritualist, and had medium" living
at the While House, who led him to issue
the Emancipation proclamation; also an
even sillier story that he himself when
ever he wished to converse with his
father, sends to Pittsburg for a certain
medium" living there.
Assistant Adjutant General Chauncey
McKeever, of the United States army,
was retired for age last Thursday after
service of "A years He had his full
share of frontier duty in the twelve years
that he served in the Third Artillery,
and then he was appointed assistant adj
jutant general on Aug.3, 1861. He had
three brevets conferred upon him for
faithful and meritorious services" dur
ing the war, the last one being that of
brigadier general.
Recent statements to the effect that
President Shafer, of Wellesley college, is
the second, and the late Maria Mitchell
was the first woman to receive the de-
gree of LII D are said to be incorrect.
The first degree of that nature given to a
woman since the Middle Ages, it is said,
was given in 1878 to Mrs. Caroline Healey
Dali by Alfred University, Of Alfred ,
NY. Seven women in all have now re-
ceived this degree.
One of the delegates from India to the
Religious Congress at Chicago will cook
and serve his own food while in this
country. His name is Virchard A..
Ganthe "a member of the Jain commune
ty in Bombay. William Pipe, represent
ing the chairman of the general commit
tee on the Religious Congress, who came
here to meet the Indian delegates, ex-
planned the arrangements made for
Ganthe. I have obtained permission"
he said, "of the railroad to allow him,
while going to and from Chicago, to do
his own cooking in the dining car. At
Saratoga, where we stop a day, and in
Chicago I have asked that small gas
stove be supplied for his use. If Ganthe
but a Jain or allow any other person to
touch one of the dishes from which he
eats he would be hereto to his relig-
ion. The native food is strictly vegeta-
rian. He came near starving on his way
to London because he could not get prop
er vegetable food"
Alexander Underwood, Of San Jose,
Cal, who has won much notoriety as a
Prohibition agitator on the Pacific coast
and is now IS years of age, has taken
out license. 1t is marriage license,
the bride being Mrs. Eliza 6. Bockman,
aged 81.
Alexander Herbert Bailey, the lost
Englishman for whom search has been
in progress for several years past by the
solicitor of an estate in England, of
which Bailey is the heir, has been dis
covered at last He has recently been
pedlding books for Chicago publishing
house, and posing as spiritualistic
medium for recreation through Washing
ton county, Pen.
Mr.. Edgar Foster Davis, just appointed
editor-in-chief of the Boston Courier was
born in East Machias, Me-, as was Arlo
Bates, former editor of the same paper.
He was graduated at Bowdoin College,
in 1871, at the age of 90, and immediate
ly entered upon the work of teaching
From 1876 to 1879 HE studied theology
at Yale, and for about ten years exer-
cised his ministry in several pulpits in
New England Hamilton, Mass, was
one of his more recent charges For the
past four years he has been connected
with the State College of Pennsylvania
as professor of rhetoric and English litera-
ture, publishing during this period and
previously humorous sketches and
poems OF the latter his "Charge of the
Nine Hundred" "Doimnie M'Lauren"
and Josephine Miller" gained wide
circulation.