The Portland daily press., 1867-09-16

the water power company-w,tb a ,o;5 In
capital of 100000. They have a f,no In
Tor the manufacturing Of woolen goods vg;,,
ten sets of machinery driven by two ,urh;ra
wheels of $50 horsepower. FromasO TO 200
hands are employed, two thirds men, onc-tbi,d
women, and use daily about 1900 lbs. Of wool.
domestic and Mestizo, turning out 10000
yards OF Moscow Beavers per month, when
working wholly upon this variety OF goods
They also manufacture Doeskins and TricOts.
The goods are OF excellent quality and meet
with ready sale. The women earn from "
to Sl2 per week but OF this, as usually Is the
case with operatives, they spend 1.-THE most
as they go. Board costs them $3.50 per week
at the elegant, pleasant boarding house erect
ell by the company. Oliver Moses Is Presi
dent OF the Worumbo; +. Gatmann, Agent;
Alfred King, Clerk.
Oliver Moses, OF Bath, is the soul of MANN
featuring enterprise at Lisbon Falls. IA Is
certainly singular that he, after having made
large fortune in shipbuilding and In cou,-
merce, and when he was above iifty years old.
sh,uld have turned his attention 10 railroads
(he is President OF the AndroseoesinD and TO
manufacturing Men seldom form new hab-
its after thirty-five or abandon old ones But
Mr.. Moses has genius for business, and sees
where there is good to be done and money
to be made. His life is full OF encouragement
forevery young man whohas pluck and turn
for business. . u...t.....s 7
AT Lisbon Falls, as everywhere, a number
of selfish old fogies, in a small way, are found.
They won't do anything themselves nor allow
Others to do anything, il they can prevent it,
They grumble about taxes assessed for local i'm
provements; they won't sell and leave unless
they can get three prices. II such men would
sell their property for fair price and put
the money received at interest, nine times out
Of ten they would realize more than by hold
ing. Such men, when located here or at
Brunswick and Topsham, are always afflicted
with craze as TO the vast fortune which is
to come to them through the growth OF the
place. Such men have kept the water power
at Brunswick and Topsham from being inn
proved these many years, and still they hold
on without apparently realizing that they
themselves are the only obstacles in the way
of development. ' '"1.F aia A-.' q
For residences there is an abundance of
readily available room-hil and plain,-the
bluffs upon either side ofthe river offering sites,
rather sandy ones to be sure, for the more
pretentious mansions. The sand, however,
can be subdued in short timesby the plant
ing of bro0mcOrn, with some other labor
Large portions of Holland and Flanders, once
only sea sand, now rank among the most pro-
ductive lands in Europe. Broomcorn had
much to do with the regeneration of these
barren wastes. And why may not broomcorn
here, upon this decidedly poor, sandy soil,
render good service? But whether the land
is regenerated or not, it is TO be hoped that it
will not be divided into such small lots as in
Lewiston. There is land enough, and the lots
should be sufficiently large to allow Of shrub
berry about the houses. .f rr.r4g af ai a
The Baptists have a church here, with Rev.
Mr.. Avery for pastor. There is another house
ofworship called the Free Chapel, where Rev.
Mr.. Plummer breaches. There is one school
house, quite elegant, built last year at a cost
of S4700. II will accommodate 140 scholars,
divided into two grades. Very little interest,
however, is manifested by the people, as
whole, in public education, or private either.
Until the building of the new school house,
the district got along for many years with one
which was about as abominable as it well
could be. The new schoOlhouse was not
built without strenuous opposition. So little
interest has this village always taken in edu-
cation, that no boy has yet gone frcm here to
college. T 'la" H.' ,A
Tuesday evening c. B. Stetson delivered an
address in the Free Chapel upon public edu.
cation. BY discussion OF the natural course
of intellectual development and of the studies
which ought TO be pursued in the cominon
schools-as cOntrasted with the present
and can be pursued without additional time
and labor, he endeavored to show why there
had been so little Improvement in public edu-
cation during the past thirty years and
how the future may make an advance upon
the past. 1t is undoubtedly true that the ed.
ucation of children is far nom what it ought
to be, far from what it can be made by ma
tional effort. We have made but trifing adj
vance upon thousand years ago. i