The Portland daily press., 1869-09-27
state News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

Hon. Job Prince of Turner, with his wife
and daughter, will leave for the West the first
of this week. They propose to make visit of
some three months.
Frederic Sands, late clerk in the Dwight
counting-room, has accepted the position of
paymaster in the Hill Manufacturing Compa-
ny, Lewiston.
RThe Webster wooden mill, at Sabattisyille,
began operations in 1861. 1t has sets Of
cards, and SO looms and gives employment to
about 100 hands, in the manufacture of repell-
ents, fannels, cassimeres, Sc. Its machinery
is driven by an 80 horse power engine.
Rev. Joseph Danielson, recently of Sacca-
Kappa, has accepted a call from the COngrega-
tional church of Saugerties, New York, at
salary of $1,000 and parsonage.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The wooden mills at Vassalboro' have 20 sets
of cards, and gives employment to about 800
hands. One Of the mills is 200 by 80 feet and
about 1 500 yards doeskins, tricOts and cassi-
mers. Their machinery is driven by water
power.
William Penn Whitehouse, of Augusta, has
been nominated by the Governor to be County
Attorney for Kennebec and Madison, M. Ma
brey of Limerick to be Supervisor of Schools
for York County.
buildings of VIM. Wyman, of Benton, were de-
stroyed by fire Friday, with everything in
them. Loss $780, Two horses were burned
in threshing machine, and o man severely
burned trying to save them.
L PENOBsCoT COUNTY
Free return tickets are offered on tho rail-
roads to all who attend the centennial celebra-
ton at Bangor, on the Both inst. $685.
Readfield, Sidney and other towns have COM
menced suits against certain parties to obtain
remuneration for money paid them on what is
known as paper credits" O.,
SOMERSET COUNTY
Mr.. Benjamin Gilbreth, of Kendall's Mills,
fell from his bed Wednesday night, injuring
himself so badly that fears are entertained for
his life. Mr.: Gilbreth is some 81 years Of age.
State having been initiated in Kennebec
Lodge, Hallowell, in 1876 aeta
The water in the upper Kennebec never was
lower than at the present time. The mills and
machine shops ct Kendall's Mills are all stop
ped for want of water. .tat
j. w. Jones has some three hundred hands
dall's mills. The corn in that vicinity is said
to be better now than for four years past, and
the farmers will plant largely next year. They
are paid four and a half cents per quart can at
the factory and save all the husks for their own
use. "t --
sAaADAHoc COUNTY H.
/ We learn from the Bath Times that fatal
accident took place Friday afternoon near Ne
quasset Pond, Woolwich, on the line
Of :the1 Knox & Lincoln railroad. An
Irish boy about seventeen years of age, named
James Lankerkin, whose father resides in that
city, while at work on the road, was run over
by dnmp cart that was heavily locaded. One
of his legs was horribly mangled the knee
joint being completely laid opon. The other
leg was seriously bruised in the vicinity of the
knee lDr. Stockbridge of that city, was called,
and amputated the leg that was the most in
iured, at the thigh The shock to the unfor-
tunate boy was so great that it is not possible
he can survive.
YORK COUNTY.
One of the Oldest wooden mills in the State
is that Of the North Berwick Company, at
North Berwick, which was established in 1887.
This mill is 120 by IA feet and three stories,
contains sets of machinery, and gives en-
ployment to 80 hands. The machinery is
driven by water power, and the daily product
of goods is about 1000 yards of shirting fan
nels.
John Fl. Hoyt of Portsmouth, O workman
in the Kittery Navy Yard, dropped dead Fri.
day forenoon.