The Portland daily press., 1874-05-18

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Connecticut, which flow, into the latter s"uth
of Northampton, of which Leeds and Hayden
Vile are parts. The broken reservoirs +, are SIT
uated in Goshen, about mile ABOVE w lhlams
burg and are designed as feeders OF The river
in time of ,lrouth, Williamsburg and Hayden
willie are somewhat exposed to damage by
break but Leeds more so, as The river there
rms about hundred yards wide, between two
lofty and abrupt eminences. 70 enhance the
danger to life and property, dam, reaching to
the height of the roofs OF houses, lntcrcepts
the flow.
Williamsburg, the principal scene of the great
disaster, is a farming and manufacturing town
in the northerly part of Hampshire county, con-
tanning 2l5O inhabitants. Haydenville forms
one of the thriving villages of the place. Mil
ler's Brook runs through Northampton into TIE
Connecticut river. That stream, with Wright
Brock and Beaver Brook furnish the motive
power for " illiamsburg. Leeds is a village in
the northwest part of Northampton adjoining
Haydenville and in the last named neighbor-
hood and the section of Northampton previous
ly mentioned occurred the fearful catastrophe,
accompanied with such extensive loss of prop
erty, and worse than all, considerable loss of
human life.
Mill river divides into two branches, one
of which has its rise in Goshen, and the other
at about the edge of. Conway. Two large res
ervoirs are situated on the Goshen branch and
one on the Conway branch, containing total
area of not less than thousand acres, with an
average depth of not less than six feet. The
reservoir dar were all most substantially con
structed built by skilful engineers in the most
approved modern method and large sums of
money have been expended during the last
year in putting them IN what was supposed to
be perfect order.
The oldest dam is ut least twenty-five years
of age, and was on the Goshen branch. 1t was
most carefully rebuilt within the last two years.
Above this was the new dam. built last year.
The dam on the Conway branch is about six or
seven years old.
The mills on the stream reckoning from Will
| liamsburg down to Northampton are as follows:
| William Thayer's tool factory, Is men, Two
button factories, total 30 hands, (men and grls).
| Tine four set wooden mill of Henry James, esq
employ about 80 hands. The large brass works
of Hayden, Geer & Co., employ about 300 hands
| and perhaps the best appointed factory of the
kind in the United States. This was formerly
| the property of the late Lieut.. Gov. Hayden.
The cotton mill of the Hayden Manufactur.
| ing Company, 5000 spindes, employing about
| 70 or so hands. The Diamond Tobacco works
| employ Is or 20 hands. The two extensive silk
mills of the Nonotuck Silk Co., employ .30(
| hands in ALL The large BRICK mill of the North
ampton Brush Company, employing about q
or rs hands; the cotton mill of the Greenvillt
Manufacturing Company, 70 hands, and abou
a dozen more companies, employing from 20 tt
200 hands each, FflaVn t
DEATH OF Hon. ROBERT GooDENow.-Il
the PRESS of Friday we announced that Hon
Robert Goodenow of Farmngton, who ha'
been very sick, was rapidly recovering. Sucl
was thought to be the case, as our CORES
pondent informed us, but on that very day h
was suddenly attacked with relapse OF hi
disease and expired in few hours.
| Mr.. Goodenow was born in Henniker, N. HI
in 1900, and when quite young came to Brown
field, in this State, with his father, John Goode
now, Esq He studied law with his brother
Daniel Goodenow, Esq, in Alfred, and wa
admitted to the bar in 1921. He removed
Wilton and opened a law office, and soon afte
was appointed County Attorney of Oxfor
county, an Office which he held for numbe
of years. Some ten years after he went to Fal
mington and was subsequently appointed Cour
ty Attorney of Kennebe, of which Wilton wa
then part. He remained in the practice
law in Pennington until his death, but NEAR
time held a large nur4ber of offices in this gil
of his fellow citizens. He was member {
the Thirty-second Congress, QS51-3,) held th
office of County Treasurer of Franklin for man
years, and was also County Attorney for sever
al terms. He was at the time of his deaf
Treasurer of the Pennington Savings Bank
Mr.. Goodenow was married in 1926 to tn
daughter of Hon. Nathan Cutler of Farming
ton, who died in February, 1873 He leaves
son and two daughters-Col. N. c. Goodenow
now practicing law in Pennington, the wife Q
Prof. A. p. Kelsey, Principal of the Abbot
School in the same place, and second daugh
| ter unmarried.
BUSINESS CHANGEs.-The following are re
cent business changes in this State:
Portland. Smell & Adams, horse shoers, nev
firm; E. F. Smell, S. w. Adams.
ShurtleH Il Chase, coal and wood dealers
dis; new firm; Shurtleff & Co.; S, Shurtlef
| d. S. Warren
Lane = Austin, fresco painters; dis; dis
now c. M. Lane. F
George A. Jones & Co, job printers, dis
Thompson & Hall, provision dealers an
general commission; new frm-Cyrus Thoml
son, James III. Hall.
Bar Mills: S: Meserye, grocery and countr.
| store; now S. Meserve & Son.
Bangor. w. II. Edmunds. jeweller; nov
| Edmunds & Wiggin.
| Chas. Sweet, jeweller, sold out to Edmund
| & Wiggin.
Cornth. H. 81. Worth. flour and feed, dis.
| now Beal & Worth.
Pennington. l. Pillsbury, druggist, sold GU
| to T. G. Richards
Foxcroft. Paine & Paige boots, shoes ant
hats, dis; now j. L. Paige
Gardiner. Daniel Gray, lumber, sold ont tt
| Frederick Bradstreet.
Lewiston. j. G. & r. Lord, grocers, dis.
| Saco. j. HI. Moulton, hotel, sold out.
| ALPHA DELTA PHI-The Alpha Delta Ph
| Convention has been in session at ALBANY, N
Y, during the last week Fifteen chapter
were represented. and about one hundred del
egates gathered under the banner of the sta
and crescent. The President of the Fraternity
Prof. Lewis Collins, of Albany, preside
throughout; it was decided that the next cor
venton should be held with the Brown Char
ter, at Providence, the first week IN Nav next
and George William Curtis, of that Chapter
was asked to deliver the Grafton, and Manto
Marble, of Rochester, the poem, on that coca
sion, with Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Harvard
and Rev. Mr.. Strong, of Kenyon, as their re
spective substitutes.
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STATE NEWS.
| ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
In the Supreme Judicial Court at Auburn
| Alexander Dunn has recovered a verdict O
| $13732S against Calvin Record, ESQ.,, fo
| money collected of the G. I. B. R. Co.. by de
fende Mt for injuries received by plaintiff viii
| riding in the cars, July %, 1868 The origina
case was tried in Portland, April, 1869, and Dun
recovered verdict against the company q
| $1,000. Record alleges that Dunn assigned
him the claim for $500, which he paid to him
and subsequently paid him about $500 more.
| The Journal says Mrs. FIT Howard, residin.
on Spring street, Auburn. was stricken witt
appoplexy on Thursday, and died in few
| hours. Fe~
In dry time, says the Lewiston Journal, we
| have never seen SO much of freshet in thu
| Androscoggn as now. The river has been ris
ing for several days, and the falls are covered
with water, save the big rock that stands guarl
| on the east of West Pitch
| KENNEBEC COUNTY