The Portland daily press., 1882-05-20
STATE NEWS.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY

CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Tho News says at a meeting OF the board OF
Trustees of Bridgton Academy, Tuesday, it
was voted to erect a building according to
plans submitted by Principal Moody, to con-
tain library room, recitation rooms, dorml-
tories and vestry accommodations for the
Church and Society," also, if deemed necessary,
kitchen and dining facilities. 1t was also
voted to call it "Farnsworth Memorial Hall,
in compliment to the Farnsworth family, the
present members of which have contributed a
large sum to the enterprise, while the late Dr..
Samuel Farnsworth and his late son, Dr.
Samuel Farnsworth, were well known friends
and liberal supporters of the Academy.
FRANKLIN COUNTY,
The Herald. saws that II tons of the tin has
been landed at Jay Bridge Station for the corn
canning factory. The indications are that the
new company mean business.
The Chronicle says the latest reports from
Mr. Chlds, the injured man at New Sharon,
are that he is very nervous and thathi chances
of recovery are considered doubtful.
PENoBscor COUNTY.
An aerolite was discovered in the heavens
shortly before o'clock Thursday morning. A
physician who was driving along on the Brew
or side obtained a very good view OF the
meteoric body as it descended. 1t was very
luminous and in its downward flight left a
fiery track. 1t was thought to fall In the
OXFORD COUNTY.
IT is feared that Chas. Bickford of Brown
field will lose the sight of one Of his eyes, the
result of kick from horse, by which his
cheek bones was broken.
WALDO COUNTY.
The. Belfast Journal says VIM. Weed OF
Burnham recently lost a valuable cow. Her
death is thought to have been caused by
swallowing pin, as one was founs In her
throat, around which was collected fatty
substance about five inches in diameter
YORK COUNTY.
The Times says the commissioner OF game
and fisheries, Henry o. Stanley, was in Saco,
Tuesday, to view the river and decide If fish
ways were needed in the dams. United States
Civil Enigeer Buck came with him and made
surveys az best he could, the water was SO high
as to prevent q very accurate survey, 1t is
probable that the Biddeford SIDE Will be
selected as site for fishways The commits
sioner and Mr.. Buck will visit there again
next June, and will make a final decision and
give the plans of the fshway, If he orders
them put in, and there is no doubt but what he
will.
The Times says two men giving the names
OF John Morris and Edward Davis were ar
rested in Wells on the 10th inst, on suspicion
of having been concerned in the burglaries at
Kennebunk Depot Village the previous nlnne
IN GENERAL.
There are ten or twelve factories in Maine
where spools for thread are manufactured,
One of thcso is that of D. & H. W. Colder O.
BelgraGe 81 Ills, which gives employment t, &c
some s. ayeratives, and makes annually
about 3 800 gross of spools. Mr. Colder IN
forms the Home Farm that 27 years ago, wher
he first went into the business, there were on
ly ten establishments making spools in tht
country; now there are over 300 The Messrs
Colder do business in this line of $35, 900
wear, and in 1881 did larger business thar
ever before in any one year. They consume
1900 cords of white birch lumber annually ioi
the spools made.