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 388 LEWISTON LEXINGTON of rocks, and falls more than 50 ft. in a dis- tance of 200 ft. The natural advantages thus furnished are increased by stone dams extend- ing across the river, and by a canal 60 ft. wide reaching from above the falls to the mills. The conformation of the ground is such that the water may be used several times. The Frank- lin company, incorporated in 1854, with a capital of $1,000,000, owns the water power, canals, and other real estate, and rents to oth- er companies. It also owns the Lincoln mill, which produces fine cottons and jeans. In- cluding the Franklin company, there are nine corporations engaged in the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods, with an aggregate capital of $7,750,000, employing 20 sets of woollen machinery and about 270,000 spindles. The principal kinds of goods made are sheet- ings, shirtings, cassimeres, repellants, ging- hams, cottonades, quilts, beavers, ladies' cloak- ings, tweeds, tickings, duck, twine, and jute The number of hands employed in the mills is about 8,300 (3,800 males and 4,500 fe- males), and the annual product is 37,000,000 yards of cloths and 3,000,000 bags. The Lewis- ton bleaching and dye works have a capital of $300,000, and employ 280 hands. The Lewis- ton machine company produces cotton and woollen machinery. The other principal manu- factures are of boots and shoes, bricks, car- riages, sash, doors, and blinds, furniture, and lumber. The total annual value of the manu- factures is about $11,500,000. There are a national bank with $400,000 capital and two* savings banks. The city is divided into seven wards, and is governed by a mayor, a board of aldermen, and a common council. It is lighted with gas, and has a handsome city hall. Lew- iston is the seat of Bates college, under the control of the Free Baptists, which was estab- lished in 1863 and named in honor of Ben- jamin E. Bates of Boston, who contributed $200,000 to its endowment. It has handsome grounds, three fine college buildings, and a Bates College, Lewiston, Me. president's residence. A theological depart- ment, occupying a four-story brick building about J m. from the grounds, was organized in 1870. In 1873-'4 this institution had 10 professors (4 in the theological department) and 2 tutors, 122 students (19 theological), and 8,300 volumes in its libraries, viz. : college library, 4,500; theological, 2,200; societies', 1,600. The Nichols Latin school, named in honor of Lyman Nichols of Boston, near the grounds, is owned by the college and main- tained as a preparatory school; in 1871-'2 it had four instructors and 68 students. The city has excellent graded schools, including high and normal departments, attended by about 2,000 pupils. There is a public library of 6,000 volumes, established by the corpora- tions. A daily and two weekly newspapers and a monthly periodical (by the college stu- dents) are published. There are 11 churches, viz. : Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Free Baptist (3), Methodist (2), Roman Catholic (2), and Universalist. Lewiston was settled in 1770, and incorporated as a town in 1795. In 1861 a city charter was granted, but the city government was not organized till 1863. LEWISTOiY, a town and village of Niagara co., New York, on the Niagara river, 7 m. from its entrance into Lake Ontario, and tho same distance below the falls, and on a branch of the New York Central railroad ; pop. of the town in 1870, 2,959; of the village, 770. A suspension bridge, with a span of 600 ft., built across the river at this point in 1850, was par- tially destroyed by an ice jam in 1864. It is to be repaired and used as a railroad bridge, to connect the Lake Ontario Shore railroad with the Great Western railway of Canada. Lew iston is the seat of the Roman Catholic theo- logical seminary of Our Lady of Angels, or- ganized, in 1856 and chartered in 1863. In 1814 the town was burned by the British. LEXINGTON, a central county of South Caro- lina, bounded N. E. by the Congaree and S.