Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-18
STATE NEWS.

The Commercial tells q story of younswoman
name not given who disguised herself as a man
and worked for Brewer farmer during having,
and since then has worked in Orrington. When
her disguise was detected, she gave rs her reason
that her father being dead she was obliged to la
Dor for the support OF the family, and could get
better pay while disguised.
Mr.. George Lunt of Orono, harvested a piece
Of mangel-wurlzels this fall, which produced at
the rate of two thousand one hundred bushels to
the acre. The seed which he used was Briggs
improved.
Mr.. J. F. Smith of Green. of New York, was
in Portland on Tuesday, to claim the buggy
which Mattice, alias Brown alias White, attempt
ed to sell here, and furnished another leaf in the
history Of that accomplished rascal. His full
name is William o. Msttce and his home is at
Deposit, New York, close to the Pennsylvania
line. He Is about thirty -seven years of age. He
commenced business as tin peddler, but soon
developed into thief. He has been in the peni-
tertiary at Albany for burglary. and in Jail at
Montrose, Pa. lie nearly succeeded in breaking
saving off the bars of his cell. In Schoharie
county he stole toppy buggy, sawed off the top
and rode of in open buggy. The team which
he stole from Mr. Smith taken the night
Of September twentieth He also robbed boot
and shoe store the same night and loaded up the
buggy with his plumber. lie seems to have driven
off leisurely, for the next day he was in the
vicinity. He snapped the horse about one humid
red and forty miles from Green, and Mr.. Smith
has recovered him. About seven hundred dollars
in all are offered for Mattice's captare. The Off
GERS at the station think that the horse stealing
Bangor is his work, and that he is making for
Canada, where be has friends.
During the year 1877, B. F. Spinney & Co.. of
Lynn, have made at their Norway Shoe Factory
seventy five hundred cases of ladies' boots aud
shoes, valued ut nearly four hundred thousand
dollars. For the year 1876 the number of cases
was fifty three hundred showing an increase for
this year of twenty-five hundred cases. This is
in addition to their Lynn business which amounts
to as much more, making their whole sales for the
presen mt year, about $500 900.
For some time past the late John Ware of Wa
terville, had been building an expensive tomb in
the town Of Athens, where he had passed many
years OF bis life. by strange coincidence il was
completed on the very day on which be died. His
remains were taken to Athens and placed in the
vault on Thursday.
The Penobscot Monthly, one publication of
which has been issued, will not be continued. Mr.
Robbins fnds his time too much occu pied to AT.
tend to both weekly and monthly, and therefore
will devote his whole untiring energy to the week
ly.
The Dexter Gazette says: "Col. Morrill, has
been offered pretty well up to $1,000 for half in
terest in Camors the trotter. The Colonel saws
that $1,000 would not buy half Of him now"
The Wing says that G. P. Lovejoy of VIM, has
made arrangements for the lumber for the tame
of his grist mill. The lumber is obtained on Big
Island, one of the Five Islands recently cleared by
Frank Gilman, and the mill will be erected tins
TALL, Just above the railroad crossing, opposite n
IL. Halls, on the Military road. The dam will be
built from the Houston shore to small isannd,
aud smaller one across what is called the ''dry
way" to Big Island, which is about fifty rods
above the location OF the mill.