Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-05-08

he be private. q narrow ribbon it he be
an officer. and broader one as the rank
of the dead rises. Not many win Ibis
posthumous honor at all, and there is no
mourning for those whose death Is thus
icpaid. An Englisl, army marching up
on Lucknow came upon strong hill
fort which 1t WAS necessary Ia reduce.
A sergeant aud seven mcu constituted
the advance guard on the march. aud
when the close proximity oithc tori was
discovered. the bnglers with main body
sounded the recall a. an order for the
sergeant to Withdraw his guard and
join his regiment. The little squad
mistonk the bugie sound aud though il
was an order To charge. Obcying it ms
SUCH thew Went To their ccrtaia death on
the rainpafts OF the font. The army com
ing up, >tormed The place, aud after
hours of desperate fighting, they took il.
They found there the dead bodies of the
sergeant and all his mon, around each
r r4t cas the broad red ribbon, poetic
tribute from the Sepoys to the heruism
of their dead
Amherst
This town il situated on the Air Line"
route from Bangor to Calais, Is - miles
east OF Bangor. aud an equal distance
north of Ellsworth. 1t was set OF from
the plantation of Mariavile. in ls22 aud
Incorporated on the 9Th OF February, 1881.
Its name was suggested from Amherst. y.
H.. one Of its inhabitants having lived in
that town. and proposing it. 1t is thought
that men began to come in aud fell trees in
II. as carly a lS03 or lsuI. Among the
first that came. WAS Mr.. Chapman. Mr..
Shumway, Mr.. Whitman, John Barker,
/ 4 4
Graves. Mr.. Chapman made a beginning
on the lot NOW occupied by wendall Sil>-
by, and was soon succeeded by Deacon
Judah West. Nr. Shumway commenced
on the lot now occupied by Mr.. John W
Nicher>on. John Barker made Il clearing
on the lot now occupied by Mr.. Moody.
\ Foster. Mr.. Graves made an opening on
the lot afterwards occupied by Mr.. Nahum
West. In lS05 Capt Goodcll Silsby came
in from Charleston, n. H. In ls0G or ls07
| his parents came and took up the lots. now
known as The Old Silsby Place" where
they lived till the father died In ls36. In
ls0s Asahel Foster. from Bridgton, Me.
| took up the lot, on which he lived till his
| death in 1851.
In 1909 Capt. Elisha Chick. from Shap-
| leigh Me, commenced on his lots, ON
! which he died in 1870.
Soon after this Mr.. Moses Humhall from
! WATERFORD. Nc. succeeded Mr.. Whitman
! who had taken up the lot now occupied by
| Mr.. stephen {. Raukins. In 1872, McsSrs
! Ti-dalcS and Hewin- OF Boston. erected a
/ Tannery IN town. on the west branch of
| Union river. In 1888 saw mill was built
near H. The first clapboard and single
mill in town was built on Chicks Brook In
| 1884. The tanncry in 1911, was purchased
/ by thas. O. Tanning of Cummington,
1 Mass. who sold 1t in ISIS, to the present
owner A. II. BuzAell. Two years since.
| IL, capacity was enlarged, modified and
! improved and now when In full blast, uses
| some 300 cur,ls OF bark per annum. Its
| bus mess is the tanning of sole leather.
altogether, the hides being shipped from
| Boston and the leather returned Both
! articles pass through Bangor, and por-
! tion Of the time have been drawn by a team
| OF six Uiulcs. The route being somewhat
4 hily, passing through the town OF Clifton,
I justly so named. These animals have been
thought To succeed better than horses.
! The town X highly favored In its water
power. That Of Silsbys Falls. and that N
the Iannery, both on the west branch
serve for the most OF the year. while that
! OF Chich'- Brook serves some three months
of the year. The Union river, the west
branch Of which flows through the town,
has three branches. West" Middle. q"
and East" all uniting ere they reach
| Ellsworth, where tn empty into the bay.
II has it, name from the fact that So many
! branches unite to make Il.
The first and ouly meeting house wa,
erected in lSii Three men. one living In
| Amherst and two In Aurora, built IT, The
first settlers endured many hard.hip>.
Some came into Ellsworth. IN a vessel, and
from that point found their way hither by
following spotted line on the trees. Some
/ carried their grain twelve miles, on their
backs 10 girls, mill aud then home again
laundering has been cared for to the
neglect Of farming. aud SO there il muc Ia
room Tor Improvement in tilln. the soil
Since II has been intended that men should
earn their bread by the sweat OF the brow
probably in the act OF cultivating the soil
would 1t not be better to have that original
design carried out little more strictly
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