Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-02-28
IN OLDEN TINES.
"REMINISCENCES OF ELLSWORTH
MANY YEARS AGO,
BY \ FORMER RESIDENT, NOW OF La
NONE CHIEF JUSTICE PETERS
As 4 ROY.


\ former resident of Ellsworth. now of
T Iamoine. writes to THE AMERICAN a few
7 If his "reminiscences Of Ellsworth lie
saws
Nothing would please he writer Of this
f letter more than to hnvo some one Of the
old peauIp " no have been residents of
Ellsworth ali their DAYS. to write Of
fhe mice ~. If was in The aldeu tine-
The writer : not n citizen of FIisW0rt IN
rov,nud " hat write Is frem memory.
for have not hing 10 refer to- and am
Liable to make mistakes
Sf&ty-eHt. years ago ! cast nay first vote
for town officers in what i now the city
of EIl~W orih | was resident there Tor
several wears went there to seek en-
ploymeut, and was fortunate enough to
TALL in with the late Andrew Peters. The
first year he gave me sl56, my board and
washing. kept my clothing in repair,
and allowed me / he use Of II team to ride
home when chose. | continued in his
employ for more than twenty-five years.
Our transactions amounted to many
thousands of dollars, but in no way did
he manifest any disposition to wrong
me out OF one cent But this digress ion.
At the time took up my abode in Els
worth, il would have been difficult to
find in any town of its size a more en-
terprisng lot of men in the aggregate,
than the citizens of Ellswo h. Those
employed in he lumber trade understood
their business such men a. Col. Black
and his SONS. Andrew Peters, Seth lis
dale, and host OF others The black
smiths engaged in shipwork understood
their business, from keel to truck the
doctors We're probably not so we'll read in
physics as NOW, hut their fees were light,
and that covered multitude of faults;
the lawyers of hat day could present
case in language quite as forcible. though
perhaps not as polls he'd as hose of he
present the teamsters,, with their stout
oxen, battled for supremacy among them
selves-out of Ellsworth they had ne
rivals,
Ellsworth was proud, too, OF her carpen-
tiers and shin ioiners. foremost among
them being Capt. Woodland and his late
brother Matthew Her merchants. too.
among hlCl none more honest and
upright IN all his dealings with men than
the late John NJ. Hale.
And then the debating club: What
evenings of hot debate. of ringing. logical
arguments in the affirmative or negative.
what struggles for the mastery between
the opposing sides: vet. withaI. what SUI
irene good fellowship, There was no
lack of oratorical talent in the little
village of lI-Worth in those early DAYS,
We rem. alber question which formed
the suI5ia., II debate: Ought Texas to
be admitted to the Union when she is
recognized INDEPENDENT bv our govern
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.i''''' ,'' p ny i"'7 Al 90. w o"''
Lawyers athaWay ana Robinson. frlend
HOPKINS can tell YOU more about the dis
cussiontbon Afterthr.. ev.nipa.,
ueoHte II WIS settieu ny lhe c'uo N"s most
i all our national questions are to this day
on psrtv basis. but Texas got into he
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OHio'' J"7' NJ '''ie' "i'O ""' -" II u
Mexico, as the Wigs predicted, was he
result.
II we are rightly informed FIlswort n
:; y,
- lHs' recovering from 'fe $40" CROWN
with which it was afflicted several years
Factories are springing up, giving employ