Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-03-05
L ps and Downs in Life,


| know business man on Main st. refused
credit N 1880, for a stove worth twelve dollars.
tie Is now director IN one Of the banks, and is
now worth 10000 at least. Every cent OF this
has been made IN Cincinnati during that period.
l know another business man. also on Main ST..
who refused credit in 1928 by firm in the
drug line, for tho amount of five dollars. In
1880 that very firm lent that very man five thou
sand dollars upon his uncndorsed note.
| know an extensive dealer in the city, now
worth 100000 dollars, and who command
more money on a short notice, for sixty ninety,
one hundred and twenty da vs.. than almost any
man IN Cincinnati. 10 whom l. clerk for n gro
Gerry house in 1880, sold hogshcad of sugar,
with great misgiving and raluctance. undor some
apprehension OF not getting the money when it
became duo.
| know man whose credit in 1880. was such
that whom | trusted him for kcg of sapet re.
my employer told me might well have rolled
1t III the Ohio. Since that period was worth fifty
thousand dollars, then 4 bank rupt. worth in 1887
one hundred thousand dollars, again bankrupt
IN 1911. and now worth twenty thousand dol
lars.
know man COOL for thirty thousand dollars.
who ten years ago exhibited monkey through
the streets of Cincinnati, for living.
know heavy business mana bank direc-
tor who sold apples IN basket, when a boy,
through the streets.
know of the first ,ncrchants IN our city
in 1928, who could 1T that period hnve bought en-
tire blocks OF the city credit, director III
Of the banks. who within ten years of that period,
died insolvont and intemporate.
Another influential of that day. whose
credl. was unlimitcl being president OF one Of
our insurance companies, aud also banI diroc-
tor, died within five years, nsolyent and intern
perate.
Another individual, who was considered in
1887 worth half million of dollars has since
died. leaving tho estate insoIvent.
Another individual, Of credit equal to all his
wants. and worth, ut one time, twelve thousand
dollars. and judge OF the Court, died III our city
hospital. and buried at the pablic expense.
| have seen him once and again presiding at pub
lie meetings.
The founder of the rcnitontiary system. in
Pennsy lvania, and we'll known III that State and
elsewhere public man. died a paupor in the
Commercial Hospital in this city. l have seen
him addressing tho Legislature of that State, at
Harrisburg, and listened to with the attention md
Difference that would have been paid to John
Quincy Adams, or any other public man of this
age.
know a lady, the descendant Of q distinguish
ed governor of Massachusetts, who supports her
self by her needle, ard the niece of governor
of New Jersey, still living, who washes for SUBJ
sistonce.
know u lady, who, thirty years ago, in the
city in which then lived, was tho cynosure of
all eyes, one Of the most graceful aud beautiful
of tho sex. and moving in the first circles of
wealth and fashion, now engaged in drudgory
aud dependence, at one dollar and fifty per
week. All these reside in this CITY.
What are the fictions of romance writers, COM
pared to some of the realities of human lfc?-
Cist's Advertiser.
In the Of his remarks, Yesterday. on
tho Texas resolutions Mr.. Barrow said Of Cen
Jackson:
81 do not consider that name as omitted 10 any
particular respect from The influence of
that man has been invoked too often for the good
of this country: and if it shall be successfully in
yokcd this occasion tho evils which have result
cd from his civil admnstra will dwindle into
comparatively nothing, compared to the evil that
will result from the influences of his nanlo on
this subject. | consider his influence as poison
tho uPas troe-striking its roots deep into
the earth, spreading its pestifcrous branches far
and wide, and destroying by its haleful effects,
every thing that falls within its shade. 1t has al
ready poisoned every vein and artery Of the body
polite