Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
From Cists (Cincinnaii, J Advertiser.

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Ups and Doi0ns Of Lite.--It is useful as
well as interesting to notice the changes for
The better or worse, which ten or fileen
years serve to operate in community.
| know business man on riain street
who was refused credit in 1880, for stove
worth twelve dollars. lie is now direc-
tor in one of The Banks, and worth 100000
dollars at least. Every ceht Of this has
beeh made in Cincinnati during that period.
| know another Business man, also on
Main street, who was refused credit in
1925, by a firm in The drug line, for The
amount of fue dollars. In 1880 that very
firm lent that very man .fue thousaae q dol
lars upon his unendorsed note.
| know an extensive dealer in the city,
now worth 100000 dollars, and who can
command more mouey on a short notice
for sixty, ninety, or one hdudfed and
twenty days, than almost any man in Gin
cinnali TO whom !. as clerk for a grocery
house here in 1880 sold hogshead Of
Sugar with great misgiViug and reluctance
under some apprehension Of it6t getting
the money when il became due.
know man whose credit In 1880 was
such that when | trusted him for keg df
saIlpetre, my employer Told me | might as
well have rolled it into the Ohio. Since
,ha, period he was worth fifty thousand
dollars, then bankrupt; worth in 1887
one hundred thousand dollars, again q
bankrupt in 1s4l, now worth twenty lhous-
aud dollars.
know man good for thirty thousand
dollars: who ten years ago exhibited a
monkey through the streets Ct Cincinnati,
for a living.
known heavy business man, bank
director, who sold apples in basket wien
boy; through our streets.
knew one of the first merchants In our
city in 1928, who could have bought entire
blocks of the city OH credit director id
one Of The banks who withii ten years of
that period died insolvent and Incorporate.
Another influential man Of that day,
whose credit was unlimited, being presi-
den, OF one of our insurance companies and
also a bank director died within FIVE yoaFs
insolvent and Incorporate.
Another individual " no was considered
in 1887 worth half a million Of dollars, has
died since, leaving the estate insolvent.
Another individual, of credit equal to
all his wants, anu worth a, one time Sl2,
600, and Judge OF the Court, died in our
city hospital, and &as buried at the public
expense. have seeh hin once and again
presiding at public meetings.
The founder of the Pen!teutiary system
in Pennsylvania, and we'll known in that
State and elsewhere, as public man, died
pauper in the Commercial Hospital
ih this city. / have seen him addressing
The Legislature of that State a, Harrisburg
and listened 10 with the attention and de-
ference that would have been paid to John
Quincy Adams, or any other public man
ofthis age.
/ know lady descendant Of dis,in-
guisl1ed Governor Of Massachusetts, who
supports herself by her needle, and the
| neice of Governor Of New Jersey. still
living; washes for subsistence.
know a lady, who, thirty years ago, in
| the city ia which then lived, was the
cynosure Of all eye, one of the most grace.
full and beautiful of the sex, and moving
in The first circles OF wealth aid fashion
now engaged in drudgety and dependence
at one dollar and fifty cents per week. All
these reside iii this city:
What are the fic!ions Of romance writer's
compared TO some Of The realiliss Of hu-
non fifa7