Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-03-28
VOL. XI.NO. 81.
Ups and Downs.

MI Oiots ou Ofo BchuCNldb VI OiuCthudh
well known in that city for his careful an-
tiquarian and statistical research, publishes
in the Advertiser the following very curious
facts:
at is useful as we'll as interesting to
notice the changes for the better OF worse,
which ten or fifteen years serve TO operate
in community.
know business man on Main street re.
fused credit in 1880, for a stove worth
twelve dollars He is now director in one
Of the banks, and worth Sl50,000 at least
Every cent Of this has been made in Cincin-
natl during that period.
know another business man, also on
main street, who was refused credit in 1926
by firm in the drug line, for the amount Of
FIVE dollars. In 1880 the very firm lent that
very man FIVE thousand dollars upon his I'M
endorsed note.
know an extensive dealer in the city,
now worth 100 900 dollars, and commands
more money on short notice, than almost
any man in Cincinnati, to whom asa
clerk for grocery house in 1880, sold
hogshead of sugar, with great misgiving and
reluctance, under some apprehension Of not
getting the money when il became due.
know a man whose credit was such in
1880 that when / trusted him for a keg Of
sal,petre, my employer told me might as
we'll have rolled il into the Ohio. Since
that period he was worth fifty thousand dol
lars, then bankrupt, worth in 1887 one
thousand dollars, again bankrupt in 1871,
and now worth twenty thousand dollars.
know man good for thirty thousand
dollars, who ten years ago exhibited a mon
key through the streets Of Cincinnati for
living.
know heavy business man and bank
director who sold apples when boy, through
our streets.
| knew one Of the first merchants in our
city, in 1896, who could at that period, have
bought entire blocks on credit, director
in one of the Banks, who within ten years
of that period died insolvent and intemper-
ate.
Another influential man Of that day,
whose credit was unlimited. being president
of one Of our insurance companies, and also
bank director, died within five years, in
solvent and Incorporate. ea
Another individual who was considered
in 1887, worth half a million dollars, has
died since. leaving the estate insolvent.
Another individual Of credit equal to all
his wants, and worth at one time twelve
thousand dollars, and Judge Of the Court,
died in our city hospital aud was buried at
the public expense have seen him often
presiding at public meetings.
The founder of the Penitentiary system,
in Pennsylvania and well known in that State
and elsewhere as public man, died pau
per in the Commercial Hospital in this city.
l have seen him addressing the Legis-
ature of that State, at Harrisburg, and lis
tened to with the attention and Difference
that would have been paid to John Quincy
Adams, or any other public man of this age.
! know lady, the descendant of dis
tinguished governor of Massachusetts,, who
supports herselfby her needle, and the niece
of the governor of New Jersey still living,
who washes for subsistence l know
lady, who thirty years ago in the city III
which then lived, was the cynosure Of all
eyes, one of the most graceful and beautiful
of the sex, and moving in the first circles Of
wealth and fashion, now engaged in drudgery
and dependence, at one dollar and fifty cents
per week All these reside in Cincinnati.
The New LICENSE LAw.-The bill re-
speeding Licenses which has passed our As
sembly with scarcely any opposition, will
undoubtedly pass the Senate. II meets with
hardly any objection from any quarter.
i BY its provisions each Town or City in
the State is required to hold Special Elec-
ton on the Tuesday preceding the first
} Monday in May, at which the electors will
vote on the simple question License or NO
License. If No License has majority,
then there will be no Licenses granted for
one year at least, and until another Election
is demanded by at least one-fourih Of the
Legal Voters, and reyerses the decision If
License prevails, then Idrrn Licenses to
! sell liquors are TO be granted, much as at
present, only no charge is TO be made for a
License. The people are not to be bribed
to legalize the Misunderstanding business
/ No GrOcerS' Licenses 10 retail Liquors are
, to be granted in any eDeRt.
: If any sell withom Licenses, whether Liz
; ; censes are granted or not, then the Overseers
of the Poor may prosecute and recover the
penalty, Ifthey fail any citizen may prose-
cate, giving security for costs and receiving
half the penalty for his trouble.
1 Give, us this law, and we shall hope 10
shut off Licenses even in this grogshop-curss
ed city, But even if License should pres
vail here, the horrors and the woes of the
s Misunderstanding business would inevitably
by greatly diminished. Friends of Temper.
ance urge upon the Senate the passage of
r this bill, and prepare TO act under il.
Nc,o York Tribune
Very NafuraI.-An exchange paper aays
I that on recent OCCASION when a marriage.