Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-03-27

Yrs AND DowNs OF LlFE.-It is useful as well
as interesting TO notice the changes, for the better
or worse, which ten or fifteen years serve TO operate
in community. Mr. Cist, of the Cincinnati Adj
vertiser furnishes the following instances in that
city.
know business man in Main street, who was re-
fused credit in $780, for stove worth twelve dollars
He is director in one of the banks and is worth
$4,000 at least Every cent of this has been made
in Cincinnati during that period
i know another business man, also on Main street,
who refused credit, in 1925, by firm IN the
drug lne tor the amount of five dollars. In 1880 that
very firm lent that very man 5000 upon his endors
ed note.
| knew extensive dealer in the city, now worth
SlOO,OOO, and who can command more money, on
short notice, for sixty ninety, one hundred and
twenty days, than almost any in Cincinnati, to
whom rs clerk for grocery house here, in 1880, sold
hogshead Of sugar, with greas misgving and reluc
lance, under apprehension of getting the mo-
ney when 1t became due.
know a man whose credit in 1890, was SUCH
that when trusted him for key of saltpetre, my en-
Poyer told me might well have rolled il into the
Ohio. Since that period he was worth in 1897 $780,
coo; again bankrupt in IS4l, and now worth
100000.
l knew man, good for $4,000, who, ten years
ago, exhibited monkey through the streets of Gin
cinnati for a living.
know heavy business man, bank director, who
sold apples, when a boy, through the streets.
| knew one of the first merchants in our city in
1925, who could at that period have bought entire
blocks oftthe city credit director in of the
banks, who, within ten years of that PERIOD died in
solvent and incorporate.
Another influential man of that day, whose credit
unlimited, being president of one of our insurance
companies and also bank director died within FIVE
years, Insolveht and incorporate
Another individual who was considered in 1887
worth half million of dollars has died since eav-
ng the estate insolvent
Another individual of credit equal to all his wants
and worth, at time, twelve thousand dollars and
a Judge OF the Court, died in our CITY hospital and
was buried at the public expense. l have seen him
once and again presiding at public meetings.
The founder Of the Penitentiary system in Pensyl-
wanna, and yell known that State and elsewhere
a pnblc man, died Pauper in the Commercial Hos
plt'l in that city. / have seen him addressing the
Legislature in that State at Harrisburg, and listened
been paid to John Quincy Adams, any other public
men of his age.
1 know a lady, the decendent Of distinguished
governor of Massachusetts, who supports herself by
her needle and the niece of governor of New Jersey,
still living, who washes for subsistence.
] know lady, who, thirty years ago, in the city
in which then lived, 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,
engaged In drudgery and dependence at one dol
lar and fifty per week. All these reside in this
city.
What the fluctuations of romance writer's CON-
pared to some of the realities Of human life