Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-03-17

Ups AND Don Ns.-GIst, ia. ola genie
man Of Cincinnati ubiished IN his Adver-
,iser the following very curious lacts
IL is useful as well as interesting to no.
iice tho changes for tho better or worse,
which ten or fifteen years serve ~ operate
In community.
know tn, ness man on Main Street
refused ere lii in 1880 for a stove " orth IL
dollars. He is now director IN one OF the
banks, and worth S $50, 600 at least. Ev-
cry cent Of this has been made in Cincn-
matt dor ng that period.
know another business man also on
Man ST. who was refused credit in 1873
bv firm in the dug line, for the amount
of five dollars. in 1880 that very firm lent
that very man five thousand upon his unen-
doTEcd note.
| know an extensive dealer in the city,
now worth l00, 0U0 dollars; and commands
moe money, on a short notice, for SIXTY,
ninety, o. one bundled and twenty, than al
most any man in Cincinnati, to whom |, as
c.etk for grocery house in 1870 sulI n
hogshcad Of sugar, with great misgiylngs
and reluctance, under some upp:cAens on Of
AVE- Etlth'@ th| IiloilSl NIICIi u DGNditIC tuC'
know a man whose credit Was such in
1880 that when | trusted him for kcg Of
salt petre, my employer told me | night as
well have rolled it into tie Ohio. Snce
that period be was worth fifty thousand dol
lars then a bankrupt, worth in l,37, 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 mon
key through the streets # ncinna,, for
living.
know heavy business man-a bank
director, who sold apples when boy tho
the streets.
knew one of The first merchants in our
city, in 1926, who could a, that period, have
bought entire blocks of The city on credit,
director in the banks, who within ten wears
of that period died insolycnt and ntcmpeI-
ute.
Another influential Vii Of that Gay,wLoso
credit was unlimited, beng a president of
one Of our insurance compl Mes, and also
bank director, died within five years, in
temperate.
Another individual, Of credit equal to all
his wants, and worth at one time twelve
thousand dollars, and Judge the Court,
died in our hospital and was buried at the
public expense. have seen him often pre-.
siding at public meetings.
Another individual who was cors dcrcd
in 1887 worth half a million Of dollars. has
died since, leaving the estate ms, lveat.
The founder Of the Pen;ten.iary system.
in Pennsylvania, and we'll known in that
State and elsewhere as public man, died a
pauper in the Commec al Hospital in th 5
city. | have seen him addressing The len-
isatuye oithat State, at la rsLu @, and is
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 dC'cendant Of a distiu.
guishcd governor of Massachusetts, who
supports herself by her noodle, and the niece
of a governor Of New Jarsey sill living who
washes for subs s,cncc.
know lady, who hi II vea-s ago in
the city in which then lived. was The cyno-
sure OF all eyes, one Of the most graceful
and beautiful of the sex, and moving in The
first circles OF wealth and fashion, now en-
gagged in drudsc:y and dependence, at one
dollar and fifty cents PER week. AL these
res de in this city,
Wh1; are the fctions Of romance writer's.
compared 10 some OF the realities of human
lifel