Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-03-15
Vol. 5--NO. 25--WhOle No, 233.
tins and Downs OF Lifc.

Ups Rnu downs OF LILO.
II is useful as we'll as interesting to notice |
the changes, for the better or worse, which ten |
or fifteen years serve to operate in conmuni.
ty Mr. Cst, of the Cincinnati Advertiser fur.
nshes the following instances in that city
know business man on Main street, who
was refused credit, in 1890, for a stove worth
twelve dollars He is now director in one Of
the banks, and is worth Sl50G00 at least-E-
very cent OF this has been made in Cincinnati
during that period
| know another business man, also on Main
street, and was refused credit, in 1925, by
firm in the drug line for the amount of five
dollars. In 1880, that very firm lent that very
man $1,000 upon his endorsed note.
know an extensive dealer in the city, now
worth Sl00,000, and who can command more
money, on a short notice, for sixty, ninety, or
one hundred and twenty days, than almost any
man in Cincinnati, to whom |, as clerk for
grocery house, here, in 1880, sold hogshead of
sugar, with great misgivlng and reluctance, un-
der some apprehension of not getting the mo-
rey when il became due.
know man whose credit, in 1880, was
pctrc, my employer told me might as well have
rolled it into the Ohio. Since that period he
was worth in 1887, 100000. Again bank.
rupt in lS4l, and now worth 100000.
know n man, good for $4,000, who, ten
years ago, exhibited monkey through the
streets of Cincinnati tor living.
know n heavy business man bank drec.
tor, who sold apples, when boy, through the
streets
knew one of the first merchants in our ci-
ty in lS25, who could al that reriod have bought
entire blocks Of the city on credit, director in
one Of the banks, who, within ten years OF that
period, died insolvent and Incorporate.
Another influential man OF that day, whose
credit was unlimited, being president of one of
our insurance companies, and also bank direc-
tor died within five years, nsolvent and intem,
perate.
Another individual, who was considered in
1887, worth half million of dollars, has died
since leaving the estate insolvent.
Another individual Of crrdi, equal to all his
wants, and worth, a; one time, twelve thousand
dollars, and Judge of the Court, died in our
city hospital, and was buried at the public ex-
ponse. ! have seen him once ond again presl-
ding at public meetings.
The founder OF the Penitentiary system in
sylvania, and well known in that State
and eleew here as public man, died n pauper
in the Commercial Hospital in that city. have
seen him undressing the Legislature OF that
STATE, "A; Harrisburg, and listened to with the
attention and Difference that would have been
paid to John Quincy Adams, or any other pub.
lie man of his age.
know lady, the descendant of n distn,
gnshed governor of Massachusetts,. who sup
ports herself by her needle, and the niece of a
governor of New Jersey, still living, who wash
es for Subsistence.
know IA 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 fret circles of
wealth and fashion, now engaged in drudgery
and dependence, at one dollar and fifty cents
per week. All these reside in this city.
What are the fluctuations of romance wr.
ters compared 10 some OF the realities OF human
life !