Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-03-27
Ups AND DOWNS In LIFE.

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tice the changes for the better or worse,
which ten or fifteen years serve TO ope-
rate in community.
know business man on Main street
who was refused credit in 1890, for
stove worth twelve dollars. He is now
director in one of the banks, and is worth
Sl50,00Q at least. Every cent of this
has been made in Cincinnati during that
period.
know another business man, also on
Main street., who was refused credit in
1875, by firm in the drug line, for the
amount of five dollars. In 1880 that We
ny firm lent that very man five thousand
dollars upon his endorsed note.
know an extensive dealer in the city,
now worth 100000 dollars, and who can
command more money on short notice,
for sixty, ninety, or one hundred and
twenty days, than almost any man in
Cincinnati, to whom |, as clerk for gro-
Gerry house in 1880, sold hogshead of
sugar, with great misgiving and reluc.
lance, under some apprehension Of not
getting the money when it became due.
know man whose credit in 1880,
was such that when trusted him for
keg of satpetre, my employer told me |
might as well have rolled i, in the Ohio.
Since that period was worth in 1887 one
hundred thousand dollars; again bank.
rupt in ls4l, and now worth twenty thou.
saEd dollars.
know a man good for thirty thousand
dollars, who tep years ago exhibited a
monkey through the streets Of Cincinnati,
for living.
know heavy business man, bank
director, who sold apples in basket when
boy through the streets.
knew one Of the first merchants IN
our city in 1926, who could at that peri.
cd have bought entire blocks of the city
on credit, director in one of the banks,
who within ten years of that period, died
insolven, and Incorporate.
Another influential man of that day,
whose credit was unlimited, beng presi-
cent Of one Of our insurance companies,
and also bank director, died within five
years, lpsolveni and incorporate.
Another individual, who was consider
ed in 1887 worth half million of dollars,
has died since, leaving the estate insol-
vent.
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, and
was buried at the public expense. have
seen him once and again presiding at pub
| lie meetings.
the founder ofthe Penitentiary system,
in Pennsylvania, and we'll known in that
State aud elsewhere as 2 public man, Cied
a pauper in the Commercial Hospital in
that city. have seen him addressing
the Legislature Of that State, at Harris
burg, aud listened 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
tingushed governor Of Massachusetts, who
supports herself by her needle, and the
niece Of governor Of New Jersey still
living, who washes for subsistence.
know a lady, who, thirty years ago,
in the city in 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 O. 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
writers, compared to some of the realities
of human llfe.-CiS't Advertiser.