Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1845-04-25
UPS AND DOWNS IN LIFE.

1t is useful as well as interesting to note
the changes for better or worse, which ten
or fifteen years serve to operate in a com
munity.
know a business man on Main street who
was refused credit in 1880, for a stove worth
twelve dollars. He is now director in one
Of the banis, and is worth 10000 dollars
a, 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 1925,
by "A firm in IA drug line, for the amount Of
five dollars. In 1880 that very firm lent
that very man five thousand dollars upon his
endorsed noie.
Luuv M extensive dealer IN tho city
nov worth one hundred thousand dollars, ana
who can command more money on a short
notice, for 60, 90, or 100 and 20 days than
almost any man in Cincinnati, to whom |,
as clerk for "A grocery house here in 1880,
sold a hoashcad of sugar, with great misgiv-
ing and reluctance, under some apprehrn-
sion Of not getting the money when it became
due.
know a man whose credit in 1880, was
sncl, that when | trusted hln for IA key OF
sallpe,re, my employer told me might as
well ave rolled ii in the Ohio. Since that
period he was worth in 1887 one hundred
thousand dollars, again "A bankrupt in 1871,
and now worth 10000 dollars.
know a man good for 10000 dollars,
who ten years ago exhibited "A monkey thro'
he streets of Cincinnati, for "A living.
know a heavy business man, "A bank di-
rector, who sold apples in a basket when a
boy, through the streets.
know one of the first merchants in on
city in 1925, who could at that period have
bought entire blocks of the city on credit, 1
lirector in one of the banks, who within ter
years of tina, period, died insolven, and in
temperate.
Another influential man of that day, whose
credit was unlimited, being president of one
Of our insurance companies and also a banl
director, died within five years ; i~nsolven
and intemperate.
Another individual, who was considered
in 1887 worth half a million of dollars, la
died since, leaving the estate insolvent.
Another individual Of credit equal TO al
his wants, and worth at one time, l2,00t
dollars, ana Il Juuge OF Tue COuT', uieu j
our city hospital, and was buried at the pub
lie expenses. | have seen him once an
again presiding at public meetings.
The founder of the PenilenIiary system
in Pennsylvania, and well known in tina
State and elsewhere as a public man, died
panper in the Commercial Hospital in tia
city. | have seen him addressing th
Legislature of that State, at Harrisburg
and listened to with the attention and defer
ence that would have been paid to JON
Quincy Adams, or any other public man c
his age.
| know a lady, the descendant of a distin
guished Governor of Massachusetts who sup
ports herselfby her needle, and the niece {
a Governor of New Jersey, still living, VIII
3 washes for subsistence.
;. know a lady, who, thirty years ago, i
the city in which then lived, was the cyu
osure Off al eyes, one of the most graceii
and beautiful Of the sex, and moving in tn
: first circles of wealth and fashion, now Ell
: gagged in drodgcry and dependence, at on
b dollar and fifty cents per week. All thes
reside in this city.
, What are the fluctuations of romance wr
tiers, compared To some Of the realities
human life q Gin. Ado.