The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-06-07

UPS AND Downs IN LIFE.-It is useful as
well as interesting to notice the changes for
the better or worse, which ten or twelve years
serve to operate in community.
know business man on Main street who
was refused credit in 1880, for a stove worth
Sl2. He is now 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.
know another business man, also on Main
street, who was refused credit i'm 1925, by a
firm in the drug line, for the amou nj of So
In 1880 that very firm lent that man So, 900
upon his endorsed note.
/ know an extensive dealer in the city now
worth 100000, and who can command more
monAy on a short notice, for sixty, ninety, or
one hundred and twenty days, than almost any
man III Cincinnati, TO whom /, as clerk for a
grocery house here In 1880, sold hogshead OF
sugar, with great misgiving and reluctance, I'M
der some apprehension otnot getting the mon
ey when ii became due.
| know man whose credit in 1890. was
such that when trusted him for key Of salt
petre, my employer told me might as we'll
have rolled it in the Ohio. Since that period
he was worth in 1887 100000; again bank
rupt in 1911, and now worth $4,000.
know a man good for $4,000, who ten
d
streets of Cincinnati for living
Il know heavy business man, bank direc-
tor, who sold apples ia basket when a boy
through the streets.
knew one of the first merchants in our city
in 1928, who could at that period have bought
lentire blocks of the city on credit, director
in one of the banks. who within ten years oil
ri that period died insolvent and Incorporate.
:. Another individual man of that day, who's
, credit was unlimited, being president of one o
> our insurance companles,-and also bank di
rector, died within five years, insolvent and in
temperate.
Another individual, of credit equal TO al
III bis wants, and WORTH at one time, Sl2 600
! aud Judge of the Court, died in City Hos
pital. and was buried at public expense. hav
heard him once and again presiding al publi
meetings.
Another individual, who was considered il
. 1887, worth halfa million of dollars, has die,
, since leaving the estate insolvent
: The founder of The Penitentiary system ii
Pennsylvania, and well kpown in that Stat
and elsewhere public man, died a paupe
in the Commercial Hospital in that city
have seen him addressing the Legislature O
that State, at Harrisburg, and listened TO viii
the attention and Difference that would hav
been paid to John @. Adams, or any other pub
lie man OF The age.
know lady, the descendent of dis:in
I guished Governor of Massachusetts,, who sup
ports herself by her needle, and the niece of
5 Governorof New Jersey. still living, who wash
rs for subsistence.
Il l know lady. who, thirty years ago, in tn
I city in which then lived, was the cynosur
{ Of all eyes, one of the most graceful and beau
tiful of the Sex, and moving in the circles c
wealth and fashion, now engaged in drugger
and dependence at one dollar and fifty cent
e per week. All these reside in the city.
i What are the fluctuations of romance wri
tiers, compared TO some of the realities of hu
man life7- Gin. Adrerfissr. -