The daily gazette., 1878-01-05
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY
For the Gazette.
THEN AND NOW.

books, my mind runs back to when was
an apprentice boy, say some fifty years
ago, How different things were then com.
pared with what they are now. Store
keepers sold their goods TO their customers
and they carried them home; our richest
men and women went to market with their
baskets un their arms and when filled they
picked them up ON their arms and went
BACK aeain. The business men OF Market
street OF that date are all passed away with
one exception, and he is our much respected
Centenarian, Mr.. Dell Noblit, who Is yet
among us, and still enjoys good health;
can think up few living yet who were
in business forty five years ago; there are
some In business now who have been at II
forty years.
There was line OF stages running "a
Philadelphia In those days, cortendine
against the steamboats,, which had com,
menced running few years before TO carry
passengers, supposing they would bres
| them down but had to succumb themselves
Fare rs cents In summer and 81 80 in win
| ter. When the boats stopped in the winter
time, the stage never m ade but one trip q
| day, aud during the short days they went
| up one day and down the next. How Is
that for time now? That woulI not be fast
| in these fast DAYS. The railroad has step
ped in and wiped them both out, maxim /
ten to twenty trips In the same length OF
| time; and there Is the telegraph to help
| us when we forget something. would not
wonder II we would tear int wo some tim e
before long.
| Mr.. Editor, forgot one thing, that |
mn NJ m9nfinp 4 0an-hnxu r,att trl,
IL cost to light up Market street in those
bygone days? There were no public lamps
except at the bridges and they were kent up
by the g county, ana an, one at the hall which
light at each tavern that was on the street,
on the sign post. the large stores could
afford four one cent candles. two on the
counter, one In the window and one on the
desk. The apothecary shop on the corner
had one red and blue light and that was
thought as mitch as was wanted. The
whole cost about three dollars per ght and
all were put out at ten o'clock The people
In those days must have had better eyes than
we have now, or they did not want so much
watching. Very differeAt now-a-days
with q lamp on every corner, and some in
the middle of the squares and even out In
the fields and down In the marshes for the
COWS to eat grass by. And they burn on
lamps hardly throw a shadow. as much as
to say TO the powers above, "blow out the
moon or take IL somewhere else, where II
may be wanted, for we don't stand in need
OF IL any longer while gas and coal oil are
so cheap" The police of those dark days
must not be forgotten. Park Mason ran
that machine with the help of the boys or
rather he ran them. and II he had had SO
siuch light and help as We have now he
would have had the hall half full of boys
and darkeys every night Mr.. c., do you
know how big the Jersey baskets were
when they fret started out? That was be-
lima i Ual 4
give you a shert history OF them Potatoes
were sold by the bushel when the baske 3
first came out. and that was the size OF
them at that date but now we sell by tue
basket that Will explain for the size at the
time. Mems wives could go to market
back In those days, with rs cents and have
some money lett. and their dress, from
head TO foot, did not cost So 90. How, now;
five dollars will hardly pay for the portion
of our ladies' dresses tnat sweeps The pave
ments. A very dear uay 10 clean streets.
The rigging OF a ship should not cost more
than the hull.
How fast things go out of fashion now-a
days. Where Is the light cart our country
friends used TO come TO market in when /
was boy? They had better save them for
they will come on top again soon. | can
recoliect the first Yankee dearborn that
ever came to this market
How did you like Senator Bayard's
speech on Stanley Matthew's resolution?
l suppose you read 1t carefully. He advo-
don't we all say that? The people of Della
ware are as honest as they are in any 9TH
er state OF this union. He says he will
speak on the Bland bill, when IL comes up.
We VIII walt and hear what he has To Say
on that. His speech was very near right,
In the man, and IL was wound up very
wisely, but there was one or two thoughts
al the close he might as well have left out;
his vote to Increase the army, for one
did not like.
now will say something about the tenn
perance cause, beginning b ,ck wnen was
boy. Everybody drank whisky N those
days, but we never heard tell OF any one
dying with the delierum tremens. The
first man that ! knew to take ground
against drunkenness was Methodist
preacher by the name OF John Sharpley,
uncle TO the gentleman who came an un-
timely death on Sunday morning the Both
ult. He and l played together when we
were boys and IL makes me feel sorrowful
while think and write about the sad ar
fair.
But must return TO the subject of tenn
perance. We will skip the long space of
time mentioned above and begin with this
great cause when it started last spring
The ii re burned but slowly in Ihe beeinning
but II soon burst out In blaze. The at
tack on the rum seller Was sharp and eff
fective their customers left them by the |
he sae Of
liquor dealers. There mas been a great |
amount of good done and l hope 1t will |
continne. Among the early signers was |
Ned Hayatt; he kept his pledge like man |
and went to work and made his living un- |
til ne got sick and had to go to the hospital. |
He had then laid up $50. There are three |
Joints in Ned's life and death. One is the |
worst Of drunkards can quit drinking; the |
second is they can make their living the |
third Is that we have the evidence of Mr.. |
Haldemah that he died a christian. Thank |
God for the last one. The churches did ex- |
pect TO reap harvest from the temperance |
cause, but SO Ear there has not been much |
fruit. One word to the reformers Tenn |
perance is good as far as 1t goes; Ned found |
out in the nick of time that he wanted |
Christ to lean upon when dying; you had /
better think and act.
My letter is now too long but want to /
take netice of one more thing, that is our |
beggRrs, and tramps. The heathen says,
when he is travelling on a long journey, II |
he meets beggar he will soon be amongst |
the christians. Ii that be true 1t speaks |
for itself; beggars were scarce when 1 was /
q boy, certainly more so than honest men /
are now. But are these tramps the crop
pings of civilization? Is she so heavy that |
we are breaking down with our load? What |
Is the matter? Is IL a new business we are
1t certainly looks like It. We
read In the newspapers about these fellows |
holding public meetings and passing reso-
lutions They appear TO be well educated,
DR. at least some are. think we are fifty
years head of time, going 20 seed ,ast.