Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1856 — The Year. [ARTICLE]

The Year.

Another year has fled away—with all its eventful occurrences.— It appear* but a short time, but it is marked by numerous and strange events. To some it has brought joy, to others grief; to some riches, to some sorrow and" disappointment, to some poverty and woe. These, and a thousand other changes have occurred during, the year just past. . A new year has dawned upon us. WiM its events be less numerous or wonderful?- Alas! Many who have| entered upon the new year in all the buoyancy of hope and happiness will! be in an other world before its close, tnany on whom fortune smiled at its eo’rnmcncement will groan beneath (

the withering frowns of poverty, j many who are now gliding gaily a-; long the path of life, with a prospect of uninterrupted happiness, will, before its close, bow beneath the rod of affliction, many who are now sur- j rounded with all the pleasures which j affluence can afford, and watched j over with sSsSgfk will be J tdrrred out upon the cold world, the! children of poverty and distress. —; Thy * joy and sorrow, hope and dis-! appointment, life and death mark the fleeting changes of each succeeding year.