Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1879 — Postal Expenses. [ARTICLE]

Postal Expenses.

The estimates for the Postoffice Department for the next fiscal year have been completed. The total expenses of the department are estimated at $39,920,900; its revenues at $32,210,000, leaving a deficiency to be provided for out of the general treasury of $7,710,900. The amount so provided for the current year was $5,457,376.10. The estimate for inland railroad transportation is $10,000,000, an increase of $1,000,000 above the appropriation for the present year. That for the stage routes, $7, ■ 375,000, au increase of $1,475,000 over the current year’s appropriation. A correspondent of the Boston Jotirnal says that au eminent physician here told him that there is no profession in New York in which it is so easy to lay up a competency for the future as the ministerial. The average pay is larger than any other profession, for while the lawyer and doctor are struggling the minister takes his position with a bound, but he is apt to spend in trips to Europe the money which he should lay up. Song of the dry-goods clerks"Bwinging in delaine,”