Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — The National Postoffice. [ARTICLE]

The National Postoffice.

Third Assistant Postmaster Oeneral Hazap has completed a statement of the issues to Postmasters by his office of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882. Tho total number issued was 1,740,571,038 pieces; aggregate value, $40,077,953; increase over tho issuo of the preceding fiscal year, 236,259,406 pieces, or 15.7 per cent., equal in value to $6,352,517. The appropriations for supplying the articles amouuted to $1,036,000, or which $875,836 were expended, leaving an unexpended balance of $160,163, or 15.4 per cent, of tho appropriations. Over 1,000,000,000 3-cent stamps and 350,009,CO3 pos’al-cards were sold tho past year, as a rosult of these figures department officials feel warranted in asserting that when the final statement of receipts and expenditures for the year has been completed it will be found that the postal service is self-sustaining. Of the deficiency appropriation of $2,152,253 made by Congress last year to meet the expected deficiency in the postal revenues not 1 cent was drawn from the treasury. This is the first year since 1851 in which the receipts of the Postoffi ;e Department balanced its expenditures, with the exception of one year during the War of tho Rebellion. There were 46,222 postofficcs in the United States on Juno 33, 1882, an increase of 1,710 over 1881. During the Franco-German war both armies declared that the other used poisoned bullets. A scientific explanation throws light on the accusation. The construction of the modem breechloader is said to carry with it into the wound a portion of the hydrocyanic acid which the explosion of the powdfir causes to be accumulated in the barrel, and this is a blood poisoner, in any case retarding recovery. Webb we eloquent as angels we should please some men, some women and some children much more by listening that by talking.— (7. <7. Colton,