Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — INDIANA POSTOFFICES. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA POSTOFFICES.

Classification of Presidential Offices—AdAujustment of Salaries. [From the Indianapolis Journal] There are in Indiana 1,789 postoffices of all grades, an increase during the past fiscal year of fifty-six offices. Within the past nine years there have been established in tire State of Indiana alone 296 postoffices, which affords a pretty good illustration of the growth of the postal service and the development of the country. The Presidential postoffices of Indiana number eighty-seven. In the first-class are Included all the offices where the salary is at least $8,000; In the second-class the pay runs from $2,0C0 to SB,OCO, and the thirdclass from SI,OCO to $2,000. Indiana has five offices of the first class—lndianapols, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Lafayette, and Terre Haute. In the second class there are twenty offices, an Increase in this grade of two, the fortunate promotions being Goshen and Marion; the third class numbers sixty-two. There have been several promotions to the Presidential grade since the last adjustment They are as follows: Fowler, $1,200; Hartford City, $1,100; North Ranchester, $1,300; North Vernon, $1,200, and Winamac, $l,lOO. The largest single increase in these offices after reaching the Presidential rank was in the cgse of North Manchester, which records a gain of s3to. The largest single increase as salary is in the case of South Bend, where S6OO is reported. Then follows Goshen, with SSQ3, and Marion, with S3OO. Both Decatur and (Greensburg secure an advance of S2OO. The duly reduction of salary is at Notre Dame, Which loses SIOO. The followingstatement shows' the standing of the Presidential offices in Indiana, together with the salary allowed, as based upon the receipts of the office: Office. . Class. Salary. Anderson S $3,000 Angola., 3 1,400 Attica 3 1,600 Anhure- ., ■ - ■., j.aH ’ l 1,400 Aurora ..... 3 1,900 8edf0rd....... ...3 . 1,600 8100mingt0n....... ....3 1,800 Bljffitop... 1,700 Brazil 3 1.600 Butler. 3 IJOO Cambridge City....,, 3 1,400 Columbia City................. ....... 3 1,600 , Connersville I..!*'.' 3 1,900 Grown Point 3 • 1,800 Danville ...... 3 1,700 Decatur ~...3 . 1,5,00 DelpM ...'. 3 ‘H. 600 Edinburg.... 3 1,300 Elkhart ...'ll- 2,600 Evansville 1 3,000 Fort Wayne 1 3,000 Fowler 3 1,200 Frankfort.. 3 1,600 Franklin .3 1,600 Goshtn ......2 2,200 Greencastle : 2 2,100 Greenfield 3 1,200 Greensburg 3 1,800 Hartford City.. 3 1,100 Huntington 3 1,700 Indianapolis 1 3,300 J efferson ville 2 2,100 Kendal ville - 3 1,600 Knightstown 3 1,800 Kokomo •. 3 1,800 Lafayette 1 3.0C0 Lagrange ~..3 1,400 Laporte 2 41,000 Lawrenceburg 3 1,600 Lebanon 3 1,600 Liberty 3 1,200 Ligonier 3 1,600 Logansport 2 2,800 Madison 2 2,400 Marion 2 2,C00 Martinsville 3 1,200 Michigan City 2 2,400 Mishawaka 3 1,900 Micthel 3 1,100 M nticello 3 1,400 Mount Vernon 3 1,630 M unice ’. 2 2,100 New Albany 2 2,400 Newcastle , 3 1,700 Noblesville 3 1.400 North Manchester 3 I,EOO North Vernon 3 1,200 Notre Dame 3 1,400 Peru 2 2,200 Plymouth 3 1,700 Portland 3 1,500 Princeton 3 1,200 Rensselaer 3 1,800 Richmond 2 2,500 Rochester 3 1,600 Rockport 3 1,300 Rockville 3 1,500 Rushville 3 1,800 Seymour 2 2,000 Shelbyville 3 1,800 South Bend 2 2,600 Spencer 3 1,100 Bulb van 3 1,600 Terre Haute 1 3,000 Union City 3 1,600 Valparaiso .2 2,500 Vevay 3 1,300 -Vincennes 2 . 2,600 Wabash 2 2,000 Warsaw 3 1,800 Washington 3 1,700 Waterloo 3 1,200 Winamac 3 1,100 Winchester 3 1,500 In order to secure the benefits arising from the free-delivery service a town must have at least 20,000 inhabitants. Indiana has seven cities thus supplied—lndianapolis, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Richmond, South Bend and Terre Haute. Thlp is a gain of one, South Bend having been supplied with letter-carriers. I'SiJ•- ■ " " " * ■ State Items. Steuben county embraces only ninetyeight lakes. A colored lawyer was recently admitted to the practice of law by the Jefferson county bar. At Wabash $9,0C0 was paid out by agents of the Government to 300 Miami Indians, most of whom became Intoxicated and left town without a red. A mammoth tooth, the largest ever found in that county, was recently found on North Hogan’s creek, near Aurora, by some boys who were playing there. An Aurora fisherman caught a catfish weighing - eighty-five pounds, dressed. In cutting him open, a silver dollar, of the daddy denomination, was found in the stomach. A snake-chabmeb by the name of George Matthews recently tried his art on a Harrison county copperhead snake. The chanr didn’t work, but the snake did, with such fatal result that Matthews' life is despaired of. A Jeffersonville man reports the discovery of a maiden lady 106 years old. The name of the lady is Miss Fleeharty, and she resides with a farmer named Clark, on the road between Burnettsville and Memphis, in Clark county. Miss Fleeharty supposed until recently that she was 95 years of age, but a record came to light a few days ago which shows that she was born in 1778. The variations of fortune are aptly lllustrated by the past and present condition of Thomas Craycroft, of Kentucky, and Henry Craycroft, the colored cobbler, of Jeffersonville. Before the war Henry was the slave of Thomas, whose father was a wealthy farmer in Mead coufityj Ky., and who owned some twenty slaves. Tp-day Thomae, dilapidated in appearance, dbes not disdain to visit his former servitor and accept his hospitality, having become entirely impoverished. «