People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — GIVEN A NEW NAME. [ARTICLE]

GIVEN A NEW NAME.

Appomattox Post Office to lie Called Surrender In the Future. Washington, Sept. 25.—The name of the post office at Appomattox, Va., where Lee surrendered to Grant, has been changed by the post office department to Surrender. Two .years ago the courthouse building at Appomattox was burned and the county seat was removed to the town of Nebraska, 8 miles away on the line of the Norfolk & Western railroad. The new county seat was named Appomattox. Thus there w r ere two Appomattoxes m the field. This occasioned annoyance to the post office department because complaints were constantly being re ceivcd of the miscarriage and delay of mail matter. Richmond, Va., Sept. 25.—The action of the post office department in changing the name of Appomattox Court House to “Surrender” has excited the indignation of Virginians. Gov. O’Ferrall and other public men are out in interviews strongly condemning the change, and the matter promises to attract much attention.