Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1858 — MAIL CONTRACTS. [ARTICLE]

MAIL CONTRACTS.

We copy the following from the letter of Mr. Colfax to the South Bend Hegister, showing the lowest bids on the different mail routes in this section: * “Monon (Bradford) to Rensselaer, daily, Isaac Helm, $195. “Rensselaer to Kankakee, weekly, T. H. and M. V. Rowe, $245. Service probably to be increased to semi-weekly. “Rensselaer to Iroquois, 111., weekly, T. H. and M. V. Rowe, $l3O. “Renssel er to Fraueisville, weekly, J. Walden, $144. “Rensselaer to Oxford, weekly, J. N. McConnell, $197. '*Winnemac. to ?1 c ■ • v-ille, weekly, J. Walden, $100.” We un lerstagd that the Messrs. Duvalls intend to run an opposition hack line between Rensselaer and Bradford the coming summer. _ 1 : ■ A lunatic once informed a physician who was classifying Oases of insanity that Ke had lost his wits by hatching a politician, whose course was so crooked that it turned his brain. i i f ;