Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1885 — THE OFFICES. [ARTICLE]

THE OFFICES.

Postoffice Appointments Made by the Administration Since It Came Into Power. [Washington telegram.) The Appointment Clerk of the Postoffice Department has made a complete and accurate schedule by States of the Presidential and fourth-elass appointments made by Mr. Cleveland. It is as follows: Presi- 4th Presi- 4 th dentiaL class. deutial. class. Alabama...... 13 121 Missouri 20 361 Alaska 1 Montana. 1 16 Arizona 7 Nebraska 9 68 Arkansas 8 171 Nevada. • 1 11 California 6 39 N. Hampshire 8 101 Colorado 9 32 New Jersey... 7 78 Connecticut.. 12 28 New Mexico.. 1 8 Dakota 8 41 New York 40 658 Delaware 1 21 N. Carolina... 14 271 Florida.. 3 30 Ohio 23 618 Georgia 10 131 Oregon 28 Idaho 3 28 Pennsylvania. 34 415 Illinois 31 329 Rhode Island. 6 Indiana 43 465 S. Carolina... 9 78 Indian Ter.... 1 l2,Tennessee.... 6 148 10wa........... 40 168|Texas...:L.V. 12 127 Kan5a5........ 29 lSliUtah .. 1 Kentucky..... 7 184iVe; mont 10 116 Louisiana..... 3 73,Virginia 16 439 Maine 7 eolWaßh. Ter.... 1 13 Maryland. ... 2 140 W. Virginia.. 1 145 Mass..: 8 28=Wisconsin..,. 23 147 Michigan. 22 141, Wyoming..... 3 1 Minnesota.... 10 46 ——■ Mississippi... 9 1681 Total 624 6,309 As the total number of postoffices which the President has the sole power of filling is 2,332, it will be seen that nearly onefourth of the incumbents have been ebauged and over one-eighth of the fonrthclkss offices have been doled out j .■■■■■■■■ Ls Two little "boys at Montgomery Ala., watched -their father kill and dreswh, pig for a barbecue, and the next day showed how closely they had oDserved the process by butchering their baby brother in the same manner. A curious new fact in natural history is that the spitz dog is “a domesticated subarctic variety of the prairie wolf." Babon Twickel, of Westphalia, Ger-J many, has sent all the way to Oregon fori young forest trees. The district school system disappears in New Hampshire March 1, 1886.