Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — Old Time Postage. [ARTICLE]

Old Time Postage.

Before 1845 a letter carried over five hundred miles in this country cost twenty-five cents. From 1845 to 1863 it cost ten cents. In 1863 the uniform three-cent rate was adopted. A few years since the two-cent rate was adopted, and now the country wants it reduced to one cent. California officials are after the estate of the late Senator Stanford, for $145,750, claimed as collateral inheritance tax under a new law. The trustees of the university are asked to pay $125,000 of this sum. Nearly 4,000 children were turned away from the public schools of New York city during the month of October because of insufficient accommodation a. Raphael Ortega, says a Mexican paper, ten vears ago sold eight ot ten mules, with which he did express business, and went Into coffee farming. This year his crop is worth $175,000.