Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1869 — Bees In a Mail Pouch. [ARTICLE]

Bees In a Mail Pouch.

The Post office officials in this city had a lively time a day or two since, handling the “ mail matter. In one of the pouches were two boxes of been on their way to Clarke county, in this State. The boas were about two inches equal* and half an inch deep. These boxes had breathing holes on top and side, covered by a very fine wire gauze. There were, perhaps, a dozen bees in each boat and each box provided with a small stick of candy for lunch on the way. The bees were lively, and their stingers in good condition, as the Deputy Postmaster, it is said, can testify, he having looked into the boxes to ascertain whether the matter was mailable. We believe he decided that bees are not mailable matter, unless their stings are polled. The bees were eo lively they could not be sent to Washington aa “ dead matter,” and so they were sent to tUr destination-all but that one stinger U» “Captain” retained.— C Xeadamd Herald, 17tt.