The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-03-25

BLOODY AFFRAY- SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED.
The Louisville Courier, contains the following ac-
count of horrible affair which took place in Lancas
ter county, Ky, on the 18th instant:
Last evening, about five o'clock Russell Hill
Isaiah Hill Frederick Hill, and two or three BOYS
sons OF Isaiah and Frederick Were returning home
ward from Teetersvilie accompanied by Dr. O. P
Hl OF this place; just the party got opposite to
tobacco house, (Which had been tortifed) on
Scotts Fork of Sugar Creek. they. were fired upon
and Russell Hill tel', mortally wounded. His
brothers and nephews fastened to his assistance
The ire from the house still increasing, be re-
marked, You can do me no good, boys: they have
killed me; do the bestyou can" and expired The
Hills then charged upon the house and Isaiah was
aliied just as ne was getting over the fence. The
door OF the house was forced by the remaining
Hills, and the fight continued with short arms and
bowie s-snives. John Sellers shot by son of
Isaiah HILL az or IA years of age and fell and
p;red after having received five ether shots through
the head. Wm. Crisman was shot by the same
boy when IN the act Of stabbing Frederick Hill with
bowie knife. CTisman died, having on his body
one pistol shot and fifty three wounds inflicted with
knife. man by the name OF Alveison, and
another by the name of Samuel Sellers, (of the
house pariy) were slightly wounded
Two or the boys (fIilD were wounded with rife
Shots and one OF them, mare boy, lies in crti-
cal condition Since dead
DIR. Hill was not armed, and understand did not
participate in the conflict He was considerably in
He is now with the wounded, anE party have just
left'town 10 ascertain further particulars"
Posi- OFFICE EsTABLrsHmEsr.-The first
mail route on this side of the Atlantic was put
in operation by the colony of New York, Gov
ernor Lovelace having established, in 1872, ~
post to go monthly between New York city
and Boston and back
The colony of Massachusetts created the
first post office, the General Court having, in
1877, appointed John Hayward, "the scriven-
er," at Boston, "to take in letters and convey
them according to their direction" In I'LL,
The mails ran between Boston and Maine once
a week, and once fortnight from the former
place to Connecticut ut and New York. la 1717,
there was a weekly route from Boston as far
South as Williamsburg, Virginia, and in 1897,
fortnightly one between Philadelphia and
Annapolis.
Sixty.three years later, in 1890, -the post
roads in the United States did no; exceed in
length one thousand miles, consisting OF long
zig gag route from Wiscasset. IN Maine, via
the principal towns on the Atlantic seaboard,
TO Savannah, in Georgia, with a few connect.
ING cross posts, on NO portion OF which was
,he mail conveyed oftener than tri- weekly, and
on part of il but once fortnight. The en-
ti,e annual cost of the service was SN ,702.-
The number of post Offices was seyeDty-iye,
and their gross yield $37 1896 per annum -
AT the period referred TO, there were but ten
Offices, yielding revenue q over $i,gvo per
annum, viz: Philadelphia, New York. Boston,
| Ral,imore, Richmond, Petersburg, Alexan-
dria. Fredericksburg, Norfolk and Charleston.
The amazing rapidity with which The post
ofI,ce system has advanced TO Its present state,
;s shown by the fact that in 1851, or only about
s;xty years subsequent 10 the date iast mention
ed ed he length ofroutes in operation was l96, ,290
miles. the annual cost OF transportation there
an s3421.754; the revenue Of the Department,
S6 7S6. 49S: and the number Of officers, 1904.
rhe Department has on it's registers over 6OO0
mail routes, and nearly as many icail con;rac-
tors.
Only twenty Eve years ago the boot OF a
.;neIe coach sufficed for any mail leaving our
nr;ncipai cities Now, al New York, Wash
,netc,,,. and others of our commercial towns,
| ,hey amount to several tons each day.
KossurH AND THE CArHoLics.--We hnd In the
Indianapolis Journal series of resolutions adopted
hv the catholic citizens Of Marion coanty, Indiana,
rerronanc the acts character and mission Of Louis
Kassuth. The following are two Of the resolutions
Reso.ved, That in the approaching election we
viii withhold ur votes and our inHnence fr0us
srsrv man. without dissncton OF party for shy OF