Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-04-09
rerforatcd Postage stamps,

Perforated Postage stamps
Hon. James Campbell, the Postmaster
General, has recently introduced an i'm
provement in the postage stamps, which
adds greatly 10 their public convenience.
He has had them prepared onsheets with
perforatons around the borders of each
stamp, so that they can be separated, one
from the other, without using knife or
pair of scissors. Besides the saving of time
in this Improvement, there is greater Sc
curly that the stamp will adhere TO the
letter, for the points or rough edge left by
the perforauons will stick better to the
letter, there being none of the risk of the
odge turning up when il is continuous.
This plan Of perforating letter stamps
is practiced in Europe, and Mr.. Campbell
had',ho contractor 10 procure machine
from that country for. use here. The con-
tract is made with Toppan, Carpenter 4
Co., of Philadelphia, and in. addition TO
supply for Philadelphia, the stamps have
already been sent to New York, Boston.
Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New
Orleans, Chicago and Albany.
The amount Of letter writing in the I'm.
tied States may be inferred from the NUM-
Der of postage stamps used. The number
sold by the government last year, reached
nearly one hundred and fifty millions Of
stamps!
FALL OF AN AvALANomE-Los or
LrE.-On Friday evening, the 9th of
March, as company of teamsters with
their teams, were coming into town, from
The prairie near Raymond's, twenty miles
west, the storm was so fierce aud the
SNOW drfted so fast and rapidly, that they
were compelled to hal, in the Rollingstone
valley, three miles beyond Stockton.
While waiting there 70 feed their teams,
one Of the company; man named Cook,
started off little distance from his com.
panions near the base of one Of those lof-
ty bluffs. which wall in the romantic Rol-
| Iingst2ne. lie had not been there Eve
1 ilinaindses, whefi d tremendeots avalanche
Of snow came laundering down from the
summit of the bluff above him, and in It's
rapidly descending eours swept hun away
in an in, tant, and buried him under the
mass. One of his companions observed
the falling snow from its first start, but so
rapid was It's descent, that he had no time
TO give warning TO Cook of his danger.
They Immediately went TO work to res
cue Cook from his perilous situation, and
faithfully, AMID the intense gloom which
surrounded them, applied themselves for
three hours, when they found poor Cook
at q considerable distance from where he
was last seen, on the bed Of the stream;
eight feet below the surface OF the snow
They found him--dead hurried by an
avalanche of snow, almost within hailing
distance Of the happy, glowing hearths of
Stockton.-Winona Min. Republican.
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SOBER Humon.--Deacon Marlow was
a sober fellow, and we heard him say that
he never laughed in church but three times
in his life, and then he said he would defy
turkey to keep a straight face. l1h
was preaching one Sunday when
| noticed yonng mar. with his head
lying back and his mouth wide open,
, snoozihg il off as comfortable as might
be expected, when an urchin in the
/ gallery above, deliberately took ont a
, chew Of tobacco let II drop but instead Of
. its entering his mouth, rs intended, i took
him slap on the nose, just as ! made use
, OF the sentence, And he caused the rain
: 10 fall in torrents and being about hall
, uwakend, h. slowly put his hand to his
face and exclaimed, And Oh what drops.
Thirdly, while preaching from text IN
, the llth chapter of the first book Of King:
made use OF the sentence, And he hat
:. seven hundred wives, when an oldish char
I. who was half awake exclaimed saudibly
]. enough TO be heard ali around the ol,
!, church, Jle-e-rusalem, il must cost hin
!. something for broomsticks, if they are al
like my Betty.' e.t tua .aat {
s. Brigham Young the Mormon prophet
l. thus denounees one Gideon. who had tn
e audaci.y to question his prophetic charac
: Ter, and purity of The spiritual wife" sys
ten: y. t..-...,. IL. .,,....., ..... ~ y,
all ':IVho is this Gideon who has com
Z. amongst YOU! He used to sell npe in s.
4. Louis. and now he is here TO blaspheIn
IN the Lord aud destroy the house of lsrae
IN And what sheu4d ye, children Of the co,
se enant, do in re,0rn for this evil work
y. Om with the bowie ksliyes We wore lii
a breast pine at Nauvoo. and in the name
Sc God and the prophet, give him hell
Nv ~ ESJ-, Nobody seems 10 have heard
i'hI that chap in Aberdeen, Miss, who ju
- catnc home from years absence in Nj
ns aragua. On his way up from the landir
'se he met quite ntmber Of ladies. Aft
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