The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-06

intruder, seized him by the o.r
neither extremities and threw It'
the street. When last seen \,
king a 2:40 gait for Winnie
the railroad singing L want
angel The revolver captnr,y "
melee is on exhibition at this e oe
THE Washington Cbronicr.
Colonel Mosby. 1t saws: ~l.[
that Colonel Mosby, of Cons.
fame, has publicly declared bi,,
tion for President Grant and 4
pose to support his Administ,..
is in order for all the oppositio'
mails to denounce the man they
eulogized to the skies as a yerylag
as the Confederate robber of be
cOrn-cribs and smoke-housaq 7.
perception of public virtue has -.
condolences. When CoIopeI y,
was fighting against the Union !
believed by these Democratic ,rs.
be a brilliant officer and an bo,,s
man. But now that he is dom, :
can to persuade his old followers :
+. port the Union, he is discovered /
proper object of the severest
and the vilest reproach."
Mr.. AUsBURN Towner, of tIqr
IA AdcertiSor, has prepared a psv
ture for the coming season and MI
happy to deliver it before Ivcqrr
Literary Associations. Those moi
up their programmes for thewjnts, +.
wishing his services, can commm
with him at that Office. Mr. T,r
as a literary man has but few "a,
and wherever he has appearel
drawn crowded houses and is III.
commended.
POsTAGE ON NEWSPAPER h
CHANGEs.-The newspapers thai
worth living are able to pay p9sts,
their exchanges and those that an
able to pay this bill ought to Hg
their checks as soon as possible. /
franking privilege to Congressmz
other officials was a nuisance, if
other ground than the manner inn
it served to cucumber and der
mails, to the disadvantage of leg
business correspondence. Wed
believe the Government Will save,
lar by its abolition. The RAILROADS
receive just as much for caTrA.E
mails and the clerical forces iii the
Offices at Washington and elSeT
viii not be reduced by a single i
Indeed, the expenses Of the DepatI
have been increased instead of hrE
been reduced since the repeal wer. /
effect. Nevertheless, the frank
fraud and its abolition is a reform II
ought not to be arrested or utafsE
with. 1t was a reform in theana 1
which Buckle defined that word y
the doing Of something right, but I
undoing Of something wrong" Id
stand.-St. Louis Democrat.
THE postal card manufacturer
Springfield are now shin?ing betT
seven and eight hundred thOusandd
daily and viii soon increase thenu
to one million. There is an ample |
ply of paper on hand to turn out a
lion and a quarter daily and of aid
quality than formerly. Tie eSt-
Of the Postmaster-General was
about one hundred million postal
would be purchased this year.
this time-less than three monthj
they were issued-over fifty mil
have been ordered and the prObabl
are that the consumption this yea
be double the estimate. Thus faTII
Of the small towns have been supp
REPEAL OF THE FRANKING PE
LEGE. E.-POstmaster-Generai CrS
is reported to believe that the alotl
OF the franking privilege will SOmC
the revenues of the POst-Ofice q
make it self-sustaining. Since th'
of July, the sales of stamps havea
ed those for any other equal era
the history of the Department
new system of issuing official sa
for public matter is liable to be al,
by dishonest clerks and Others TLo
steal them, but the Post-Oflice d
tiYes have been instructed to detaL
unofficial matter which bears Oh
stamps. 1t is believed the loss il
direction will not be large.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
tender recollections which were TT
by Decoration Day still appear ID
press of the Southern States. Ii
sionaily we meet with noble
which should be caught up and r i
ed, North and South. The RIc1l
Enquirer, for example, speaking II
brave Gen. w. II. Lytle, of One.
while attempting toreenforce Gen
mas, in 1868, uses the following !
guage: H.,
He was killed far in advance i
command, while gallantly leaaLt i
assault upon our lines. Ills holS !
his corpse into our lines and lM Y