The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-08-07
Post Office Points

| The following late rulings by the
prsto,fice department in regard to mail
matter will be found of interest to
every one engaged in mercantile pur-
& When packages of merchandise or
samples OF merchandise are wrapped SO
ms to prevent examination, or have any
SS1atllig upon them except the Address,
Init is Lice duty Of tho postmaster to rate
thelnEnp with letter postage, to be coll
lected' on delivery. Samples may be
marked in pencil. or ink with letters or
figures by which they are to be dis
tingT,,,ahed in a descriptive letter or in
voice (each separately without subject!
lflng.t' package to letter postage. /,
/ An address, may be written on cir
cnlaErbnt any 26tl,er writing thereon
except the, mere correction of a, typo
graphical error, would render it sub
| 1ectt4 letter postage. - @+s" Nth
| pIt the duty of d postmaster when
mail matter is sent to his Office through
mr,istake, 2, to, forward it to its destination.
Book manuscript, when so wrapped
able with prepayment OF postage Mt
rates 5f third-class matter, viz: ono cent
Ean. ounce orfraction thereof, limited to
/ four rounds in weight. ,, 81
Paper with writing on it, should not
USED as wrappers for newspapers. as
this would subject the packages to letter
postase..
TO tl1title regular subscribofs to re-
celve newspapers FREQ Of postage, they
must :eside in tho county whero such
paperr are printed and published.
Mail matter iinclosed in sealed en-
velopcs with the corners notched, is
subject to letter rates of postage. f,
; Al postmaster is required to, examine
alEpripted matter, or third class matter,
passing through his Office, to SEQ that it
sis chdrged with proper rates of postage
and to detect fraud. -, Matter contained
in q sealed envelope notched Mt the
cornors cannot be satisfactorily ex.
amineti without destroying I he wrapper.
PREPAID letters must be. forwarded
from Gne, postoffice to another at the re-
quest IF the party addressed without
additienal' charge of postage; but let.
ters hpYing been once, delivered accord
ing to their address require postage st
the rtlpaid rateI when returned to the
office t2r forwarding. rl..,fss =.
Packages containing. liquids, or, any
other .atter liable to -deface' or destroy
the eo,itents of the mails, aor hurt the
St..S w
servic,f should be excluded frotn the
lmaiI.Y '',st sealed packages deposited in
postage, in the absence of any positive
knowledge Of their contents, forwarded
to their destination "liH us, lzs
Unsealed circulars deposited in
letter carrier Office for local delivery
through the box or general delivery, orby
carriers, are subject to a postage Of one
cent each circular, to be prepaid by
stamp affixed. l.. and r., page 81,
Burning of "a Russian Town-2OO
s5t.5 y X. Lives Lost. 3'5 4tii
A Petersburg letter to the London
Standard says g
The fire which destroyed the town of
Morschansk began about 4 o'clock in
the afternoon in one of the fauburgs, ut
distance of nearly half a mile from
the town proper, and within few
hours the whole town, over an extent of
five versts, was prey of the flames in
all directions, causing them to overlap
all the open squares and even the river.
AS the fire grew the wind became q
tempest, and enormous plnuks and
sheets Of iron, torn from the falling
houses, were hurled as high as the sec
ond story OF houses still standing.
Gases Of goods allowed to float along
the river were burned on the water.
Some of the papers of the public offices
have been found Mt distance of sixty
versts from the town, and the glow OF
the fire lighted up the horizon to dis:
tanca of ninety versts. The fire spared
about hundred wooden houses ut one
end of the town, faut of the brick build
ings hardly ten have escaped.
All the public edifices, with the excep
'tion OF tile school rand several Of the
churches. have been destroyed. The
destruction of property has been entire.
Many of the inhabitants o.; u ;;::sted to cell
lars and vaults, but they nearly all fell
in. AS the fire spread, furniture and
other effects were removed to gardens
and other open -spacess but in vain =; the
! all to ashes. Only one Of the corn de-
! pots was saved. q @ 4astflIati
4 iIE is calculated that 1000 buildings
have been burned, and that the loss
cannot DO less than 100000 roubles.
About 200 lives we're lost, and several
thousand persons were wounded.
Succor, in the shape Of provisions,
clothes, and money, was instantly for
warded from Tamboff, ,Riezan, aud other
places, to the unfortunate citizens Of
Morschansk, literally wandering about
| the woods or sheltering under carts,
having lost everything, and the number
of the homeless and destitute exceeded
10000. Three days after the fire the
corporation of the town petitioned the
government for q loan Of 100000
roubles, to be redeemed in thirty days,
,.s ENar,AND's, NEW RIVAL. q