The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-02

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u 0. the north trent. The main rcof
Of In the dead letter Office is oiled wiz
O desks and tob.e5 piled With pack
ages Of letters, which are opened
examined and classified according q
d their contents. At one table Il
men, some Of them oil and gray
headed, who have grown so, ,iftina
thare eating open letters. Il J.
. difficult 10 imagine mere uuintercsts
e ing work than lLis-iust cutting the
eHd- Of envelopes. | thought az
5 watched them lIat such mOnC.ony
was enough to turn hair gray. At
another table the letters are read
= aud their contents examined. This
must be rather entertaining than
otherwise-in fact it appears the
most interesting part Of tie dead
f letter business. Letters are gent
from this 20 yarious others. accord
ing a. their contents indicate; those
containing tie address of the writer.
or any clue by which he may be-
known, r taken to the returning
department; those containing pho
tographs to the photograph table;
those with money in them to the
money department; those with mis-
ceIlane0us property to another.
where each article is properly re-
corded-and 50 on. The persons in
charge Of these several departments
are responsible for whatever is
brought to .heir desks until it is re-
corded and delivered, which Is done
each night. This responsibility is
not incOhsidcrable, since no less
than five millions Of dollars arc an
nualIy received, fifty thousand Of
which is returned to the senders.
Five thousand letters are received
per year without stamps and ffty
thousand instructed. Blank cir.
culars are sent to the writer's OF
these, to be filed out with D o.acr
address and returned with Stamps
for their forwarding, and the lady
who has charge o. tbs department,
and who represented the work oil
twenty other ladies. told ne HAT
nine hundred circulars we're daily
returned. Four millions letters arc
annually received at the dead let
ter Office. The Buscam 10 cOnnec
ton is By far the most amasing
part Of this department, and | will
write Of it next week.
The capital seems to be just
awakjng from a sort o, trance o.
into which it has been sunk
50 iObg that its citizens were beQin~ =
ming to lose hope of I~iyelicr times. !
Fine amusem9.ts OF various kinds
arc Of nightly Observation-Disclosures !
4e'ts which tn most fgstidious may
lairon.z'j and that with improve
nent. The National theater is be-
the scene Of finished lra-
aati5 pCriormanccs-JaRaQsheck, c
.opularly known in America as the
Of Tragedy" being just now
lie particular attraction. She re- y
lains here but one week, playing
Marie stuart" and the dual role OIL
Lady Dedlock' and her maid "HOr~
,nsc,' in Chesney Void, to the ad- N
Of her large audiences. =
I;ss Mary Anderson vas here q
eek ago and proved herself very n
early equal to Charlotte Cushman =
her rendering of Meg Merri- -
os," the old gypsy witch in Guy d
.-annering. Kellogg is soon e. r
,cted in opera, being now fulfill ,D
q an engagement in Baltimore, al ini
expiration Of which she will pa
'ocecd to this city. Talmaigc lee Sta
red here this week, and We have 5P
eCcher next, in Hard Times"
ccep,ions among the clte are q
every day order. not the least sior
easant of which are those of Mrs. he he
The National Woman Suffrage .
invention has been held in this NOR
this week, and your lady read s no
) at least will be interested in clio;
nc account Of prominent women.
1859 names have become familiar A
US all through the newspapers rTp,
d through books they have writ ing
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. q
rsidcnt Of the association, is a Pen PEI
Get, moiherly,lookIng old lady, US
tie portly, but moving with a Ger. for
m"jasiy rather than clunsiness,
tn hair as white az wool, which NC GS
} wears in a high coil at tho back :ute
] pulled in font, ornamented
" with a rich barbe OF black W
e. Her complexion is as fesh mp'
| pink and smooth almost as q
ly's and her anner is Alto w
her womanly. Susan 3. An liter
ny, next to Mother Stanton" in Al, L 81
,ortance among the sGffrageists, 4
is nearly tina. lady's opposite in P. o.
sonal appearance as can well be
Tall and gaunt, bony i q
angular, sleeping a little and Lav.
enormous shining specta-
:, she is enough 10 intim;dafo anvil tc