The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

Post Once Afsirs.
WASHINGTON. November n.
TIM forthcoming report Of Assistant POST
mastcr-G eneral Hazcn makes an inie resting
exhibit 81 the operations OF the registry sys-
tenn. Tho total number OF letters ana parcels
registered throughout the country during the
fiscal year ended June 10 last was G.aa6.5l3.
Of which Ia round numbers 5.saO.OO0 were
domestic letters. $4,000 domestic parcels.
third and fourth class matter. eds. 90 letters
70 foreign countries. s.s51 parcel. to foreign
countries. and upwards OF l.00,.sCl letters
and parcels Of Off sial matter. forwarded for
the Government and by law exempt from the
payment OF registry fees. The amount of fees
collected were <j5..5i, an increase IL nearly
thirty per cent. over the preceding year. Tho
increase in the number OF letters and parcels
registered was 1851, tai. The actual losses OF
registered matter during the year we're Ills
letters and parcels. which l. ut the rate OF one
In about every d..u. This is proportsouately
smaller loss than for the previous year.
The newiy-auth0rixed registration II third
and fourth-class matter merchandise, cfc3is
reported 20 be SIN attended with extmordin-
AIRY success; l53.523 parcels were registered
during the fiscal year ut the New York City
Post-Offcc alone.
General HaEcn, IA view az the fact that most
Of the losses Of registered matter occur on
"Starservice' routes. recommends that mail
contractors on star routes bc held accountable
for losses directly tracclblc 10 careIessness or
other fault Of their agents, and suggests that
In all contracts hereafter a clause he inserted
providing for such accountability.
Auditor hebrews report shows The number
Of domestic money orders issued for The fscaI
year 20 be s.s4o.5Ss. amounting 10 sl0J.3ie.sle
The principal foreign moncy-onler business
was as follows: With Great Britain. lie. n Or
dcrs issued. amounting to Sl.ds5.qiG. and Is.9l2
paid. amounting 70 s3E.Wa: Canada. -
sA5 orders issued. amounting 70 $51I,Gfs. and
ea,ela paid. amounting 70 sg2s.s3o: Germany.
ca.sj5 orders issued for sl.0il.4sl. AMI 2e.G55
orders paid. amounting TO SIS. l5s- The total
or net revenue 10 the Government from tho
moncy-ordcr business Of The year, s2J,.D5.
Singular Gases Of Hydrophobia.
ALATE Providence fR. ~ special u the New
York sun says: Last Monday 4 little son OF
James Molyneaux. 81 this city. was taken
down with symptoms OF hydrophobla- ON
Tuesday the disease was clearly defined. The
child Is nine years old. aud had been bitten. as
nearly as his parents could learn. some three
weeks before by a cur on the street. All az
the more violent symptoms OF hydrophobia set
in His commissions produced the choking
noise that 4 sometimes likcned 20 the swapping
OF a dog. and there was the attendant foaming
nc the mouth. While his father and mother
we're tending him he bit them both. and II
being impossible TO care for him az home he
WIS sent 20 the Rhode Island Hospital.
Last evening Mrs. Molyneaux. the mother.
without the slightest prcmonition excepting a
feeling Of lassitudc. was suddenly c~onvulscd.
She was sitting NJ the time with some friends
at her residence on ship street. The spasms
became more violent: frothing at the mouth
and other symptoms that had been noticed in
the boy were observed. II was impossible for
the friends 10 control her. They say she
snapped AZ them whenever they approached.
and that this action caused them 70 remember I
that she had been bitten by the little boy
Harry. Mr.. Molynenux was away. and the
police were therefore notified. An officer
cautiously entered the room aud approached
the bed On which Mrs. Molyncaux was lying.
She seemed to have gone there in Il moment
OF temporary relief. but the moment she saw
the officer she sprang nc him. The officer
for a few minutes hal a terrible strur-
gle. He could have mastered the
woman easily, but he feared that in the
that would be necessary she
might bite him. He seized the bedclothes and
wound them In a great bunch around his arms.
and thus protected himself. He also shouted
~ h'its aiA rH'it1 tnitt Oulttf1 uiIlttu. 4
Mrs. Molyncaux's house being but a short dis
lance from the station. The officer then. using
the bcdclothcs to protect himself. forced Mrs.
Moiyneaux as gently as possible back to the
bed. and threw The blankets quickly over her
face. In a second the other officers with the
police surgeon. who had arrived with nm am
had secured Mrs. Molyneaux. and she
was taken 70 the hospital. sergeant Runkin.
Of the police. says nc never saw d more terri
bic sight than was this woman's condition
when they were binding her. He describes
her ~uttcrances rs almost perfect limitations of
the growing ~ a dog. and says she would set
her teeth and snap a. dogs do. The most pain
full part " IL all was thai Mrs. Molyneaux
seemed fully conscious, and her mental sur
fcrings were greater than the physical.
Mr.. Mclyneaux. the husband. who was also
bitten by his son. was st his place Of bust
ness. being employed In some capacity az
10 the stcam-mills. He did not know
Ihis morning OF his wife's condition. aud the
nnic"rs on the mill were anxious to keep the
from him.
some years ago. when there was what might
almost he termed an epidemic or hydropho-
bin ~ the Connecticut Valley. 4 man ia tho
parOxysfns bit his attendant The phySi-
watched the attendant FOR some months.
10 make a careful study ~ the
disease, but the attendant was never the
worse for tho bite.
The man whose iudrment "A biasod IL