The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-14
WASHINGTON WAITS.
The Usual Batch of News from the Ma.
toms Capital.

WASHINGTON, October 13.-Reports re-
ceived at the Marine Hospital Bureau SHOW
that yellow fever has appeared in Acapulco.
POSTAL RULING.
The General has made a rul.
ing to the effect that in cases where railroad
companies carrying the mail are Obliged t.,
deliver it into and receive it from ~postofi
ces, (which requirement applies to stations
where the postofice is within eighty rods OF
stopping place OF train) the employees car.
rying mail between the station and office
are not employees OF the postal service and
need not he sworn in. The Department,
however, requires the railway company to
employ for this purpose persons OF the age
OF 16 years and of suitable intelligence and
character, and postmasters are directed to
report any violation OF this requirement..
THE "CoRwIN"
Captain Healy, commanding the Revenue
steamer "Corwin, reports to the Treasury
Department from San Francisco, where he
has just arrived, that the explorations OF
the head waters OF the Kowag and Noitag
rivers, in Alaska, were pushed to q com
pletion on the Eastern cruise OF the Cor
win."
TO POsTMAsTERs.
Many postmasters have come to grief
through a disregard OF the postal regula-
ton, which requires postmasters remittins
public money order funds to repositories
in registered packages to be able in every
case to prove by at least one disinterested
witness thai the money was actually ell
closed IN the proper registered package,
properly addressed, locked in the mail and
dispatched. Ii the postmaster fails to COM
ply with these requirements be is compelled
TO make good money if it is lost or stolen.
Many postmasters finding it announcement
TO have a witness to the despatch OF funds
nave IN cases OF losses or theft made claims
1or credit which have been disallowed, the
fostmaster'G General holding that the pre-
cautions above noted are necessary not
only to establish the fact that money was
actually remitted, but to secure the proof
necessary Tor the conviction OF those per-
Sons charged with it's theft.
THE NEW AUSTRALIAN MAIL.
The new mail service between San Fran.
CISCO and Australia and New Zealand. to
replace the Pacific Mai service. will hepin
on November 21st, and q steamer will sail
every tour weeks thereafter. Three stea m.
ers nave been engaged in this service hereto.
lore, two OF them belonging to John Elder
OF England, and one to the Pacific Mail
steamship Company. For the Pacific Mail
steamer a Spreckles steamer will be subst;.
~ - oA0 Clc une Will be aa mnch
American in character as it has heen r undon
the OLD arrangement. For the new service
esssel y owners will receive only sea postage
sl2,oo0 per annum, which was formsrIv
pn ,d: uperantenden Bell said they were
although the American companies had DE- re-
..seo TO accept both sea and inland post
PURCHASE OF SILVER.
chased ans ias @%G Department. to-day pur.
At New Orleans and %PhiIadelpb;ao 1 m;nty
'or coinage into standard dollars. "'"'s'
RA1LwAY TO BE
An muotre 3; Roosevelt, of New York
augustus aug 1W! s. Merriman, OF North Caro1 Gpa'
have i been as SssXe9s9n, !, OF Pennsyivania,
ami and report upon twentu'sno to
Inc Northern Pacific Railrnsg NV miles
s~S M Eagle Gorge. Washington re syrag ne-
Ano 'ne south bank OF the Pujalluk rivsr Ivory