The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-10-31

FOR stamps of reduced size, about one-eighth
smaller than those in present use. The designs
will be changed to con form to the reduction in
size and new engravings made throughout.
The new contract also calls for some changes
in colors. The one-Cent stamp will continue
TO be printed in blue; tho twocent stamp now
green will be bright carmino while changes
will be made in tho colors of some of the other
denominations
TO PROTECT THE MAILS.
The Postoffce Inspectors have been in session
Mt the Postoffice Department for the past week
considering the problem of how to improve
their means of detecting fraud aud theft in the
mail service and render the transit Of valuable
property more SAFE They have been trying to
find an improved form of envelope for regis
tered packages which cannot be opened and
rited without being entirely destroyed, thus
enabling them to better trace tho loss of q
package directly to the guilty man. Nearly 100
samples have been submitted, but so far none of
them havo proven satisfactory, as even the
best of them could, in the hands of an expert,
be opened, rihed Of its contents, sealed up
again. and sont on without giving any indica-
ton of having been tempered with An envel-
opo used in the English service is the best that
has been presented and it may DO adopted by
the Department..
VETERANS APPOINTED auARTERMAsTERs.
4 ND VtbeTAnS OF bHB tht9 WAR GecblVGu IHTuy
recognition last week for long service in being
appointed Captains and Assistant Quartermas-
ters in the Army.
President Harrison seems to believe that it
is due to the service that the staff vacancies
shall be filed from the Army instead of by APP
pointment from civil life, as he is authorized to
do If he chooses aud his action in these cases
has boon received with great satisfaction by
Army officers generally.
Capt. Theodore +. True who is n native of
Illinois, entered the service in April, 1861, a.
Corporal in she 18th Ill.,, and five days after his
three-mOnths' term was up no re-enlstSd ~
Sergeant in Co. ID, dist H. He was promoted
TO Second Lieutenant in February, 1862, and
Nov %, 1863, was discharged to accept the
commission Of Captain, 9th u. s. Colored Art,
which he resigned in September, 1864. In
July, 1866, he was appointed Second Lieutenant,
4th u. S. Inf, and served nearly 10 years in
that grade before being promoted to First Lieu
tenant when he was made Adjutant Of tho regi-
meut. He remained as Adjutant until 1881,
and now, by selection and appointment gains
the rank he held just 26 years ago, and after
nearly Ii years OF service i'm the one grade of
First Lieutenant. He succeeds Maj. James II.
Lord, who was promoted Oct. 4, on the death
of the late Con, Asa =. Blunt.
Col. john McE. Hyde, First Lieutenant and
Adjutant. Sth Inf, who succeeds the late Col.
George II. Cook as Captain and Assistant
Quartermastor, is New Yorker who served ns
private in Co. A, list N. Y militia, in tho firBt
three months service. and In the following
January was commissioned Second Lieutenant
in the 18th N. Y. lie was promoted TO First
Lieutenant in June, 1863 and in the following
December was transferred with the Same rank
to the Both N. Y, in which he was promoted
10 Major in January, 1865 and held that posi-
ton when he was mustered out with the regi-
ment tho following May. lie was brevetted
4 fcr
Cold Harbor. aud Colonel for gallantry In front
OF Petersburg. ON bis return home he found
civil life irksome, and in the Fall OF 1867 ac-
cepted commission as Second Lieutenant, SD
u. $. Inf. When the Army was reduced in
1869 he was transferred to the 9Th Inf. aud
promoted to First Lieutenant in 1873. He was
appointed Adjutant Of tho regiment by Gen.
Kautz in May. 1856. II Is singular that In
more than - years of almost continuous service
he has worn the uniform of every grade of
commissioned officer but that TO which no
has just been appointed.
GEN. BOB" GRANGER.
Gen. Robert s. Granger (rotirod). L. 8. Army,
arrived here last week with Mrs Granger on
their scmi-annual visit. fitting this time from
| their old-time homo In GAINESVILLE, o., to tho
| southwark 10 avoid the cold OF Northern
| Winter Gen. Granger is n very hearty man
| in general physique for his years thc went to
y
| make the Winter In the North too severe for
| him. Each year Of the past 10 the General
| aud Mrs. Granger leave Zanesville for WASH
/ ingtou In October and their stay here depends
/ upon the weather. Ii the sun is bright and
| warm. they sometimes stay as late az the holt
/ days bat IL storms aud cold set IN they arc of
! like IA flock Of migratory birds by the next
| train or steamer Fort Monroe iShsually tho
| first stopping placS to tho southwark, but as
| the Winter brings cold winds they are of
| again 10 North or South Carolina, then to Ma
1 con, TO Thomasvilie aud ST. Augustine. by
| tho time the robins begin peerng around the
| grass plots here for Spring food, tho General
l packs up and begins his easy journey back,
| reaching here about the middle Of April to
| stay until the heat drives him 10 his homo ia
/ the cool hills OF the beautiful MuBkingum VAL
] ley. II Is very pleasant way 20 spend the de-
| cining days Of a long aud busy life, aud the
! veteran General tells me he enjoys IL very much,
| after his long service. They will be hero prob
| ably for two weeks yet
NEW APPoiSTEEs.
| The President made tho following appoint
| ments during the past week
| Edward I. Green. OF New Jersey, 20 be
| United States District Judge for New Jersey.
! Alfred f.. Beck. of Georgia, to be Marshal oG
/ tho United States for the Northern District oil
| Georgia.
Joseph w. Ady. OF Kansas, to be Attorney
of the United States for the District of Kansas
! Albert NJ. Lea, Of Mississippi. To DO Attorney
| OF the United states for tho Southern District
OF Mississippi.
CHAT ABOUT PEOPLE.
Miss Annette Williamson. daughter of Con. j.
| A. Williamson. WAS married on Thursday last al