The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-28
Gen. Clarkson's Report.

POSTMASTER General j. s. ClarksOn shows
that AFRO fourth class post-offices were
established during the last fiscal year, as
against 1864 established during the pre-
viOus year. Eleven hundred and forty
seven post-oflices were discontinued dur
ing the same time. making the total
number of post-offices in operation on
July 1, 1889, 90, 800, OF which number 2, 6S3
were presidential offices. The increase
In the whole number of postotfices in
operation at the end of the fiscal year
was 1923 in excess of the previous year.
The whole number of appointments of
! postmasters for the year is shown to have
been 20,030, of which 1854 were on resig-
nations and commissions expired 1855
on removals, 553 on death of postmasters,
| 2,70 on establishment of post offices.
By the annual adjustment of the sala-
ries of postmasters, which took effect
July /, 1853, 46 offices of the third class
were reduced to the fourth class, and Is
offices of the fourth class we're raised to
the third class, leaving 1862 presidential
offices in operation on July 1, 1889. The
number of money order offices in opera
1888, an increase of 472 for the year The
number of money order stations in oper-
alton July 1, 1889, was LA, an increase of
IA over the previous year. The number
of postal note Offices in operation at the
end of the year was 557.
Il. L. 90
there were 401 free delivery postoffices in
operation, an increase of 43 for the year
La about As other offices the free delivery
service has been established since June
80, 1889. The number of carriers in the
service on July 1, 1889, was 8,257 an in
crease of 1,911 over the previous year.
This large increase, it is said is mainly
due to the enactment of the law limiting
the labor of carriers to eight hours a uav.
The number of pieces of mail matter
handled by carriers during the year was
$685., sos $40, an increase of nearly 455,-
600, 900 pieces. The amount received for
local postage was over nine and half
million dollars, an increase for the year
of nearly two million dollars. The ex-
cess of postage on local matter over the |
total cost of the service was $2,576, 979, an
increase over the previous year of $279-
CAT. From the date of the establishment
of the free delivery system July 1, 1868,
until June 80, 1874, the cost of the ser
vice is shown to have exceeded the re-
ceipts from local postage. Since the lat
ter date, the balance on the credit side
has steadily increased from year to year
Col. J. f. Bates, the superintendent of
the free delivery system. has recommend |
ed to Gen. Clarkson the extension of the
service to all places which have a popu-
lation of 5000, the post-office of which |
produced gross revenue for the previous |
fiscal year of at least SO 900, the separa
ton, as far as possible, of the delivery
and collection service, and that class to
be known as collectors be create i to ner-
form collection service only that carri-
ers who have become disabled in line of
duty be paid their legal salary for stat
ed period after the incurrence of their
disability out of the regular s.ppropria-
tion for the service. The gross receipts
of the 1858 presidential offices for the
year were 81, 754, 900, which is an increase
of per cent. for the year The aggre-
gate of the salaries of presidential post
masters for the year was Sd, 1929. 100, rep
resenting an increase of 4 per cent.
The aggregate of the estimates for com
pensationt of postmasters, clerks in post
offices, rents, light, fuel. etc, for presi-
Dental offices Is $22, 967,500, an increase
of 81 1887, 420 as compared with the pre-
vious year
TheQueen of Italy is distressed be-
causeshe is growing stout.
King George of Greece is aninveterate
walker and is a familiar figure on the
streets of Athens.
LIE Caron, the informer, lives in a
swell house in Kensington and drives
and walks like millionaire.
Princess Beatrice played the piano
fotte accompaniment to M. VOLTS violin
when that artist appeared before the
Queen recently.
There are 1896 Russian women writ
ers at the present day whose biographies
are given in Prince Galigni's Biograph-
ical Dictionary.