Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-10-03

cash to'spare. All these things he
will tell the Ohio voters in his own
inimitable style. He will also show
them with indisputable figures that
the present democratic predictions
Of future bankruptcy are as wild
and baseless az were all of those
which have gone before.
Postmaster General Wanamaker,
ever alive to increasing the efficl-
ency Of the postal service, had the
Division Superintendents of the
Railway Mail Service of the entire
country here last week, in order
that they might confer and give
each other the benefit of their
individual experience in improving
the service. The Improvement of
the mail service has been continu-
Gus from the time it came back into
the hands of the republicans, some
what crippled on account of the
inetliciency of large number of
the employees appointed by the
Cleveland administration, but the
improvement d uring the fiscal year
ending June 80 last, as shown by
the official reports, was something
marvellous, and reflects great credit
upon everybody connected with the
service in any capacity. The rail
way mail clerks distributed $780,
100000 pieces of mail matter, which
was 75O,OOO,OOO more pieces than
were distributed the previous year,
and only one error to each 4,l93
pieces handled was made, against
one error for each 2,799 pieces the
previous year, and the number of
complaints have been fewer than
ever before, while the compliment.
airy letters from business houses
have never been so numerous. The
Superintenden,s say that the present
fiscal year will show marked i'm
provement upon the last, good as
that was.
Secretary Foster has made a com
promise with the lawyers represent
ing the importers who under a
recent decision of the courts were
entitled to rebate on all of a
certain class of hat trimmings i'm
ported for some years. 1t is thought
that the sum TO be paid under the
compromise will be somewhere in
the neighborhood of $8,000,00O,
whereas if the parties had stuck out
for all that they could have been
awarded by the courts, the amount
would have been largely in excess
Of S2O,Oo0,OOO, besides the costs of
defending the numerous suits. The
compromise is regarded as an
economical one.
The President is almost ready to
announce a number of important
appointments, and 1t will not be
surprising if some of them are
made before this letter is put in
type.
Republicans who have allowed
themselves to be led astray by the
idea that Southern democrats who
have joined the Farmers Alliance
world combine with them in form
ing national third party, the prin-
cipal object of which would be to
right the real aud fanoied wrongs
of the Agricultural and laboring
classes, may find food for thought
in the following positive language
used by Senator Ransom of North
Carolina, state in which Col. Polk,
president Of the National Farmers
Alliance says the Alliance is ready
to go into the third party movement.
Senator Ransom says; "There Ia
no third party in North Carolina,
and there will not be. The Alliance
with the exception of few demo
gogues intent only upon improving
their own personal fortunes, is solid
~ democratic and will remain So
Ii seems that the speech which
Gov. Peck made at the Dunn coun-
" Fair, dilating upon watermelons,
and saying he supposed every boy