Omaha daily bee., 1891-10-03
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Johu McHugh q Cresco, la, the noted
Irish orator. has returned from a months
visit TO his old hsme 10 ireland. He called
today upon. Governor stone. deputy cgmmis-
sioner OF the general land Office and left to
night for Iowa. He said III invited to
participate ia the campaign. / shall certainly
DO So ] have taken part in almost every
campaign for a quarter Of a century and am
as intensely interested 10 the success Of the
republican party aud its principles as ever
u my life. My health was poor, and 1
nave taken an absolute rest for two
months and haven't seen au iowa paper since
left home. ] don't understand the situation
in detail as yet but am for the old party and
ready 10 fight for il"
A CORES pondent Of the postmaster general
has just written him from a New Eugland vii
laee upon the Importance Of the extension Of
toe experimental free delivery service into vii.
lagos and farming communities. lie recalls
several incidents IN his eX p~sgience Of over
fifteen years as a private mail messenger. in
connection with his regular business as
grocerynan. On one occasion. on a cold
stormy Saturday night, be remembers to have
handed q package 10 a farmer VINO received
mail matter for several families in his neigh
borhood. TIT man had not heard from the
postotioe during the whole week, and was,
as he said, Just about ITO harness up and go
for the mail" In the rundle of mail, as it
turned out, were several copies Of the weekly
paper published in the neigh6oring town,
that had been printed on the previous Mon
DAY.
The experience OF the North Carolina com.
munity, BY which the circulation Of the town
weekly was proved by actual figures to be
greatly increased by the private specialdehv-
cry. much after the plan now suggested
by the postmaster general, has been very
widely commented upon.
Anlowa correspondent OF Mr.. Wanamaker
commencing the extension Of the free deliv-
cry INTO small communities. says:
You ought TO keep in mind that any sue
cessful effort in this direction does far more
than simply facilitate the delivery Of letters
aud packages. II supplies to country readers
the heretofore unknown luxury Of daily
newspapers, as well as a more prompt deliv-
cries OF the weeklles ana monthly magazines,
so much more welcome in the country house
than TO the average city reader. Farmers
and their families are most intelligent and
thoughtful readers of periodicals, partly be-
cause they have time to disgest their con-
tents; consequently the great increase of
newspaper circulation by improved delivery
will be a boon TO hundreds of thousands Of
people throughout the country"
The writer Is himself the editor of a coun-
try weekly, and may therefore be presumed
to know what he is talking about.
Special agent Of the land Office. j. D. Sat
terlee of TripolI, Ia, has been Officially in
formed that it is the intention of the Interior
department TO withdraw all special agents
from Iowa and Illinois in the near future for
the purpose Of sending them to look after
timber Expectations in the far northwest.
MIR. Satterlee is instructed TO inform State
Agent HIT of Iowa Of this departmental de
termination ana 10 request his more active
cooperation in settlement OF pending land
cases in Bremen and Howard counties, Iowa.
For the first time in the history of the
country the export aud import statistics now
shew that the value of the articles imported.
free of duly, exceeds the value of those upon
which duty is paid. The exact figures
are So per cent for the one
and A per cent for the other.
In the last eleven months the value of free
imports have exceeded the value OF dutiable
imports By Sll2, 900, 900. The free admission
of sugar mas largely led to this revolution in
the tariff, but chemicals, drugs and dye
stuffs, flax, hemp and iute and fruits, not
produced in this country, are also important
factors. More requests for tariff figures are
tics, and at the Treasury depart
ment, from OHIO, Iowa, Nebraska and
Kansas than from all the rest Of the states
together. The enormous output of docu-
ments from the bureau is not enough TO sup
ply the demand.
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Captain Milton Carpenter Of the govern
ment printing office left today for his home
in Iowa.
The following promotions will occur in the
artillery OF the army by reason of the death
September 30 of Major William Nick. Dunn
of the Third regiment: Captain Joseph q.
Ramsey of the Second to be major of the
regiment; First Lieutenant Robert NJ.
Rogers of the Second TO be captain, and
Second Lieutenant Cornelius d. f.. w. VII
cox of the Second to be first lieutenant of the
same regiment. p. S. H..