The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-09-19
Citizens Indignant Over the Manage
ment of the POstOffice.
1t Is Claimed That the Public Can Get
No Accommodation.
MOVE ON FOOT TO WRECK OFFICE
DIR. MOss, the Present Incumbent. Il Ac.
cused of Many Things-His Poll
tics Said to Be Shaky.

" "ASOn " P'slolHCe at InaL place
> by getting the prominent business men
those who support the office-to form a
combination and have their mail sent to
some other point on the road, where il
: will be met by carrier and brought to
them through the country.
Such action, according to our inform
ant, is the expression of a general and
growing dissatisfaction on the part of
the citizens over the conduct of the post
office, which, under the present admins
tration, has always been a constant source
OF annoyance and irritation, and which
has now grown to such degree of inso-
lence that the people refuse longer to
submit.
AS will be remembered, when the ap-
pointments under Harrison were made.
the Henderson postoffice was rendered
Mr. Madison Hawkins, an educated and
respected gentleman of that town, with
the understanding that he employ as as
slstant, DR.. Pope, negro who had claims
which the party could not afford to over
look. Although republican, and good,
loyal one, having suffered both socially
and financially on account of his politics,
Mr.. Hawkins declined to accept upon
such conditions and promptly withdrew
from the race. DR.. Moss, who was more
or less in sympathy with all parties, was
equally prompt in signifying his readi-
ness to serve the government and draw a
government salary upon any and all con-
ditions, and in consequence was soon !
duly installed with DR.. Pope as c,,ief !
clerk and partner in the business
To the mass of the citizens this ar
rangement was far from agreeable, vet
DR.. Pope seemed to have an idea what
he was there for, and while the service
suffered greatly by contrast with that of
former postmasters-Mrs. Wyche, re-
publican, and Henderson, democrat
both having been equally acceptable, the
people were not disposed to kick, but to
make the best Of the situation
Some months ago, however, DR.. Pope
left henderson to engage in the drug
business in Danville, Va, and since his
departure it is stated that DR.. Moss has
grown every day more negligent and
more indifferent as to the complaints of
hi, patrons, until his insolence has be-
come intOlerable. 1t is claimed that in =
order to make the most money out of it '
he employs no regular assistant, and
that while he is selling stamps at one t
window people wait for their mail at the /
other-wait, and wait and wait. until 5
they grow angry and disgusted. and t
finally go away without it, seeing no A
of ever being waited on 1t is a
also stated that the office is left for hours
in sole charge of a woman who is D
notorious morphine e-eater, and who, for t.
he past five years, has been for greater !
part of the time an inmate of various e
nebriate asylumns without realizing any W
benefit; being always in a stupor and q
emi conscious condition, she is ineffi-
;ient and irresponsible.
With such an accumulation of aggra-
'ated grievances, the people at last seek :
edress, and while the movement is quiet 3
t appears 10 be determined. As there =
5 nothing else in sight, they will make
he office such that nobody will want it, :
nd by stopping his salary get rid of DR.. &.
loss, who is an ulcer in the side of the =
ublic, and who is alike unpopular with =
Thite and blacks. democrats and repub- e.
cans. He is just now in the depths of q
espair over his failure 10 read the po-
ticai horoscope; he is fioundering in :.
'hirlpool of doubt, afraid alike of demo- =
ratio, republican and third party re- {
=
lrers, and in consequence will be de- q
,rted by them all in November AT.
Hoods Sarsaparilla absolutely cures all 49,.
seases caused by impure blood and it -
lilGs up the whole system.