The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-03
PENsIONER TERSUs POSTMASTER.
In Attempting to Collect = Debt Through
the Malls The Inter Cnmr. 60 9rIec

the Mails the LATTER Comes to Grief
NEW LONDON. Dec. 2.-Postmaster Fowler
OF the village Of Uncasville, north OF this city.
may have had n notion. prevalent among rural
Postmasters In Connecticut. that no owned his
Government Office. At any rate. his Uncle
Samuel now has him by the ear. and as the
wrathful old gentleman In striped and starry
trousers towering about mile above him and
Weighing forty-four tons-a ton State-gives
1t twltch, he appears to be remarking to
Brother Fowler: What dye mean by such
| actions2 Col durn vel"
Postmaster Fowler's tribulation came TO pass
in this way: A psnsioner of L ncIe sam. residing
under the dark peak OF Horizons Mountain.
not far from the pretty Thames riverside ham
let OF UncAsyills. - fit terrncally." II is said.
in tho late war, and since has been hghting his
battles over on the cracker barrels in Mr..
Fowier's grocery and Post ONCE combined.
During the time he has been waglng most OF
these comhats, up 10 thirty-hye or forty times
apiece with very little loss to the enemy. ex-
eept In crackers he was also running up a
slzahle bill Ia the commissary department OF
Mr. Fowlsr's business. and finally the POST
master after dunninR him number OF times.
told him bluntly that either he must come
down With the cash for the bill or bleed -
actually; no longer theoretically The pen;
slauer did neither II II reported that no told
him he might go TO thunder with his old gro
Gerry and prOveRdeT bill
Not long Gitsrward. however a letter came TO
the queer. enclosing Uncle sans quarterly
check Tor the Sc ldier's pension, and the war
rior one night. after Stacking Lees army out
OF Tue wilderness. stepped boldly M 10 the
central cpitl orinee Of the GatllnH gun battery OF
Gerry counter, and said 20 Postmaster Fowler
Una. ne gusSssI bed take !hat Letter You
Ironically without raising his voice NJ his eyes
from problem Of three pounds and hall OF
Won't Dues les cents FGS@d s tn% sb sSs
through the Piss"nhoIe. he added; . guess
youll get that letter about the time that you
settle that grocery bill not much sooner
much later the Postmaster was arrested ny
noNernment agent at tho instisaiion II Is a.
ns ss was 81 b99 ais an sHy 0r
si"ner Marvin At Hartford on the charge Of
violating postal laws. The Postmaster waived
ia GeiaTs 5 T5 SA hfia foTnSSpd IN the
United states District Court on the first Tues
GS sO and s5fblE Gu What
this iatherly old Government Of ours means by
lo6lhg rs long nose into his private business.
meanwhile ~, prns!oner is now, stumping
about Cncasyille "a spry a. q I'D. now and
'hsn laughing 9Ga With regular EhSG6ish gies "a
chained hy ~ iaG OF the f%s,m@ssSfi thls
he did not retain that letter no great time
10 make such dummed hOw-d'Ye-do about Il
the old soldier would never have brought an
accusation against him II the Postmaster
had not brought a legsi suit AGAINST him Tt 20
pensionsr Is not altogether happy. though. Ii
was good deal more comfortable to light the
IL fSds. than while hanging Over doSfIaTd
fences under the cold NoVember SKY: and the
sRIISsi ~: 9S sfR St5ks X sSHs Fort q
be won't reach ApDomAttox before next July.
ThogroesTy bill iS still unpaid.