The Portland daily press., 1896-02-03
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.
OFFICE HOURS.

| a
m to 800 p. m. Registry department, 900
a. m. to 600 p. m,
General Delirerp, Sundays excepted) 7.3o
a. m. to 700 p. M Sunday 900 to 1000 a. m.
Carriers D 'iivertes, Sundays excepted)-In
business section of the city between High and In
Ola streets at 100 and els a. m / 2. 45 pm. 100
and o.l5p. ~. in other sections at 500 a. m,
6 dso p, D. N a; Collection from Atlantic to
Office window, 900 to 1000 a. M Collections
RON street boxes at HOO a. M, 400
and 90 p m. Sunday. 600 p. m. ouly
/ ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Boston, Southern and Western, intermediate
onlces and connections via Boston & Maine
railroad. eastern diVision)-Arrive at 1890.
6;15 and 9.15 ?. NJ; Sunday arrive 1.25 p. M;
clos3.30 and go p IN.
-, de: Southern and Wester7s and inter-
nleulate otnces and connections, via Boston and
NAME railroad western division)-Arrive at
1880. $50 and $50 p m.; close 6.S8 d. m.
and 2.45 p. m.
Eastern. via Maine Contra! Railroad-Arrive
a. m and pm; close 1900 m. and 9.15
| p. m.
augusta, intermediate offices and connections
oi az Name Central rairoad-Arrive at 200 and
M. 1900 NJ, 4.15 and 9.15 p. m.
| 4, Fdrnts1sgton, intermediate Offices and connec-
mons. VIA Maine Central Rairoad-Arrive at
10 ana nH 6:l6 p. m.; close at TAO a. M. and
.Rockldaad, intermediate offices and connections
VIA hnox and Lincoln railroad-Arrive 1
al 70 Q ?. m; close at 600 a. m. ana 1926 y. m.
| SEouhegdn, intermediate offices and connec-
| tons. via Mains Central railroad-Arriye at
p. m; close at 1925 p. M.
Island Pond, IT. intermediat e offices ane
connections. via Grand Trunk Railway-Ar
| rive at 123 80 p. m; close at Z a. m and 90
| p. M
| Gorhon,, N. H., intermediate Offices and con.
| nections, via Grand Trunk railroad-Arrive at
E.1t1 A.. N a
| LOO and 430 .. m.
| Scranton. IT., intermediate offices and con
nectlons, via Mountain Division NJ. G. R. R.
ArrlVe AT $50 p M; close at 500 a. IN.
Bartlett, N. g., intermediate offices and CON
| necuons via Mountain Division M G. r. R.
Arrive at geo a. m. and $50 p. m. close as
800 a. N. and 2.45 p. m.
| Lucb Pond. Pride's Corner, Windhan,, No.
| Wandhdn1 raymond md South Cdsco-Arrivs
| at u. 90 m. /; close at Las p. NJ.
| Rochester, NJ H., intermediate offices and con-
| nections, via Portland &Rochester railroad-Ar.
| rive at Las ana 600 p. m. close at $50 and
l1.45 a. N.
! 6s.',abersand Mills-Arrive at $40 a. M. Las
| 500 and 50 D. M; close at $50 a. H., 11.45
! q. M, and $50 p. NJ.
| West6rook (Saccarappa)- Arrve 1T $40 a.
m. Lao and 90 p. II. close $50 ana LAS a.
m. and $50 p. m.
| Cape Elizabeth and Kseightviue-Arrive at
| 500 a. NJ and P M; close at a. N. and As
| p. m.
| ID. Ill. IL
| p. m.
/ Classification Of Domestic Mail Mat
ter.-Domestic mail matter,-that is
mail matter sent in the mails from some
post office within the United States to
some other post office within the same.
is divided into four classes, as follows:
1st CLASS. Written matter. namely letters
postal cards, and all matter wholly or partly in
writing whether sealed or unsealed Except
| manuscript copy accompanying proof sheetslor
corrected proof sheets Of the same.) All mat
| is also of the first class.
| I'd class. Periodical publications, namely all
ape anG 0 n ss snd
! frequently as four times year, which bear a
date of issue, and are numbered eonsecutively,
| are issued from known Office of publication
are formed ofprintd paper sheets. without board.
| cl tn, leather or other substantial binding.
To be OF information Of a public
character, or devoted to literature, the sciences
art. or some special ndt stry, and must have
| legitimate list OF subscribers, and must not
be designed primarily for advertising purposes,
or for free circulation or circulation at nominal
rates.
Sd Class. Books. circulars, periodicals and
other matter wholly in print mot included in
second-class matter), proof-sheets, corrected
ng the same. r.
Printed matter is defined by statute to be
we reproduction upon paper, by any process
letters. Characters. figures or images or of any
combination thereof, not having the
character of anIactual and personal correspou-
, dence.'
A"c1rcular" is defined by statute to be
printed letter, which, according to internal evil
dence, is being sent in Identical terms to sever
al persons" and does not lose its character as
such by writing therein the date, name Of the
addressee or of the sender, or the correction of
mere typographical errors
18th Glass Merchandise, namely all mat to
not embraced in the first, second or third
| lain ~ &c in, tah1n
destroy, deface or otherwise damage the con-
tents OF The mail bag, or harm the person of
any one engaged in the postal service, andnos
above the weight provided by law
Limit of Weight of Mai Motter.-No package
weighing more than tour pounds snail be re
beiSed for conveyance by mail. except single
except books and documents published or
circulated by order of Congress, or official
papte1 Of lie or Of ro@
the Smithsonian Institution.
so Second-class matter mailed in packa ges
at the pound rate is not subject to the ft ur-
81. The above limit of weight does not ap-
ply to matter in foreign mails regulated by
RATES OF POSTAGE.
On FIRST Glass Matter.-The rate
postage on matter of the first class is as
| follows:
l. On letters and other written matter
| except THAI specially authorized to pass
| third-class rates and on aled matter or matter
| otherwise closed against inspection, two cents
per ounce or fractio thereof ~, -
On p0stel cards one cent each, Inc price
| foI which they are sold.
/ s. On "drop letters" two cents per ounce or
| fraction thereof when mailed at ietter carrier
| post offices, and one cent for each ounce or
| fraction thereof at offices where free delivery
| by carrier is not established.
| On, Second Class Matter. The rate OF
| hostage on second-class matter when sent by
| the pnbIisher thereof and from the Office of
publication. including samples copies, or when
| sent from news agency TO actual subscribers
| thereto or to other news agents, is one cent per
| pound or fraction thereof.