Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-23
POSTAL uSAGEs.
o4asss OF THE MAIL sERv pV5 er SIXTY YEARS AGO.

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 a.s,nsry Letters In England 'a .'a.. prohi0itire-Adopti0n of F A.. M Post and tho Queer Arga- .s against It. sus.o Victoria asoended ths F .ss.s were no telegraphs in this 'asaI s,,1 few rail@ ays. The mails b aeh' and 119 the ln post. 5s 0is .roro to al but the well to do < e'ss ,.lve It cost from i'd, to Is. Sd. Ea |a'''s' z 4singIc" letter under an K ip weight from one part of the ! U n o another. There were some 'p,n D.ss varying according to dis. ''lss .s. average rate being 3d., or .a 'n' dav,s wage of a laborer. A ! 9ns 10 lafter o41 meant a singlo piece of e .atssiye ls envelopes had net been |..Sl aa'iel and the addition of a second RSs4 N nsDer made the letter a "dou- v pgT The postage was paid on de- sss ', tba recipient, and as nc cred !. s;ven the incursion of postinan X aoor peighborhood was watched # p9es s .gitb fear rather than hope. |.si5ge, lSi.s the poet, SAW a poor wom- < 'asn nina to accept 3 letter on the x inability to pay. The good N ba,d doubtless with some diff X tound the required ninepence, tha voman's remonstrances. sbe postman had gone away, she |aS I'l eeleridge that the letter was ||el.sk sheet of paper. Her brother |.,snsed to send her at intervals
 s6eet. addressed in q certain ~ as evidence that all was well IFim. aud she as regularly, after fpp the address, refused to accept |ss humorist on one occasion sent SEsa numbers of letters, each on a x large as a tablecloth, all of bad to be delivered as single <ystem practically stifled written .ySa amono the working class aud
 .si:I savprify upon the middle
 ..5 .. and highly placed N escaped postal taxation. The of ranking covered the corre- .Iee not only of ministers, peers 6ambeYs of parliament, but of Flatiyes, friends and aequaint-
 While in one year early ill the # reign no less than 7,400, GOO &gere ranked, a single London |aid annually e11, GOO for postage 8liter iA The Quarterly referred IN to so slight and rare an in-
 h | laborer s life as the receipt Atter. {" Among the packets" HVas q grand piano. An army M aas employed to fix the charges keeted, and the postal revenue M stationary between 1915 and hhough in the same period the 5in increased from I9. 50O. GOO fc
 AO0.
 by this state of things, parlia-
 l839 adopted Rowland Hill's
 ef uniform inland penny post
 Heh came into operation on Jan.
 The writer possesses q copy of
 terly Review of 1889, ill which
 utor believed to be Croker)
 enounees the scheme. Will
 he says, write only to theis
 d girls to their mothers? Will
 s of romance or love, intrigue
 ef, increase ill at least equal
 ens' We doubt whether social
 nestic correspondence will be Al doubled. A gigantic exem- { Gf the cid proyerb-Penny pound foolish, :" etc.
 ay says that the penny post,
 established, was the object < n7ectiye, as a manifest coD-
 the pope to enslave the souls < khmen. It was described as ! made easy. " The postal au- Who is l784 had opposed the
 of mail coaches, were i'm. , aenles of penny postage. The
 general of 1899, Lord Lich- lE his objections on the ouri- that the building at St. Mar.
 aRd would not he large |, a' secretary, Colonel Maber. Hl " repeated, "This plan VIC lS E19W' it succeeded, and the 'a ia's been generally adopted
 a Well as i'll the United 7 hamber ef letters rose from
 n 1857 to 299, 100000 ia " the year ending on March AOout 1000, GOO, GOO. The 4, las was in 1889 el ,659, 51e
 s9, 682, l83. Tho number
 winch was ill 1887 about 6
 ana II 1854 l5 per head, is
 neaa. -Fortnightly Review,