15 Jan 1869
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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1869
Page
1
A garbled excerpt discusses a consumptive patient and his wife, with reflections on vitality and death. It includes stray medical analyses and commentary on agricultural yields, lime production, and various disconnected notices from newspapers, ending with diverse anecdotes and political opinions.
The article reviews postal figures including 2,168,690 dollars in foreign and domestic postage, 2,167 post offices opened or closed, 26,481 post offices under presidential appointment, and a costly rural delivery expansion. It notes the franking abuse losses, salary readjustments for postmasters, 1,468 money order offices, and general calls for reform.
The Postmaster General reports a thirty eight page document detailing postal receipts of 16,202,000 80 from postage and 8,800,000 from U S Treasury for free matter and subsidies. Receipts total 21,089,126 40 with a department deficiency request of 741,106 85. Ordinary year ending July 30 1870 estimated expenditures at 24,640,118. Total revenue rated at 17,800 00 leaving excess expenses to be provided from the Treasury of 5 40,412. During the year postage stamps issued 88,870,500 with a value of 11,751,400. There were 6,001 contracts for mail transportation and 86 018 routes by railroad and 10 047 by steamship totaling 13,683 miles. The year featured 1000 miles of railway post service daily and 26 railway post office lines in 84 routes.
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