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Show I More Lightning Express Mails. To weeks ago last Sunday that was October 23rd Mrs. M. Bowring mailed a letter in Ogden addressed to Mr. H. E. Bowring of this city. It was important and related to business matters which Mr. Bowring was to attend to before paying a visit to Ogden Og-den on the following Thursday. He went to Ogden as per intention, not having heard of any letter, and had to do the business by telegraph which the letter had instructions concerning. That letter has arrived ! It got to the city last Saturday. It was only two weeks, lacking a day, coming thirty-six miles. We are solicitous for the welfare wel-fare of whoever has those mails in charge, and wish to say in their behalf that it was not a sick ox, lame in three legs, that hauled that letter down. It is dangerous to hurry things so. Mails oorjiing with the astounding velocity of three miles a day, stoppages included, indicate a change that is positively frightful. If one of these lightning expresses should get off the road, mov ing at snch an alarming rate, the consequences con-sequences might be terrible. Should it strike the mountains it might turn the entire country upside down. Col. Wickizer should see to this matter at once before something awful occurs. He ought to have the transit of mails reduced re-duced to at least a mile a day ! Never mind about the claims of business; think of the safety f those who have the mails in charge 1 Their lives should be protected ! We earnestly implore him not to -let the mails be carried so rapidly. Only think! Three miles a day ! By the by, another case lias just turned up, wherein a letter mailed in Ogden on September 2bth got here twenty-three days after I It's improving, improv-ing, now that a mail gets down in thirteen days. Colonel Wickizer will, of course, see to the matter. |