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Show Yellow ieror untl the Mail Service. Washington, 9. The superintendent superintend-ent of the southern mail 6orvice is in receipt of information to-day that two more route agents of Savannah are down with yellow fever, leaving only two agents lo keep up the postal business on the southerly ami northwesterly north-westerly approaches to Svannah. The local superintendent reports haviijg ordered two agents from other Georgia routes to take these places, and adds that the force in the Savannah office ia eo reduced by sickness that it can furnish no assistance. It is impossible impossi-ble to get substitutes at Savannah, or to get them elsewhere to run on tho lines centering at Savannah. Win. Ireland, chief clerk of the bureau of the third assistant postmaster postmas-ter general, and Cliarles Andrews, principal of its finance divwiou, have resigned, to take effect October 31st. |