| Show REDUCED POSTAGE X today to day tho reduced rate on letter postage goes into effect throughout the united states but this change does not effect the postage on letters to foreign countries countr iea neither docs does it lower the rates on newspapers and periodicals they will remain tho the same at least for some sorrie time to come still wo may expect among the changes in the not distant future to the rates on current literature reduced as well as on correspondence letters which aich cost three cents heretofore to bo be sent to an any y part of the union are now transmitted for two cents this ia is a matter that will doubtless be highly appreciated by all classes of the community one cent may mav not appear to be of itself of much value but the tile man mail of little means appreciates the tile saving saying of a dimo dime in the cost of mailing ten letters how ilow different the postal service is now from what it was thirty or forty years ago at till that time the rates were adjusted by the distance the letter had to travel now the distance makes no diffie rence on the Vom estic postage the postage on oil a letter is ns as much to uintah as it is to tho the ie ie modest part of the union and that is only two centa cents for 1 a I missive not elcee exceeding ding one half ounce in wei weight 9 lit k F forty arty years ago ago it cost G of cents to carry a letter by united states mail thirty miles or under tinder 10 cents for distances exceeding thirty miles and not over eighty 12 cents for distances over eighty miles and not exceeding cents for distances exceeding miles and find not exceeding 25 cents for all till distances over miles no letters t were then weighed but postage was aa charged for each inclosure if the present experiment proves successful and if by the increased revenue derived from the sale of postage stamps induced by the increased correspondence the postal service continues self sustaining ss es it has been the last as two or three yeara years it is possible that another reduction will bo be made on not letters only but on general literature and packages 0 of all kinds that arc are or may hereafter bo be bent through the mails we have lave not the least doubt that the postoffice Post office department will avill labor to this end and to extend and increase the mail facilities of the people as fur far aa as possible in this matter they will be sustained neti and receive the gratitude of the nation THE txie TELEGRAPH gives an till exten give sivo account of the trouble between the monarch ot the parence peninsula and the mob of paris the little finger of bismarck sticks through the abair despite tile diplo |
