New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-09

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| Another addition to the mailbag controversy
! comes from Washington Nothing new is de-
! velOped, but the case already made ont against
the Canadian postmasters is strengthened, and
the statements of Deputy Postmaster C eneral
Griffin of the Dominion service, are shown TO
be erroneous. 1t is not true, as that official
says, that there was any excuse for mstakin~
United States bags for those made in Canada.
Ihirteen blue stripes woven into the cloth Of
Dag would seem TO be q DISTINGUISHING mark
pam enough for the most short-sghted Do
mInion postmaster to notice But as the Cana
oiahs are now aiding us to gather ND our
property and are ready in future to furnish
thelr tar share of the equipment of the mail
service between the two countries, the contro-
versy may as well be dropped
Daniel, the Bourbon nominee for Govor,or
OF Virginia appears to be an agile sort Of q
politician who has vaulted all around tbe daht
question. AT one time, shortly after tho w,r
closed, he advocated the reputation of all
ueDts, public or private. Later he became y
heaGuster. Now he is the candidate of the
self-styled Debt Payers party, party which
mas talked about honesty for nearly ten years
without making any motion to meet the lust
demands OF Virginia's creditors. Daniels
supporters propose in their latest platform to
compromise with the States creditors by giving
them three per cent bonds in place of their
SKIES, but in the same breath declare that thew
VIII not increase the rate of taxation, which
is equivalent to saying that no money shall he
raised to pay the interest on the new bonds |
they propose to ISSUE
MODS are always cowardly. The men who |
compose them count upon carrying out their
designs without risk to themselves and if they |
md they are likely to get hurt they are USUALLY
seized with panic. This was what happened TO |
a moo III Fredohia, Kansas, yesterday. that |
attempted 10 lynch two men confined in iail |
uuuuer accusation OF murder. The crowd was
brave enough so long as it met with no resist
ahce' put when one of the prisoners shot man
IN the attacking larty all the rest fled in
dlsmay. Kansas is civilized State with courts.
Jalls, and hangmen too, when they are needed
ana the excuse for resort to lynch law often
made in frontier settlements cannot be urged in
palliation of an affair like that at Fredonia. 1t
Is rare, however, that a mob attack ends so
Nobody was lynched. but one
OIL the mohleaders was fatally wounded.
The Chautauqua Assembly appears to be en-
toying undlminished prosperity. 1t is a pro-
ionged camp-meeting III the woods, with
special drift toward Sunday school work and
a great deal of intellectual diversion in the
shape of good lectures on a variety of subjects
ana classes for the study of history, languages
and Biblical lore. The site is not peculiarly
although the long narrow lake, living
high up among the hills of the watershed be-
tween Lake Erie and tributaries Of the Allie
shany River, affords GOODNESS and pretty land
Scapes; but the people who throng Fair Point
tor six weeks of every summer are not in search
u comfort or of striking scenery. They want
stimulus and refreshment for their mental and ,
spiritual natures, and they find it there in
abundance. Morning, noon and night there is .
iways something going on of interest. The {
'reat variety OF preaching, teaching, lecturing {
md singing is the popularity of the assembly, ;
which makes it differ from the many religions 5
amp meetings, and secures for it such lasting s
popularity. ,