Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-05-20

governor, appears to have been a
water-haul. Nobe dy from outsids
the State was there, and the list
Of attendants reals Ike report Of q
meeting of One Hundred executive
kitchen loungers. It was lonely
least OF wine and wind.
THE extension of the duty Of the
town ASSESSORS frsm mere revision to
a new, complete and equitable assess
aeut Of properly, ought to be az
laudsd by everybody. The stel
does no harm to anybody, but great
good to all. For instance If at an
assessment of 81 100000 we must
levy = rate Of 40 cents, an assessment
of f1,250,000 will reduce the rate to
80 cents per 800, and 80 on. We do
not say the assessment ought to lie
augmented merely for the sake Of re-
ducing the rate, but it ought to be
allowed to 60 up as high as uniform
valuations will allow it to go. Then
let the Council, in appeal session, pro-
tect the assessors figures very rigor.
ously.
THE Baltimore newspaper inter-
viewer has passed away. The go
called strike" has lost all its whilom
attractions, and he has shaken the dark
dus of this region from his cork-toed
boots. "Gone, but not forgotten.
His inquisitive disposition ard nimble
style of expression are employed in
penetrating and exposing mysterious
affairs in other quarters. "Truth," it
has bsen said, "is found at the bottom
of we'll" lie did not even find the
we'll. He ascertained, it is true, many
things past and current which never
happened. save perhaps in the depths
of bis own bountiful imagination. He
desired to be so fair, so honest and so
just that halo of righteousness APP
peared to crown bis immaculate FORE
top. But 10 when his reports were
printed the halo vanished he was
discovered nearly always on the sun
NJ side of those lovely leings, the
salt of the esrth-the capitalists. On
one occasion-ws'll never forget It'll
he said anarchy was reigning and the
people were fleeing to the mountains.
1t was thrilling story, but nothing
like it happened indeed. the observ-
ance of order has been and ia SO marked
characteristic of the suspension that
the stiffness Of perfect peace broods
over the region. So quiet are the
people it might almost be said they are
unmoved by even the Islander of their
good citizenship, circulated at times
with hesrtless indifference to justice
Pursuing with patient industry the
improvement Of their properties, they
have apparently cared little for the
falsehoods Of those who, ipterestedly
perhaps, malign them, conscious that
the lapss of time will bring ito unfail
ing vindication. 1t is safe 10 affirm
that not one of the yarns set shoat
on the food-tide of sensation at the
outset of the "strike" was wholly true.
At this distance from the Incidents Of
those days we are better able TO calm
ly and critically look at results than
then. Every prediction has miscal-
ried, as in the nature of things all fab
relations terminate. 1t is possible
thst future events may bring the city
reporter to us again nothing can or
should curb his enterprise, restrain
the swiftness Of his feet, or direct the
track of his pencil, except truth. Let
us hope that the liberty Of the press"
may be more creditably exemplifed !;
that its representatives will find it
more manly to avoid uucallsd.for dis
paragement of an unafend.ng commu-
nifty. The people, we feel assured,
expect fair treatment Of themselves
and cause. More they have net
asked to award less is to do them
arraut injustice.