New-York tribune., 1885-08-12

Sunaiasf HOfets are Jre1@sh"y usseJf''o" W
}be Government az regular Post Offices. BeTore
for,cordina their orders for The TRIBUNE
rendeys at sum msr resorts wiH do osh to ascer-
tain the eract Official title OF tbs Post Oglce at
,clich they expsct to recsirs their mna. De'dy
and coyyespondence ,riH be arotdcd bg so DONG
II is sail that the meeting of the Emperors
of Austria and Germany and the Car has no
political significance. Yet 1T is mcrediDie that
these rulers should mobilize their armies along
railways and at crossroads and bridges, make
endless other arrangements for protection' ana
vet run great risk of their lives-all for few
moments social chat as equals.
We entered mild word of complaint against
this Democratic administration yesterday morn
ing for the heinous offence according to all
principles of Jeffersonian simplicity, OF ABB
senteeism and junketing. This morning our
Washington correspondent furnishes bill OF
particulars, which will be painful reading to
economical Democrats with reformatory ten
dencies.
II Il now said that Mr.. Bayard means to give
Mr.. Kelley a place in the State Department
st home, of COURSE That would be well enough.
Mr.. Bayard discovered this peripatetic Minis
ter. and it was on the Secretary's representa-
tions, doubtless, that the Kelley mansion In
Richmond was rented for four years. By all
means, let Mr.. Bayard have Kelley all to him
self in Washington
Whether or not there is a great unknown
lake called Mistassini in Canada, larger than
Lake Superior. is one of those things which no
Canadian can apparently find out. There are
all kinds of stories about it, and now an officer
of the Dominion Survey sends home and says
that it Is little lake after all, only 12O miles
around. He is promptly met by the assertion
that he cannot have found the real Mistassini
and in the face of such statements as Father
Albanels's the report is hardly acceptable.
Yet an official surveyor would hesitate to
forward report like this unless he were
entirely sure of its correctness. 1t would hurt
his reputation not little.
Familiarity with danger breeds contempt for
It. This 10 strikingy illustrated in the accident
at the Mocanaqua mine near Wilkesbarre,
Penn. The men as well as the boss knew
that the engine which furnished fresh air was
broken and that to enter the mine might be
death. Nevertheless, they went cooily in, and
presently half dozen were dead. Their safety
lamps were of little use. Of course none but
foolhardy men would have gone to work, and
the boss foreman of the day gang ought to
have prevented them from doing 30. There are
enough accidents about coal mines which can
not be prevented without such unnecessary
ones as this at Mocanaqua.
The murder in Brooklyn is q mysterious
Of q and the police are doing all they can to
make it denser. They seem to think that If
they cannot make out case against the
etepson. Armstrong, whom they have captured,
they never can make out one against any body |;
10 they are at their old trick of fitting the facts
to the theory. But it does not appear yet that
there was any sufficient motive to induce
Armstrong to take Herrick's life. He is par
ticularly bad lot of humanity still he may not
be murderer. The most astonishing feature
OF the whole affair is the ease with which Her.
rick was murdered almost In the very
presence Of his neighbors, and yet the mur-
derer escaped without leaving the slightest clew
TO bis identity.
The sentiments Of Republicans thus far seem
70 be decidedly in favor Of abort. sharp p0liti-