Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Last Tuesday, 'the yellow day." had quite
 serious effect upon some Second Advent ists in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. They concluded that the end was at hand, and put on their ascension robes.
 The Citizens Committee of Public Safety, recently formed in New Orleans to secure the enforcement of the laws, seems to be doing good work. The Picayuzae says: ''They
 have already done yeoman service, and are preparing for much more. Through their agency two convictions have already been se- cured in the criminal court. One case that was about to be 91ol pressed for want of evil
 dence was carried on, and the witnesses se-
 cured. They are after other cuIprits and af-
 ter them in the right way.''
 Mir. William Lee Howard, just returned from Iceland, where he travelled for the
 American Geographical Society, reports that
 last winter was exceedingly severe in that re-
 zion. The same report comes from Green
 land. The season has been uncommonly
 rough on all warm blooded animals, reducing
 them to great want and driving them several
 degrees further south. The people of Ice | land have lost many of their domestic ami
 mals, and the summer has been so indictment
 as to excite grave apprehensions for the win
 ter about to begin. Just now the people in
 this part of the world are not afraid of cold
 weather.
 The finances of the State of Nevada are in deplorable condition, but the State officials continue to draw good salaries. Three judges receive $7,Oo0 year each, which is as much as the judges of the Court of Ap- peals receive in the State of New York, and more than is paid to the judges of the high est court in California. The Governor is paid SC, GOO year, and the Lieutenant Gov ernor and five other officers $3, 600 year each. The salaries of subordinate officials in Nevada are in proportion to those of the higher officers. Considering the meagre in- come of the State and it's comparatively heavy debt upon which 91 per cent. interest is paid, the office holders seem to be pretty well taken care of.
 According to the Richmond State, cotton cloth manufactured in the South is much su- perior to flat made in New England or abroad, for the reason that the raw material is taken directly from the plantations with out having previously been compressed into bales. The process of compressing is repre- sented to be extremely injurious to the cot ton fibre. depriving it of some of it's strength as well as of its beauty and natural gloss This fact seems likely to exercise a wide and permanent influence upon cotton manufac- ture. 'tAs Virginia and Kentucky now ex- port their tobacco mainly in manufactured form, and not in the leaf, green or dry, so,' says the State, twill the South in the future come to export her cotton in the more valua- ble manufactured shape.'
 No wonder there is large exodus of the most valuable population of Bavaria. In that country last year 3,739 farms, aggregating 68, 900 acres, were sold at auction The number of small landbolders is constantly de- creasing, and those peasants who retain their land are unable to make any headway towards paying of the charges upon it. '.This," says correspondent, lis owing partly to the long continued depression which Bismarck's pro- tective policy has not dissipated. but partly also to burdens which fall with peculiar