Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

About 20, GOO immigrants arrived at Castle ments of the old world are alarmed at the way their subjects are leaving them.
 Its an i'll wind that blows nowhar," as the darkey said. Hot weather will make 8 great many people uncomfortable, but it will also drive the Senate out of Washington.
 The total log stock of the lumber business this year, as thus far reported and estimated, foots up about :, ,429, $50, GOO feet. The cen- sus will report only s1, $50, ,00O,OoO feet of standing pine in the three States of Michi- gan Wisconsin and Minnesota.
 It is said that the first steam engine regu- lator was the invention of boy who got sick of wasting his time watching the motions of the machine over which he kept guard. A similar genius has burst upon the world ln the shape of an eight year old boy who did not see any necessity for keeping his eyes constantly on his baby sister, as he was or dered to do by his mother. He therefore fastened the baby's dress to the floor by two or three stout tacks and went off to attend to his own business.
 Wendell Phillips gets the following bit of commendation from the solid old Boston Ad- gertiser: ''No prominent public man of the last thirty years has done his duty faithfully, according to his conscience and his oath, without falling sooner or later under MT. Fvarv RanuhIcan President, nearly every Massachusetts Gov ernor, every leading candidate for Governor, indeed, with single marked exception have occasionally had taste of his denunci- ation It comes and goes with the regularity of the seasons. The public, however, to whom these philippics are addressed, gauge them very justly; and no public man who has been loyal to his own sense of honor and justice ever suffered on account of them"
 A grand electric light experiment may be made in New York city. The Brush compa- nv. which has made such an excellent show ing in London, has put in bid for lighting Broadway from the Battery to Forty-second street, and if the proposal is accepted it will light Union Square by single group of lights The plans have been drawn for 8 tower to be 2sO feet high, to be constructed of boiler iron, in four foot lengths riveted together The tower will be four feet in di- ameter at the base, and one foot at the sum- mit It will carry six lights of six thousand candle power each, two being placed at each angle of triangle. This triangle will be so arranged as to slide down oiled ways to the ground every morning, for the purpose of cleaning the lamps and replacing the cartoons. The company is confident that the Ilumina- ton from the tower will be sufficient to en- able one to read a newspaper at a distance of successful another will be placed in Madison Square.
 The ironmolders of the Johnston Harvest CT Company at Brockport, New York, struck for an increase of twenty-five per cent. upon their wages The company asked for an in- junction to restrain the strikers from iniu- encing new men coming to the town against entering thu employ of the company, either by moral suasion or by threats, stating that five hundred men were thus kept from em- ployment. At the special term of the court at Rochester, Judge Macomber denied the continuance of the injunction, upon the broad ground that the law of supply and de- mand should govern the parties to the issue, and that, unless there were overt acts shown, as free agents the men had the right to do as they did. The opinion has been sustained at the general term of the court at Rochester in the following words. The court says:
 The acts, not controyerted, to restrain which an injunction was asked for, did not consti. tute an evasion of any clear right of property vested in the plaintiff. It did not appear that such acts, whether done or threatened to be done, resulted, or would have resulted, in ir.