Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1 There was no riot in New York yesterday,
 and if there had been it would probably have | been short The preparations made | by the authorities were ample and sufficient. l The Iowa State senate has passed bill l limiting the time allowed counsel for aa- dressing court OF jury This is an attack upon freedom of speech which the lawyers of ! Iowa will be apt to resent.
 Edison's patents have now become so nu- merous that they have special series of in dex or reference numbers Tn the Patent of- fce-the only case in which such separation from the general index has been thought nee
 essary. He has we'll earned the title of ''wiz- ard"
 Two bales of cotton raised by slave labor in 1862 were sold the other day at Rock Hill, South Carolina. The owner had been offered thirty-three and half cents in gold pound, l but for some unknown reason would not sell | and when he died he still had it stored. It l was in excellent condition, although twenty four years old, and was sold for eight and quarter cents pound, the lowest price touched by cotton since those bales were grown.
 Bridgeport was little slow in waking up ! to the situation which the willy and active citizens of Norwalk created, but she is pretty thoroughly awake now. At this distance from the seat of war, the argument seems to l be very strongly in favor of Bridgeport. The | county seat is already there, and there does 1 not seem to be any good reason why it should | not stay there. The city is larger than Nor
 walk, is as convenient of access, and situated I so as to accommodate the legal business of the
 county quite as we'll Norwalk. Besides | it furnishes not less than one-third of the | litigation of the county. And Bridge port has also offered to build frst-class ! court house, to cost more than the one which | Norwalk has offered to build. The claim of | the active Norwalkers, therefore, seems ab- l surd under the circumstances. It is very much as if Meriden should clamor to have
 the county seat moved thither from New | Haven. Q
 | The appointment of James c. Matthews. a
 colored lawyer of Albany, to succeed Fred l Douglass has made the Democrats of the Dis l trict of Columbia, who think that some one I of them is entitled to the place, very un- | happy They are de scribed as declaring that | they will never fire another gun nor carry l another torch, nor contribute another cent, if 1 it means giving 'fniggers' the offices. Mat 1 thews is about forty years old ,and was born in 1 NewHaven. He was protege of Adam Blake,
 the colored man who for years kept the old Congress Hall in Albany, and Matthews was | for long time the clerk. Later he studied 1 To olr fa1 fo hor l comfortable living by his practice. Like
 Blake, he was always Democrat, and in the | Cleveland campaign issued an address in his
 behalf. His appointment is intended as | a recognition of the colored Democrats. He
 is described ss an honorable and intelligent
 man, who will fill the office creditably.
 From a study of $50 thunder storms
 that occurred in Italy Signor Ferrari con
 cludes that every thunder storm is connected
 with barometric, hygrometric and thermic
 depression; it is behind the two former and in front of the last. All three depressions,
 but especially the last, are associated with | maxima which are situated behind the baro-
 metric and hygrometric Impressions, but be- fore the ther1nic one. Most of those storms
 arose in the wide plain of the Pc. Coming
 from west northwest with velocity of 30-
 3711l km. per hour, they passed lin case of
 their greatest range) with slackening speed
 over the Appennines in upper and middle
 Italy. For a given moment the thunder
 storm has the form of long narrow band
 advancing, with numerous bends outward
 and inward, parallel to itself and having its
 various characteristic phenomena most in
 tense along the middle line. The sohyetes,
 or curves of equal rainfall, often take the
 form of eclipses, whose longer axes coincide
 with the direction of the storm. The domi-
 nant wind direction is generally parallel to
 that of propagation of the storm.
 The labor committee of the national house
 of representatives has done it's best to satisfy
 the demands made upon it. Among their
 bills is one to prevent the letting of prison labor by contract, and another to prevent the