Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

l General De7ens, of Massachusetts, tells his 1 friends that he does not want to be consider
 ed 8 candidate for Governor. He prefers to
 retain his honorable position on the bench. 1 Wise man.
 The trade in idols is unusually brisk in 1 Birmingham, England A thousand glass l gods, which cost thirty-seven cents apiece and sell for four dollars, have j 1st be.n sent 1 to Burmah.
 Intelligence offices in England are under better supervision than intelligence offices in | this country. They are closely looked after | by the public The slightest attempt at fraud
 or misrepresentation receives prompt atten- tion from the department, and housekeepers and othersin search of help are fully protected. 1 A few days ago the keeper of one of these in telligence offices in Liverpool was fined $50
 for giving girl an improper recommends 1 ton which secured her 8 place she did not deserve. Tie girl for knowingly making 1 use of such recommendation, was fined $25 The Savannah (Georgia) Weekly Echo, which is published, printed, owned and l managed by colored men, in the interest of the people," is very severe on the party in power. It says: ''The time is near at hand when the Freedmen's bank rob
 bers and political slaveholding sharks are to be 'downed' by new political party
 8 party who will act honestly in behalf of
 the American people and their interests That party will eventually be the indepen. ent party who will not have the gall and
 demagogiSm to lob the co1ored people of
 their rights, privileges, and justice, as is now
 being done by an organized gang of political
 buzzards and slave holders" Whew
 Representatives of the Board of Health in
 New York appealed to the courts Thursday
 in order to prevent the sale of quantity of
 tea which they declared to be unwholesome and unfit for use. The new law prohibiting the importation of adulterated and unwhole- some tsas went into effect March 9, but teas actually on shipboard at that time for ship msnt to this country were excepted from the prohibition. The teas against the sale of which an injunction has been issued arrived at this port from China last week. Great 1 quantities of inferior tea have been brought to New York since the adoption of stringent regulations against it's admission to Europe an ports, and it is to be hoped that the worthless stuff will be no longer received in this country.
 At the recent Civil Service club dinner at Boston General Hawley said he gloried in the fact that he was politician The Rev. i James Freeman Clarke, who was present. said he thanked God he was not a politician. | MT. Clarke came pretty near expressing the general sentiment. We do not think most | people would enjoy being called politicians. Even those who are politicians do !! not as a rule emphasize that fact When a man is running for office he is not generally anxious to call attention to the fact that he is politician. If General Hawley were really politician in the ordinary sense | in which the word is understood we doubt whether he would want to advertise it.. When ho says he takes pride in being poll i tician everybody will understand it to be | rhetoric. He means to say tbat he is proud | of the fact that he is interested in and takes l part in public affairs. He certainly does not intend to be understood that he is part of the , machine and glories in being part of it.
 great trade in dried or jerked beef is be- ing carried on in South America. Thousands of tons are exported yearly from Montevideo Rosario and other parts of Uruguay and the Argentine republic. In certain of the salade- ros or factories upward of one thousand cat tie are killed daily in the season. one man be- ing usually the executioner of the whole and despatching them by puncturing the spinal