Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-07

Look out now for bitter and malevolent from "worthy and respectable" gentlemen who do not dare to sign their names to their productions.
 It is declared that Henry George has al ready secured the names of more than fifteen thousand voters pledged to support him for mayor of New York. He wants thirty thou sand before he will consent to run.
 The St. Louis Globe-Democrat interviewed souri Republican and the California Demo- cratic State conventions as to their choice for Presidential candidates. Logan is the choice of the Illinois Republicans, Blaine of the Missourians, and Cleveland of the California Democrats.
 The acting secretary of the treasury has found it necessary to warn all the officials subject to that department that the Presi- dents order of July IA, 1886, ''is to be duly respected" The circular will be sent to the 14 900 officials in the customs and revenue service. The heads of all the other depart ments it is said will also issue a cautionafy order this week. This sounds well.
 The regulations formulated by committee of the Boston common council for the disin- lection of imported rags are sensible. They exempt from special treatment rags brought from countries where no contagious diseases have prevailed for six months, and stipulate that the work of disinfection shall be done under the supervision of the Board of Health by agents employed and paid by the city, and that no more than the actual expense of disinfeetion shall be charged. This certainly ought to be sufficient both to meet the reas enable needs of the paper industry and to preserve due regard for the public welfare.
 MT. Alden, consul general at Rome, reports that the Italians who have come to this coun- try of late years are rule worthy people drawn from the country districts, and he IS convinced that there are no chronic paupers, do-wells among them. The laborers, shep- herds and peasants in northern and central Italy are on the whole sober, industrious and trustworthy as we'll as strong and capable workers. The illiterate and hot-headed ina migrants come from the southern districts and from Sicily, but the men among these are not drunkards nor are the women un- chaste, and they are hard working people,
 Says the American Hebrew: Among the Jewish emigrants of recent years as we'll as among emigrants of other denominations, there are number who have brought their anarchist views with them over the sea and still retain them. Neither the government nor the people here will tolerate the methods which they learned in their struggle with despotism. We have here government by law and people devoted to order. Woe be to him or to them who violate either. The Jews as race have 8 history, as people they have literature, as 8 religious body they have synagogues to worship in, but as laborers, as workingmen, as wage ea1le1s, as members of the social organism and the body polite they are, in this country, Americans.
 In some portions of Tyrol a peculiar and beautiful custom still prevails. When girl is about to be lna1 lied, before she leaves her home to go to the church. her mother hands her handkerchief, which is called tear kerchief. It is made of newly spun linen snd has never been used. It is with this kerchief that she dries her tears when she | leaves her fathers house, and while she stands at the altar. After the marriage is