The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-01

SlaH Sebtl6 Tue Wuoie udtteE Wy new
legislation on tue subject.
Correspondence OF the star.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 80, 1877.
The report OF the special agents of
the Treasury Department, to the effect
that the customs inspectors at New |
York have been
SHOWING FAvoNIrIsM
by allowing the personal baggage OF
certain persons to pass without careful
inspection, has stirred up John Sher-
man, who is about to issue a circular to
put a stop to all such work. Grave sus.
pulons, to say the least, have been
aroused that these inspectors may have
received sundry bribes to procure these
exemptions, and in one or twoinstances
actual charges have been made to this
effect. There will be civil service
sore " driven into that job.
SHIPPED TO BOTANY BAY.
Considerable indignation is felt over
the case of the young midbhipman who,
because he happened to remind young
lady, the daughter oil an Admiral liz The
navy, at bali that he had once kissed
her in pay for u forfeit in game at
party, was sent off by the angry old Ad-
miral to the South Pacific on a three
years. cruise. The South Pacific is
sort OF Botany Bay or siberia, ana the
penalty imposed on the youth for his
crime { p is altogether out of proportion
| to the Ut1ense-lf indeed any oftnse at
all was committed. 1t is ~ y Ine mat
Ter is to be inquired into a. LAe Navy
Department.
AQUEER 1ns
One of the streeLcar cor ,
| is discussing the propriety oT">TeG:lng
| their cars at so much per month TO con-
| ductors, as a plan TO GET rid Of the eter-
nal cheating which is going on. Why
not rent the cars 10 the highest bidder,
| and let the conductors run them TO suit
| LhemselvesI
A WONDERFUL REASON.
A Roman Catholic bishop throws out
the following reason wny the Washing
ton monument remains in q state Of
lincOmplelion. On Sunday night, March
| 8, 1854, ii dozen Know NothMgs in dis
suisc took me beautiiui block of Atri-
can marble wAicn the Pope had sent to
represent Rome in the National monu-
| ment, and breaking it to pieces threw it
| lnto lhe folomac.
O. course this vandalism, for 1t was
| nothing else, created a great deal OF
| feeling, and Catholics at that TIM
prophesled that the monument would
never be completed, and up to this time
it .has not. 1t Is now understood thai
some leading Komanist suggests that
| the United States ought to ask the Pope
to duplicate The stone, giving guaranty
that IL should be placed in the monu-
ment as IL Was intended the original
should be, and then, say they, the mon
ument would soon be completed. Some
may accept this as the reason; as for
ourselves, We give the matter as news.
DEATH OF MR. STANTON.
The death of Edwin l.. Stanton, son OF
the g eat War Secretary Edwin 81.
Stanton, which occurred yesterday, III
this city, has spread a feeling oil gloom
over the minds OF his numerous friends,
aud affected the puOlic generally. He
was young lawyer, hg@d thirty five, a
man OF brilliant talents and splendid
qualities. He graduated at Kenyon Col
lege, Gambler, Onio, and had many warm
friends in the Buckeye State, who will
mourn MS early demise.
THE END OF MoRMoNIsM.
1t is thought here that Brlgh am
Young's death will practically solve the
Mormon difficulty, as his Church aud
| followers have been kept together tor
| the last three or four years alone by his
IRON will and indomil able courage. The
Gentiles will now hay| things pretty
much tneir own way, and poygamy will
fall TO pieces.
TWO INTERESTING ITEMS.
Ex-Gov. Wells, of Returning Board
| fame, is here. He says from his knowl-
edge of the Southern NJ. CPS and the
way they feel, that Sayler of Cincinnati
| is going to be next Speaker. But, then,
what will become Of John &. Thompson,
| for Sergeant.at-Armsi
An effort is being made to break Nd
the Sitting Bull Commission on the
ground that it is disgraceiul for the
United States to coax the old scamp
after we had failed to whip m in fight.
The rumor that he has recrossed the
border TO 'lader-lahd," may, if true, help
us out. CINCINNATI