The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-27
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extra session will be issued this week.
Correspondence or the star.
WASHINGTON, Aug. %, 1877.
There is no little excitement and some
Indignation among the officers of
THE MARINE CORPS
at the NaYy-yard, at the quiet and un-
official way in which the Navy Depart
ment dismissed the charges preferred
against Captain Forney for disrespcct-
tul conduct toward his superior officer.
The Captain was restored to his rank,
and the matter was permitted to drop
without an Investigation. All this hap
pened directly after his father, Hon.
John W. Forney, of the Philadelphia
Press, came here and had private inter-
views with the Department. The I'M
preston is that the young Captain was
restored In this way simply because he
is John W. Forney's son, which, if true,
Is simply an outrage Oh the service.
DID HE TALK TOO MUCH?
There is considerable comment over
the speecnes made by the Postmaster.
General during his New England trip.
He has already received caustic criti-
cism at the hands OF Southern papers,
because he spoke of himself and his
Southern people as "erring 8 ,uthern
BRETHREN" Since then he said: 81 con.
less you Yankees whipped us Southern
ers handsomely" and again, II have
been so well ted in New England that |
leel myself almost Yankee" Now, we
think he will catch another castigation
for these expressions. Verify speech
making is hazardous business.
THE NEW CADET.
The colored cadet, MIR. Minnie, who is
70 receive the appointment to West Point
Military Academy, passed a splendid
examination, beating his thirl cen white
competitors by one hundred points, and
making five hundred and eighty five
points out OF the six hundred tnat were
possible. John MOrrissey has sent him
sou as a present and to help him get an
outht, which will entltle Hon. Jonn to a
credit maIk.
TIMBER THIEVES.
Secretary S1Iurz says he is going to
put stop to stealing public timber from
Ihe Government lands, which has be-
come great nuisance as well as loss.
heretofore the depredators have es-
capped NY paying compromise price for
the timber taken. Hereafter they must
pay the Inquest market price aud lose
ihe labor OF cutting, ETC., as IA penalty.
HE STOLE PAPER.
On dit, that a colored porter, long In
emp oy IN The basement of the Capitol.
during the last ten years, pilrereI
enough ola books and public documents
from the rooms to enable him to he the
owner oil neat little home over the
Eastern Branch. They We're sold at
book stores at an average
OF dime eacn, or found their way AZ
. cents u pound to paper dealers. His
wife got jealous and "pcacheu" on him.
THE OLD FLAG.
The Secretary oil the Navy is going 10
put every cruising vessel in commission
AZ once. "There's no use," he says. Sin
letting our navy rot in the yards ana the
men Ioai round drawing pay. l will
send The snips abroad aud keep them
Haunting the old flag and showing their
IL ON teeth in the ports OF the word, till
al! clrlstend"m and all heathe end ON too,
shall know and respect the stars anu
stripes. They must see that we are ready
to resent any and all indlgnities To our
commerce and our cit.Z4us.n We rather
mink The old gentleman's head Is level
On luis question.
DIED OF TOO MUCH COLOR.
The "orklngmen's party OF Maryland
S stone dead. They mad big Conven.
lion in Baltimore, yesterday, and got
nto tearing fight over the question
whether colored men were laborers
enough to be entitled 10 help run the
machine. The parry split in twain
some OF the old secesh element bolted,
declaring they wanted no darkey in
heirs, and the Convention adj )urned
without making platform or nomina-
ing u ticket.
JOHN zUMPSTEIN l. co.
see the delegation to the last GEN.
'ral Assembly from your couAty was
'adly slaughtered, only John Zumpstein |
ecelVlhy r&nomluatlon. Tuat was
ad ior the others, but lucky for John, |
low uncertain are politicsl Alas-t is |
al. How many am 1tious hopes nippeu |
IL the bud. CINCINNATI