The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-18

grcss, and had the earnest WISHES Tor Sic
cess of very large element OF his party
in this State. lie owes it 10 all these
not t. make Mr. Ewing Chairman oil the
Banking and Currency Committee. We
have no idea he intends to do 10, but
there are strong intimations to that effect.
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A BILL recently introduced i'll the Hi
nois legislature prohibits y candidate
from treating or off ring TO treat any
body, under the penalty OF being fined
$50. or imprisoned, or both. Mr.. kenis-
ton assumes the paternity Of this bill and
it stamps him as a remarkable man, but
if he got into the Illinois Legislature
without treating anybody he is more re-
markable still, and ii he succeeds in st.
curing the enactment Of the bill he will
be the most remarkable man Of his gencr-
alton.
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OUR Canadian neighbors achieved
such financial success in the recent
award of five million and Il half dollars
against this country for trespasSing on
their fishing grounds, that it is not in
the nature of things that no future
claim will be brought forward for arbi-
tration. The case was SO stupidity sub
mitted and managed, and the award 80
eagerly paid, as to be well calculated to
encourage them. As consequence, on
the / lth inst. in the Dominion House of
Commons, new complaint was entered
against American fishermen, and a lively
debate ran through the entire session.
The Yankee fishermen who are engaged
III scooping mackerel from the Gulf Of
st. Lawrence, are charged with using the
purse seine, whereby young as well as
full grown FISH are caught; and that the
mall fish being killed by the seine, were
afterwards thown into the water, and
aecompcsing, poisoned the water and
drove the cod fish from its usual haunts.
As the purse" fishing takes place outside
Of the three-mi}e line, and can not there
. fore be called violation of the treaty,
would puzzle any one to discover any
we'll founded ground for national COM
complaint or n formal appeal 70 the
American Government The latter has
paid soundly for its privilege of fishing
of the coast of the British Posses
sions, and will probably allow her
citizens to choose their own method of
filling their purses outside of the pre-
scribed limits. The Canadian House of
Commons has also declared that by the
conveyance of Alaska to the United
States, Canada has lost the right to the
free navigation OF the rivers of Alaska.
This right had been reserved by ii by q
treaty with Russia in 1925, but English
lawyers concedc that by the transfer OF
1867 this right ceases. 1t is now pro-
posed to revive the question. If Uncle
Jonathan has The shrcwdness OF young
macke-el he might possibly get back q
portion OF the fishery award by selling
the right OF navigation on these rivers.
THE FhILosofHi oF VouhIShlf'
Had Mr.. John T. Porter, young man
Of Ottawa, Illinois, not been SO entirely
eugrossed during his courtship Of Miss
Lizzie Frey Il few mouths since as to for.
get very simple principle of natural
philosophy, he would not find things go
ing 50 bad with him in case now pend.
ing in the courts Of that State, wherein
Miss Frey has elected herself plaintiff
and is giving him, the said John, a hard
run as defendant. The principle of phi
losophy alluded TO- and which Mr. Porter
entirely overlooked in his hours OF pre-
timinary bliss, was this, that "the angle
of incidence is equal to the angle of re-
Fiction" Had he reflected upon thi,
principle with as much forethought ~
the mothcr-in-law apparent did he would
have observed the position Of the parlol
mirror, and discovered how the angle Of
incidence was betraying the fond endear