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THIS REGISTER; COSYKBS,Q.V., TilUttßU VY **. IH7rt - THEINEW SPEAKER. Sketch of the Nominee-A Re view of His Political Services —The Notable of Last Year. Samuel J. Randall. lle nominee of tl <■ Democratic members f< r Speak ?r of the I loose of Representatives of the Forty-fourth ('on res*, in place of the lntc Michael t\ Kerr, was born m Phila delphia in 1828. His farther, Joai-.ih Randall, was an eminent ami ranked in hie day among the licet prac titioners of the Philadelphia I nr. After Indng carefully educated jottng Randal! chose a mercantile life, and lor smite years was i ugngeil in hnsiucw, display ing even then that indomitable cnctgt and industry which have marked his po litical career. At the same time he took mi notiv° part in local ami State politics, and at an early age was elected to the City Councils. Ilia father was a leader of till old Whig party in this section of the S'ate, hut upon the dismemberment of that organization he acted with the Democratic party and supported Mr. I'•iieliaiuui at the election of IH.Vj. Sam no) J. Randall began his earnest politi cal career as a Democrat, aed after Ink ing n prominent part in the City Coun cils was nominated and elected to the Stale ‘Senate by that parly. In this body ho served during the years 1358 and 1859, nud attracted the net ice of his colleagues of both parlies by liis quick ness of apprehension and readiness in handling the rules of the House. fie did not speak often, nor were his dis courses long, but he grasped the main points of a case and presented his views in a clear, concise and terse manner. The hold that Mr. Randall ob'irncd upon the party by his actions in Coun cils and the Senate was such ns to force his name into the lists of candidates for Congress, atul he was nominated and elected to the Thirty eight Congress in 1862. lfe was re-elected to the thirty- ninth, Fortieth, Forty first, Forty-sec ond, Foity-third and Forly-fomlh Con gresscs, Mild has been rgain re-tlected to the Forty-fifth Congress. When Mr. Johnson was President, Mr. Randall enjoyed to a full measure the confidence of the administration and aided in a good degree in shading the jiolicy of the White House. After bear ing his share of party labors ami respon sibilities, both in and out of Congress, iroin 1862 to 1876, Mr. Randall was pre senved as a candidate for Speaker tit the beginning of the Forty-Fourth Congress and sustained by strong 1 fiends in all sections of tbo Union, who thought lie was entitled to the position, both from length of service and peculiar fitness for the place at that pnrticulinr juncture • of affairs. Ilis opponent was Michael C. Kerr, another of the champions of tiie Dein'■m alic party, who had never flinched from Ins duty in the darkest hour ofthat party's nisto’y. The contest was warm, 'flte friends of each candidate put forth their whole strength. When the can eus met Mr. Kerr was nominated. When the lact was announced Mr* Ran- dall at once entered the hall, and in a maiiuer full of prompt nnnliness accep ted the verdict of the nart v, and said : “Mr. Chairman, let the wish of the ma jority by voice ot all. Ft cm this mo ment the difference among ourselves must be at an end, and wo must thus present a united front to out adversaries. Our mission on this floor must be, as tar as we are able, to restore the govern ment to its constitutional purposes, and to ox ose the corruption.” From this moment Mr. Randall forgot the past and its hopes ane aspirations, and led his pal ly in its efforts to unearth the rottenness ot the financial policy of the ndministra tion, and reduce the. burdens which bung like a millstone around the necks of the business men of the coun try. At the close of the Forty third Con gress Mr. Randall had led “a forlorn hope” against the iniquitous “Force Bill,” a measure which he profoundly felt to be opposed alike to the Constitu tion, the genius ot our free institutions and the teachings of the great men who framed our government. For days he opposed parliamentary tactics and ready strategy against a bold aud def'ant ma jority, and in the end the Democrats came off victors. During that whole struggle Mr. Randall never lost his head „r his temper. He was cool, able and courageous, and exhibited pare abilities as a leader in dangerous and trying times. Thus far Mr. Randall had actid with the minority. He had led small numbers against heavy odds, Iu the Fortv fourth Congress he was called upon to marshal a majority party, and dash it against old antagonists iu altered relations. Upon the election of Mr. Kerr as Speaker, Mr. Randall was made Chairman of the Committee on Appio priations, oue of the most responsible posts in the House, and here again lie was burdened with labor, running alike thiougb dav and uiglß. The committee re 1 uovd the buvdens of the government iu one session, in rouud numbers, S3O, 009,The point nt which the reduc lion was fixed by Mi. I'andatl and Ins able and wi'ling colleagues wntf $88,Ob), 1)84 29. IJut he was thwarted in some degree by the action of an Administra tion Senate, which insistc 1 upon certain alterations in the House bill, that had to conceded at the end of tlie session. All through the last session the point of at tack on the part of the Administration leaders wu the Chairman of the Com mittee on Approbations, and during his financial battles Mr. llandull had frequent occasion lo fake part in controversies touching the rights and powers of the Federal Legislature, In these contests, while conceding to the Senate nil its constitutional rights, powers and privi leges, he stood up in a hold and confi dent manner for the rights ol the House as the immediate mouthpiece and cham pion of the people, in one of the de bales on this subject Mr. Kasson, ol lowa, ask Mr. Uandall, in a dictatorial manner, if lie questioned the right of the Senate oi asserted a supeiority of right ou the part of the House in regard to npproj rial ion hills. r io this Mr. Randall firmly replied : “I take all the right for ibis House which liio Constitution g’vts it,” and there the matter ended. Upon such a record, running through years of con'inuous service, Mr. ltandall has been nominated and will be elected Speaker of the second session of the Forty-fourth ’ Congress. The period promises to be full ol momentous events which may rock the temple of liberty and ol constitutional government to its very centre. Into the present Congress some of the tone and temper of the struggle now going on in the country will he projected, and hence the import ance of having ns Speaker of the House a man who is at once fully grounded in the constitutional rights o' the people and the different departments of the Government, and at the same time has the tact, expedience and courage to up hold and defend those rights against .rmed invasion or political duplicity. Modern Railroad Trave 1 . The London Engineer giv s an ac count of ‘the highest authentic instances of high railway speeds’ on record. Bru nei, with the Courier class of locomotive, ran thirteen miles in ten minutes, equal to seventy-eight miles an hour. Mr. I’. Stirling, of the Great Northern, look, two yea-s ago, sixteen carriages fifteen miles in thirteen minutes, equal to sev enty five miles an hour. I lie Great Britain, Lord of Isles and Iron Duke, broad gauge engines on the Great \\ est ern Railway, have each run with foi r or live carriages from Paddington to Didcot in foity-seven and a halt in.mites, equal to sixty-six miles an hour. The new Midland coupled express engines, runn ing in the usual course, have been timed sixty-eight, seventy, and seventy-two miles au hour. The ten a. m, express on the Great Northern from Leeds has been timed, and found mile after mils at the rate of a mile in fifty-two seconds, or at 69.2 miles an hour. The engines used are Mr. Stirling’s outside cylinder bogie express enginc-s, the load being ten car riages. It. would be interesting to bear the slowest authentic instances of slow omnibus speed on record. What arc They ? Life—A gleam ot light extinguished by the grave. Fame—A meteor dazzling with its distant glare. Wealth—A source of trouble ar.d con- suming care. I leasnre —A glemn of sunshine pass ing soon away. L< ve—A morning beam whose mem ory gilds the day. Faith—An anchor dropped beyond the vale ot death. Charity—A stream meandering from the fount ot love. Bible—A guide to realms of endless joys above. Religion—A key which opens wide the gates of Heaven. Death—A knife by which the ties of eaith are riven. Earth—A desert through which the pi’grims wend their way. Grave —A home of rest where ends life’s weary way. Resurrection —A sudden waking from a qvict dreun. Heaven—A land of joy, of light and love supreme. ♦ * The next question for discussion before the Slmkerag Debating Society is: ‘Where does a candle go to when it goes out?’ It's thought that the question will be decided in the affirmative. Weevil. —A correspondent furnishes the following remedy lor weevil in corn aud small grain. ‘I have tried the following remedy successfully for twenty years for wheat. ! never had weevils to interrupt ray corn. After the wheat is threshed and put into the garuer, sprinkle common salt evenly all over it, say about one bushel of salt to one huudred bushels cf w heat. I discovered this remedy by putting wheat in sa’l and a flour barrel; Hie flour barrels would be swarmiug with weevi', and the salt barrels would . be entirely clear of them. Hi* HEABT WAS BROKE#. Tho Suicide of a Convict Whose Wife Had A pplred for a Di vorce. The qtliet of tho Connssticut State Prison, fit Wethersfield, was broken, yeit’rday, by the discovery tin'll one of the host liked and most exemplary of the convicts had hanged himself. In the cell of John Lee Powell the officers dis c ivered his dead but not yet entirely cold body, hanging by a rope that was fastened to a spike near tlie ceiling, that was used to fasten up the bed against the wall in the day time. One end of the rope had been made into a Tuning noose, anil this was around his neck. The blight of the spike was not suffi cient to suspend him clear ol the floor if he stood upright, and he had bent op his knees to make sure work of it. lie was promptly cut down, but life could not be restored. John was in his 391 h year. He came of a good family in the town of Trumbull, in Fairfield county, his father having been a member of the Legislature and a prominent and esteemed citizen, lie lived at Stepney Depot. He was said to have been not a bad man at heart, and was led into the com mission of the crime for which he was sentenced (placing a tie across the track of the Ilousatonic railroad) by the ban tering wager of some companions, when intoxicated. The act resulted in no ac cident, but the offence is a serious one, a id the conviction of Powell, on the 27 h of August, 1875, was immediately follow ed by his sentence to prison for a term of 20 years. lie had a wife, |tcn years younger than himself, and two children ; and he fondly loved his family. During his imprisonment his wife more than once visited the prison, and assured him of her fidelity. Two months aga Powell’s father died, and the news saddened the son in his lonely imprisonment. Two weeks ago a legal document, in the shape of his wife’s petition for “a di voice, came to Powell in prison from the Fairfield county Superior Court. This formal notice, in which thejblanks in the printed form were filled out with the names of himself, his wife, and his two children, was wholly unexpected by the prisoner, and utterly overwhelmed him. He grew daily more and more dejected, and on Saturday lie had reached a oondi tion which compelled him to give up work. lie had been a carriage maker, and was an expert workman; ’and with the contractors who obtained his work in prison he was a favorite, as he was with Wa'den Ilewes and the officers, none of whom ever had occasion to use a harsh word to him. In Ins pocket was found the legal form of the wife’s divorce petition, which had been served on him as a legal formality. Between the open printed lines lie had written a cU*ar hand in pencil these farewell messages to his wife and fami ly * Oh, my dear wife! Is this the way you treat your poor T.ee? 1 certainly can’t tel' what this is for. I tell you truly, for the last time, that I love you with all my heart. You are too cruel. I die lor you. Good by forever. Good by, little lrvi\ Poor papa will never see von again on earth. Good by, Charlie, Katie, and mother. Don’t think me too rash, ler 1 can’t live and have Letitia leave me. Charlie, come and get me and-take mo home, and lay me by the side of my poor father. Tell father and mother Burr and Henry good by for It seems hard ; it is terrible "vengence she has taken, for what I used to do—l would never do so again. Y'ou look at the bad side. We have had lots and lots ot good times together, and my hopes have been that we would again— but my hopes you have blasted forever. For all you have done this, I love you with all my heart. Whatever 1 have written to you, I have done it thought lessly; I wouWhnot have done it tor all of this world H I had thought this ever ot you, my dear wife. Letitia never think of me. Don't think that you ever have done wrong with me, but enjoy yourself as much as you can. Good by. As wicked as I have been, I never could have served you in jthis way. I thought it was hard to be shut up here, but that is nothing to this- Yoi arc too cruel. How many good times we have •ad togelhor. I always knew your heart was hard, but I never thought it was as hard as it is now. Y T ou was untrue to me iu the first, aud now the last. An lowa father, who has succeeded in raising seventeen of the worst chidren iu the neighborhood, say s he is bound t b have a representative in heaven it it takes seventeen more. An Irishman who was nearsighted and about to fight a duel, insisted tht he should stand six paces nearer to his an tagonist than he did to him. ■ ♦ A theological student, supposed to b deficient in judgment, was asked by a professor, in course of a class examination, ‘Pray Mr. E ,how would you tell a foe 1?’ “By the question be would ask,” w as the Btuuning reply. A Schoolboy on Corns. Corns are of two kinds— vegetable snd animal. Vegetable corn grows in rows, and animal c rns grows on toes. There are several kinds of corns ; there ■s the unicorn, the ciprioorn, corn dog gers, gold corn, and the corn, which is the corn yon feel the most. It is suid, I believe, that gophers like corn, but per haps having coins do not like to ‘go tur, if they can help it. Corns have kernels, and some colonels have corns. Vegeta ble corn grows on ears, but animal coins grows on the, feet at the other end of the body. Another kind of corn is the acorn ; these grow on oaks, hut these is no hoax about the corn. Tho acorn is a corn with an indefinate article indeed. Iry it and see. Many a mat; when he has corns wishes it was an acorn. Folks tint have corns, sometimes send for a doctor, and if the doctor himself is c >rned, he probably wont do so well as it he isn’t Tim doctor says corns aro produced by tight boots and shoes, which is probably the reason why when a man it tight they say ha is corned. If a farmer manages well, he can get a good deal of corn on an acre, but I know a farmer that makes the biggest aclier on his farm. The bigger crop of vegetable corn a man raises, the better hr does not like it. Another kind of corn, is the corn dodger. The way it is made is very simple, and as follows— that is if you want to know; You go along the street and meet an old maid tou know has a corn, and cross temper ; then you step on the toe that has a corn on it, and see if you don't have occasion to dodge’er. In that way you will find out what a corn dodger is. Maxims to be Pondered. A grain of produce is worth a pound of craft. Boasters are cousins to liars. Denying a fault doubles it. Envy shoo eth at another and wound, eth herself. God reaches good tilings hy cur own hands. lie bas hard work who has nothing to do. It cost more to revenge wrongs than to bear them. Lear>ing makes man fit company to himself. Money is a guard to virtue. One hour today is woilli two to-mor row. Quiet conscience gives quiet sleep. Richest is lie th it wants least. Small faults indulged ate little tl.ieCes. Thu boughs that bear most hang low est. Virtue and happiness are near kin. True men make more opportunities than they find. Yon nev-r lose by doing a good turn. Zeal without knowledge is lire without light. Sin has its lurking hole, an 1 must bo hunted out through them all. Nothing can be rea' pleasure or cure to the h iman soul but what is made bv its own approbation. Choose always ihe way that seems best how rough soever it may be. Cus tom will render it easy and very agreea ble. The Farmer. When a fat mer can so manage his farm as to make “both ends o( the year nvet, even if it be with the most rigid economy, he sou'.d be contented with bis lot. It we take a survey of the business men ot ourvilages and cities, we find that only three or four in a hundred realize a com petence for old age. Then imagine the. unhspiness of those who, sooner or later, fail to si-pport themselues and familes respectable—the cares and anxieties that constantly produced pangs and tortures that no farmer ever felt. These men may apparei tly lead pleasant lives as the outside world con not witness the emo tions ot a in n who daily strains every financial nerve to meet his notes falling due at the bank. The time between one and three o'clock.brings mure anxiety to buisness m n than all the farmers of the United States realize iu a lifetime. No, farmers, your lot is not a hard one Your food may be plain and the cuts of your coats may rot be as fashionable as those of the merchants of the day ; but when you lie upon your pillow your re pose is sound and sweet. The horros of p utvsted notes seldom keep you awake at night; aud in the morning, as you go around to feed your flocks and view your crops that have visibly grown wile you were in the arms of Morpheus, you may take more real enjoyment of life in one hour than many city merchants and inanutactors do in a year. Oor advice therefore, is, be not discouraged. The times may cow be bard, but you are 1 romised ‘seed time and harvest’ to the end and. withe hard labor and judicious management, you eome out in the end victorious. ■ A Georgtown girl had a fall last week and injured herself so severely that she was curied home insensible. Upon re covering, her fiist words, addressed to her sister, were : “Mary did I have on my striped stockings?’ An old Scotch women recommended a preacher, who arrived *>l the kirk wet through, to get at once into the pulpit —Ye’ll be dry enough there.” A woman’s hand 1 How beutifully moulded! How soft and white and yield— ! ing, and oh! how much of gentle memory its pressure conveys. Yet we don’t like it iu out hair. Scientific Fanner. Science is knowledge : scientific is knowing : just,this and nothing less or more. Should bo taken by the intelligent farmer. Dan be of use to every good farmer, In practice, most practical, renters every State and Territory. Nothing like it published in the world. To all who wish to farm profitably, it appeals. In all things truthful and accurate. For one year, but one dollar. In every case, gives satisfaction. Cheap, scientific an 1 reliable. . For one dollar sent to the publishers And your name and post-offico plainly wrilter, Return mail will bring tho first number. Many dollars value is often wasted Kre the best practice is discovered, and Remember the Scientific Faiimeii saves and earns money to tho careful reader. 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