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The public debt, on April 1, 1886, amounted 

 to $1,065,600. 



Commerce. The total value of the imports in 

 1885 was $3,831,000; of the exports, $9,069,- 

 000, of which $8,959,000 were products of the 

 country. The customs receipts amounted to 

 $502,000. The principal articles of export are 

 sugar and rice. There were exported, in 1885, 

 171,350,000 pounds of sugar, 7,367,000 pounds 

 of rice, 2,000 pounds of coffee, 57,000 pounds 

 of tallow, 1,000 pounds of awa, 475,000 pounds 

 of wool, 60,046 packages, and 41, 636 neat-hides 

 and calf and goat skins. 



The export of sugar in 1888 was the largest 

 ever known. During the nine months end- 

 ing September 30 it amounted to 202,468,000 

 pounds, valued at $9,208,875. Nearly all the 

 other articles of export showed an improve- 

 ment, but not so marked. 



There were 32 miles of railroad in operation 

 in 1886. The post-office, during the two years 

 1884-J85, forwarded 561,041 international, and 

 1,101,370 internal, letters. 



Under a law that went into operation on 

 Dec. 1, 1884, only gold coins of the United 

 States are legal tender for more than $10, and 

 United States and Hawaiian silver coins for 

 smaller amounts. 



Nayigation. Among the 253 vessels, of 190,- 

 138 tons, that were entered at the port of 

 Honolulu in 1885, there were 191 American 

 vessels, of 133,044 tons ; 33 English vessels, of 

 43,203 tons ; 6 German vessels, of 3,267 tons ; 

 and 18 Hawaiian vessels, of 6,610 tons. There 

 are steamers connecting the islands with the 

 United States, Australia, and China, and 18 

 steamers and many schooners plying between 

 the islands. The merchant navy, in 1885, had 

 an aggregate burthen of 9,250 tons. 



HAYNE, PAUL HAMILTON, an American poet, 

 born in Charleston, S. C., Jan. 1, 1830, died at 

 Copse Hill, Grovetown, near Augusta, Ga., July 

 6, 1886. He was educated in his native city, 

 early became a contributor to the " Southern 

 Literary Messenger " and other periodicals, 

 and at different times edited the Charleston 

 " Literary Gazette " and " Russell's Magazine " 

 (also published in that city), and was on the 

 staff of the Charleston " Evening New r s." After 

 the civil war he removed to Copse Hill, Ga., 

 where he resided until his death. He had been 

 for many years a contributor to the best-known 

 American periodicals, and published in book- 



form, " Poems " (Boston, 1854) ; " Sonnets and 

 other Poems" (1857); " Avolio, with Poems 

 Lyrical, Miscellaneous, and Dramatic " (1860) ; 

 " Legends and Lyrics " (1872) ; " The Mountain 

 of the Lovers, with Poems of Nature and Tra- 

 dition " (1875) ; and a complete edition of his 

 poems, illustrated (1882). His posthumous po- 

 ems are sufficient to fill another volume. He 

 also edited, with a life, the poems of his friend 

 the lamented Henry Timrod (New York, 1873), 

 and wrote biographies of Robert Y. Hayne and 

 Hugh S. Legare. 



Paul Hayne's poetic nature was inherited 

 from his mother, Emily McElhenny, who was 

 of Scotch-English descent. His love of oratory 

 and political achievement came from his father. 

 In early life he passed through phases of re- 

 ligious doubt ; but his spiritual convictions 

 grew stronger as he grew older, until his last 

 days were filled with a fervid faith in Christ 

 and immortality. He was essentially a man of 

 letters, and no rebuff of fortune or ill-health 

 ever moved him from devotion to his art. 

 With his wife and son he lived an ideal life 



PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE. 



in the pine-forest, "far from the madding 

 crowd," content to reap at times the scant re- 

 ward of a Southern man who subsists by his 

 pen. He had many ardent admirers and de- 

 voted friends, not a few of whom were at the 

 North, among the most eminent authors of the 

 time. His friendship for Philip Bourke Mar- 

 ston, the blind poet of England, was one of the 

 most romantic episodes in the life of men of 

 genius. One of his most beautiful lyrics cele- 

 brated the fidelity and love of his heroic wife, 

 whose earnest aspiration was for his comfort 

 and fame. Hayne's poems are noted for their 

 classic form, their admirable finish, and purely 

 spiritual character. They are the secrets of 

 Nature breathed in music by a worshiper of 



