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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. lilli DRUNKARD. Writ ton By Wi Ul nm Avery Wood tm Tin* imutviiM Advertiser. Edward and Milton Poareo were thc only sons of Johnathan < median [Pearoo, and were both handsome [boys and well educated. Edward was just eighteen years ?of age, while Milton was almost seventeen. Their father had once boen one bf tho Wealthiest fanners in Caroli na, but ho was now a drunkard, a jl?erfect sot. There is, I think, no [necessity to explain the meaning [of the word "drunkard" for, no doubt, many of you have witnessed [titc misery caused by drinking. In [most cases it is Tho want of mont, and Of broad, Which tho drunkard's wifo must Pear: Rlvors of tears HIIO docs ?hott, i Still, what dues thc drunkard care. Jonathan Pearce made it ti regu lar practico to return home every evening, as tho old saying lins it. "drunk and still drinking." His two boya looked on him in disgust, wliile Ids dear, good wife begged him, for the sake of his sons and for his own sa ko, to cease drink ing. "Ohl father, do stop," sim said. "Don't USO that poison. Oh, stop!" But to all these pleadings ho turn ed a deaf ear. and it seemed very much as if he was going to disgrace and ruin tho wholo family. In fact, .his own sons were ashamed of him. They worked hard and studied Itheir books at night, and managed [to cam a decent living, and, 1 may [say, a luxurious one, while their ifatlier was in the "drunkard's den,'' ?gambling, drinking and swearing. lOnoneof these occasions ail the family lind retir.ul to sleep, but Uliey were destined to soon ko {awakened, for about 12 o'clock the ? two brothers, who slept up stairs, sworn awakened by their motlier [Screaming and tho sound of heavy blows. Tlioy both jumped to their feet and ran as fast as they could Ito their mother's room. Just as ' tiiey reached tho door of her apart? [ nient the blows ceased, and their i fatlier spoke-for ho was boat? i ing their mother. "Now give mo that money." "Ohl don't beat mu so," Mrs Pearce said, crying. "Aint yer goin' to git it; eh!" and ho again raised his heavy whip; ho was so drunk that ho al most fell to the floor. "Oh, help!" cried Mrs. Pearce, Tho boys could stand it no long er, but entered nt once and lied their father, yes, tied their own father, but it was the only remedy. They tied him secure, ni though he fttrttgcled much, And there lav tho groat, strong mau, Dogging, ?sad rascals can. Then Edward spoke and sahl: "Father we regret very mindi todo this, but we have asked you kind ly, nay, begged you to change your couse of life. Milton and I have dono all in our power to do, yes, more than would bo oxpectcd of us, Uni, father, we do not intend to follow your course, nor do we in tend for you to continue it any lon ger." "Don't you!" yelled the old man. "You will soon find out whothor wo do or not," and Edward stopped out of Hie room. Ile determined to resort to strat egy, so ho procured a large butcher knife, a pail of water and tho host clothes his father owned and car ried them and laid them down by his father, for as I told you Mr. Poareo was tied so fist that ho could not move hand nor foot, Mr. Pearce watched nil theso pro ceedings in amazement, hut enid nothing. Edward thon got the Bi bil*, and himself, mother and broth er all knelt around the drunken man-who was getting ?ober won derfully fast. Then Milton pro ceeded to read a chapter rotating to drunkenness. Still Mr. Pearce said nothing. "Well," said Edgar picking Up tho butchor knife, "father we now tell you good-bye, for we deem i' expedient to put an end to all wretches and drunkards, such as you ore." And ho wedded Ills knife above his father's head. Then Mr. Pearce broke forth and exclaim: "Ohl son, would you mur der your own father? Oh, please have mercy." "Well," said Edward coldly, "we will give you one moro chance? if you will promise never to touch whiskoy again, und treat motlier ns you should, w?s will free you, but" "I will, I promisol" shouted Mr. Pearce. And now there ls not a better ?band In all Carolina, .dward and Milton aro both fllftrrlcd and have little children around their knees and-but the pleasant part ot it is they never drink. No, never. old mau Jonathan laughs and pays,-and ? say so too-that If bog King won't do, why, then, resort to force, and you will conquer. riIIO FA ICM Hits* AL.CIANCIO Declaration of Purposes by tho Farmers of Alabama. Wc, tho farmers of Alabama, feel ing the importance of a closer bond of union between us, in order to n better regulation of our llnnncinl ami homo interest, mutually ngroe lo form ourselves Into an an asso ciation to ho called the Farmers' Alliance, Those ure our principles: 1. Wo beliovo in tho oxh tonco of a Supreme Heilig, who rules and govern*) tho universe. 2. We believe tho Hilde to be tho Book of Truth, und adopt it as our waybill through life. .'5. We beliovo in and assert the dignity of agriculture. 4. Wo aim to bring about tho adoption, by our class, of more im proved methods of farming. . i. Wo believe; in tho acquirement by nil who cnn, of a knowlodgool seien ti (ic agriculture. i?. We labor for tho higher edu cation ol our class generally. 7, Wo favor tho adoption of all labor-saving implements and ma chinery in farm work. 8. Wo labor to adorn and beauti fy our homes, and render farm life more attractive. '.?. We labor to bring about among our class a better finding, socially. IO, Wo labor for tho education of our (dass, in tito science of econo mic government, in a strictly non partisan spirit. M. We believe in tho enactment of but few laws, and these laws to ho faithfully executed. 12, We believe io the principle ol equal rights to all and special fa vors to none. 13. Wo believe in tile principle of lotting thc o Alco seek the man and not tho man tho ofllce. 1 I. Wo are unqualifiedly averse to anarchy, socialism, communism and agrarianism, in whatever form it presents itself. IG. Wo beliovo it essential to free government, that every man own a permanent interest in tho sin). IO. Wo are utterly opposed to all monopoly, as contrary to our insti tutions, und dangerous to the liber-* tics of tho people. v. ' 17. Lobbing WO believe lo be nguinst tho welfare of the people* and should by law be punished. 18. Dealing in "futures" in agri cultural products we believe great ly demoralizing to (ho country, de ranging tojttsl values, and should, by law, l>>- suppressed. WK We aim to I nangu rate among ourselves a system of co-operation in buying and selling, and- to try, by all just moans, lo better our con dit ion financially. 20. We beliovo in tho doctrine, "pay as you go," and urge upon far mers tin; abandonment of Hie er?! ?lit system as spe edily as possible. 21. We Wu go no war upon any ol lier class except extortioners; bul recognize tho rigid of all to hotter their condition by just and honest methods, 22. We beliovo in thc right of ?very man to acquire as much mo ney us be can, honestly, provided he does not use it to tho injury of another. 28. It is against tho spirit of this order for om; brother to go to law with another; bul all disputes Should be .-ot tied fl m Oil g themsel ves; or, failing in this arbitration, The Forecast For Mari?h. charlotte Chronic lo I Prof. J.e. Bah.'r, our local weather prophet, comes promptly to tho front with Mis WCatllQr table for Mandi. Ho says that the weather for this month will be as follows, the pre dictions la ing calculated for tho BOUthorn states; 1 and 2 partly cloudy, cold wind; 8 fair and cold : I Blent] 8 rain, sleet and fog; (5 fair and cold wind ; 7 and H snow und rain; band IO fair and front; ll lit tle ruin; 12 fair and cold; 18 fair, frost and wind, 14 nearly fair and Cold w ind; lo fall" nod cold; lb fair, frost and wind: 17 portly cloudy and cold wind ; 18 little rain, windy and warmer; 2b partly cloudy and warm ; 21 rain, thunder and wind; 22 rain, thunder, wind und nomo had ; 23 good rain, thunder and cold ; 21 I it tics rain, cool then fair off; 2? nearly fair und mild; 27 warm and thunder; 2s little rain and thunder; 21) littlo rain then fair; 80 fair and cold; 31 partly cloudy and cold. A purgativo medici?n should pos* BOSS tonic and curative, ns well us cathartic properties. This Combination or ingredients may be found In Aycr's Fills. They istrengbeii and stimulate tho bow els, causing natural action, BILL NYK'S TRAVELS. HE MEETS A HARD FISTED FARM ER ON A RAILWAY TRAIN. Tho Agrloulturolitd Unbosoms Illili Bolt' .lust Why Ho Doesn't Love a Bucolic I.M'<-. On bon rel :i Western train the other day, I held in my bosom for over seventy-live minutes tho el bow of a large man whose name I did not know. Ho was not a rail road hog, or I would have resented it. He was built wide and he couldn't help it, so J forgave him. Ho lind a large, gentle, kindly eye, and when he desired to spit lo wen t to tho ear door, opened it and decorated tho entire outside of the train, forgetting thal our speed would give scope to his remarks. Naturally as he sat. there by my side, holding on to his ticket llrm ly and evidently afraid thc conduc tor would come and get il. I be gan tollguro oui in my mimi what might bo his business. He had pounded one thumb so that tho nail was black where the blood had get- ' tied under ic. This might happen j to a Shoemaker, a carpenter, a blacksmith or most anyone oise. So it didn't hele me out mindi, though il looked lo me as if it i might have been done by trying to drive a fence rail through a leather bingi; with the back of an ax, and nobody but a farmer would try to do that, following up tin4 clue I discovered that he had milk on his boots, and then 1 knew I was right. Tho man who milks before day light I:-] a barn, when tho thermoni- ! (der i-- down to 2S below, and who miss ?be i*.li! and '.lils bi-: bod by reason nf thc cold and tie" uncer tain light and tlc- prudishness, ol' tho cow, is a marked man. Ho cannot conceal the fact thal he is a farmer unless he removes (bul m badge. S ) I started out on that theory and remarked that this would pass for a pretty hard win ter on stock. The thought was not original with me, for I ha vi; heard ii ex pressed by others either in this country or in ICuropC. He said it would. 4iMy callie bas gone through a ' .ltlOWful o' hay SCIICO October and eleven ton o' brand, Hay don't seem to have the goodness to it the! lt bed Inst year, and with their j new process griss mills they Jerk all the juice out o' brond, so's you might US well feed cows willi excel sior and upholster your horses willi hemlock bark as to buy brand." "WeM, why do you run so nundi lostock? Why don't you try di versified farming and rotation of crops ?" "Well, probably you got the idee in the papers. A man that earns big wages writing'Farm Hints' for agricultural papers can make more niony with a soft lead pencil and two or three season-cracked idees like that'll than 1 eau currying of 'em out on the farm. Wo Used to | have a foliar In the drug store in our tOWll that wrcto such good pieces for the Knrul Vermonter mid made up such a good condition powder out of Ins own head that two years ago we asked him to write ii nessay for the annual melding of the Buckwheat trust, und lo uso hi? own Judgment about choice of subject. And what do you B'pOSO lu; bad selected for a nessay that took tho whole fore noon to read ?" "What subject, you mean V" "Yes." 4 (Jive it up." "Wi ll, he'd wnde out that whole blamed intellectual wad on tho subject of 'Tho Inhumanity of De horning Hydraulic Kains.' How's that?" "That's pretty fair." "Well, tannin' is liku running a pa por in SOUK; things. Every fel ler in tho tin; world will take and turn in and tell you how to tio it, even if hedon't know u blame thing about it. There ain't a man in the United States to-day that don't se cretly think ho could run airy one if Iiis other business busted on In.ti, whether ho knows tho (li(Toronco between a new milch cow and a hoffO buy-rake or not. Wo had ono of these embroidered night-shirt fanners como from town lat tei'n years ago. Been a toilet soap man and done well, and so became out and bought a farm that had nothing to lt but a fancy house and barn, a tot of modder in tho front yard and a southern aspect. Tiio farm was no good. Yo.i couldn't raise ?v disturbance on it. Wolli what (loos lie do? (loes and gels a a passlo of slim-tailed, poller cows (rom New Jersey and aims to l>an die cream and diversified farm lng. Last year the cuss sent a load of cream over and tried to sell it at tho croainatory w hile tho lunornl and hollorcost was goin* on. I may bo a sort ol a chump myself, but 1 rend my paper and don't get left like that." "What are tho prospocts for far mers in your Slate ?" "Well, they uro pore. Never was so pore, in fact, sonco I've been there. Folks wonders why boys leaves the farm. My boys left HU SO as to get protected, they said, and so th ?y wont into a clothing store ono of'em, and one went in to hardware and ono Into ttilkln' protection in tho legislature this winier. They said thal farmin' was ?'ottin'tu be like huntin' and fish in', well onough for a mau that has means and leisure, but they could not make a living at it, they said. Another boy is in tl drug store, ard the man that hires him say- ho is a royal feller." "Kind of a castor royal feller," I said with a shriek of laugtcr. He wailed until ? had laughed all I wanted to and then ho ?aid: "I have always hollered for high tariff in order to hyst tho public debt, bul now that we've got the national debt coopered I wish they'd take a little hack at mine, I'vo put in Hf ty yours farmin'. I novel' drank liquor in any form. Iv'e worked from ten lo elgetcen hours a day, been economical and close, and never went lo ti show moro'u u dozen times in my life, raised a family and learned up ward of tu ? hundred calves to drink oui ot a tin pail, without blowing all their vittles up my sleeve. My w ife win ked illoiisido of mo sewiu' new seats on tho boys' pants, skimmiu' milk and even helpin' mo load bay. For forty years we toiled along toge til or and hardly got time to look into each other's laen or dared to stop and get acquainted with each other. Then her health failed. Ketchod I cold in tho spring house, prob'ly sk i ni m in' milk an' wnshin' puns and scaldiu' pails and spun kl n' but ler. Anyhow, she lo >k a long breath one day while tho doctor and me WHS watehin' her, and she says to me,'Henry,'says she, 'I've got ll chance to rest,' and she put one tired, worn out hand on top of Hie other tired, worn out hand, and 1 kliow'd she'll gone where they don't work ali day and do choi es till night. "I took limo to kiss lier then. i'd boon too busy for a good while previous lo t i lit, ami then I called ill the boys. After the funeral it was too much for them to stay around and eat the kimi of cookin WO had to put up will?, and nobody spoko up a roil n ?I tho house as wc n ed to. The boys quit wlllstlill' around the barn and talked kind of low by themselves about goin' to town and Rettin' a job. The Fftects of Had Literature. Ono day hist week three youths ol'( i reen ville, all under IO years and all sons of highly respectable parents, left home mistoriously. Tlicy had been seen lo leave thc city each bearing il bundle, and with thc appearance of being runa ways, That night the boys failed to turn up, mid search w as begun for them. U was unsoccossful and tho boys caino back of their own accord, ll turns out that they had sot out to see tho w orld for them selves and had made ti compact that ttii! flrst one of tho party who offorod turn back should bo shot and his hoad cut off by tho other two. When they got ns far as Simpson ville, on tho ("reenvide and Laurens Hoad, however, the whole parly concluded to come Lacie, which they did, much to the joy of the fond parents. Dime nov els aro said to have inspired the boys. Thero is no period of a girl's life al which she is not beautiful and charming'ind all that; but it must be confessed that lt is as a bride that she takes the cake. There ure onough miles of rail road In the United St Hes to girdle the earth H Ve and n half times. Over A half million Of men are en gaged in Operating these roads. There are thirty thousand locomo tives, twenty thousand passenger ears, r d eight hundred and seven ty-ion, thousand freight cars in the United Hintes. DON'T GIVE UPTH?SHIP ; PRESIDENT NORRIS' APPEAL TO ' THE FARMERS OF THE STATE. J Tho situation Kev lowell urn! thc Fur? ' mei's Ur?cd toKeep Up (heh* Plght ( JA ti a Soparalu AgHoulriirul College, ( To tho farmers of South Carolina: i I believe that tho lively interest . manifested hy yon for the past two years in thc press, In oublie moot- : Inga, in the by-laws, at homo ami ; abroad, a ucl in throe Stale conven- i Hons held in Columbia, attended I With loss of tim?' and a considerable I expenditure of means, which many l eoidd ill alford, incant something* more than a capriciousness of pur? pose. The first of these conventions con sidered many things. The second, more (dearly perceiv ing our m cessitle?! i.nrrow'cd it.s de liberations materially, specially rc? commending a separate agricultu ral college, tho establishment of an experimental station in connection with the said college, thal the board of agriculture should bo divorced as fara-, possible from politics and its members chosen hy Uni ''armer's Association, and that the law organ izing tho hoard should bo SO amen ded as to increase its members from five to len, willi tho power of olect ingitsowu secretary. Tho last con vention, hold after the lapse of twenty months from tho first, and after the recommendations ?man ?t inn; from tho second had been er r neslly discussed holli publicly and privately! unanimously closed its session hy affirming the above re? commendations, although, before Hie vote was ordered, an earnest explication had been made them of the plan afterwards followed hy the Legislature. lt is (or you to say whether or not your wishes have boon mot. In Stoad of one Iron.;-, well-equipped experimental station, in connec lion with tho agricultural college, wt; have three weal; one-, ai which n large per cent of their income will ? he initially expended in "duplica ted" ?Moers. I nstead of a real agri cultural college, separate' anti apart from the influences of the Routh ('andina College, where it was hop od hoys would not only he educa ted anti trained in thc mysteri?s of successful agriculture ami made ac quainted willi the powerful levers of progressive farming, hut where tito allurements and inspirations r i farm lifo would bo constantly in stilled into their minds and from which wc might hopo lo have a fair preecntagc of them return to Ibo avocations of theil" fat her.-, we have an enlargement of Hie annex only. Instead of a hoard of agriculture re organized on the plan outlined by your eon volition, tho legislature has enlarged tho present board, deny ing it tho power to elect its own secretary) thus fatally crippling Its efficacy. Without claiming that all wis? .om is with tho farmers, it appears to mo, as I feel it must to you, that lu these matters affecting us and our interests first ami foremost, our judgment ami wishes should have boen concurred in, md In tito grud ging and half-way manner in which we leave been rceogni/.ed| hut cheer fully and heartily. The more SO when the enactment of these meas ures into laws would base entailed liltleorno additional tax, as their maintenance would have chiefly como from money now appropria ted by law for similar hut unsatis factory use. Congress bas given to tho farmers of South Carolina! in common willi those of other States, 1)115,000, ami has secured to ns bo? sities $11,000, bolh sums to bo paid annually. Besides this tho farinera of tho State aro paying about $25, ODO, a year's inspection fees oil fer tilizers, to furnish a fund to he ll sod in their interest ami for their pro tection. Who gainsays their righi to say how this $51,000 should he expend? ed, or who so hohl as to deny that lt would not bo expended ns it should he? it is I argo) y through your labor that the State has col? looted iu taxes during tho five years Immediately following our re demption from Rad leal rule, not counting the ahove annual tax on fertilizers, nor the constantly in ferno from phosphate royalties, tho poll tax, the ordinary und special county taxes, nor the const it nt lonni two mill school tax, from which sources many millions have been extorted from us sinco 1870. I re peat, in those years the Stat?) bas collect ed for its ordinary purposes tho enormous sum ot* $2,857,000, and ti tito past five years, (issy Mol nado up,) tito increasing sum of 113,626,500. These vast sums have j >een freely given to every variety )t purpose, from iee; tickets to canal ligging, Irom soap and towel:; and natches to gilding the State House, md from extra clerical expenses to M30,000 in salarie-;. And yet ive mc told that tho State Is too poor to give tito meagre ut tn Of $50,000 to commence to hu i ld ip (his institution upon which the "armers were beginning to look as 0 their Mecca. Tile advocate- of he scheme, adopted hy thc last 1 legislature, made no Issue with the justness of the demands madel hy your convention, as witness thc laws enlarging thc board of agricul ture and the ainu \, and tho estab lishment of experimental stations, i'hey diverted thc l.ree/.e you had stirred lo thc sailing of their boat. You are ..ailed upon to say if the L?gislature, which has just expired, voiced the sentiment of tho majori ty of tho people of thc state on ? these questions. These measures] wert- not before the pOOplc when it was elected, und ?ii ii co iso pience it was voted for without reference to timm. Will you, once disregarding the (aunt that fill'lil ns will not stick together, unite in your strength, numerically, (lunn [dally and politically, and secure to yourselves that measure of the state's fostering care which your ?ni pori a" ce deserves V If you decide to right yourselves lind gain that consideration in Hie councils nf thc State to which you are entitled and which i- gracious ly extended lo tho runners in many d' our sider Slate--, leaders w i I 1 ~ b o found who ll re the peer- of any wlio may oppo.'.C you. Consider these matters as settled and a generation will live and die without seeing them chang ed, i would not impugn tho mo tives of tho friends of tho recent legislation on those matters. They aro South Carolinians, equally in terested with any of. us in tho State's prosperity and advance ment, but 1 deny ill toto their su perior wisdom in dealing with ques tions pertaining so nearly to the farmer's interest, for 1 am pur ? naded many, if not most, of tho sup porters of tho bills pnssod relating lo these things aro not of our profes sion and necessarily do not, nor can ned, think and feel ns wo do in ref erence to them. I woiihl.rospeet fully ask the press of thc state to give publicity to Hill address thai it may bo considered by all of the farmers of the state. Pres. Farmers' Association ofS. (!, Hickory Flat, Feb. ii:',. A Sleeping Match. The latest sensation in New York is a sleeping match, lt will take placent Madison Square (?arden. The, men engaged In tho novel coulest are to sleep one hundred and forty-two hours on ;i stretch. The man who sleep- for that length of time w ithout w aking will will the ca).?lal prize. There luis al ready been Sl.V dillies for the .'race," and it is presumed that the number will bc Increased before the contest begins. So far no entries have been ni a vi o from South Carolina. There are some mighty good sleepers ill this state, on Sundays. They can la found in nearly all Ibo churches. Here (bey have a chance to attain distinction. The cases against .John C. Keels, K. Pennington, Peyton (i. Dowan and Waller I. Ifarby,charged with the murder of Justice George E. llaynsworlb in a shooting affray ill his court on the 80tll of last Decem ber, was called in tito court of ses sions for Sumter county, Monday, J ltd go Fraser presiding. After about Ave hours of argument by both counsel for 11)0 di fence and (he state, nil (he cases were post poned uni il the May term of the court. The continuances were granted on llCCOUIlt 0? the absence of material witnesses for the de fence. All tho parties w ere admit ted to bail to appear for trial In May. Dr. (?. M. By mino?, of Peru, Fla., lins two of the teeth of a mastodon, w hich were found by a boatman during tho recent freshet on the Alalia Hiver. One ol' hem weighs -even pounds and measures eight inches In length and fourteen and one-nnlf In clrcuinfer ence, and the other is slightly larg er and heavier, The doctor will place them on exhibition itt the Sub-Tropical. A search will be pnado for tho skeleton of the ani mal. Iowall ipublic.un aro becoming alarmed und I hey say that. If the Prohibitionists insist Upon running a State ticket Inls Fall they will glvo thc State to tho Democrat-*, I). K. NORRIS, N. w s nuil i iotnii r. ? CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Kiu-ts .UM! Fa notes O?u( herod From VtU'loitH Quarti i . Tho most trying position a truthful clergyman can bo in i; to bo preaching the funeral sermon of a mun who died rich und mean. A movement lins boon started Cor Hie purclin8o of tito euri*, homo of tito poet Whittier and its pro rvution us a shrine for patriotic Americans. , An English firm culls attention to ita admirable supply of sermons for melan choly occasions, which they rctnil for seven pence each. Special sermons oro two and six a hoad. A Kow Orleans newspaper says that tho millions ot pickaninnies scon around* tho colton tields of tito south furnish tv complete refutation of tho theory that the negro race in America ls (lying out. > An eighty tor. Hat car. which is claimed; to bo tho larges! over made in this coun try, is hoing built In Packerton. Pa.i anti when finished will bo used for hauling a lot of machinery from New York to Bethlehem. An Orlando (Fin.) newspaper man han substituted a pair of ? and kid crane -, for watch dogs, ami bc finds that tlx ir loud, clear uoto of warning w lu n a (ramp or n burglar comes near i i un clfcclivo nienns of protection. The manager of thc nutomnt lc machines which furnish weights, sweetmeat 1, pens, paper, and other things lo London, people, recently showed tho polico haifa ton of lead and zinc dies und thousand* cf pieces of cardboard that lind been dropped Into tho machine ii.stead o? pennie... Tho two new victorias of the rennten* from California ure wild to ho tho most elegant carriages Been in Washington. Senator Stanford's attracts th.- greater attention for the reason thu! tho coach man and footman aro io deep mourning and mutch tho somber Imo of tho boises and thc harness, Tho crown princess of Au ?ria pro? scnlcd her husband, Prince Rudolf, with a completo outfit ot geometrical instru ments us a New Year's gift. Tho caso of walnut, Inlaid with silvi r, which held tho instruments, also contained a pretty letter from tito princesa trusting that their lives would "henceforth bo hap? pier. " California is proud of ber record for 1887. Three hnnih'od mil a of new rail road wei-.- laid, tho osHcSscd value ofi property Increased $15ld,000,000, tho wine and brandy product w;,i large, 50,000,000 pounds of ennned gooda and 05,000,000 of green fruit wore shipped, and tItero never was r uck n year lor tourists. Among tho gifts offered to tho p?po on bis birthday ii ?? cont!?vaneo by a French engineer, named Arragon, for ringing largo church India by eli otricity. A similar nt rangement \ -. wobollovo, nt present ot work in a London church, tho apparatus having l>een designed and erected by sonto of tho students at thc Finsbury Technic:.! college. A Russian general lui i created a great sensation i:i Fur pe by furnishing nil elaborate neheme for tho construction of a railway through fill : : i to tko Pacific ocean. H ls intended : ; i by tho short est possible cut from t!? . Urals t<> tho Pacido ocean. Tb I i' ! . ?lof tho rond is entimated nt $00 ?,000,OOO, which, it is believed, cnn he readily raised in Hus HU itself. ?.? Ex-Governor Alger's great Michigan pino forest Is localed at Block river, on Lake Huron, near Alpena. It comprises 70.000 acres, or over 100 square miles. Thc annual product of tho forest ia from 75,000,000 lo 00,000,000 f111 of lumber, according t > thc slate of ti: trade. Thcro ure 500 men employed In ti..? nine camps in tho fere. t. Hucksters atv co numerous In porno part8 of tow n that they ute a serious au noy ance to housckco'ici'S, A lady i?. West Phila lelphio, tired of their rei "?ted ringa tit her dcor bell, adopted a \ ry shrewd moans < C golfing rid of thom. She notified every ono wi io came to ber bouse that she w ould have him arrested for selling without license if ho cunio again, lt waa only n gUCSS of hers U8 to tho licence, but tho shot wc:;l homo in every case. Tho wife < f a United States Kenntet is believed lo have broken tho Washington visiting record. Sho mais- forty-oight calls in ono afternoon, Assuming that ?io galloped tho round of ber social duties in four hours, sho made twelvo colls an hour, or OHO every live minnies, De ducting tin! lime taken In going from hou.se to liouso and estimating ii al two I minutes, tho average durati in of a call would bo about tbreo minutes. Thrca minute:; however, is suf?loicnt for tho rc? quiromcnta of Washington friendship. . Opening of Rfialn's PAvtlantoiit. The opening of tho Spanish parliament hy tho infant king and hi.; mother, tho queen regent) was ti inosi interesting Spectacle, Tho infant king was dressed in white, with n wbfto bonnet, tho latter being ri moved upon bis bel?g seated ou the throne, to tho right of queen Chris tina, w iio ,- black dre i. only relieved by ti dara and a gold cellar of diamonds, formed a striking contrast to (ho mass oj geld color covering tho house and light ing up tho tribunes. While tho queen read the speech from tho throne in ch ar, audible (ones, without tho slightest signa of thc nervousness attributed to ber, tho young king Surveyed (be eceno with complete composure, fixing lils attention alternately upon the ass(lablago and Upon the qUCcH. When tho reading of thc document w OS completed, his majesty showed a wish lo bo among tho first to leave, but h ing taken in (he queen's arms ho remained perfectly quiet.-Tim Argonnut. Ton l'uvorlto Nuv?U. The Unity < bib ot 1 Vi,vu- recently nd? j dreased h it: rs to (ho leading ministers, lawyer?, politicians and lib rary men of the state asking cadi to furnish n list of ten novels ho considered tho greatest. Tho results showed the favorite novels to lie, in the order named: "I,en Miser ablcs," David Copperfield," Scarlet Let* ter," "Ivanhoe.'' "Vanity Fair," "Ko niola," ".hine Eyre," "Adam Fide,'* "Ben ll ur" ?nd ? ? '. , t abiti.'1