of population, 481; religious statistics, 431; statistics of

the universities, 481; the budget, 431; sources of the

revenue, 481; contributions of the states, 482; estimated

expenditures, 432; the debt, 482; state budgets and

debts, 432; strength of the army, 482, 433; the navy.

433; imports and exports, 433; movement of shipping,

433; the merchant marine, 433; railroad statistics, 484;

postal statistics, 434; telegraph statistics, 434; session

of the Imperial Parliament, 484; the speech from the

throne, 434; refusal of Parliament to imprison Socialist

members, 485; discussion of free trade and the Austrian

commercial treaty, 435; debate on the protective tariff,

435; announcement of the new policy, 435; spirited

opposition, 436; National Liberals, Fortschrittler, and

Agrarians against it, 486; action on the particular items

of the tariff, 437; the tobacco, coffee, and petroleum rev-

enue duties accepted, 437; the tariff passed as a whole,

433; parliamentary discipline bill rejected, 438; the ques-

tion of home-rule in Alsace-Lorraine, 438; Alsace-Lor-

raine made a state of the empire, 439; historical details

of unification, 439; a new President of the Reichstag,

440; Socialists refuse to do homage to the Emperor,

440; motion in favor of disarmament finds no support-

ers, 440; the Government asked if a return to a double

standard is contemplated, 440; alteration in the Treaty

of Prague and the position of Schleswig-Holstein, 441;

a railway department created, 441; officers of the Gros-

ser Kurfürst court-martialed, 441; diplomatic note on

the Egyptian debt, 441; judicial reorganization, 441; the

foothold on the Samoan Isiands, 442.

Germ Theory of Disease.-Infectious diseases, 442; the

hog-cholera of bacterial origin, 442; experiments with

anthrax, 442; septicemia and the germ theory, 442,

443; the bacteria of puerperal fever and malignant pus-

tules, 448; septicæmia due to a specific poison, 444; the
bacterium of the Roman fever discovered, 445; pulmo-
nary consumption ascribed to living germs, 444; germ
theory of yellow fever, 467, 470.

Glasgow Bank, failure of the, 175, 176.

schools, 454; deceased wife's sister bill, 454; the suffrage

question, 454; woman suffrage, 455; property qualifica-

tion for local officials retained, 455; the Government at-

tacked on the ground of its foreign policy, 455; arraigned

on the conduct of the Zooloo war, 455; the Egyptian

question, 456; deficit in the Exchequer, 456; revival of

protectionism, 456; the temperance question, 456; anti-

vivisection, 457; prorogation of Parliament, 457; ener-

getic Liberal electioneering, 457; Irish land agitation,

457; repressive measures, 458; arrests, 458; Irish fam-

ine relief, 458.

Greece.-Reigning house, 459; area and population, 459:

vital statistics, 459; budget and debt, 459; the army,

459; the Turkish boundary commission, 459; Turkish

non-compliance with the treaty, 460; admonition from

France, 460; Turkey proposes a boundary line, 460;

warlike preparations, 460; the new commission, 460;

fruitless negotiations, 460; opening of the Chamber, 461.

Greek Church.-Statistics, 461; the Patriarchate, 461; his-

tory of the Servian and Bosnian churches, 461; proposed

unification of the Austrian and Turkish Servian churches,

462; congress for that purpose, 462; the Church in Rou-

mania and Russia, 462.

GRÉVY, JULES.-Elected President of the French Republic,

888; his inaugural message, 888.

Guatemala.-Names of the departments, 462; Mexican boun-

dary survey, 462; members of the Government, 462;

cabinet changes, 462; army, 462; education, 463; finances,

463; debt, 463; commerce, 468; new interoceanic rail-

way, 468; telegraphs, 464; the new Constitution, 464.

GUEST, JOHN.-American commodore, biographical sketch,

464.

GURNEY, WILLIAM.-American volunteer army officer, bio-

graphical sketch, 464.

H

Hakkas.-Their rebellion in Hainan against the Chinese Gov-
ernment, 144.

GOLDTHWAITE, GEORGE.-An American jurist, biographical
sketch, 444.

GRANT, ULYSSES S., ex-President.-His tour around the

world, 445, 446; respect paid him in Europe, 445; his

journey through Asia, 445; reception in China and Japan,

446.

Great Britain and Ireland.-The royal family, 446; the

Cabinet, 446; Parliament, 446; area and population of

the empire, 447; of the individual colonies, 447; of the

United Kingdom for different years, 447; the three

classes of colonies, 447; vital statistics of the British

Islands, 448; the poor-rates, 448; population of the large

cities, 448; emigration statistics from 1853, 448; do. for

1878, 443; annual receipts and expenditures, 448; reve-

nue and expenditures for 1879, 448; the public debt in

different years, 449; the organization of the army, 449;

its strength, 449; the navy, 449; imports and exports

for five years, 449; do. of precious metals, 449; imports

and exports of 1877 and 1878 according to countries, 450;

the commercial navy, 450; principal articles of import

and export, 451: shipping, 451; postal statistics, 451;

railroads and telegraphs, 451; receipts and expenditures,

debt, imports, and exports, and movement of shipping of

each of the colonies for 1877, 452; session of Parliament,

451; announcement of Government bills, 451; the ques-

tion of flogging in the army, 452; liberal change in the

enlistment laws, 453; the Irish university bill, 453; Welsh

demand for higher education, 453 a university for the

north of England, 453; retrogression in the metropolitan

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judicial appropriation bill, 240, 246, 247; member of the
Maine Legislature, 585.

HALE, Mrs. SARAH JOSEPHA.-American editress, 465; bio-

graphical sketch, 465,

HAMLIN, HANNIBAL.-Senator from Maine, 198, 249; speech

on bill to restrict Chinese immigration, 222, 223.

HAWLEY, JOSEPH R.-Representative from Connecticut, 250;

on the amended appropriation bill, 291.

HAYES, PHILIP C.-Representative from Illinois, 193, 250;

speech on judicial appropriation bill, 234, 235.

HAYES, RUTHERFORD B.-President of the United States,

veto of bill to restrict Chinese immigration, 224-226;

proclamation calling an extra session of Congress, 249;

veto of the army appropriation bill with legislative clauses,

265-268; veto of the bill to prevent military interference

at elections, 272, 278: veto of the judicial appropriation

bill, 289, 290; veto of the substitute appropriation bill,

294, 295.

HAYMERLE, Baron KARL.-Austrian statesman, 465; bio-

graphical sketch, 465, 466.

HAYS, Dr. ISAAC.-American scientist, 466; life and writings,

466.

HAZLETON, GEORGE C.-Representative from Wisconsin, 193,

251; remarks on the judicial appropriation bill, 288.

Health, National Board of.-Causes of its formation, 466;

established by act of Congress, 466: its organization and

objects, 466; its limited powers, 466; its functions, 467;

its bulletins, 467; its investigation of yellow fever, 467;

reports on this disease, 467, 468; tracing it to Cuba, 468;

investigation of the fever in Cuba, 468, 470; the Cuban

ports, 468; endemic character of the disease on that
island, 468, 470; sanitary condition of Cuban cities, 469 ;
their sanitation, 470; keeping the fever from ships, 470;
blood-analysis, 470: inoculation of animals, 470; cultiva-
tion of the germs, 470; water and air analysis, 470.
HEWITT, A. S.-Representative from New York, 193; speech
on the army appropriation bill, 226-230; on the same, 230,
231; speech on the judicial appropriation bill, 236-238.
HILL, BENJAMIN HARVEY.-American statesman, 471; bio-
graphical sketch, 471, 472; opposition to secession, 471;
speech on the judicial appropriation bill in extra session,
281-287.

HILL, ROWLAND.-British postal reformer, 472, 473; life,
472; services in establishing cheap postage, 478.
HILLARD, GEORGE STILLMAN.-American editor, 478; bio-
graphical sketch, 478.

HOAR, GEORGE F.-Senator from Massachusetts, 193, 249;
on resolutions for inquiry into recent elections, 205; on
bill to regulate the Presidential count, 217.
HOOD, JOHN B.-Confederate General, 478; birth and educa-
tion, 473; his Texan Brigade, 474; services on the Poto-
mac, 474; in command against Sherman, 474; his army
destroyed in Tennessee, 475; life after the war, 475.
HOOKER, JOSEPH.-Federal General, 475; life and military
services, 475, 476.

HORST, Baron.-Austrian Minister, 60.
Hungary.-Members of the Ministry, 476; area and popula-

tion, 476; vitual statistics, 476; receipts and expendi-
tures, 476; the debt, 476; estimates for 1880, 476; postal
statistics, 476; inundation of Szegedin, 477; measures
for relief, 477; the Schleswig-Holstein matter, 477; the
Hungarian language in the schools, 477; measures to
avert agricultural distress, 477; residents abroad dis-
franchised, 478.

HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS.-American artist, 478; life and
paintings, 478.

HURD, FRANK.-Representative from Ohio 251⚫ on the army
bill in extra session, 255–257.

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Illinois.-Meeting of the Legislature, 478; election of a
United States Senator, 478; acts on the gambling of
minors, interest, municipal taxation, grave-robbery, etc.,
478; resolutions on the silver question, 478; State
finances, 479; appropriations for State charities, 479; in-
mates of the institutions, 479; law on the detention of
the insane, 479; trials for insanity ought to be replaced
by medical examinations, 480; perplexities of the assess-
ment law, 480; laws on swearing to valuations and on
sales for delinquent taxes, 481; taxation of railroads,
491; the valuation and value of railroad property, 481;
law requiring sworn statements of cost and profits, 481,
482; new mode of valuation, 482; operation of the new
Jaw illustrated, 482; Railroad and Warehouse Commis-
sioners, 482; the Governor on their services, 483; railroad
competition and combination, 483; precedent of the Eng-
lish Board of Commissioners, 488; the railroad question
in the United States, 483; in Illinois, 488; establishment
of the commission, 483; judicial decision on discrimi
nating rates of freight, 483, 484; the present law reg-
ulating freight charges, 484; decline of opposition to the
commission, 484; railroads should not be interfered with,
484; the Board should be retained to avoid fresh discon-
tent, 484; railroad mileage and capital, 484; expenses,
receipts, and traffic, 485; sleeping-car companies subject
to legislative control, 485; business of the Pullman Com-
pany, 485; law enrolling the entire male population in
the militia and forbidding independent organizations to
bear arms, 486; declared unconstitutional, 456; compul-

sory education act, 486; bill against the truck-system
vetoed, 486; the prisons, 486; agitation against long sen-
tences, 486; a Labor Bureau established, 486; tax valus-
tion, 486; live-stock statistics, 487; wheat-crop for twen-
ty years, 487; other crop statistics, 487; insurance sta-
tistics for ten years, 487, 488; the law on the appoint-
ment of teachers, 488; objection to the higher branches
in public schools, 488; on requiring written excuses from
pupils, 488; on the right of directors to prescribe the
studies, 488; Chicago bonds decided illegal, 488; the law
on bequests for school purposes, 488; operation of the
system of minority representation, 489; comparison of
the votes for State officers and for Assemblymen, 459; the
aggregate State vote, 490; election of judges, 490.
India. The viceregal and provincial officials, 490; area and
population, 490; emigration of coolies, 490; receipts and
expenditures for three years, 490; the coinage, 490; pub-
lic debt, 490; principal imports and exports, 491; ship-
ping, 491; railroads, 491; sequels to the Afghan war in
the Punjaub, 491; Yakoob Khan under guard, 491;
events in Kohistan, 491; engagement at the Bala Hissar,
492; continued fighting ir front of Cabool, 492; re-
enforcements from England, 492; treasury deficit, 492;
debt increased, 493; complaints against England, 493;
measures of retrenchment, 498; protection of the ryota
against extortion, 493; proposed shifting of the license-
tax to the richer classes, 493; cholera at the fair in Hurd-
war, 494; famine in Cashmere, 494; the British Parlia
ment on Indian finances, 494; an Indian deputed to ex-
plain the situation to the British public, 494; attempted
murder of the Viceroy, 494; outrages of the Hill tribes,
494; hostilities of the Nagas, 495; progress of Chris-
tianity, 495.

Indiana.-Session of the Legislature, 495; election of a Sen-

ator, 496; law to compel corporations to bring their suits
in the State courts, 496; a geological and statistical
department established, 496; resolutions on national
finance, 496; law establishing a rate of interest - 496
act to protect miners, 496; constitutiona; amendments
agreed to, 496; mode of voting on the same 497 amend-
ment to fix the period of residence required before voting,
497; amendments to conform to the fifteenth amend-
ment of the United States Constitution, 497; one for ap
pointing all general elections on the same day, 497; one to
graduate county salaries to the number of the population,
497; one on courts, 497; one to restrict municipal debts,
497; asylum for the education of idiots, 495; appeal for
woman suffrage, 498; investigation of the new State
House, 498; redistricting the State, 498; the Congressional
districts adopted, 498, 499; extra session of the Legisla-
ture, 499; investigation of the conduct of the ex-Attorney-
General, 499; question of his right to certain fees, 499:
statement from him, 500; the Auditor's right to fees in-
vestigated, 500; codification of the school laws, 500; e-
ucation statistics, 501; State debt statement, 501; re-
ceipts and disbursements, 501; charges against charity
officers, 501; coal-mining development, 501; building-
stone, 501; office of a mine-inspector created, 502; pork-
packing statistics, 502; the 29th of February not a day
in law, 502.
Indians.-Statistics of the reservations, 48, 47; Ute disturb
ances in Colorado, 46; Apache raids in New Mexico, 46,
47; the Poncas removed to Indian Territory from Ne
braska, 654; return and arrest by the military, 654; re-
leased on habeas corpus, 654; the Penobscots and Par
samaquoddys, 576, 577; Narragansetts, 772.
Indian Territory.-Agitation for opening it to white set
tlers, 43; the system of Indian administration, 47; agri
cultural condition of the reservations, 47.
Induction-Balance, Ilughes's.—Its principle, 502; its

as a coin-detector, 503; its value in the diganosis of
deafness, 503.

Insurrections.-In Bulgaria, 98; in Transvaal, 128; in Chi-

na, 143; in Colombia, 149; of the Hill tribes of India,

494, 495; in Cuba, 822.

Internal Revenue.-Articles taxable under the law, 369.

Interoceanic Canal.-The Paris Canal Congress, 503; the

probable canal traffic, 504; benefits in developing the

country, 504; plan adopted, 504; probable profits, 504;

Panama route adopted, 505; the different routes, 505; the

Tehuantepec route described, 503; the route across Nica-
ragua, 508-510; the American plan, 508, 509; a second
project, 509, 510; character of the Panama route, 510;
the French surveys, 510; the purpose of the Congress,
510; details of the French project, 511, 512; a substitute
plan, 512; the San Blas route, 512; the Atrato-Napipi
route, 512, 513; Selfridge's scheme, 512; a second pro-
ject, 513.

Inundation.-At Szegedin, 477.

Iowa.-Eleven sons in the army, 513; immunity from taxes

for tree-planting, 513; live-stock statistics, 514; valua-

tion of the different cities, 514; assessment of the true

cash value of property, 514; railroad companies obliged

by the Commissioners to modify their freight-rates, 514;

railroad statistics, 515; report of the Railroad Commis-

sioners, 515; a railroad liable for the full value of blooded

stock injured, 515; makers of raised notes not liable for

the amount of the forged alteration, 516; owners of the

premises liable under the civil damage act, 516; criminal

returns, 516; military precautions against tramps, 516;

election for Congressmen, 517; finances, 517; debt, 517;

education statistics, 517; Agricultural College, 517, 518;

school statistics, 518; State institutions, 518; local debts,

519; insurance, 519; extent of the coal-measures, 519;

Democratic nominations and platform, 519; National

nominations and platform, 520; Republican nominations

and platform, 520, 521; Prohibitionist platform, 521;
nominations, 522; liquor-dealers' convention and reso-
lutions, 522; election returns, 522.

Iron and Coal-Tabular retrospect of the products of all
countries, 174.

ISMAIL, Khedive.- Rebels against European financial super-

vision, 331, 332; forced to abdicate, 233.

Italia Irredenta, 526, 527.

Italy.-Reigning family, 522; area and population, 522; vital

statistics, 523; emigrants, 523; receipts and expendi-

tures, 523; the debt, 523; the army and navy, 523;

shipping, 523; commercial navy, 524; exports and im-

ports by countries, 524; by commodities, 524; railroads

and telegraphs, 524; postal statistics, 524; question of

the repeal of the grist-tax, 524; financial statement, 525;

the Ministry goes out, 525; the new Cabinet, 525; the

grist question adjusted, 525; second Cabinet change on

the financial question, 525; foreign relations, 526; civil

marriage act, 526; state railroads, 526; strong measures

against Republicans, 526; Garibaldi's republican and

Irredentist expressions, 527; angry pamphleteering, 527;

eruption of Etna, 527; Pompeian festival, 528; pardon

of a regicide, 528.

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Japan.-The government, 528; area and population, 528;

receipts and expenditures, 528; the debt, 528; the army,

529; navy, 529; commerce, 529; postal statistics, 529;

new educational law, 529; the silver dollar introduced,

529; number of foreigners, 529; the silk-crop, 529; an-

nexation of the Loochoo Islands, 529, 530; retrench-

ment, 530; the British Minister defies quarantine regula-

tions, 580.

JARVIS, THOMAS J.-Successor to Governor Vance of North
Carolina, biographical sketch, 690.

Jaureguiberry, Admiral.-French Naval Minister, 386.

Jesuits.-Their schools in France, 390, 391; the growth and

extent of their establishments, 392.

Jews. Meeting of the Hebrew Union in New York, 530;

sentiment regarding the Sabbath, 530; education, 580;

colonization favored, 531; statistics, 581; pulpit exchange

with Christians, 531; European Israelites, 581; Inter-

national Convention, 532.

JONAS, B. F.-Senator from Louisiana, 562; biographical
notice, 562.

JONES, CHARLES W.-Senator from Florida, 193, 249; on bill
to regulate the Presidential count, 214-216.
JULIO, E. D. B.-American painter, 532; life and works, 582.
Jurors, Colored.-To choose jurors on account of their color
declared to be a violation of the fourteenth amendment,
845; the case of Strander in West Virginia, 847.

K

Kansas.-Meeting of the Legislature, 532; Senator elected,

582; investigation upon charges of bribery, 532; the

Senator elect exculpated, 533; telegraph company claims

not to be obliged to produce messages in court, 583;

their legal grounds, 533, 534; resolution in favor of limit-

ing the jurisdiction of Federal courts to appeals from the

highest State court, 584; the fixed annual school-tax

levy repealed, 534; school-books not to be changed within

five years, 595; school statistics, 585; railroad-freight

regulation, 535; railroad taxation, 585; assessments, 536;

live-stock, 536; field products, 536; acreage, 586; chari-

table institutions, 536; Leavenworth refuses to pay in-

terest on its bonds, 537; appeal for aid for the negro im-

migrants, 537.

Kentucky.-Question of revising the Constitution, 537, 538;

finances, 588; debt, 538; the school fund, 588; educa-
tional statistics, 533; request for more means for colored
schools, 538, 539; the crops, 539; care of idiots, 589; over-
crow ling of the State Prison, 589, 540; insane asylums.
540; the State survey, 540; insurance, 540; number and

property of the colored population, 540; property valua-

tion for successive years, 540; railroad valuation, 540;

the Buford trial, 541; Democratic nominations and plat-

form, 541; Republican nominations and platform, 541,

542; National nominations, 542; results of the election,

542.

KERNAN, FRANCIS.-Senator from New York, 198, 249; on

resolutions to inquire into the freedom of recent elections,

205.

KORB-WEIDENHEIM, Baron.--Austrian Minister, 60.

Kulja.-Restoration to China by Russia, 50; how first occu-

pied by Russia, 144; terms of the treaty of restitution,

145.

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Labor.-Arbitration recommended for settling strikes by the

Governor of Pennsylvania, 714; bill directed against the

truck-system vetoed in Pennsylvania, 715.

LAMAR, L. Q. C.-Senator from Mississippi, 193, 249; speech

on resolutions to investigate the late elections, 198-201.
Lands, Public.-Cession of Government lands to the State

demanded in Colorado for the irrigation of arid land,

152; grants to the States on the Mississippi of swamp-

lands for purposes of reclamation, 625; State grants of

the same for other purposes illegal, 626; State grantees

can not be ousted except by forfeiture to the United

States, 626; grants of swamp-lands to railroads in Minne-

sota, 626; levee construction on the Lower Mississippi,

635.

LAWRENCE, Baron.-English statesman, 548; life and ser-

vices in India and England, 543.

Lead-poisoning from cooking-vessels, 4.
Leather-board.-Process of its manufacture, 662.

LEPÈRE, E. C. P.-French Cabinet Minister, biographical
notice, 886.

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LETELLIER, Lieutenant Governor. Complications arising
from his dismissal, 319.

LINDERMAN, Dr. HENRY R.-Superintendent of the United
States Mint, 543; biographical sketch, 543.
Literature, American.-Works of religion and philosophy,

544; scientific publications of the year, 544, 545; books
on mechanics, 545; medical works, 545, 546; law publi-
cations, 546; philological treatises, 546; educational pub-
lications, 546, 547; literary history and criticism, 547;
politics and economy, 547, 548; geography and travels,
548, 549; history, 549, 550; biographical works, 550, 551;
essays, 551; poetry of the year, 531; new novels, 551,
552; translated fiction, 552, 558.
Literature, British.-Philosophical works, 558; science and
useful arts, 553; health primers, 558, 554; books of travel,
554; history, 554, 555; biography and memoirs, 555;
recent essays, 555; poetry, 556; novels, 556.
Literature, Continental.-French philosophical writings,

556; history, 556; illustrated books, 556; revival of
eighteenth century immoralities, 557; German philoso-
phy, 557; historical publications, 557; biography, 557;
poetry and the drama, 558; fiction, 558; Belgian histori-
cal works, 558; philosophical and other books, 558;
Dutch novelists, 558; poetry, etc., 558; Danish literature,
559; Swedish literature, 559; Norwegian, 559; Polish
and Bohemian, 559; Hungarian, 560; Italian literature,
560; Spanish, 560; Portuguese, 561.

LI-YUNG-TSAI.-His rebellion against the Chinese Govern-
ment, 143.

Lobbying.-Made a felony in California, 105; in Georgia,

421.

LOCKYER, J. NORMAN.-His theory of the compound nature
of the elements, 133.

Loochoo Islands.-Annexed to Japan, 529, 580.
Louisiana.-Sessions of the Legislature, 561; a Constitution-

al Convention, 561; thanks for aid to yellow-fever suffer-
ers, 561; resolutions on the arrest of citizens for infrac-
tion of the United States election laws, 561; Governor's
letter on the same, 562; Senator elected, 562; cruelty
to animals act, 562; tax-defaulters and unequal as-
sessments, 562; a compromise with bondholders pro-
posed, 562; New Orleans teachers unpaid, 563; the State
school fund, 563; decision on the right of having separate
schools for white and black children, 563, 564; the State
Lottery to be stopped, 564; delegates to the Constitution-
al Convention elected, 564; resolution on securing equal
rights to colored citizens, 564; objection to a delegate as
a foreigner, 564; argued that the Convention could im-
pose a Constitution without the vote of the people, 565;
discussion of the State debt, 565; bonds recommend-
ed to be paid, 565; bonds recommended not to be paid,
566; report that the Legislature which passed the fund-
ing act was an illegal body, and that the constitu-
tional amendments of 1874 had not been ratified by the
people, 566; the scaling and funding of the debt held to
be illegal declared to give it no greater validity, 566;
minority report, 567; the irregularity of the bonds does
not discharge from liability for values received, 567; the
cash proceeds of the sale of the bonds, 567; decisions of
the courts pronouncing the consols a valid obligation,
568; the various departments of the State government
have recognized the funding act, 568; the recognition of
the United States Government legalized a Legislature,
568; various propositions of readjustment, 56s, 569; the

M

MACMAHON, Duc de.-Collision with the French Cabinet,
887; his letter of resignation, 888.

MCMAHON, J. A.-Representative from Ohio, 193, 251; ex-
plains the substitute appropriation bill, 292, 293.
MAGNIN, JOSEPH.-French Minister of Finance, biographics!
notice, 386.

Maine.-Sessions of the Legislature, 575; constitutional

amendments requiring biennial sessions and terms of
office, 575; acts of the Legislature, 575; law against su-
gar adulteration, 575; salaries, 575; limit on town debts,
575; freight-rate equalization act, 576; fish and game
preservation acts, 576; public lands given to squatters
576; resolutions on resumption, 576; assessments to be
on full valuations, 576; the Penobscot tribe, 576, 577; the
Passamaquoddy Indians, 577; educational statistics, 577;
demand to raise the standard of qualifications for teach-
ers, 577; fish inspection, 578; insurance, 578; sugar-beet
culture, 578; ship-building, 578; National Soldiers' Home,
578; mileage question in the Legislature, 578; construe-
tion of the liquor law, 578; reunion of the Legislature
which passed the Maine law, 578; review of its opera-
tion, 579, 580; Temperance Convention, 580; National
Convention and platform, 580; Republican Convention
and platform, 580, 581; Democratic Convention and
platform, 581; published returns of the election, 561;
provisions of the Constitution on the count of votes, 582,
583; Republicans claim that the election should be
counted on the face of the returns, 582; assurance of the
Governor to the Republicans, 582; Governor and Council
give notice that they are ready to examine the returns,
582; the Governor's vindication of his course, 352; ex-
pounds the constitutional provisions regarding elections,
588; report of sub-committee to the Council, 588, 584; re-
turns not made up in open town-meeting illegal, 584;
other reasons for casting out returns, 584; the Gov-
ernor willing to submit the disputed points to the Su-
preme Court, 585; questions drawn up by the Governor
and Council and submitted to the Court, 585; certificates
issued and the Fusion Assembly meets, 585; Governor's
term expired, 585; General Chamberlain intrusted with
the protection of the public property, 586; the Republi-
cans organize a Legislature, 586; the President of the
Fusion Senate claims the Governorship, 586; Chamber
lain refuses to recognize his demand, 586; the Republi-
can Legislature submits questions to the Supreme Court
587; Chamberlain resigns his trust to the Republican
Governor elect, 587.

Manitoba.-Description of the new wheat-fields of the Cams-

dian northwest 821, 822; mildness of the climate, 629.
MARIA CHRISTINA.-Queen of Spain, her genealogy, 60.

Maryland.-Finances, 587; debt, 587; tax valuation, 587;
disputed points settled regarding the classes of property
exempt from taxation, 587; tobacco inspection, 587; pub-
lic institutions, 588; education, 588; colored teachers
demanded for colored schools, 589; insurance, 589; the
ship-canal scheme, 589; shipping and commerce of Bal-
timore, 590; attempt to import beet-sugar, 590; mode of
obtaining shad-fry for fish-culture, 590; artificial propa-
gation of the oyster, 591; resolutions directed against
Sunday-law enforcement, 591, 592; drinking in club-
houses not a violation, 592; loophole in the law against
drunkenness, 592; question of being drunk in the streets
is a common-law offense, 592; Democratic nominations
and platform, 593; Tax-payers' Convention and resolu
tions, 593, 594; National Convention and platform, 594,
595; Republican nominations and platform, 595, 596; in-
dependent parties in Baltimore, 596; results of the elec-
tion, 596.
Massachusetts.-Session of the Legislature, 596; retrench-
ment, 596; simplified supervision of State institutions,
596; public-school statistics, 597; offices consolidated,
597; question of biennial sessions, 597; act to secure lib-
erty of worship to inmates of State institutions, 597; re-
duction of taxation, 597, 598; proposal to exempt mort-
gages from taxation, 598; agitation of woman suffrage,
598; act conferring suffrage for school officers upon wo-
men, 599; civil-damage act passed, 599; the convict-
labor question, 600; the three systems, 600; committee
report favoring the retention of the contract system, 600;
convict-labor in the United States and its effects on in-
dustry, 600; act prescribing uniform ballots, 601; work
of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 601;
services of the Railroad Commissioners, 601; the Hoosac
Tunnel, 602; the rail system of electric signaling, 602; the
Harvard course for women, 602; reform in the Boston
schools, 602; National nominations and platform, 602,
603; Republican nominations and platform, 603, 604; In-
dependent Democratic nominations and platform, 604;
Prohibitionist nominations and platform, 604, 605; Dem-
ocratic nominations and platform, 605; election returns,
605.

Meat.-United States exports of fresh, 168.
MENDONE MENG, the late King of Burmah, 99.
Methodists.-Statistics, 605, 606; meeting of the Freedmen's
Aid Association, 606; missionary societies, 606, 607; statis-
tics of the Southern Church, 607; societies, 607; Wesley-
an Connection, 607, 608; the new Methodist Church,
608; Canadian Methodists, 608; the British Wesleyans,
608, 609; statistics, 609; the Conference, 609; indepen-
dent Methodist bodies, 609, 610.
Mexico.-Members of the administration and governors, 610;
the army, 610; religion, 610, 611; the new Episcopal
Church, 611; finances of the republic, 611; the debt,
611, question of readjustment, 611, 612; commerce, 612;
exports and imports for ten years, 612; leading commod-
ities, 612; list of exports from Vera Cruz to the United
States, 612; imports from the United States, 613; ex-
ports from Matamoros to the same, 613; do. from Mazat-
lan, 613; the silver crisis and commercial depression, 613,
614; the American deputation to promote commerce
with Mexico, 614; interoceanic railway across Tehuante-
pec, 614; terms of the subsidy, 615; cable to the United
States, 615; complaint of United States military orders,
615; revolutionary attempts, 615; the candidates for the
next election, 615.

Michigan.-Session of the Legislature, 615; proposed con-
stitutional amendments, 616; appropriations voted, 616;
the Senatorial election, 616; judicial election, 616; Fusion
party, 616; its convention and platform, 616; difficulty
with the currency question, 616; Republican Convention

and platform, 616, 617; the election returns, 617; financial
statement, 617; debt, 617; business of the Land-Office,
617, 618; cost of State institutions, 618; their aggregate
expense from the foundation of the State, 618; apportion-
ment of taxes, 618; receipts from liquor-tax, 618; in-
surance, 619; detailed tabulated report of Railroad Com-
missioners, 619; tonnage of freight by classes, 620; divi-
dends, 620; banking statistics, 620; statistics of the lum-
ber trade, 620; the salt product, 621; iron production,
621; crop returns for two years, 621; the University, 621;
the Agricultural College, 621; Normal School, 621; school
statistics, 622; public institutions, 621; criminal statis-
tics, 623.
Minnesota.-Session of the Legislature, 623; investigation
of charges of cruelty to convicts, 623; rate of interest es-
tablished, 623; law establishing a standard measure for
wheat, 623; grading of wheat, 623, 624; Agricultural
Board of Trade created, 624; inspection of insane asylums,
624; penalty for grave-robbing, 624; attempted temper-
ance legislation, 624; various bills, 624; duties of the
public examiner, 625; cession of swamp-lands to the
States by Congress, 625; grants of do. in Minnesota to
railroads, 626; grants except for purposes of drainage and
diking illegal, but only revocable by forfeiture to the
United States, 626; railroad construction, 627; earnings
and traffic, 627; railroad-land sales, 627; homestead law
for railroad lands, 627; proceedings against timber
thieves on Government lands, 627, 628; sanitary inspec-
tion of wells, 628; severe cold snap, 628; the climate of
Manitoba, 628; fertility of the Canadian northwest, 629;
school statistics, 629; numbered ballots unconstitutional,
629; National nominations and platform, 629, 630; Pro-
hibition nominations and platform, 629; Republican nomi-
nations and platform, 630, 681; Democratic nominations
and platform, 631; question of the eligibility of a member
of the Legislature for Lieutenant-Governor, 682; returns
of the election, 632.
Mississippi-Constitutional reforms demanded, 632; tax
assessments, 632; school statistics, 633; improvement in
agricultural methods, 633; cotton production of the
United States, 633; the colored exodus, 634; effects of
the emigration on cotton-planting, 684, 635; fruit-raising
for the Northern market, 685; the Mississippi levees, 635;
improvement of the channel, 635; navigation on the river,
635, 636; commission for the improvement of the river-
bed, 636; decision under the insurance laws, 636; female
notaries, 686; separate estate of a married woman, 686;
appropriations from the school fund for high schools un-
constitutional, 637; a scheme of spelling-reform, 637; pro-
posed constitutional amendment, 637; the Yazoo matter,
638; election for the Legislature, 638; colored education-
al appropriations, 638; process for making yarn from
seed-cotton, 638.

Mississippi River.—Navigation on the river, 635, 636; com-
mission appointed by Congress for the improvement of
the stream-bed, 636.
Missouri.-Session of the Legislature, 638; resolution in fa-
vor of retrenchment, 638, 689; election of United States
Senator, 639; the rat bounty, 639; proposal to introduce
the whipping-post, 689; failure of a compulsory educa-
tion bill, 639; ladies demand woman suffrage, 639; an
adulterant of white lead, 640; elections by acclamation
proposed, 640; financial reform and refunding, €40; finan-
cial statements, 640; changes in the tax-laws, 641; the de-
faulting State Treasurer, 641; a Labor Bureau, 641; Bureau
of Immigration, 641; advantages of the State for immi-
grants, 641; change in the insurance laws, 642; a fish bill,
642; temperance legislation, 642; a Maine law to be sub-
mitted to the people, 648; protest against adjudication in
Federal courts upon local debts, 643; laws to prevent