county taxes from being levied to satisfy judgments of
Federal courts, 643, 644; discussion of their constitution-
ality, 644; contradictory decisions thereupon, 645; conflict
between the new law and decrees of the United States
courts in different counties, 646; question whether crops
are taxable, 646; public institutions, 646; agricultural
statistics, 646.
Mohammedanism.--The Mohammedan population of all
countries, 647; weakness of Mohammedan states, 647; re-
markable spread of the religion, 647; relation to the
Eastern question, 647; danger from Moslemisin in India,
648.
Money.-The world's stock of gold and silver, 162; ship-
ments of silver to the East, 182.
Montenegro.-Reigning family, 648; area and population,
648; political reforms, 648; the first Montenegrin Minis-
try, 645; cession of the new territory by the Porte, 648;
the new frontier, 648; taking possession, 649; bloody
conflicts with Albanians, 649.
Moravians.-Statistics, 649; the Synod, 649; the leading
doctrines, 650.
MORGAN, JOHN T.-Senator from Alabama, 193, 249; speech
on bill to regulate the count of the Presidential vote, 212-
214.
Mormons.--Diplomatic circular on preventing Mormon im-
migration, 837.
MURCHISON, Dr. CHARLES.-British pathologist, 650; life and
works, 650, €51.
Navigation. Decline of the American ocean carrying-trade,
837, 838; proposed legislation for encouraging ship-
building, 898; United States tonnage in 1879, 869.
Nebraska.--Session of the Legislature, 651; game law, 651;
failure of prohibition bill, 651; judicial election, 652;
Democratic nominations and platform, 652; Republican
nominations and platform, 652; results of the election,
€52; valuation and assessments, 652; appropriations,
658; State institutions, 653; crop reports, 658; extermi-
nation of grasshoppers, 653; cattle-drives, 653; Poncas
released from military custody on habeas corpus, 653;
their arbitrary removal to Indian Territory, 654; return
to their reservation, 654; seized by the military, 654;
the proceedings for their release, 654; findings of the
court, 655.
Nepaul.-Relations with China, 143.
Netherlands.-Royal family, 655; area and population, 655;
revenue and expenditures, 635; debt statement, 655;
army and navy, 656; navigation. 656; railroads, tele-
graphs, and post-offices, 656; imports and exports by
countries, 656; population of colonies, 656; their finances,
656; their commerce, 656; their railroads, 636: changes
in the Cabinet, 656; ministerial crisis, 657; new Minis-
try, 657: extending the defenses, €57; sessions of the
Chambers, 657; free trade to be preserved, 657; royal
marriage, 657.
Nevada.-Session of the Legislature, 657; election of Sena-
tor, 657 legislation on the debt and taxation, 657; on
regulating railroad rates, 657; statistics of silver-mining,
658; drainage of the mines by the Sutro Tunnel, 658;
the nut-pine tree, 658.
New Hampshire.-Senator appointed by the Governor ob-
jected to, 659; session of the Legislature, 659; Senator
elected, 659; State officers elected by the Legislature,
659 resolution upon the veto of the army bill, 659; fac-
tory act for children, 659; act to assume claims of citi-
zens against repudiating States, 659; railroad act not
passed, 660; correction of the Revised Statutes, 660;
finances, 660; valuation and taxes, 660; debt, 660; act
requiring a sworn inventory of taxable property, 600;
savings-banks statistics, 661; insurance, 661; State insti-
tutions, 661; the manufacture of artificial leather, 662.
New Jersey.-Sessions of the Legislature, 662; a special Tax
Commission created, 662; the Commissioners, 662; their
duties, 662; commission to prepare a system of laws for
cities, 662; its duties, 662, 663; industrial education
adopted, 663; manner of the same, 663; tramp act, 663;
investigation of local expenditures on complaint of free-
holders authorized, 663; party dissensions on districting
the State, 668; judges nominated by the Governor under
a recent amendment, 663; his letter on a non-partisan
judiciary, 664; committee reports on the subject, 664,
665; bill to prohibit the manufacture of shoes in the
State Prison, 665; record of the contracts, 666; statistics
of prison shoe-making, 666, 667; commission to inquire
into the subject, 667; Sunday-law agitation in Newark,
667; resolutions of an association for opposing the en
forcement of the laws, 667; legal definition of a disorderly
house, 667; cattle-quarantine, 668; efforts to improve the
training of the militia, 668; mode of rifle-practice, 668,
fish-culture, 668; the black bass, 668; convictions under
the fish-preservation act, 669; bankrupt cities, 669; a
railroad manager in favor of national railroad regulation,
669, 670; newspaper statistics, 670; insurance, 670;
savings-banks, 670; cranberry-crop, 670; the oak and
pine districts, 670; salubrity of the white-oak bottoms,
670.
New York.-Session of the Legislature, 671; the new Capi-
tol, 671; election of a Senator, 671; protest on the ground
that the State is not properly districted, 671; inequalities
of the present division, 671, 672; bill to equalize repre-
sentation, 672; objections of the Governor to the appor
tionment, 672; act altering the rate of interest, 672;
proposed law taxing mortgages, 672; total valuation and
expenses of State charities, 673; insane paupers, 678;
propositions for the financial control of charitable institu-
tions, 678; cost of maintenance per capita in the different
insane asylums of the country, 674; reasons advanced
for establishing a female reformatory, 674; comparative
cost of prisons under the new and under the old system,
674; financial benefits of the new system of canal man-
agement, 675; tramp act, 675; a case of false conviction
repaired by a money award, 675, 676; the State is not
liable for prospective profits in a breach of contract suit,
676, 677; the district system of common schools and its
proposed alteration, 677; railroad statistics, 677; persons
who have pecuniary relations with a savings-bank should
not be admitted into the management, 678; insurance
statistics, 678: discrimination against New York in
freight-rates charged, 678; towns obliged to pay their
bonds, however given, 678; National nominations and
platform, 678, 679; Republican nominations and platform,
679; Democratic Convention and platform, 680; an-
nouncement of the withdrawal of the Tammany dele-
gates, 680; retirement of the New York delegation, €81;
nominations of the Convention, 681; resolutions on the
secession of Tammany, 681; organization of the Tam-
many Hall delegation and nomination of an independent
candidate for Governor, 681; results of the election, 681,
Nihilists.-Origin and application of the term, 681, 689; ear-
lier revolutionary movements and leaders, 682; causes
and elements of discontent, 682; discovery of Nilalist
conspiracies, 682; violence and assassination, 652, 688;
utterances of the revolutionary press. 688; influence of
materialistic literature, 688; the great number of un-
classed students in the movement, 689; sentiments of the
party, 683, 684; the secret organization, 684; Its propa-
ganda and organs, 684; present purposes, G84: menaces
toward the Czar, 684; list of grievances, 685; new organ
and fresh attempt against the life of the Czar, 685; later
acts, 778.
NORDENSKJÖLD.-His voyage through the Siberian seas and
Behring Strait, 411-417.
North Carolina.-Session of the Legislature, 685; simplified
form of land conveyances, 685; tramp act, 686; changes
in taxation, 686; act to legitimate children of colored
people cohabiting as man and wife, 686; act constituting
court clerks commissioners of deeds, 686; statement of
the State debt, 686; act to scale the debt, 686; proposed
reductions, 656, 657; acceptance of the compromise by
bondholders, 637; supplementary refunding acts, 657;
convict-labor authorized on internal improvements, 688;
penalty for abduction of children, 688; pension for
maimed Confederate soldiers, 688; law requiring outside
insurance companies to deposit securities, 688; inebriate
law, 688; question whether the presiding officers may and
must sign an enacted bill after adjournment, 688; deci-
sions on the question, 689; school statistics, 689; the
Governor elected a Senator, 689; sketch of his successor,
690; act for the redemption of lands sold for taxes, 690;
act defining consanguinity, 690; fish-culture, 690; judi-
cial election, 630; the harvest, 690; extent and value of
the forests, 691; the rich valleys, 691; geographical de-
scription of the State, 691; its resources, 691.
Nut-Pine.-Account of the tree and its utility, 658.
NYOUNG YAN.-Burmese Prince, 100, 101.
Obituaries, American (arranged in alphabetical order), 692-
697.
Obituaries, Foreign (in alphabetical arrangement), 697-702.
Ohio.-Debt statement, 702; revenue and expenditure, 702;
taxes and valuation, 702; agricultural statistics, 702;
live-stock, 703; text of proposed amendments to the
Constitution, 703; rejected by popular vote, 703; Repub-
lican nominations and platform, 703, 704; Democratic
nominations and platform, 704; National nominations
and platform, 705; results of the election, 705.
Old Catholics.-Synod at Bonn, 705; relaxation of the move-
ment, 705, 706; Swiss Synod, 706; first Austrian Synod,
706; list of reforms advocated by Old Catholics, 706; a
body organized in France, 706.
Opium.-Import into China, 142.
Oregon.-Growth of population since 1868, 706, 707; increase
in grain exports, 707; increase in shipping, 707; growth
of commerce, 708; advance in the price of land, 708, 709;
the canned-salmon trade, 709; agricultural progress, 709,
710; stock-growing, 710; manufacturing establishments
and ship-building, 710; coal-mines, 711; railroads, 711;
accumulation of capital, 711; diminished gold and silver
shipments, 711; public buildings, 711; the crops of 1879,
711; salmon shipments in 1879, 711; religious statistics,
711; educational statistics, 711, 712; opposition to high
schools, 712; recent enlargement of the rights of wo-
men, 712; a law forbidding the employment of Chinese
Laborers on street works decided void, 712.
Oxygen in the Sun.-Discovery of oxygen in the solar spec-
trum announced by Professor Draper, 180; his method
of investigation, 131.
Oyster.-Observations on embryological development of the,
PACKER, ASA.-An American financier, 712; early life, 712;
canal-boatman, 712; contractor, 713; starts the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, 713; his great wealth, 718; political ca-
reer, 713; founds the Lehigh University, 713.
PAGE, HORACE F.-Representative from California, 193, 250;
presents a petition and speaks on the bill to restrict Chi-
nese immigation, 220-222.
Papuans.-Their character and customs, 408-410.
PARNELL, CHARLES STEWART.-His agitation in Ireland, 458.
Pennsylvania.—Session of the Legislature, 718; the Gov-
ernor recommends the arbitration system of settling labor
disputes, 714; Senator elected, 714; bill to encourage
tree-planting in highways, 714; bill to regulate municipal
governments proposed, 714; failure of an eight-hour bill,
714; bill proposed for restraining the adulteration of
liquor, 714; bill to relieve observers of seventh day from
the operation of Sunday laws failed to pass, 715; bill al-
lowing women to become officers in charitable corpora-
tions, 715; tramp act, 715; bill to regulate the truck-
system vetoed, 715; fiscal deficit, 715; provisions of an
act for the valuation and taxation of corporation property,
715, 716; stringent precautions against avoidance of taxes,
716; application to different kinds of companies, 716;
proposed appropriation to indemnify the owners of prop-
erty destroyed in the riots, 717; objections urged against
the bill, 717, 718; charge of corruption made in the de-
bate, 718; investigation of the charges, 718; log-rolling,
718; members reported guilty of corrupt practices, 71s;
motion to expel, 718; resolutions advocating industrial
education, 719; disappointing results of the State Agri-
cultural College, 719; railroad-freight discrimination, 719,
oil monopoly, 719; the seaboard pipe line, 720; railroad
statistics, 720; a defaulting city, 720; held that a munici-
pality needs no legislative authorization to make a debt,
720; legal opinion that city bonds are not subject to the
law of negotiable paper, 721; the responsibility of a mu-
nicipality for the dangerous condition of its streets, 721;
a sectarian asylum liable to taxation, 721; Temperance
Political Convention, 721; National Convention and plat-
form, 722; Democratic Convention and platform, 722;
minority resolutions, 723; Republican Convention and
platform, 728; returns of the election for State Treasurer
and the Legislature, 723.
PERKINS, SAMUEL E.-An American Judge, 723; life and
career, 723, 724.
Persia.-Reigning family, 724; statistics, 724; Persia's rela-
tion to the Eastern question, 724; her military resources,
724; the state of trade, 724.
Peru.-Members of the Prado Government, 725; the Cabinet
formed by La Puerta, 725; Piérola Government, 725;
destruction of the navy, 725; finances, 725; the debt,
725; terms of compromise offered by bondholders, 725,
726; commercial statistics, 726; trade through Callao
with the United States, 726; total exports by commodi-
ties, 726; statistics of the export trade in cubic niter,
726; origin of the war with Chili, 727; seizure of Anto-
fagasta, 727; allied Peruvians and Bolivians blockade
Iquique, 727; sinking of the Esmeralda, 727; capture of
Pisagua, 727; the allies defeated at San Francisco, 727;
Chilian defeat at Tarapacá, 727; flight of Prado, 727; the
brave defense and capture of the Huáscar, 727: Peruvian
ports blockaded, 728; Piérola assumes the dictatorship,
728; change of generals, 728.
PINTO, SERPA.-Portuguese explorer, his journey through
Central Africa, 405-408.
Plague, The-The plague in Astrakhan, 728; terrible nature
of former epidemics, 728; the black death and the other
visitations of the plague in Europe, 728; the plague in
the East. 728; sanitary neglect in Persia and Asiatic
Turkey, 728; conjectures as to its transmission to Astra-
khan, 729; the outbreak at Wetlianka, 729; the spread
to other places, 729; stringent sanitary measures. 730;
its cessation, 780; quarantine against Russia, 730; the
form which it took in Astrakhan, 780; description of the
symptoms, 730,
PORTER, General FITZ JOHN.-Case of, 49.
Portugal. The royal family, 730; area and population, 781;
revenue and expenditures, 781; debt, 781; army and
navy, 781; commerce with principal nations, 731; ship-
ping and navigation, 781; telegraphs and railways, 781;
postal statistics, 781; Parliamentary session, 781; Eng-
lish alliance in colonial affairs, 781; trouble with the na-
tives in Guinea, 781; treaty with England for suppress-
ing the slave-trade, 781.
PRADO, MARIANO IGNACIO.-Peruvian General, 781; bio-
graphical sketch, 781.
PRAZAK, Dr. A.-Austrian Minister, 60.
Presbyterians.-Presbyterian Church in the United States
of America: Statistics, 781; amounts of the trust-funds,
731; investment of do., 781; the General Assembly, 781,
782; rules for forming presbyteries in missionary fields,
732; validity of Roman Catholic baptism, 782. Pres-
byterian Church in the United States: Statistics, 783; the
General Assembly, 733, 734; the disciplinary question of
worldly amusements, 784. United Presbyterian Church
of North America: Statistics, 734; the General Assem-
bly, 784; questions of discipline and government, 785.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church: Statistics, 735; the
General Assembly, 735. Canadian Presbyterian Church:
Statistics, 795. Presbyterian Church of England: Sta-
tistics, 785; the Synod, 785. Established Church of Scot-
land: Statistics, 735; the General Assembly, 735. Free
Church of Scotland: The General Assembly, 786; heresy
trial for denying the authenticity of Deuteronomy, 786.
United Presbyterian Church of Scotland: Statistics, 736;
the Synod, 787; trial for the denial of the doctrine of fu-
ture punishment, 787. Irish Presbyterian Church: Sta-
tistics, 788; General Assembly, 788.
Prison Labor.--System of leasing convicts in Georgia, 487;
statistics on prison labor in the United States, collected
by the Massachusetts Labor Bureau, 600; discussion of
a bill to prohibit shoe-manufacturing in the New Jersey
State Prison, 665; statistics of the manufacture in prisons
in the United States, 666, 667; law in North Carolina, 688.
Protection.-In Canada, 317, 318; in Germany, summary of
the new tariff, 180, 181; debates on it, 487, 438.
Protestant Episcopal Church.-Statistics, 788; election and
consecration of bishops, 739; meetings of missionary so-
cieties, 739; the Church Congress, 788.
Prussia. The Ministry, 740; resignation of Liberals and ap-
pointment of Conservative ministers, 740; notices of the
new ministers, 740; retirement of the Minister of Justice,
740; notice of his successor, 740; area and population,
740; receipts and expenditures, 741; the debt, 741; the
Diet, 741; speech from the throne, 741; the budget, 742;
debate on the purchase of railroads, 742; the railroad
bill passed, 742; the General Synod, 742; the synodal
organization of the Church, 742.
Provisions.-International trade in food-products, 167, 168.
Public Documents.--Statement of the facts of the Maine
election presented to the Supreme Court of Maine by
the Republican Legislature, 743; statement of the facts
relating to the organization of rival Legislatures, 743, 744;
answers of the Supreme Court to questions submitted
to it, 745-747.
Public Lands.-Bill to grant swamp and overflowed lands in
Florida to railroads vetoed, 873; account of the lands,
873, 874.
PUTTKAMMER, ROBERT VICTOR VON.-Prussian Minister of
Worship, biographical notice, 740.
Railroads, Legislative Regulation of.-In Delaware, 305,
809; in Georgia, 420; of sleeping-car companies in II-
nois, 485; railroad taxation in Illinois, 481, 482; the Rail-
road Commission in Illinois, 483, 44; Kansas legislation,
585, 586; the Massachusetts Commissioners, 601, 602;
law in North Carolina, 689; the question in Pennsylva-
nia, 719, 720; constitutionality of the Thurman act, 886.
Railroad War.-Contests between the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fé, and Denver and Colorado companies, 156–
160.
RAMSEY, ALEXANDER.-United States Secretary of War, 834;
biographical notice, 834.
RANDALL, SAMUEL J.-Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, 750; biographical sketch, 750, 751; adjournment
speech to the House of Representatives, 247, 248.
Reformed Churches.-Reformed Church in America: Sta-
tistics, 749; session of the Synod, 749. Reformed Church
in the United States: Statistics, 749; framing of a dec-
laration of faith, 749; the essential points, 749; articles
agreed on, 749, 750. Reformed Church of France: Ad-
herence to tha Confession of Faith adopted in 1572, 750;
organization of a regular synodal government postponed,
Reformed Episcopal Church-Statistics, 750, 751; the Gen-
eral Council, 751; action relating to the division in the
English Church, 751; session of the English General
Synod, 751; secession and organization of a Reformed
Church in Canada, 751.
Refunding the National Debt.-Former efforts to cons li-
date the debt of the United States Government, 751, 752;
the state of the debt in 1789, 752; adoption of Hamilton's
proposition in 1790, 752; the amounts of the foreign
loans issued under the act, 752; mode of settlement of
the domestic debt, 752, 758; loans issued, 758; the State
debts assumed, 758; market value of new loans prior to
1795 (funding act of 1795).753; redemption of the foreign
debt, 754; state of the debt in 1806, 754; mode of read-
justment adopted in 1807, 754; the refunding operation
of that year, 754; new loan and conversion of the old six
per cents in 1812, 754; provisions of the act, 755; at-
tempt to refund at 5 per cent. in 1822, 755; basis of the
operation, 755; amount subscribed, 755; financial situs-
tion and proposal of redemption in 1828, 756; 4) per
cent. refunding loan of 1824, 756; state of the debt in
1825, 756; refunding act of 1825, 757; failure of the
operation, 757; extinction of the old debt, 757; the Mex-
ican war debt, 757; the contraction of the present debt,
757; the debt at its highest point, 757: partial conver-
sion, 757; act to strengthen the public credit passed in
1869, 757; refunding act of 1870, 757; text of the set,
757, 758; amendment of 1871, 758; statement of the
debt in 1871, 758; table showing the market quotations
of the different loans for the ten years before resumption,
759; 5 per cent. refunding loan of 1871, 760; plan of the
operation, 760; transactions under the act in America
and in Europe, 760; contract with a syndicate for the
sale of 44 per cents, 761; placing of the 4 per cent, loan
in 1877, 761; unfavorable effects of inflation agitation and
silver remonetization, 761; effect of resumption on re-
funding transactions, 761; act for exchanging new bonds
for six per cents, 761; ten-dollar certificates, 761, 762;
the sales stopped after the conversion of the five-twenty
bonds, 762; subsequent issues, 762: statement of the
sales of the certificates, 762; tabular view of the refund-
ing transactions, 762; reduction in the interest charge,
Representation.-Senatorial debate on the comparative, 194–
tion, 763; issue of Treasury notes for currency purposes,
768; legal-tender acts, 763; new issue, 763; fractional
currency, 768; third issue of legal-tender notes, 764;
their convertibility into bonds taken away, 764; limit set
to the amount to be circulated, 764; their depreciation,
764; Congressional resolution in favor of resumption, 764;
act of 1866 for gradual contraction, 764; suspension of
the canceling of notes in 1868, 764; the act to strengthen
the public credit, 765; reissue of retired notes during the
crisis of 1873, 765; passage of the resumption act, 765; text
of the act, 765; the inconveniences of the fractional cur-
rency, 765, 766; its replacement by subsidiary silver coin,
766; act of 1876 for additional silver coinage, 766; return
of subsidiary coins from abroad, 766; made exchangeable
for notes, 766; conversion of legal-tender into national-
bank notes until 1878, 766; announcement of the purpose
to redeem notes in coin, 767; repeal of the resumption
act agitated, 767; silver-dollar coinage act, 767; bonds
sold to increase the specie reserve, 767; measures and
precautions for carrying out the resumption act, 768;
accomplishment of resumption, 768; gold price of legal-
tender notes in each year during suspension, 768; de-
cisions of the courts on the constitutionality of the legal-
tender acts, 768, 769.
Phode Island.-Sessions of the Legislature, 769; legislation
on the liability of municipalities for damages done by
mobs, 769; compulsory education bill discussed, 769;
legislation on the liquidation of insolvent savings-banks,
769; Prohibitory Convention and platform, 769, 770;
Democratic Convention and platform, 770; nominations,
770; Republican Convention, 770; results of the election,
770; session of the Congressional commission to investi-
gate the removal of discharged soldiers from the Provi-
dence Custom-House, 770; Congressional commission to
investigate bribery in elections, 771; the Rhode Island
election laws, 771; attempts to abolish the limitations to
the franchise, 771; evidence before the committee, 771;
finances of the State, 771; educational statistics, 771, 772;
the State institutions, 772; vital statistics, 772; proposed
abolition of the Narragansett Indian tribal organization,
772; banqueting with municipal funds declared illegal,
772.
ROBESON, GEORGE M.-Representative from New Jersey,
250; on the army appropriation bill in extra session, 257-
259; offers a substitute for the bill to prevent military
interference at elections, 269; on the judicial appropria-
tion bill in extra session, 275-277.
ROEBUCK, JOHN ARTHUR.-English politician, 772; biograph
ical sketch, 772.
Roman Catholic Church.-Encyclical letter against ocialism,
778; schisms in the Eastern churches, 778; creation of
cardinals, 778; encyclical approving the teachings of St.
Thomas Aquinas, 778; opposition to the Ferry laws, 778;
operation of the Falk laws, 773; the Italian civil-marriage
law, 774; the school conflict in Belgium, 774; the confra-
ternities question in Brazil, 774 the New York Cathe-
dral, 774; necrological notices, 774.
ROON, ALBRECHT THEODOR EMIL, Count VON.-German Gen-
eral, 774; life and career, 774, 775.
Russia.-Area and population, 775; foreign trade, 775; rail
ways and post-offices, 775; proposed mixed occupation
of Roumelia, 775; war in Turkistan, 775; suspected de-
signs on Merv, 775; victories of the Tekke Turkomans
776; disastrous campaign in the desert, 776; turning the
course of the Attrek River, 776; Solovieff's attempt on
the Czar's life, 776; military law proclaimed, 776; Nihil-
istic activity, 777; arrests and punishments, 777; decla-
rations of General Drenteln's assailant, 777; attempt on
the Czar on the Moscow railroad, 778; Valuieff's pro-
posed reforms, 778.
Salmon.-Export trade of canned salmon from Oregon, 709-
711.
Seed-Cotton-Enactment to suppress thefts of, in Alabama,
by forbidding its sale, 16, 17; method of spinning thread
from, 638.
Service, United States Marine Hospital.-Act of 1798 for
the relief of disabled seamen, 778; the Greenwich Hos-
pital, 778; hospital money in the colonies, 778; efforts of
the Boston Marine Society, 779; bills before Congress,
779; provisions of the seamen's relief bill, 779; letter of
the Secretary of the Navy concerning the hospital fund,
780; instructions to the Collector at Boston relating to the
same, 780; further communications, 750; appointment
of a physician, 781; the Washington Point hospital, 781-
papers recommending a hospital at New Orleans, 781;
report on the marine hospitals in 1802, 781, 782; a gen-
eral hospital fund created, 782; letter with reference to
acquiring a site in Boston, 782; letter relating to the Bal-
timore hospital, 782; plan of the Boston building, 783:
advertisement for bids, 788; details of the New Orleans
hospital, 753, 784; settlement of minor regulations of the
service, 784; historical details, 785; position of the phy.
sicians in the Boston hospital, 785, 786; a separate naval
hospital called for, 786; number of patients in the Boston
hospital for seventeen successive years, 786; questions
as to the classes of sailors entitled to relief, 787; measures
for building a hospital at Boston, 787; the hospital at
Charleston, 787, 788; erection of the Boston hospital, 788;
the service in 1836, 788; hospitals proposed for seamen
engaged in inland navigation, 788, 789; the Cleveland hos-
pital, 789, 790; the hospital at Ocracoke, 790; enactments
relating to the collection of hospital money, 790; the
hospitals in 1849, 790; changes recommended, 791; new
proposition for inland hospitals, 791; unsatisfactory con-
dition of the service in 1852, 791 its workings in 1858,
791; comparison of the cost of the regular service and
of the farming-out system, 792; list of hospitals in 1961,
792; appropriation in 1862, 792; collection of dues from
sales of vessels abroad, 792; sales of hospital property,
792; the structure at New Orleans, 793; state of the hos-
pital fund in 1870, 793; a hospital at New York called
for, 793; provisions of the bill for reorganizing the ser-
vice, 793; the contract system abolished, 794; reorganiza-
tion, 794; the extent of the service in 1879, 794; medical
examination of seamen, 794; the New York hospital es-
tablished, 794; officers of the service, 794.
Shad.-Mode of obtaining the spawn, 590, 591.
SHAW, Mr.-British Resident in Burmah, sketch of, 102.
SHERMAN, JOHN.-Secretary of the United States Treasury,
794; family and early life, 794, 795; political career, 795;
services on behalf of the public credit during and since
the war, 796.
SHIELDS, JAMES.-American General, 796; life and career, 796,
Signal Service, Meteorological Dirision of the United
States-Its duties in war-time, 797; storm-signaling and
other duties, 797; instruction and equipment, 797; the
Meteorological Division, 797; the plan of simultaneous
observations, 798; weather-maps, 798; the Myer system
of synchronous observations, 798, 799; earlier workings
of the method, 799; observations for the benefit of agri-
culture, 800; development of the Weather Bureau, 800;
obtaining the indications, 801; synoptic weather-maps,
801; military organization of the service, 801; utilization
of the reports, 802: their dissemination, 803; mode of
preparing the daily synopsis and indications, 803, 805:
verifications of predictions, 805, river reports, 805, 806;
cautionary signals, 806-808; sunset stations, 808; privat
prognostication, 808; significance of barometric variations,
809; apparatus for the observations, 809, 810; the bar-
ometer, 809, 810; thermometers, 810; rain-gauge, $10;
anemometer, 810, 811; the international weather service,
811-814; absolutely simultaneous observations necessary,
811; adoption of General Myer's project by the Vienna
Congress, $12; extent of the international observations,
812; the coast Signal Service, 814; the observed con-
ditions, 814; advantages to the Life-Saving Service, 815;
value of the danger-signals to vessels sailing along the
coast, 816; method of telegraphing the signals, 816; util-
ity of the frontier telegraph in announcing Indian opera-
tions, 816; length of the lines, 817.
Silk.-Sources of the world's supply, 178.
Silver.-Statistics of Nevada mines, 658.
SOUTHARD, M. I.-Representative from Ohio, 193; amend-
ment to judicial appropriation bill, 234; remarks on the
bill, 241, 247.
South Carolina.-Governor chosen in place of Wade Hamp-
ton, elected Senator, 817; judges elected, 817; session of
the Legislature, 818; amendment of the Constitution
voted relating to the homestead laws, 818; prohibition of
miscegenation, 818; text-book law, 818; artificial limbs
for Confederate soldiers, 818; legislation upon the ques-
tioned debt, 818, 819; finances and taxation, 819; school
statistics, 819; criminal statistics, 819, 820; state of trade,
820; cotton-manufacture, 820; pardon of the convicted
defaulters of the Republican régime, 820.
Spain. The royal family, 820; area and population, 821;
finances, 821; army and navy, 821; commerce by com-
modities, 821; area and population of the colonies, 821;
election for the Chambers, 821; opening of the Cortes,
821; speech from the throne, 821, 822; second session,
822; deliberations on the abolition of slavery in the An-
tilles, 822; royal marriage, 822; attempted regicide, 822;
new outbreak of the Cuban rebellion, 822; treaty with
China relating to the coolie-trade, 823.
SPARKS, W. A. J.-Representative from Illinois, 193, 250:
explains the army appropriation bill. at extra session.
235-257.
STEPHENS, ALEXANDER H.-Representative from Georgia,
198, 250; speech in extra session on the army appropria-
tion bill, 251-253.
Stock Exchange, the London.-Parliamentary inquiry and
question of legislative supervision, 176.
STREMAYE, Dr. VON.-Austrian Cabinet Minister, 60.
Sugar. The world's production and trade in cane and beet-
root sugar, 169.
Sutro Tunnel.-Opened to discharge the water from the
flooded mines, 658.
Sweden and Norway.-Royal family, 823; the Swedish
Ministry, 828; area and population of Sweden, 823;
finances, 823; trade and navigation, 823; the Norwegian
Ministry, 823; area and population, 828; finances, 823,
824; proceedings of the Swedish Riksdag, $24; session
of the Norwegian Storthing, 824.
Switzerland.-Area and population, 824; finances, 824; the
army, 824; post-offices and telegraphs, 824; capital pun-
ishment restored, 824; President elected, 825; merging
of Catholic and Protestant primary schools decided con-
stitutional, 825.
TAAFFE, Count EDUARD.-Austrian Minister-President, sketch
of. 60.
TAYLOR, RICHARD.-Confederate General, 825; early life, 825;
services in the Mexican war, 825; in the war of secession,
825, 826; subsequent life, 826.
Telegraph, Submarine.-New cable lines, 346, 347.
Tennessee.-Legislative session, 826; bill abolishing fees, $26;
insurance legislation, 826; question of scaling the debt
827; committee report containing a plan of readjustment,
827; reasons for repudiating railroad bonds, 827; mi-
nority report against repudiation, 827; the passage of
the bill, 828; commission to confer with bondholders,
828; statement of the debt, 828; conditions under
which the railroad bonds were issued, 828; legal pro-
ceedings to determine if they are a lien upon the rail-
roads, 828; amounts of these bonds, 828; taxation, re-
ceipts, and outgoes, 829; repeal of the Memphis charter
and others, 829; debt of Memphis, 829; extra session to
take precautions against yellow fever, 829.
TEVFIK, MOHAMMED.-Khedive of Egypt, biographical se
count, 335.
Texas.-Legislative session, 829; constitutional amendment
relieving agricultural products from taxation, 829 act
permitting the Governor to displace charitable officials,
830; authorization of a loan, 830; interest and school
appropriations vetoed, 880; popular disapproval, 880; a
Sunday law, $80; the financial condition, 880; the ex-
tent, location, and prices of salable lands, 880, 881; land
frauds, 881; the schools, 881; State institutions, &>1:
criminal statistics, 881; measures for the capture of fugi-
tive criminals, 831; permitting murderers to escape, 882.
THEBAW. His elevation to the Burmese throne, 100; his
insane conduct, 101.
THURMAN, ALLEN G.-Senator from Ohio, 193, 250; speech
on resolutions to investigate the recent elections, 196-195.
TIRARD, PIERRE E.-French Minister of Commerce, bio-
graphical notice, 386,
Tobacco. The world's production and international trade,
170.
TOWNSHEND, R. W.-Representative from Illinois, 193, 230;
on the army appropriation bill, 283.
Tramp Acts.-In Delaware, 806; military order of the
Governor of Iowa to arrest tramps, 516; legislation in
New York. 675; in North Carolina, 686: in Pennsylvania,
715: in Wisconsin, 848.
Treaty Obligations not paramount to Congressional legisla-
non, 219.
Turkey. The reigning house, 832: area and population of
the empire, 832; receipts and expenditures, 882; the
financial situation, 832; army, 832; railroads, 882; evils
of a depreciated currency, 882, 883; changes in the FI-
nance Ministry, 888; the office of Grand Vizier abolished,
833; ministerial crisis resulting from the disbandment of
troops, 833; composition of the new Cabinet, 883; sta-
tioning British ships in the Bosporus, 833; promised re-
forms, 883; decree of the payment of interest on the debt
884; the Russian treaty of peace, 884; cessation of Cre-
tan disturbances, 834.
United States.-Appointment of a new Secretary of War,
834; sketch of the Secretary, 834; a new Minister to
Berlin, 834; the Attorney-General on the payment of fees
to deputy marshals, 834, 685; the action of Congress in
extra session, 835; the war-levy decided not to hold
against the States, 835; the constitutionality of legal-
tenders brought up in the courts, 835, 886; constitn-
tionality of the Thurman railroad act confirmed, $86; in-
crease of cases in the Supreme Court, 836; post-office
receipts, 836; changes in postal regulations, 886, 887;
ministers abroad instructed to enlist the aid of foreign
governments to suppress Mormon emigration, 887; the
decline of the American carrying-trade, 887, 888; pro-
posed measures to restore it, 888; attempt of the Ns-
tionals to dictate the choice of a Speaker in Congress,
838, 839; increase of local indebtedness in the United
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