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453, 454; their accommodation, 454 ; pay, 454; discipline, 

 455; river-lights, 455, 456; lighthouse inspectors, 456; 

 engineers, 458 ; the board, 456, 457 ; question of light- 

 dues, 457 ; records, 457 ; number of lights, buoys, etc., 

 457; cost of maintenance, 457; cost per mile of coast, 

 457. 



Literature, American, in 1880. Statistics, 458; theology, 

 458, 459; philosophy, 459; natural science, 459, 4CO; 

 educational publications, 460; technical literature, 460; 

 medical works, 460, 461 : jurisprudence, 461 ; art litera- 

 ture, 461; history, 461,462; politics and political econo- 

 my, 462 ; books of travel, 462, 463; biography, 463, 464 ; 

 literary history and criticism, 464 ; essays, 464 ; poetry, 

 464. 465; novels of the year, 465, 466. 



Literature, British. General character of the productions 

 of 1880, 466, 467; theological writings and Biblical exe- 

 gesis, 467; philosophical works, 467; Oriental studies, 

 467 ; natural sciences, 467, 468 ; medical treatises, 468 ; 

 books of travel, 468, 469 ; political economy, 469 ; history 

 and sociology, 469, 470 ; biographical works, 470, 471 ; 

 criticism, 471 ; poetry, 471, 472 ; fiction, 472, 473. 



Literature, Continental. French literature, 473; Belgian, 

 473, 474; Dutch, 474; German, 474-476; Swedish, 476; 

 Norwegian, 476 ; Russian, 476 ; Polish, 476 ; Italian, 476, 

 477 , Spanish, 477. 



LOGAN, JOHN A. Senator from Illinois, 136 ; on Confederate 

 disabilities, 189-193 ; biographical sketch. 477, 478. 



Louisiana. Former revisions of the Constitution, 478 ; or- 

 ganization of the government under the Constitution of 

 1879, 473 ; provisions of the new Constitution, 478, 479 ; 

 acts of the Legislature, 479; suit of the State of New 

 Hampshire against the State of Louisiana, 479 ; further 

 legislation, 479, 480 ; condition of the State debt, 480 ; 

 debt of New Orleans, 480, 481 ; basis and method of 

 refunding, 481; statement of the debt, 481; new rail- 

 roads, 4S1 ; sanitary regulations, 481 ; social progress 

 of colored population, 481 ; colored emigration, 481, 482 , 

 labor riots, 482; petition of the strikers, 482; sugar- 

 planting statistics, 4S2: sugar-crops for sixteen years, 

 482; New Orleans cotton receipts and shipments, 482, 

 483 ; rice-production, 4S3 ; grain exports, 483 ; the barge 

 system, 483; facilities of New Orleans for grain ex- 

 portation, 483; capital employed in manufacturing in 

 Louisiana, 483, 484 ; political conventions and platforms, 

 484 ; colored university, 484 ; statistics of school popu- 

 lation, 484 ; school-fund apportionment, 485 ; census, 

 485; State debt, 485; property valuation, 485. 



LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. Appointed Minister to England, 

 692. 



Lutherans. Statistics of churches and membership, 485; 

 session of the General Council, 486; of the Synod, 

 South, 486. 



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Macao. Claimed by China, 103. 



MCCLELLAND, ROBERT. American statesman, biographical 

 sketch, 503. 



MA.CDONALD, Sir JOHN A. Canadian Premier, 211 ; mission 

 to England, 214. 



MCLANE, ROBERT M. Member of Congress from Maryland, 

 on paying deputy -marshals, 166. 



MACMAHON, J. A. Member of Congress from Ohio, 137; 

 on appropriations for deputy-marshals, 153, 154, 160-163; 

 amendment offered, 166. 



Ma ine. General Chamberlain resigns the Governor's office to 

 Davis, 486; resolution in the House to proceed to busi- 

 ness, 486; statement submitted to the Court by the Fu- 

 sionists, 487; resolution in the Legislature to investigate 

 the election returns, 487 ; report of the investigating com- 



mittee, 487, 488; minority report, 458; cases of bribery, 

 488; enactments of the Legislator .;- 1 -nl,; l .-k 



and Democratic Conventions, 489; Republican Conven- 

 tion and platform, 49; Temperance Conventions and 

 platforms, 490 ; declination of the nominee for Governor, 

 490; the canvass and elections, 490; constitutional 

 question as to the result of the gubernatorial election, 

 490 ; the census returns, 491 ; population of cities, 491 ; 

 finances and debt, 491. 



MANNING, AMOS REDUS. American jurist, biographical 

 sketch, 491. 



MANSFIELD, EDWARD DEERINQ. American author, bio- 

 graphical sketch, 491, 492. 



Maryland. The Governor's address to the Legislature, 

 492 ; election of a Senator, 492 ; defeat of proposed re- 

 form measures, 492 ; laws enacted, 492 ; demand for the 

 impeachment of Judge Pearre, 492 ; charges against the 

 management of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 492; 

 Republican Convention, 493 ; Democratic Convention 

 and platform, 493 ; Presidential election, 493 , census re- 

 turns, 493, 494; finances, 494; tenure of the offices of 

 tobacco-inspectors in dispute, 494; anniversary of the 

 founding of Baltimore, 494. 



Massachusetts. &.Gt& of the Legislature, 494, 495; report of 

 Prison-Labor Committee, 495 ; resolutions in conference 

 with commissioners from other States, 495, 496 ; their de- 

 scription of the Massachusetts system, 496; separation of 

 hardened offenders recommended, 496 ; mismanagement 

 of the prison, 497 ; Convention of the Young Republicans, 

 497; platform, 497; Republican Convention, 497; plat- 

 form, 497, 498 ; Democratic Convention, 498 ; Butler's re- 

 turn, 498; nominations, 498; platform, 498; Prohibition 

 Convention, 498; nominations, 498; platform, 499; Re- 

 publican nominating Convention, 499 ; nominations, 499; 

 platform, 499, 500; Greenback Convention, 500 ; nomina- 

 tions and platform, 5t)0 ; election returns, 500, 501 ; com- 

 position of the Legislature, 501 ; sketch of Governor 

 Long, 501 ; Treasury report, 501 ; property assessment, 

 501; savings-banks, 501, 502; municipal indebtedness, 

 502 ; classified census of State and counties, 502 ; popula- 

 tion of cities, 508; public schools, 502; criminals, 502; 

 railroad statistics, 502 ; Hoosac Tunnel, 503. 



MAXET, S. B. Senator from Texas, 136; on the Eaton 

 tariff commission, 175-177; on a transportation commis- 

 sion, 186. 



MAYNARD, HORACE. Appointed Postmaster-General, 692. 



MELIKOFF, Count LORIS. Appointed chief of commission to 

 restore order in Russia, with supreme powers, 662 ; at- 

 tempt on his life, 663; made Minister of the Interior, 

 664 ; his policy of reform. 664. 



Methodists. Statistics of all countries, 503; statistics of 

 American churches, 503, 504 ; publications and missions, 

 504; mission statistics, 504, 505; General Conference, 

 505; new bishops, 505; questions debated, 505, 506; 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 506 ; statistics, 506 ; 

 Sunday-schools and missions, 506 ; Methodist Protestant 

 Church, 507 ; General Conference, 507 ; African Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, 507; union with British Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, 507 ; Wesleyan Connection, 507, 508 ; 

 statistics, 508; missions, 508; Sunday-schools, 508; "Wes- 

 leyan Conference, 508, 509; Primitive Methodists, 509 ; 

 United Free Churches, 509; New Connection, 509; 

 Wesleyan Reform Union, 509 ; (Ecumenical Conference 

 to be held in London, 509, 510; number of delegates from 

 American bodies, 509, 510. 



Mexico. Population, 510 ; members of the Diaz Government, 

 510 ; the members of the Gonzalez Government, 510 ; of 

 the judiciary, 510; State Governors, 510; army, 510; 

 finances, 510, 511 ; the debt, 511; Mexican bonds and the 

 money market, 511 ; the amount of the debt, 512 ; com- 



