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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



merce, 512: chief exports, 512 ; trade with England, 512; 

 with the United States, 512, 513; prospects of increasing 

 the trade, 513; extent of smuggling over the American 

 border, 513, 514; text of law to suppress smuggling, 

 514 ; protective tariff, 514 , text of revenue law, 514, 

 515 ; President's message on the state of the country, 

 515, 516. 



Michigan. Treasury report, 516 ; trust funds, 516 ; bonded 

 debt, 516 ; tax levy, 516 ; public lands, 516 ; operation of 

 liquor-tax, 516 ; prohibition agitation, 516, 517 ; railroads, 

 51T ; insurance, 517 ; banks, 517 ; statistics of agricultural 

 production, 518; number of farms, acreage, stock, etc., 

 518; fisheries, 518 ; lumbering, 51S; salt production, 518, 

 519; public schools, 519; Agricultural College, 519 ; Uni- 

 versity, 519, 520; School for Dependent Children, 520; 

 Eeform School, 520 ; benevolent institutions, 2J, 521 ; 

 insanity statistics, 520; census by counties, 521, 522; 

 population of cities, 522; Republican Convention, 522; 

 platform, 522, 523 ; Democratic Convention, 523 ; plat- 

 form, 523 ; election returns, 523 ; Congressional elections, 

 523, 524 ; composition of the Legislature, 524 ; defeat of 

 amendment to authorize Detroit to aid a tunnel or bridge, 

 524. 



Minnesota. Financial statement, 524 ; repudiated bonds, 524; 

 appeal of the Governor for their recognition, 524 ; agri- 

 cultural statistics, 524, 525; railroads, 525 ; banks, 25; 

 education, 525; State institutions, 525; Eepublican Con- 

 vention, 525 ; platform, 525 ; Democratic Convention, 525 ; 

 platform, 525, 526 ; Greenback Convention, 526 ; platform, 

 526; election, 526; Congressional elections, 526; census 

 by counties, 526 ; city population, 527. 



Mississippi. Meeting of the Legislature, 527 ; election of a 

 United States Senator, 527; codification and revision of 

 the statutes, 527 ; regulation of railroads bill vetoed, 527; 

 ground of the veto, 527, 528 ; a second railroad bill de- 

 feated, 528 ; memorial to Congress for the regulation of 

 transportation, 528 ; other legislation, 528; resolution to 

 accept portrait of Jefferson Davi?, 528; Eepublican Con- 

 vention, 528; division on the third-term question, 528; 

 resolutions adopted, 529; Democratic Convention and 

 resolutions, 529; election returns, 529; votes rejected 

 under the new election law, 529; State census, 529; 

 Government census, 529, 530; population by counties, 

 530. 



Mississippi River Improvement. Survey of the river. 530 ; 

 work of the survey, 531; outlet system disapproved, 

 531; variations of slope in silt-bearing rivers, 531, 532; 

 closing of outlets by sedimentation, 532; benefits ot 

 levees, 532, 533; approval of the jetty system, 533; 

 works recommended below Cairo, 533 ; estimate of cost, 

 533 ; investigation of the sub-committee, 534 ; their re- 

 port, 534 ; commercial importance of Mississippi naviga- 

 tion, 534; cost of similar public works, 535; necessarily 

 a Government work, 535 ; effectiveness of contracting 

 the channel proved, 535; inspection above St. Louis, 

 535, 536 : dams and dikes in the upper river, 536 ; results 

 obtained, 536; extent of the year's surveys, 536. 



Missouri. Message of the Governor, 537 ; revenue and ex- 

 penditures, 537; the debt and plans for its payment, 

 537 ; default of the late Treasurer, 538 ; property assess- 

 ment, 538; the Penitentiary, 538 ; public instruction, 538; 

 immigration policy, 539 ; census, 539 ; railroads, 539 ; 

 tornado, 539; commerce of St. Louis, 539; validity of 

 township railroad bonds, 540; political .conventions and 

 platforms, 540, 541 ; election returns, 541 . 



Mohammedanism,. Statistics, 541 ; decline of Mohammedan 

 powers, 541. 



Montenegro. Eeigning prince, 542; area and population, 

 542; negotiations for the rectification of the Turkish 

 boundary, 542 ; Albanians seize the places ceded to Mon- 



tenegro, 542; the powers demand that the Porte should 

 expel the Albanians, 543 ; proposed naval demonstration 

 before Dulcigno, 513, 544; terms submitted by the Porte, 

 544; Dervish Pasha ordered to effect the surrender to 

 Montenegro, 544 ; advance and conflicts with the Alba- 

 nians, 544, 545 ; capture of Dulcigno and its surrender to 

 Montenegro, 545, description on the port and district, 

 545. 



MOKEY Letter. Electioneering document forged in the name 

 of President Garfield, 576. 



Morocco. The Sultan, 545; area and population, 545, 546; 

 commerce and navigation, 546; persecution of Jews, 

 546- application for a Spanish protectorate, 546; a diplo- 

 matic conference demands religious liberty, 546, 547 ; the 

 barbarous condition of Morocco, 547 ; proposed railway 

 to Iran, 547. 



MORTON, LEVI P. Member of Congress from New York, 

 136; speech in favor of representation in the Berlin fish- 

 ery exhibition, 150-152. 



MOTT, LUCKETIA. American philanthropist, biographical 

 sketch, 547, 548. 



MTEB, ALBERT J. Chief of the Signal Service, biographical 

 sketch, 548, 549 ; his invention of a system of signals, 

 548; organization of the Army Signal Service, 548; elab- 

 oration of national and international meteorological ob- 

 servations, 548, 549. 



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Nebraska. Material progress, 549 ; receipts and expendi- 

 tures, 549; taxation, 549; default of the State Auditor, 

 549, 550; delinquent taxes, 550; tax assessment, 550; 

 debt, 550; property valuation, 550, 551; tree-planting 

 550 ; census, 551 ; educational statistics, 551 ; school 

 lands, 551 ; Penitentiary, 551, 552 ; organization of a mili- 

 tia, 552 ; Eepublican Convention and platform, 552 ; 

 Democratic Convention and platform, 552 ; election, 558. 



Netherlands. Eeigning family. 553 ; statistics of popula- 

 tion, 553; expenditures and revenues, 554; debt, 553; 

 commerce, 553; railroads, telegraphs, and post-offices, 

 554; colonies, 554; session of the States-General, 554; 

 the budget, 554 ; penal legislation, 555 ; Acheen war, 

 555 ; Spinoza celebration, 555. 



Nevada. Finances, 555; Eepublican Convention, 555 ; plat- 

 form, 556; Democratic Convention, 556; election, 556; 

 State institutions, 556 ; railroad-building, 556 ; articles of 

 amalgamation of railroad companies, 557. 



NEW, D. Member of Congress from Indiana, 136; speech 

 on bill to limit Federal court jurisdiction, 141, 142. 



New Hampshire. Convention of Temperance League, 557; 

 resolutions, 557 ; Democratic Convention, 557; platform, 

 557, 558; Eepublican Convention, 558; platform, 558; 

 Eepublican Convention to nominate State officers, 558; 

 platform, 559 ; Democratic Convention for State officers, 

 559; Prohibition platform, 559, 560 ; Greenback nomina- 

 tions, 559 ; election, 560, special Congressional election, 

 560 ; census, 560 ; report of Eailroad Commissioners, 560, 

 561 ; railway taxes, 561 ; fish-culture, 561. 



Neae Jersey. Legislative enactments, 561, 562; report of 

 tax commission, 562 ; commission to frame laws to regu- 

 late municipalities, 562, 563; report of commission on 

 prison-labor, 563 ; public schools, 563 ; question of im- 

 proving the quality of instruction, 564 ; statistics of 

 school attendance in cities, 564; question of industrial 

 education, 564, 565 ; State finances, 565, 566 ; debt, 566 ; 

 State deposits in bankrupt banks, 566; Agricultural Col- 

 lege, 566 ; militia, 566, 567 ; State institutions, 567 ; pub- 

 lic health, 567 ; property valuation, 567 ; savings-banks, 

 567 ; industrial statistics, 567 ; census, 568 ; political con- 

 ventions and platforms, 5G8, 569 ; election, 569. 



