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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Persia. The Shah, 622; area and population, 622; postal 

 service, 622; negotiations relating to the occupation of 

 Herat, 622 ; rejection of British proposals, 623 ; insurrec- 

 tion of Kurds, 623; invasion of Sheik Abdullah, 623; 

 famine, 623; opium-culture, 623. 



Peru. Members of the Government, 624; financial condi- 

 tion, 624 ; the debt, and arrangements for its discharge, 

 624; commercial statistics, 624; guano and niter exports, 

 624; railways, 624; Pierola usurps the dictatorship, 625; 

 his proclamation, 625; his course of action, 625; Chilian 

 successes, 625; capture of Arica, 626; terms of peace 

 offered by Chili, 626. 



PHILIPS, JOHN F., Congressman from Missouri. Speech on 

 bill to restrict Federal jurisdiction, 142-150. 



PIEROLA, NICOLAS DE. Peruvian dictator, proclamation on 

 assuming power, 626 ; his character and actions, 026. 



PLUMER, WILLIAM SWAIN. American clergyman, biographi- 

 cal notice. 626. 



Polar Region Extent of Arctic lands, 626 ; Arctic America, 

 626 ; South Polar lands, 627. 



Portugal. Eoyal family, 627 ; area and population, 627 ; 

 colonies, 627; revenues and expenditures, 627 ; debt, 627; 

 army and navy, 627; commerce, 627; shipping, 627; 

 legislation, 627 ; anniversary celebrations, 627. 



Presbyterians. Church statistics, 627, 628; missions, 628; 

 proceedings of the General Assembly, 628; Southern 

 Church, statistics, C30; General Assembly, 630 ; United 

 Presbyterian Church, statistics, 631 ; General Assembly, 

 631 ; Cumberland Presbyterian Church, statistics, 631 ; 

 General Assembly, 633; Canadian Church, 632; Scottish 

 Church, 632, 633; Scottish Free Church, 633; case of 

 Professor Robertson Smith, 634, C35; United Church of 

 Scotland, 635, 636; English, Welsh, and Irish Presby- 

 terians, 636. 



Protestant Episcopal Church. Statistics, 636, 37; mis- 

 sions and publications, 637; General Convention, 638; 

 sisterhoods and deaconesses, 638 ; lessons, 638 



Public Documents. President's annual message to Con- 

 gress, 641-651. 



PUGH, JAMES L. Senator from Alabama, 15. 



Reformed Churclies. Statistics of the Reformed Church in 

 America, 651 ; missions and societies, 651 ; the General 

 Synod, 651, 652 ; statistics of the Reformed Church in 

 the United States, 652 ; missions and education, 652 ; Gen- 

 eral Council of all churches holding the Presbyterian sys- 

 tem, 652-654 ; bodies represented, 653 ; papers read, 653 ; 

 mission statistics, 653; American and European com- 

 mittees, 654. 



Rhode Island. Adjourned session of the Legislature, 654 ; 

 Prohibition nominations, 654; Republican nominations, 

 654; Democratic nominations, 654; platform, 654, 655; 

 State election, 655; May session of the Legislature, 655; 

 plan of revision of the statutes, 656 ; political conven- 

 tions to nominate electors, 656 ; Greenback platform, 

 656; Presidential election, 656; Treasury statement, 

 656, 657 ; public-school statistics, 657 ; benevolent and 

 penal institutions, 657; savings-banks, 657. 



RIPLEY GEORGE. American journalist and author, biograph- 

 ical sketch, 657. 



RIPON, Marquis of. Governor-General of India, 384. 



ROBERTSON, W. H. Letter rejecting the instructions of the 

 New York Republican Convention, 575. 



ROBESON, GEORGE M. Member of Congress from New Jer- 

 sey, 137; on army appropriation bill, 169. 



ROBINSON, Sir IlKRciTLEs.-Governor of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, official career, 79, 80. 



Roman Catholic Church. Italy and the Vatican, 658 ; enun- 

 ciations of the Pope, 658 ; suppression of religious orders 

 in France, 658; agreement with the Russian Govern- 

 ment, 658 ; various ecclesiastical events, '658, 659. 



fioumania.King Charles, 659; statistics, 659; political 

 events, 659 ; rupture with Bulgaria, 659 ; boundary ques- 

 tion, 659, 660 ; jealousy toward Russia, 660 ; the Danubi- 

 an question, 660; new Cabinet, 660 ; attempted assassina- 

 tion of the Premier, 660 ; the King's successor elected, 

 660. 



Russia. Alexander III, 660; his birth and marriage, 660; 

 children and other relatives, 660; area and population, 

 660, 661 ; population of cities, 661 ; the budget, 661 ; for- 

 eign commerce, 661 ; navigation, 661 ; army, 661 ; navy, 

 661 ; railroads, 661 ; postal statistics, 661 ; propagation of 

 Nihilism in the army, 662; plot discovered, 662; students 

 complain of the university management, 662; secret 

 presses, 662 ; the Winter Palace explosion, 662 ; con- 

 gratulations on the escape of the Czar, 662 ; Loris Meli- 

 kofl appointed chief of an executive commission, 662 ; 

 proclamation of the new executive, 663 ; attempt to kill 

 Count Melikoff, 663 ; his assailant, 663 ; action of the 

 extraordinary commission, 663; its abolition, 664; the 

 Third Section abolished, 664 ; Melikoff Minister of the 

 Interior, 664 ; important reforms instituted, 664 ; the new 

 policy outlined, 664 ; watchmen at doors abolished, 664 ; 

 press regulations to be relaxed, 664 ; project of tax re- 

 form, 664; conditions proposed for a cessation of revolu- 

 tionary activities by the Nihilists, 664; programme of 

 the Nihilistic Executive Committee, 664; trial of Ni- 

 hilist prisoners, 665 ; trial of twenty-one Nihilists at 

 Kiev, 665; the Hartmann affair, 605; convention with 

 the Vatican, 665; new Minister of Education, 665; new 

 Minister of Finance, 665, 666; the Czar at Livalia, 666; 

 reclamation of marsh-lands, 666 ; conciliation of Poland, 

 666 ; the annexed province of Kars 



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SARGENT, EPES, American author, biographical notice, 667. 



SIMON, JULES. French statesman, on the Ferry education 

 bill, 282, 283 ; on the amnesty bill, 284. 



SIMONTON, C. B. Member of Congress from Tennessee, 137 ; 

 substitute amendment to bill of appropriations for mar- 

 shals, 163; speech on the same, 164, 165. 



SINGLETON, OTHO R. Member of Congress from Missis- 

 sippi, 137 ; speech on payment of deputy-marshals, 157- 

 158. 



Sioux. Surrender of Sitting Bull's followers, 23. 



South Carolina. Extra legislative session, 667 ; resignation 

 of the Governor, 67 ; the State debt, 667 ; Treasury 

 statement, 668; property valuation, 668; estimate of the 

 Treasury, 668; railroad regulation, 663; insurance, 668; 

 public schools, 663 ; Penitentiary, 669 ; fish-culture, 669 ; 

 effect of stock law, 669; Insane Asylum, 669; phos- 

 phate-mining, 669 ; Charleston's commerce, 669 ; indus- 

 trial progress, 669 ; agricultural statistics, 669, 670 ; inves- 

 tigation of the census returns, 670 ; political conventions, 

 670; the election, 670. 



Spain. Hoy ml family, 670 ; area and population, 670; of 

 colonies, 671 ; urban population, 671 ; budget, 671 ; army 

 and navy, 671 ; commerce, 671 ; political situation, 671 ; 

 session of the Cortes, 671 ; election, 671 ; democratic de- 

 mands, 672 : new party organized, 672 ; budget presented, 

 672; Cuban budget, 672; events in Cuba, 672; Carlist 

 movements, 673 ; policy regarding the French expelled 

 orders, 673 ; the regicide Otero, 673. 



SPARKS, W. A. J. Member of Congress from Illinois, 136; 

 on army appropriation bill, 167, 168. 



