INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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^PRAGUE, PELEG. American politician, biographical notice, 

 673. 



SPRINGER. WILLIAM M. Member of Congress from Illinois, 

 136 ; his amendment to bill of appropriations for United 

 States marshals, 163. 



?T. JOHN, ISAAC M. Confederate general, biographical 

 sketch, 673, 674. 



/Sugar. A new test, 94. 



Sunday-Schools. Statistics of all countries, 674; Raikes 

 anniversary, 674. 



SUTTEE, JOHN A. Californian pioneer, biographical account, 

 674, 675. f 



Sweden and Norway. 'Royal family, 675 ; Swedish Cabinet 

 675; area and population of Sweden, 675; finances, 675; 

 military establishment, 675; Government of Norway, 

 675; statistics and finances, 675; session of the Swedish 

 Rigsdag, 675; Cabinet changes, 675, 676; session of the 

 Norwegian Storthing, 676; royal vetoes and deadlock, 

 676. 



Switzerland. The administration, 676 ; area and population 

 statistics, 676; finances, 676; the military defenses, 676; 

 revision of the Constitution rejected, 676 ; capital punish- 

 ment restored, 676; separation of Church and state re- 

 jected, 676, 677; Baden boundary rectification, 677; the 

 St. Gothard Tunnel, 677; election, 677; International 

 Law Conference, 677. 



SYNGE, Colonel. British officer, captured by brigands in 

 Epirus, 690. 



Tennessee. Republican Convention and platform, 677, 678; 

 Greenback Convention and platform, 678, 679; Demo- 

 cratic Convention and platform, 679-681; election, 681 ; 

 education, 681 ; penal institutions, 681, 632. 



Texas. Greenback Convention and platform, 682; Demo- 

 cratic Convention and platform, 682, 683 ; Republican 

 Convention and platform, 683, 634; election, 6S4; taxa- 

 tion and property valuation, 684; expenditures, 684; 

 State institutions, 684 ; education, 684, 685; school lands, 

 685; Penitentiary, 685. 



THUUMAN, A. G. Senator from Ohio, 136; on Confederate 

 disabilities, 189-193 ; voted for as Presidential candidate, 

 699. 



TILDEN, SAMUEL J. Declines a proposed nomination for the 

 Presidency, 697, 693; vote for his nomination, 699. 



TOO-TSUNG-T'AXG. Chinese general, 105. 



Transvaal. Rebellion of the Boers, 83. 



Tunis Tunisian question in Italy, 409. 



Turkey. Reigning family, 685; area and population, 685; 

 missionary troubles and diplomatic interference of Great 

 Britain, 635, 686; monetary regulations, 636; financial 

 embarrassment of the Government, 686 ; the debt ques- 

 tion, 637; the Albanian demands, 687 ; feeling regarding 

 intervention of the powers, 687; Goschen at Constanti- 

 nople, 687; ministerial changes, 688 ; the Albanian move- 

 ment, 688 ; note from the powers, 6SS ; reply of the Porte. 

 688; naval demonstration, 688, 689; reform of the ad- 

 ministration of Armenia, 639 ; scheme of government for 

 Asia Minor, 689 ; note from the powers on Armenian re- 

 forms, 639 ; organic law framed for the European prov- 

 inces, 689; rumored excitement among Mohammedan 

 nations, 689 ; famines, 689, 690 ; murder of an American 

 missionary, 690; disturbances among the Kurds, 690; 

 murder of the Shereef of Mecca, 690 ; captivity of Colonel 

 Synge, 690. 



Unitarians. National Conference, 691 ; finances, 



United tfretf nm.-Statistlcs, 691 ; collections, 691 ; bishops, 

 691 ; seminaries, 692. 



United States. Census of the States com pan -<l with l-7u, 

 692; population of principal cities, 692; classified popula- 

 tion of States, 693 ; changes in the Cabinet and diplomatic 

 service, 692, 693; in the Supreme Court, 693; Presiden- 

 tial canvass, 693; the Grant candidature, 698; Anti-Third- 

 Term Convention, 698; resolutions adopted, 694; other 

 Republican candidates, 694 ; assembling of the Chicago 

 Convention, 694; Conkling's resolution, 694; question of 

 the power of State Conventions to bind district delegates, 

 694; the platform, 694, 695; civil-service plank added, 

 695; balloting for President, 695; table of the thirty-seven 

 ballots, 696 ; Garfield's nomination declared unanimous, 

 696; balloting for Vice-President, 696; meeting of the 

 Greenback-Labor Convention in Chicago, 696 ; the plat- 

 form, 696, 697 ; nominations, 697 ; Prohibition Conven- 

 tion at Cleveland, 697; Antimasoc nominations, 697; 

 Democratic canvass, 697 ; Tilden's letter of declination, 

 697, 698 ; proceedings of the Convention at Cincinnati, 

 699 ; the three ballots, 699 ; the platform, 699 ; Weaver's 

 letter of acceptance, 699, 700 ; Garfleld's letter of accept- 

 ance, 700, 701 ; General Hancock's letter of acceptance, 

 701, 702; issues of the campaign, 702 ; vote of the dif- 

 ferent States, 702 ; exclusion of colored jurors by a Judge 

 an indictable offense, 703 ; decision of the Supreme Court 

 affirming the validity of the Federal election laws, 703, 

 704 ; text of Chinese treaty relating to immigration, 

 704. 



Universalists. Statistics, 705; finances, 705; General Con- 

 vention, 705. 



Utes. Losses of soldiers in the White River outbreak, 27; 

 trouble in Colorado, 28. 



Ventilation. True principles of, 360-362 



Vermont. Republican Conventions, 706; nominations and 

 platforms, 706 ; Greenback nominations, 706, 707 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 707 ; nominations and resolutions, 707 ; 

 elections, 707; State finances, 707; savings-banks, 707; 

 education, 707, 708; State institutions, 708; divorce 

 statistics, 708 ; census, 708 ; revision of the laws, 70S, 

 709. 



Virginia. Repudiation bill, 709; veto of the Governor, 709; 

 Governor's message on the debt, 709 ; Republican Con- 

 vention, 709, 710; Democratic Convention, 710; resolu- 

 tions, 710; Readjustee' Convention, 710 ; platform, 711 ; 

 attempt to unite Democratic factions, 712; Presidential 

 election, 712; census, 712; growth of Richmond, 712. 



WEAVER, JAMES B. Member of Congress from Iowa, 186 ; 

 speech on Culberson's amendment to bill regulating juris- 

 diction of Federal courts, 140, 141 ; nominated by the 

 Greenback -Labor party candidate for the Presidency, 

 697; his letter of acceptance, 699, 700. 



WELLBORN, OLIN. Member of Congress from Texas, speech 

 on bill to regulate jurisdiction of Federal courts, 189. 



West Virginia Republican Convention, 712 ; platform, 712, 

 713; Democratic Convention, 713 ; platform, 713 ; Demo- 

 cratic State nominations, 714; platform, 714; Greenback 

 Labor nominations, 714 ; constitutional amendments, 714 ; 

 election, 714; revenues and expenditures, 715; school 

 statistics, 715; charitable institutions, 715; fish-culture, 

 715; census, 715; immigration, 715; railroad assess- 

 ment, 715. 



