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406 ; agriculture, 406 ; immigration, 406 ; 

 Board of Immigration, 406 ; appointment and 

 duties, 406 ; action of railroad companies on, 

 407 ; meeting of Legislature, 407 ; bills passed, 

 407; appropriations, 407; ratification of fif- 

 teenth amendment, 407 ; woman suffrage, 407 ; 

 prohibitory law, 407 ; Constitutional Conven- 

 tion, 407, 409 ; railroad legislation, 407 ; town 

 and city aid to railroads, 408 ; action of courts 

 upon, 408 ; Democratic Convention, 408 ; nomi- 

 nees, 408 ; resolutions, 408 ; Republican Con- 

 vention, 408 ; nominees, 408 ; resolutions, 408 ; 

 election returns, 409 ; State institutions, 409. 



XL General condition, 414 ; finances, 414, 

 415 ; public institutions, 415 ; schools, 415 ; 

 State University, 415 ; new capital, 415 ; rail- 

 roads, 415, 416 ; Democratic nominees and 

 resolutions, 416 ; Republican nominees, 416 ; 

 platform, 417; election returns, 417; census 

 statistics of 1870, 417, 418. 



XII. Meeting of the General Assembly, 

 403 ; legislation concerning the sale of intoxi- 

 cating drinks, 403 ; taxing railroads, 403, 404 ; 

 abolition of capital punishment, 404; census 

 to be taken in 1873, 404; provision for the 

 establishment of public libraries, 404 ; provi- 

 sion for incorporating building associations, 

 405 ; provision for new penitentiary and new 

 Capitol, 405 ; defeat of woman suffrage, 405 ; 

 adjournment of the Legislature, 405 ; Repub- 

 lican Convention, 405 ; Democratic Conven- 

 tions, 405 ; Republican State Convention nomi- 

 nations and resolutions, 405 ; results of the 

 election, 405 ; school-fund, 406 ; Institution for 

 the Deaf and Dumb, 406 ; Home for Soldiers' 

 Orphans, 406 ; insurance companies, 406 ; sta- 

 tistics of agriculture, 406 ; of manufactures, 

 406 ; of newspapers, 406 ; of. libraries, 406 ; of 

 churches, 406. 



XIII. Adjourned session, 378 ; case of ex- 

 Treasurer Rankin, 378 ; organization of banks, 

 379; report of State insurance department, 

 379 ; school statistics, 379 ; agitation of ques- 

 tion of cheaper transportation, 379 ; organiza- 

 tion of Granges, 379 ; constitution, 380 ; reso- 

 lutions of Republican State Convention, 381 ; 

 nominations, 381 ; nominations by anti-Repub- 

 licans, 381 ; resolutions adopted, 381 ; woman 

 suffrage, 382 ; State election, 382 ; receipts and 

 expenditures, 382 ; population, 382 ; State Uni- 

 versity, 383 ; Agricultural College, 383 ; Col- 

 lege for the Blind, 383 ; Institution for Deaf 

 and Dumb, 383 ; Soldiers' Orphan Homes, 383 ; 



State Reform School, 383 ; penitentiary, 383 ; 

 Insane Hospital, 383 ; State Capitol, 383 ; des- 

 titution of settlers in northwestern counties, 

 383 ; action of the Governor, 383 ; prize-fight- 

 ing, 383. 



XI Y. Session of the Legislature, 416 ; reso- 

 lutions relating to railroads, 416 ; the railroad 

 law, 416 ; its details, 416, 417 ; appropriations, 

 417 ; joint resolutions, 417 ; State Temperance 

 Convention, 417; resolutions, 417; Anti-mo- 

 nopoly Party Convention, 418 ; nominations, 

 418; platform, 418; Republican Convention, 

 418; nominations, 418 ; platform, 419 ; results 

 of the election, 419. 



XY. Census of the State, 401 ; details, 401 ; 

 geological survey, 401 ; finances, 401 ; State- 

 prison, 401 ; charitable institutions, 402 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 402 ; nominations and res- 

 olutions, 402 ; Republican Convention, 402 ; 

 nominations and resolutions, 402 ; State Tem- 

 perance Convention, 403 ; results of the elec- 

 tion, 403 ; the State Grange, 403 ; validity of 

 the law establishing rates of freight and pas- 

 senger transportation, 403 ; decision on the in- 

 dictment of the State Treasurer, 404 ; resigna- 

 tion of Judge Cole, 404. 



IRELAND. XL Catholic education in, 692. 

 (See Great Britain.} 



XII. Ecclesiastical statistics of, 287. 



IRISH CHURCH. XL Disestablishment of, 

 21 ; condition, 22-24 ; meeting of Synod, 24 ; 

 proposed changes in ritual, 24, 25. 



IRON AND STEEL. III. Manufacture from 

 cinders of furnaces, 534; the Bessemer pro- 

 cess, 534 ; desulphurization of iron, 535 ; phos- 

 phorus in cast-iron, 535 ; action of manganese, 

 535 ; tungsten and titanium in cast-iron and 

 steel, 536 ; chemical composition of cast-iron, 

 537 ; effect of tempering on steel, 537 ; strength 

 of wrought-iron and steel, 538 ; facts respect- 

 ing the relation of vibratory action and texture 

 to the strength of iron, 540 ; applications of 

 steel, 540 ; coloring of bronzing and preserv- 

 ing iron and steel, 541 ; protection of iron 

 from rusting, 541. 



IRON-MANUFACTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. 

 XII. History of the industry in the United 

 States, 407, 408. 



1SBKLL, Judge. III. Opinion relative to 

 Iowa soldiers' voting, 533. 



ISIDORE, President of the Holy Synod of 

 Russia. XIY. Reply to the Protestant House 

 of Bishops in the United States, 381. 



