MINNESOTA. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



303 



woman suffrage, 507 ; finances, 507 ; agricult- 

 ural progress, 507 ; statistics, 508 ; timber- 

 planting, Governor's recommendation, 608 ; 

 lumber, minerals, etc., 508; education, 508; 

 school-fund, 508 ; normal schools and uni- 

 versity, 509 ; charitable institutions, 509 ; im- 

 migration, 509; enrolment of the organized 

 militia, 510 ; railroads, 510 ; freight and pas- 

 senger tariff, 510 ; views of the people, 510 ; 

 constitutional amendments, 510 ; population, 

 511. 



XI. Popular vote on payment of railroad 

 bonds, 516; session of Legislature, 516,517; 

 Republican nominees and platform, 517; Demo- 

 cratic, 517 ; Temperance Convention, 517, 518 ; 

 election returns, 518 ; railroads, 518; Northern 

 Pacific Railroad, 518, 519; public institutions, 

 619; schools, 519; State University, 519; cen- 

 sus statistics of 1870, 520, 521 ; finances, 521 ; 

 agriculture, 521 ; manufactures, 521 ; public 

 lands, 521 ; immigration, 521. 



XII. Session of the Legislature, 542 ; amend- 

 ments to the State constitution, 542 ; general 

 insurance law, 542 ; establishment of a State 

 Board of Health, 542 ; amendment of the 

 liquor law, 542 ; provision for a thorough geo- 

 logical and natural history survey of the State, 

 543 ; appropriations by the Legislature, 543 ; 

 finances, 543 ; common-school fund, 543 ; nor- 

 mal schools, 543 ; State University, 543 ; rail- 

 roads, 543 ; Republican Convention and reso- 

 lutions, 544; Democratic Convention, 544; re- 

 sults of the election, 544 ; statistics of occupa- 

 tions, 544 ; of agriculture, 544 ; of manufact- 

 ures, 545 ; of newspapers and periodicals, 545 ; 

 of libraries, 545 ; of churches, 545 ; of pauper- 

 ism and crime, 545. 



XIII. Various nationalities in the State, 

 506 ; acts passed by the Legislature, 506 ; reso- 

 lutions relative to the harbor of Duluth, 507 ; 

 resolutions relative to the State Treasurer, 507 ; 

 his impeachment, 507 ; other resolutions, 508 ; 

 reply of the Treasurer, 508 ; proceedings rela- 

 tive to the trial of the Treasurer, 508 ; his resig- 

 nation, 508; action of the court, 509; a violent 

 snow-storm, 510 ; loss of life, 510 ; Republican 

 Convention, 510 ; nominations, 510 ; resolu- 

 tions, 510; the Anti-Monopoly party, 510 ; the 

 Patrons of Husbandry, 510 ; letter of their 

 president, 511 ; Democratic and Liberal Repub- 

 lican Convention, 511 ; resolutions, 511 ; the 

 farming interest, 511 ; the wheat-crop, 511 ; 

 debt of the State, 512 ; valuation, 512 ; schools, 



612 ; prisons, 612 ; insurance companies, 612 ; 

 railroads, 612 ; rates of freight fixed, 512 ; law- 

 suit, 512 ; decision, 512. 



XIV. Legislation, 564 ; act creating a Board 

 of Railroad Commissioners, 564 ; powers and 

 duties, 564 ; political campaign, 564 ; Republi- 

 can Convention and platform, 564; Democratic 

 Convention and platform, 564 ; results of elec- 

 tion, 564 ; action relative to the Commissioner 

 of the Land-Office, 565 ; report of committee, 

 565 ; State finances, 565 ; illegal bonds, 565 ; 

 new tax law, 566 ; water-power, 566 ; pine- 

 forests, 566; railroads, 567; differences with 

 Wisconsin, 567, 568. 



XV. Details of the State census, 505 ; birth 

 of population, 506 ; agricultural productions, 

 506; lumber, 506; Fish Commissioners, 506; 

 white-fish, 506; Commissioners of Survey, 507 ; 

 canal routes, 507; finances, 507; railroad bonds, 

 507 ; history of the question of, 508 ; constitu- 

 tional amendment, 508 ; arbitration, 509 ; State 

 Reform Convention, 509 ; resolutions, 509 ; 

 nominations, 510 ; Democratic Convention and 

 nominations, 510; resolutions, 510; Republi- 

 can Convention, 510 ; nominations and resolu- 

 tions, 510 ; results of the election, 511 ; amend- 

 ments to the constitution ratified, 511 ; officers 

 of government, 511 ; division of the Legisla- 

 ture, 511; election of Senator, 511. 



MINNESOTA, CRUSE OF THE. VII. 530. 



MINORITY REPRESENTATION. XI. (S&Q Rep- 

 resentation.') 



MINTS IN SECEDED STATES. I. Their seiz- 

 ure, 315; mint at New Orleans, 319; its coin- 

 age, 319; seizure, 319; mint at Dahlonega, 

 319; deposits, 319; mint at Charlotte, 319; 

 its deposits, 319; coinage, 319; seizure, 319; 

 at New Orleans seized, 429 ; money on hand, 

 429. 



MINTURN, ROBERT B. VII. Birth, 520 ; 

 pursuits, 520; death, 520. 



MIRAMON, MIGUEL. VII. His early military 

 career, 513; political life, 513; later years, 

 514. 



MIRES, JULES. XI. Birth, death, 521 ; ca- 

 reer, 521, 522. 



MISSIONS FOREIGN AND AMERICAN. III. As- 

 sociations, 649 ; agencies, 649 ; places of labor, 

 64*; income, 649. 



MISSISSIPPI. I. Her Senators retire from 

 Congress, 198; remarks, 198; its boundaries, 

 472 ; population, 472 ; the government, 472 ; 

 action relative to slaves of border States, 473 ; 



