NEALE, JOHN M. 



NELSON, SAMUEL. 



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NEALE, JOHN M. VI. Birth, 531 ; pursuits, 

 532 ; death, 532. 



NEBRASKA. VII. Bill for the admission of, 

 considered, 144; admission as a State, 532; 

 financial condition, 532 ; action of the Legisla- 

 ture, 533 ; location of the State capital, 533 ; 

 geological survey, 533 ; railroads, 533 ; Indian 

 depredations, 533 ; area and population, 533 ; 

 present government, 533.; boundaries of the 

 State, 533. 



VIII. Area, 528 ; population, 528 ; new 

 capital, 528 ; railroads, 528 ; assessments, 529 ; 

 condition and resources, 529 ; school lands, 

 529 ; coal-fields, 529 ; internal improvements, 

 530 ; railroads, 530 ; immigration, 530 ; organi- 

 zation of the militia, 530 ; Attorney-General's 

 office, 531; education, 531; Normal School, 

 531 ; State Library, 531 ; insane, 531 ; peni- 

 tentiary, 532; Republican Convention, 532; 

 resolutions, 532 ; Democratic Convention, 532 ; 

 suffrage qualifications, 532. 



IX. Area, 473; population, 473; value of 

 property, 473 ; annual product of skilled and 

 unskilled labor, 473 ; growth of the State, 

 473 ; rivers, 473 ; soil, 474 ; character of the 

 land, 474 ; railroads, 474 ; provisions for the 

 encouragement of education, 474 ; reorganiza- 

 tion of the common-school system, 474; ses- 

 sion of the Legislature, 475; passage of an 

 election law, 4f 5 ; its provisions, 475 ; regis- 

 tration act, 475 ; amendment of the marriage 

 act, 475 ; law concerning thQ running at large 

 of stock, 475. 



X. Population, 531 ; State capital, 531 ; Fed- 

 eral census, 531, 532 ; immigration, 532 ; 

 school-funds, 532 ; railroads, 532 ; election re- 

 sults, 533. 



XL Impeachment of the Governor, 536; 

 charges, 536 ; result, 536, 537 ; Constitutional 

 Convention, 537; new features of the con- 

 stitution, 537 ; female suffrage, minority rep- 

 resentation, 537 ; compulsory education, 537 ; 

 corporations and railroads, 538 ; subscriptions 

 to railroad-stock by counties and towns, 538 ; 

 liquor laws, 538 ; constitution defeated, 539 ; 

 causes, 539 ; vote, 539 ; census details, 539, 

 540 ; right of the State to tax a railroad ad- 

 judicated, 540 ; progress of the State, 540. 



XII. Meeting of the Legislature, 561 ; at- 

 tempt by the Governor to adjourn the Legis- 

 lature, 561 ; the Legislature declares a vacancy 

 in the office of Governor, 561 ; assumption of 

 executive authority by the President of the 



Senate, 562 ; extension of railroads, 562 ; con- 

 troversy concerning the terminus of the Union 

 Pacific Railroad, 562 ; protest against the ac- 

 tion of the Iowa Legislature, 562 ; meeting of 

 the Liberal Republican and Democratic Con- 

 ventions, 562 ; report of the committee of 

 conference, 562 ; nominations, 562, 563 ; reso- 

 lutions adopted, 563 ; Republican State ticket, 

 563 ; results of the election, 563 ; meeting of 

 the State Board of Agriculture, 563 ; Scandi- 

 navian immigration, 563; inauguration of 

 Governor Furnas, 564 ; recommendations, 564 ; 

 State indebtedness, 564 ; statistics of occupa- 

 tions, 564 ; of agriculture, 564 ; of manufact- 

 ures, 564 ; of newspapers and periodicals, 564 ; 

 of libraries, 565 ; of churches, 565 ; of pauper- 

 ism and crime, 565. 



XIII. Acts passed by the Legislature, 527 ; 

 farmers' movement, 527 ; resolutions of their 

 convention, 527; officers of the government, 

 527 ; Legislature, 527 ; debt, 527 ; income, 528 ; 

 appropriations, 528 ; public lands, 528 ; valua- 

 tion, 528 ; railroads, 528 ; agricultural re- 

 sources, 528 ; climate, 528. 



XIV. Population, increase of, 586 ; rav- 

 ages of grasshoppers, 586 ; Republican Con- 

 vention and nominations, 586 ; platform, 586 ; 

 Independents' Convention and nominations, 

 586 ; platform, 586 ; Democratic nominations 

 and platform, 587 ; result of the election, 587 ; 

 finances, 587; valuation of property, 587; 

 State debt, 587 ; education, 588 ; famine and 

 drought, 588. 



XV. The Legislature, 530 ; election of Sen- 

 ator, 530 ; a Constitutional Convention called, 

 530 ; relief bonds issued, 530 ; acts passed, 530 ; 

 convention assembles, 530 ; organization, 530 ; 

 chief provisions of the new constitution, 531 ; 

 Democratic Convention, 532 ; nominations and 

 resolutions, 532 ; Republican Convention and 

 nominations, 532 ; result of the election, 532 ; 

 debt of the State, 532 ; resources, 533 ; schools, 

 533 ; crops, 533 ; devastation of locusts, 533 ; 

 census returns, ( 533. 



NELATON, AUGUSTE. XIII. Birth, 528; 

 death, 528; French physician and surgeon, 

 528. 



NELSON, Mrs. ELIZABETH KEY. XII. Obit- 

 uary, 610. 



NELSON, Bey. JAMES. XI. Obituary of, 

 591. 



NELSON, SAMEL. XI. Retires from the 

 Supreme Court bench, 772. 



