TEXAS. 



THATCHER, SAMUEL. 



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letter of General Reynolds to President Grant, 

 giving an account of the state of affairs in the 

 State, 674 ; comments on the statements con- 

 tained therein, 675 ; important removals from 

 office, 676; order of General Reynolds pre- 

 scribing regulations for the conduct of the 

 general election, 676 ; position of the Demo- 

 crats, 678 ; results of the election, 678 ; com- 

 position of the Legislature, 678; agricultural 

 products, 678; railway communications, 678; 

 extraordinary freshet, 678 ; summary of Gen- 

 eral Reynolds's report on the general condition 

 of the State, 678. 



X. Meeting of the Legislature, 715 ; ratifi- 

 cation of fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, 

 715 ; election of Senators, 715 ; readmission of 

 the State, 716; frontier Indian troubles, 716; 

 militia law, 716; judiciary, 716; public-land 

 act, 716; inducements to settlers, 716; school 

 law, 717 ; election law, 717 ; State police, 717 ; 

 railroads, 717; finances, 718; public schools, 

 718; crime and lawlessness, 718; internal 

 manufactures and industry, 718 ; United States 

 census, 719. 



XL Legislative session, 731 ; important 

 bills passed, 731 ; land subsidy, 731 ; removal 

 of the Speaker from office, 731 ; new debts, 

 731 ; taxable property and taxation, 731 ; law- 

 lessness, 732 ; Governor proclaims martial law, 

 732 ; resolutions of the Legislature, 732 ; state- 

 ments of the Governor, 732 ; a Tax-payers' 

 Convention, 732; report on State affairs, 732; 

 resolutions, 732 ; census statistics, 733, 734 ; 

 Democratic State Convention, 734 ; resolutions, 

 734; political campaign, 735; election, 736; 

 results in detail, 736; railroad construction, 

 736 ; public-school system, 737. 



XII. Indebtedness, 764; school system, 

 764 ; Agricultural College, 764 ; penitentiary, 

 764 ; public lands, 764 ; railroads, 764 ; bonds, 

 764 ; disappearance of State Treasurer, 764 ; 

 question of the election of Governor, 764; 

 Republican Convention, 765 ; nominations and 

 platform, 765 ; Democratic Convention, 766 ; 

 nominations and platform, 766 ; Liberal Re- 

 publicans, 766; result of the election, 767; 

 vote on the location of the State capital, 767 ; 

 population, 767 ; improved land, 767 ; animals, 

 767 ; farm-products, 767 ; manufactures, 767 ; 

 newspapers, 767 ; libraries, 767 ; religious or- 

 ganizations, 767 ; pauperism and crime, 767. 



XIII. New election to beheld, 737; Re- 

 publican Convention, 737 ; nominations, 737 ; 



resolutions, 737 ; Democratic Convention, 738 ; 

 nominations, 738; resolutions, 738; election, 

 739 ; constitutionality of the election law, 739 ; 

 adverse decision, 739; proclamation of Gov- 

 ernor Davis against the officers chosen, 739 ; 

 application to the President for troops, 740 ; 

 reply of President Grant, 740 ; organization of 

 the new Legislature, 740 ; Governor Davis re- 

 fuses to recognize it, 740 ; letter of a commit- 

 tee to the Governor, 740 ; his answer, 741 ; 

 inauguration of Governor Coke, 741 ; letter of 

 Attorney-General Williams, 741; Legislature, 

 741 ; debt, 741 ; financial condition, 741 ; Gal- 

 veston, its situation, 741 ; commerce, 741 ; cot- 

 ton shipments, 741 ; lines of steamers, 742 ; 

 public buildings, 742. 



XIV. Revision of the State constitution, 

 789 ; its defects, 790 ; public debt, 790 ; peni- 

 tentiary, 790 ; Land-Office, 790 ; defence of the 

 Indian frontier, 790; production and move- 

 ment of cotton, 790; election of Congressmen, 

 790 ; State officers, 790 ; parties in the Legis- 

 lature, 791 ; Galveston, its location, 791 ; com- 

 merce, 791 ; population, 791 ; manufactories, 

 791. 



XV. The new constitution, 727; reasons 

 for the change, 727; provisions, 727, 728; 

 taxation for schools, 728 ; the judiciary, 728 ; 

 other features, 728 ; State officers, 729; Dem- 

 ocratic platform, 729 ; assessed value of prop- 

 erty, 729 ; finances, 729 ; debt, 729 ; railroads, 

 729 ; State institutions, 730 ; Honey, the case 

 of, 730. 



THICKER, HARVEY. XI. Obituary of, 584. 



THACKERAY, W. M. III. Birth, 829 ; death, 

 829; writings, 829, 830. 



THALBERG, SIGISMOND. XL Birth, 737; 

 career as a musician, 737 ; death, 737. 



THALLIUM. III. Precedence in the discov- 

 ery, 830 ; its features, 830. 



V. New sources, 791 ; symbol and equiva- 

 lent, 791 ; poisonous properties, 791 ; thallic 

 alcohols, 791 ; spectrum analysis, 791. 



VI. Action of combinations, 743; how 

 prepared, 743. 



VIII. Analysis, 733; how best obtained, 

 733; preparation of compounds, 733 ; extract- 

 ed from flue-dust, 733. 



THATCHER, Rear-Admiral HENRY K. V. At- 

 tack on Mobile, 10. 



VII. In command of North Pacific squad- 

 ron, 528. 



THATCHER, SAMUEL. XII. Obituary, 623. 



